Dear readers,

Today we would like to drop here a few words about a book that could help you write suspense fiction!

The book is “Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction” by Patricia Highsmith. In this book the writer explains us how she creates her characters and plots not forgetting to mention that after a first version there can be an enormous need to improve the text not only as the writing is concerned but also the content, the story that is being told… in fact, if she gets bored then everything is horrible!

We believe the book does not contain something as a cooking recipe, where step by step you produce something, not a cake 😊 but a suspense piece of writing…

Nevertheless, it is not the opposite of this, it is a map of questions to take into account, something to help people who become adventurous on this literary genre. Even though we can look to a few suggestions as recipes, as long as that attitude is helpful, nevertheless the risk of failure is always a reality, and the same holds true for any new story because it should be always unique.

Having this in mind, today we always share that the Lisbon Book Fair is about to begin, from 4^th June to 22^nd June.

More info here:

https://www.visitlisboa.com/en/events/book-fair-1

Finally, we would like to spread the word about a new book from Will Parks, UNICEF humanitarian, scholar and thought leader:

“Graceful Leadership – Inspiring hope, creativity and resilience in times of peace and crisis”

Enjoy.

Dear friends.

Today we post a Sonnet by Shakespeare:

XXVIII.

How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eased by night,
But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me;
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please them thou art bright
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer
And night doth nightly make grief's strength
seem stronger.

Was Shakespeare going on holidays when he mentions the 'benefit of rest'? 

This is clearly a Sonnet that make us feel more like going on holidays, in order to obtain new strenght to continue writing and dreaming. Resting as part of the creative process :-) I think that all of us believe this is a good idea. No sorrows and no night, only light.

Enjoy.

See you soon.

 Link for rules of the Literary Contest:

http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt/literary-contest-nature-2017-2018-65904

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