First of all, one fact about me: I don’t like poetry. I do appreciate some poets and poems, but, in general, I’m not a poetry lover. So, how did I end up writing and publishing poems? Pretty much by chance, supported by the fact that free verse is considered poetry… by some 🙂 I wrote […]
Jill Bolte Taylor – How It Feels to Have a Stroke
Not all the people who ever experienced a stroke are able to express what has happened to them as clearly as neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor. She explains how having a stroke feels, and shares the wonderful conclusions this walk on the edge of life and death has brought her to. The good news is you […]
Letters to a Young Novelist
“Letters to a Young Novelist” reflects the complex nature of a novelist’s work. It is a book by Mario Vargas Llosa that can be useful to writers of any age, particularly novelists. Had I read this book 10 years ago, I would have cried less, slept more, and published at least five books by now. […]