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Today we speak with Rostislava Pankova-Karajova. She began her life in Bulgaria but moved with her family to Swaziland, South Africa, following the chaos after the fall of communism. She lived in Africa for twelve years, then moved to New Zealand, where she now lives with her family.
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Ronnie is a lifelong musician and a music teacher with a degree in Musicology and Choir Conducting. She later pursued and received her masters in creative writing from the University of Auckland. Her flash fiction and short stories won awards in Bulgaria and New Zealand.
She is preparing to publish her debut novel "In Focus" and a fantasy fairytale "Remedy for Prince Dinsmore."
https://ronniepk.com/
From the show:
“…I'm running this publication on Substack, which is called The Stories Music Tell Me. I believe that if you listen very carefully, if you tune yourself into the music, you can hear a story inside. Each music element is portraying a movement, conversation, dialogue. And then you ask it a question. Where is that person going if the melody is ascending? Is it a kite flying in the air? If the melody is descending, is it a stream? Is it a waterfall? …”
“…There is a beautiful Maori saying, which I love. And it goes like this. ‘You've gone too far not to go further.You've done too much not to do more.’ It's a powerful message which I hope people will apply, and will find a way to embed it into their own lives the way I have as well. Because... Very often we are about to give up. Very often we are about to say this is too hard. It can be so much easier and then they go back. No, you've gone too far not to go further. You've done too much not to do more. …”