Human Rights

I know the title sounds really BIG, but this topic has been haunting me for a few days now.
For a competition I have been writing a short story and due to the idea I had I ended up thinking about human rights and such things as death penalty.

Recently there was a case here in Germany all over the news. A man had kidnapped a little boy for ransom and he was caught, but refused to reveal the kid's location. The police threatened him with torture and he ended up revealing where the boy was. The boy was already dead as he had been killed right after kidnapping him. The guy was trialed and sent to prison. Now he has taken the German state to court because of the torture threat he had received and he seriously has received an indemnation.

My gut feeling tells me the police was right and that the guy shouldn't have received an indemnation, but I also know that threatening someone with torture is against human rights. So find myself asking myself: What are human rights? I mean a guy killing a little boy in cold blood for money that is inhuman. Right? So someone whose actions are inhuman, does the person still quality for human rights? I know I am walking a thin line here and I thank god, that I am in no position to have to decided over such things but I still think point of view should be reflected upon.

I am sure you will understand, why I have been thinking about this issue so intensively lately, when you read the story. It is called "the diary" and it is published in the english writings section. It is very dark (the competion's theme is "blackness"), but I still kind of like it. Let me know what you think!

Creative process

These past few days I have been stuck at a crucial point at chapter 2. You may wonder how it could be a crucial point that early at the book, but it was important for the character definition of my lead character.
I have been juggling around ideas for days and whenever I came up with something I ended up remembering the have read something similar in another book or have seen it in a movie and therefore I started thinking of something else.
Although I have read some books and seen a couple of movies it may still be less then 0,0001 % of what humanity has created. I then wonder is it possible that we have run out ideas? Millions of people over roughly 7000 years of humanity writing music, writing books and painting. Is it possible that everything has already been done at one point? No!
When people ask why I right, especially when I am writing fantasy, I say: Because everything is possible! In my mind everything is possible and I can create the most amazing things. For me this is the true beauty of being creative. You are not bound by anything like money, time, law, fisics....
And to conclude this post: Yes, I have found my character detail and I have never read or seen something similar. :)
Next week I will post some of my short stories here and I hope you will enjoy them.

the chonicles of the shadow war

Ok, this is the title of the book I am currently writing. So far I am right now working on Ch 2.
As you can judge from the title it will be take time over several 100 years. I will try not to spoil but can already tell it is scifi/mystery. I know I know, this is no surprise!