Making the Best of Critiques
(Whether Offering or Receiving It) Critique is a hard thing to deal with. In my wish to become a successful writer I had to learn, not only to deal with, but appreciate it. I’m no masochist. Nonetheless the more I develop as a writer, the more appreciative I am of a good, straight to the […]
Outlining x Quilting
Outlining versus Quilting One of my favorite authors, José Saramago, didn’t believe in Outlining. He had an idea and started writing, moving forward two pages a day, from beginning to end of a work. He didn’t like revisions either. In an interview to Paris Review from 1998 he stated that 90% of his complete manuscripts […]
Homophones
I learned English as a child and although there aren’t many parallels between the language of Shakespeare and Portuguese, they both have homophones, and what tricky little things they are. From beach and its mean variation, to two or too or to, all of them are traps waiting to catch me. If for a distracted […]