{"id":516,"date":"2012-11-17T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-11-17T21:45:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T20:45:44","slug":"howd-he-find-the-time-to-write-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2012\/howd-he-find-the-time-to-write-that","title":{"rendered":"How’d he find the time to write that?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the free paper 20 Minuten carried a story<\/a> on Stefan Bachmann<\/a>, a 19-year-old author living in the Canton of Zurich who’d written a steampunk novel<\/a> that was doing great in the US.\u00c2\u00a0 As I read it, the similarities to Christopher Paolini<\/a>, the young author who wrote Eragon<\/em>, became too obvious, and I wondered if Bachmann, like Paolini, was homeschooled.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, his homepage confirms that, and even the online edition of the 20 Minuten article contains that information (the printed one didn’t).<\/p>\n

Sie haben mit 19 Jahren ein erfolgreiches Buch ver\u00c3\u00b6ffentlicht \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sind Sie ein Genie?<\/strong>
\nDas kann man so nicht sagen. Ich habe einfach hart gearbeitet, im Erfolg stecken etwa 90 Prozent Arbeit und 10 Prozent Talent. Ich wurde ausserdem zu Hause unterrichtet, was mir auch sehr geholfen hat. Man wird einfach ganz anders gef\u00c3\u00b6rdert, wenn man von den eigenen Eltern unterrichtet wird.
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Translation:<\/p>\n

You’ve published a successful book at age 19 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are you a genius?<\/strong>
\nI wouldn’t put it like that.\u00c2\u00a0 I simply worked hard; success is about 90 percent work and 10 percent talent.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, I was homeschooled, which also helped a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 When your own parents teach you, you get a completely different kind of support and encouragement.
\n <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To me, that’s burying the lead.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve got a 19-year-old who’s a successful published author living in Zurich, presumably paying taxes there, looking to study music there – who got there by being educated in a way that would have been de facto outlawed in Zurich.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if success stories like his – if they were properly reported – would be able to shift public perception of homeschoolers in Switzerland…<\/p>\n

And since he’s looking to study music and can use all the help he can get, I’ve put his book on my amazon.com wish list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the free paper 20 Minuten carried a story on Stefan Bachmann, a 19-year-old author living in the Canton of Zurich who’d written a steampunk novel that was doing great in the US.\u00c2\u00a0 As I read it, the similarities to Christopher Paolini, the young author who wrote Eragon, became too obvious, and I wondered if Bachmann, like Paolini, was homeschooled. Sure enough, his homepage confirms that, and even the online edition of the 20 Minuten article contains that information (the printed one didn’t). Sie haben mit 19 Jahren ein erfolgreiches Buch ver\u00c3\u00b6ffentlicht \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sind Sie ein Genie? Das kann man so nicht sagen. Ich habe einfach hart gearbeitet, im […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}