Carlson: It's great to write freely.

I take vitamin D regularly, one tablet a day. I heard a doctor say in a lecture that vitamin D is enough if you are healthy and live a reasonably healthy life, you don't need any other vitamins or supplements.

With vitamin D, you get a better immune system, better muscles and teeth, at least that's what it says on the box, which also warns against overdose. You should take one tablet a day, no more.

The question you ask yourself every day is whether you have taken your tablet or not. Two tablets is one too many. As a reminder, I decided to set my phone alarm for 9 a.m., which I think is a good time to take the tablets.

Now my alarm goes off and I wonder why. Is there something I forgot to do and if so what?

I call my agent and ask if he has any appointments with editors or publishers.

No, says the agent, it's been a long time since anyone has asked to meet you. There's not much demand for writers who wrote their best picture books or novels fifteen years ago. I'll let you know if anything happens.

I have a novel He never wrote. I contributed to a fact book about modern Stockholm history and wrote a booklet about an artist and helicopter builder in Hoffa outside Mariestad. He died long ago and was not well known even in Hoffa. The helicopter never took off. On the other hand, celebrities from Hoffa, or Gullspong, which was part of the same municipality for many years, include singer Linda Bengtsing, footballer Olof Mellberg, and not least Stikkan Andersson, the man behind ABBA and so many catchy songs. A small bust of Andersson is erected outside his childhood home in Hoffa.

I don't know if he was very proud of his origins, and his annual Polar Prize was not given in Hova but in the Stockholm Concert Hall by the King.

Yes, that was the weaving path. The cheese series was supposed to be about vitamins. My agent claims that I often get lost in the grooves and the sides and sometimes in the complete deviations. “Readers get thrown here and there,” my agent says, “and end up not knowing what the words mean.” Take one thing or one idea at a time. Writing freely is great, and writing correctly is even greater, as the old masters used to say.

I am now thinking about getting a new agent.

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