An Old Joke

You know the joke when the blogger, the journalist and the writer walk into a bar and the blogger says that "We must drink something that neither of us tried before"? Well, there is no such joke...

I started writing a blog first in 2005 or maybe it was 2006 when I stationed myself in lovely St Albans, England and this was my way of reporting back home – to nobody and to anybody. I started another one in 2007 as far as I remember, and its purpose was to rate and review the places in Budapest that sold gyros. That's right and even though it doesn't sound like fun at all it was about making it fun and I think I did that... by writing about virtually everything else that was actually fun!

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This must have been a success somehow as it earned me a place at Nou San Trafford (NST), a cult football blog in Hungary that was at its best from 2007 to 2013. It both had fun posts about football and post about football spiced with fun. It was really a hit and one of a kind back then in Hungary.

From this the transition to journalism was smooth, as Nemzeti Sport, the Hungarian Sports Daily bought us – yeah, we went for a sellout and this was the first time that I actually got paid for writing! As a rookie, it was actually working for peanuts eight days a week but it was also love money can't buy.

And it was blogging, journalism, marketing, community building, project management, etc. It was probably the best thing that could have happened to me at that phase in my life so thanks to the NST guys and the marketing team for that!

A Writer Can Break

So it was all very nice and fun until it wasn't. Unappreciated and unsupported, we became breaks to a system we were supposed to boost or at least act like a catalyst for a boosting change. But the system changed itself, not in a way we imagined and all of a sudden, were isolated and left when VS, a newly formed and ambitious news site came and took us.

VS supposed to be a politically neutral, centrally positioned news site where opinions clash. Well, this didn't happen this way as it leaned towards the left despite being run on money coming from the right-wing government as it later came out and there was no clash of opinions. Or I just don't remember there was any.

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Conflict, there was a lot, on the inside, all the time. My peers from NST left soon, I stayed for a year to observe the constant fight of egos and ideas about how a news site should be run. And I worked my ass off, crazily and willingly. My relationship suffered, my body suffered and my soul suffered and eventually it left me depressed and jobless.

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At least my girl came back to me and we're still together, married with a beautiful daughter. And all this inspired a break that I had to make.

In Business – In Many Ways

So I broke away from journalism as I switched to marketing and copywriting. Sold my soul once again but this was now writing in English so it was a break from a different point of view as well. It turned out that I can do that and it seemed that there were others who have thought the same as a startup came for me and for the third attempt, they hired me.

Statzup, they called themselves and they thought that I may be the guy who can do the words for them. Well, half a decade has passed, the name changed, the staff changed, the office moved then was closed down for good but the owner and me are still here and we are always experimenting and still about to make a change.

But my role has changed and it incorporated less and less writing, at least not the creative kind. Still, this phase gave me the opportunity to look back to my past and to look into myself, to learn about myself a lot, to develop from a personal point of view. And in the middle of all that I realised that I still have it in me and I still have to do it. Actually more than ever. It was time, it was very fucking time to start working on books, start building worlds and writing words. For fun, for myself and maybe for you.

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So all this is in progress now, several projects at a time, and now I will start to share details about the process and what's going on. I want to find out what ideas and projects are worthy to develop in order to speed up the process and to be able to deliver books and pieces faster and better. If you read it this far, it means that you might wanna read my books someday so thanks for that in advance and stay tuned!