Tina Brescanu's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"

Keep writing, dear writer, because you're a writer whether or not you have a novel in bookstores or only digitally on-line, whether only a handful or the whole world has read your writing, whether or not anything of yours is ever traditionally published, you're still a writer. So keep writing if writing is who you are.

I love dialogue. I can finish reading in the middle of a paragraph. I don’t always finish reading every book I start, it’s not that it’s bad, it’s just a connection thing, it doesn’t fit, but, of course, it could in the future. I like action, but of another kind, not violence at all, I can skip and skim, and I do. I like odd stuff, weird stuff, magical stuff and love, love, love, also sex, great sex and out of this world sex, I love when people talk about sex, in any book, not just erotica. I love spiritual books, fiction and fantasy, especially fantasy, it’s visionary and I love reading real life stories told in a different way, indies are unbeatable. I love children’s, teens and young adult books, the more rebellious the better. I don’t always write a review, but I should, it’s good practice. I don’t like faces on a cover. I don’t like too much details; I want stuff left to the imagination. I love some foreign words, but not if what is said doesn’t become clear in the next sentence.

Writing in English when it's a second language is not for the faint-hearted. Choosing to write in English when I had only spoken English was a rebirth, a dismantling of self, yes, I ceased to be for a bit when I started out. I lost myself for awhile, nothing I wrote made sense but I kept going, I kept finding clues and in the reconstruction of self my stories grew and yes, they're odd, they're different, they're not grammatically perfect, but neither am I.