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    reading Atonement by Ian McEwan

    February 3, 2022 /

    Have you ever noticed how the beginning of a book can tell a lot about the whole story? I suggest you do this exercise. Pick your favorite books and read the beginning again…

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    on reading lists and reading projects

    November 4, 2021

    I took a break from reading for a while

    October 26, 2021

    a tale of two cups of coffee and how to improve your creative craft

    October 28, 2021
  • reader

    rereading is madness. but who knows where madness lies?

    October 22, 2021 /

    How many times do you find yourself reading a book you’ve already read? ...again? And if that happens a lot, what do you think you’re gonna find when doing that?

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    reading Atonement by Ian McEwan

    February 3, 2022

    a tale of two cups of coffee and how to improve your creative craft

    October 28, 2021

    is a book what you want it to mean or what the author wanted it to say?

    November 9, 2021
  • writer

    we should reverse engineer the books we read in order to write better

    October 21, 2021 /

    Is that how you improve your writing? Pick a book, disassemble it, examine it, analyze it in detail, discover the concepts of its structure, produce something similar, pick a new book, repeat.

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    the write structure and you in a hero’s journey

    October 27, 2021

    create opportunities, share your work

    October 20, 2021

    on choosing a path between noise and stories

    October 25, 2021
  • Archives,  book review,  instagram,  reading

    imagine you’re cleaning a room

    June 22, 2021 /

    Imagine you’re cleaning a room, and you kill a cockroach with the door of a wardrobe… What would you do next? (A) keep cleaning the room?, or (B) think about your reason to exist? Or do both things belong to the same process readingthisweek ⁣Back to my Brazilian Literature project, I just started reading A PAIXÃO SEGUNDO G.H. (“The Passion According to G.H.”), by Clarice Lispector. Written in a very difficult moment for Clarice, the book is the monologue of a woman simply identified by G.H. drawn in an existential crisis after a random episode in her life. It all starts when G.H. decides to clean her maid’s room in…

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    on bibliotherapy and books as remedies for life’s ailments

    June 24, 2021

    Creative Reading and Reading Like a Writer

    April 21, 2021

    five short tips about pronunciation

    April 2, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram,  reading

    Currently Reading: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

    June 15, 2021 /

    What are you reading this week? And how do you feel about it so far?

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    It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life… for me.

    May 3, 2021

    You only have today to get value out of it

    April 8, 2021

    Keep Reading

    January 21, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram,  reading

    embrace reading, don’t take it for granted⁣

    May 19, 2021 /

    What are you reading this week? Do you take reading for granted? Read this.

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    about the content creation bucket

    June 21, 2021

    Writing is a lonely job

    January 27, 2021

    3 reasons why Instagram can make you a better writer

    February 8, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram,  reading

    on to Jane Austen’s most flawless work

    May 13, 2021 /

    Dear reader, She’s handsome. She’s clever and rich. She has a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence (whatever that means), and she had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. I know what you’re thinking, but I’m not talking about Cher (or Alicia Silverstone in that coming-of-age teen film). She comes from another time (definitely not the 90s). She’s the kind of girl who likes trying to make people happy, you know? But in the following pages, I think she will realize that it’s not the lives of others she wants to transform…

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    what’s beyond the dark room of hard work?

    June 7, 2021

    SMART Goals and SWOT analysis for writers

    July 12, 2021

    untranslatable words…

    March 12, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram

    if the book you’re reading right now were the last…

    March 30, 2021 /

    •• if the book you’re reading right now were the last book you’d ever read, would you be happy with it? Relax, I don’t have an answer to that either. I still have too many pages ahead in Klara and The Sun (“Klara e o Sol”), by Kazuo Ishiguro. I already love the book, though. KLARA AND THE SUN is my first read in partnership with @companhiadasletras. I was chosen to be a member of their reader team for 2021, and I couldn’t be prouder and happier. Not only because Companhia das Letras is a great publisher in Brazil, with great titles and beautiful book designs, but also because it is…

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    Blog about whatever you want…

    April 15, 2021

    Creative Writing vs Content Writing

    January 19, 2021

    I had a crazy idea, and you’ll be my accomplice⁣

    May 13, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram

    it does not take much strength to do things…

    March 17, 2021 /

    “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” Elbert Hubbard What are you reading this week? I’ve just shared a post on the blog about reading projects and creating them, and finishing them. I love reading and creating reading projects. I tried to share two important ideas there: (1) we should associate “projects” to the bad feelings coming from work and study, and (2) if you don’t organize your reading, you’ll never tackle that to-be-read pile you have there beside you. I really believe that we should try to dispel that association and start seeing projects…

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    Fantastic Thoughts and How to Unclutter Them

    January 13, 2021

    what if you have a full-time job?

    May 24, 2021

    hey, Fall

    March 20, 2021
  • Archives,  instagram

    The earth is round…

    March 9, 2021 /

    The earth is round, and it rotates eastward around its own axis. One of the proofs of that is swinging and hanging under the dome of the Panthéon in Paris. It’s called Foucault’s Pendulum. I don’t know yet how this will relate to IL PENDOLO DI FOUCAULT by Umberto Eco, but I started reading it yesterday, and I can’t put it down. Here’s the first idea: A man named Casaubon hides in the Musée des Arts et Metiers in Paris after closing. He believes that his friend has been kidnapped by a secret society that is now after him, and they will meet in the museum. Meanwhile, he reflects on…

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    what if writing could help you?

    June 2, 2021

    is caffeine an imposter?

    June 18, 2021

    How to write an outline like setting goals

    February 24, 2021
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