It’s been 9 years since I last visited Venezuela, the country where I was born and spent much of my childhood. The name used to be synonymous with beauty and oil wealth. Now, it’s an experiment in how dictatorship and corruption can cripple a country, trigger the worst humanitarian crisis in the hemisphere and divideContinue reading “Nostalgia…”
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The Perfect Prose
It’s every writer’s dream: to write prose that is clear but also beautiful and captivating. Authors like Hemingway have made short, concise sentences into their own style. Others, like Saramago, have sentences that span almost a full page. Where do you add more description? Where do you keep it crisp? I like this quote fromContinue reading “The Perfect Prose”
My Writing Story 