I am trying to do some non-work related writing but it is so difficult. The problem? I don’t have a good language to use anymore. I started to write in Swedish but the language didn’t flow well. So I switched to English, but when I read the text that I have written, it is really poor. And I used to be great at writing in Swedish. Great to the extent that my Swedish teacher thought I should be a writer or a journalist. And now it seems like it is all gone, yet I didn’t properly acquire a new language. It is extremely frustrating! Fortunately it doesn’t affect my work since I have learned the 200 or so standard international organization expressions that are used in reports and other texts to give them an academic touch. Easy toolkit for composing economic reports! Unfortunately, I can’t really apply the same vocabulary in my teen adventure novel. Though come to think of it, since Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series have sold millions, perhaps the language is not the priority for the majority of readers…