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Writing Stuff: A Book About Writing
‘Writing is a privileged and awe-inspiring craft, enabling us to pour our heart and soul into the open, and to give life to our wildest fantasies. But it’s not just about inspiration or imagination. Writing is a process. It means you write, and you fail, and you fail, and you fail before succeeding. ‘
This book is a compilation of 46 texts written over the years by award-winning author Bruno Martins Soares. They cover many different aspects of the craft of Writing, from the dilemmas that come to bear as you move on this path of meaning and self-fulfillment, to developing characters and structure, to choices about dialogue, scene layout, rhythm, emotional intensity and energy, description, and others.
The book leans on the author’s own experience grappling with these themes - and finding the solutions - to help increase other writers’ options, and their set of tools, so that ‘when you are facing the reality of the writing world you have more alternatives to overcome the hurdles and become closer to your true self and what you desire.’
This book is a compilation of 46 texts written over the years by award-winning author Bruno Martins Soares. They cover many different aspects of the craft of Writing, from the dilemmas that come to bear as you move on this path of meaning and self-fulfillment, to developing characters and structure, to choices about dialogue, scene layout, rhythm, emotional intensity and energy, description, and others.
The book leans on the author’s own experience grappling with these themes - and finding the solutions - to help increase other writers’ options, and their set of tools, so that ‘when you are facing the reality of the writing world you have more alternatives to overcome the hurdles and become closer to your true self and what you desire.’
267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2023
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About the author
Bruno Martins Soares
31 books82 followersBruno Martins Soares writes fiction since he was 12 years old, and his first book, ‘O Massacre’ (The Massacre), a collection of short-stories, came out in Portugal in 1998.
It was followed by several contributions to newspapers, magazines and other collective books.
In 1996, he won the National Young Creators Award for Writing, representing Portugal at the 1997 Torino Young Creators of Europe and the Mediterranean Fair, where his short-story ‘Mindsweeper’ was translated and published in Italian.
His first novel ‘A Saga de Alex 9’ (The Alex 9 Saga) was published in Portugal in 2012, by publisher Saída de Emergência, within a series that features authors like George R.R.Martin or Bernard Cornwell.
He worked in Project Development for Television, and was a journalist and a communications, HR and management consultant before settling as a writer. He was also an international correspondent in Portugal for Jane’s Defense Weekly and a researcher for The Washington Post. He wrote several plays and short and full length pictures’ screenplays, and he wrote and produced English-spoken Castaway Entertainment’s full length feature film ‘Regret’, distributed in the USA and Canada in 2015. He lives and works in Lisbon.
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It was followed by several contributions to newspapers, magazines and other collective books.
In 1996, he won the National Young Creators Award for Writing, representing Portugal at the 1997 Torino Young Creators of Europe and the Mediterranean Fair, where his short-story ‘Mindsweeper’ was translated and published in Italian.
His first novel ‘A Saga de Alex 9’ (The Alex 9 Saga) was published in Portugal in 2012, by publisher Saída de Emergência, within a series that features authors like George R.R.Martin or Bernard Cornwell.
He worked in Project Development for Television, and was a journalist and a communications, HR and management consultant before settling as a writer. He was also an international correspondent in Portugal for Jane’s Defense Weekly and a researcher for The Washington Post. He wrote several plays and short and full length pictures’ screenplays, and he wrote and produced English-spoken Castaway Entertainment’s full length feature film ‘Regret’, distributed in the USA and Canada in 2015. He lives and works in Lisbon.
Escreveu alguns livros sobre o pseudónimo de Martin S. Braun
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January 23, 2024
Full of personal insights, useful tools and chapters willing to push forward an aspiring writer. All written in the pleasant and fluid style of the author.
"My advice to you, whoever you are, is this: train and train and train. Write and write and write. Don't argue with me. Do. That's how you become a warrior. That's how you become a knight. That's how you become a writer."
"My advice to you, whoever you are, is this: train and train and train. Write and write and write. Don't argue with me. Do. That's how you become a warrior. That's how you become a knight. That's how you become a writer."
May 24, 2024
An essential writing tool to any serious writer.
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