With a desire to see more of the world, Martin and his wife Wendy plan and set out to take a trip around Scotland. But being autistic is never easy as fear and uncertainties plague the mind of someone who needs a constant feeling of safety and familiarity just to be able to function. In this book Martin gives us a look what goes on inside his brain while trying to plan for every possible scenario and execution this trip. While being on the road, Martin not only discovers a country he had never seen before and learns to drive 'the other way around', he also suddenly connects and involves...

Sipping from the Writing Well is a book with tips by writers for writers, collected, sifted through and added to by Martin van Houwelingen, a long term author of several books and published in numerous magazines.

AuthorAuthor is a writers group based on Facebook, created and moderated by Martin van Houwelingen since 2014. As we all live in different parts of the world, we therefore have never met. Some of us have published, some of us have not, some have years of writing experience, some are just beginning. But all of us found we shared something special, a love for writing stories. Dividing writers by genre alone, we set our goal on publishing cheap and affordable books with short stories and story snippets in that selected genre in an effort to get read and recognized. None of us is getting paid and...

Just in case you all don't know what this is, NaNoWriMo means National November Writing Month, though November Novel Writing Month would be a better description these days as it is no longer National. NaNoWriMo is a writing challenge in which the goal is to write 50.000 words in a month. I find there are a lot of negative comments on NaNoWriMo, generally stating that inexperienced people have no business writing, but I think everyone who has a longing to put pen to paper should write. Writing is a great way to clear your mind from the stories that are haunting it and at the same time it is an...