My First American Thanksgiving Dinner
Even though I moved with my husband from Brazil to the US in December of 1997, during our first six years in the country we lived in Florida, where he worked for the Latin American division of the company; so most of our friends were Latinos. Therefore, our Thanksgiving Days were spent among Mexicans, Cubans, […]
Empathy
I read plenty about different ways to make my writing better. The Internet is overflowing with articles on how to make your dialogues better, how to create suspense, how to better structure your manuscript, and recently I was offered a webinar in Story Physics, whatever that is. There are plenty of creative titles for “how […]
Paid One-on-One Critique
Painful, but extremely beneficial experience, where a writer pays to an agent or other experienced professional in the publishing business, to critique his manuscript. Here in the United States when you attend a writers’ conference, you can usually chose to have part of an ongoing project critiqued for a reasonable price, after all, those who […]
The 80-20 rule for self-promotion on line
It took me three years to finish a manuscript for a YA novel. With 150 thousand words, an agent told me it was too long and suggested some serious editing. I decided to break the story into smaller installments and am working on them. While doing it I started researching the fantastic World Wide Web […]