Writing is not only the dream that I’ve had since I was thirteen

“Writing is not only the dream that I’ve had since I was thirteen.

Throughout the years, I have been finding proof – again and again – that this is the only thing that ignites true passion in my heart. In the last three years, ever since I published my first book, I’ve been working more than I’ve worked in my life. More than during the time when I was setting up a place of business of a Latvian company in the United Kingdom. More than during the hectic months of preparing the documentation for submission to the European Commission so the country could receive the European Union funding for a new planning period. Almost every chapter of my professional career before I’d performed a U-turn and returned to the roots – a huge and shiny dream of a teenage girl to write books – was exciting, full of non-trivial challenges, and intellectually demanding. I met people from all over the world, learned from them, and also learned about myself – about what I needed and what didn’t matter on my personal scale of significance.

In the end, it took me a quarter of a century to come full circle…”

In the interview to CanvasRebel, I talk about what, in my opinion, non-creatives struggle to understand about one’s journey as a creative, what my parents did right, the most rewarding aspects of being an indie author, and, of course, my books.

Read the full interview here:
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-eve-koguce/