WOORDE, sinne, paragrawe, boeke stroom behoorlik uit Freeda Moon se een en enigste vinger wat sy kan gebruik, uit \u2013 tot 1 000 woorde per dag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mercia van der Vyver, soos die meeste mense haar ken, is serebraal gestremd vanaf geboorte. Sy is te vroeg gebore op ses-en-\u2019n-half maande en het slegs 1 kg met geboorte geweeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met Mid-Karoo Express <\/i>se besoek aan haar in Huis Silwerjare in Somerset-Oos, waar sy al vir \u2019n paar jaar woonagtig is, lyk sy ontspanne in haar rolstoel wat haar konstante metgesel is. Haar o\u00eb blink wanneer sy oor haar lewe tot dusver gesels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gou blyk dit dat hierdie jong vrou nie iemand is wat haar maklik laat onderkry nie. Sy lewe met oorgawe en is passievol oor stories en haar skryfwerk. Sy erken dat sy soms kwaad en gefrustreerd voel, maar di\u00e9 gevoel waai gou oor as sy begin lees, droom en stories uitdink. D\u00edt neem haar van die duisternis na die lig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mercia se ouers en veral haar ma, was baie ondersteunend en het haar dogter aangemoedig om haar beste te gee, ten spyte van die talle uitdagings. So het sy haar matrieksertifikaat in 1993 by Cape Recife in Port Elizabeth met drie onderskeidings verwerf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierna het sy \u2019n verrykende diplomakursus van een jaar by Intec Kollege met joernalistiek en sielkunde as hoofvakke gevolg, wat groot waarde tot haar skryfwerk toevoeg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Waar kom haar liefde vir stories vandaan? As klein dogtertjie het sy al begin belangstel in geskiedenis, want haar pa was \u2019n geskiedenisman. Ook die verskillende kulture en mitologie het haar nuuskierigheid geprikkel. En dit is dan hoe sy binne-in die Ierse mitologie en stories ingetuimel het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2013 is sy en haar suster, Chrizette, op \u2019n nege dae toer Ierland toe en daar het sy haar hart totaal en al verloor \u2013 veral op Aran-eiland en Gallway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wanneer sy nie lees of skryf nie, leef sy haar in haar droomw\u00eareld uit. \u201cEk droom selfs met oop o\u00eb,\u201d voeg sy ernstig by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dis hier waar sy regtig vry is en waar sy haar in haar innerlike gedagtes en drome kan inleef. Dis hoe sy besluit het op haar skryfnaam: Freeda Moon \u2013 \u2019n haarfyn sinspeling op die woord \u201cfreedom\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is dan ook hoe sy haar stories skryf. Sy wil vir die leser \u2019n w\u00eareld skep waarin hulle hulself kan inleef, vlerke kry en uiteindelik volkome vreugde vind. \u201cAmper soos die Harry Potter-boeke wat lesers regoor die w\u00eareld meegevoer het,\u201d voeg sy by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die voorloper van die reeks The Parish of Balynor<\/i>, waaraan sy tans werk, is Whisper to the Moon <\/i>en die eerste boek in hierdie reeks, Selkie\u2019s Promise<\/i>, word op Vrydag, 23 Maart, in die Langenhoven-biblioteek in Somerset-Oos bekend gestel. By hierdie geleentheid sal van haar boeke verkoop word en sy sal by wees om die boeke te \u201cteken\u201d met haar vingerafdruk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy is tans besig met die tweede boek in die reeks, Selkie\u2019s Magic<\/i>. Dit is dus die vierde boek waaraan sy werk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy kry goeie terugvoer en resensies oor haar boeke en sy is vasberade om nog eendag met haar woordkuns \u2019n bestaan te maak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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