9d • General discussion
Who Is the Person Behind a Book?
Here, with you, I have found readers, curious minds, and writers.
But the most important thing, the thing that actually leaves a mark, is the stories some of you have told in this space, in one or more of these chats.
This is the heart of a community.
Not the trick to make more money, not the technique for writing sharper dialogue.
Of course, we will talk about those things too. But the stories, the real stories of each of you, those are better. They tell us something deeper. And we learn to write from them as well.
Because otherwise, what would we even be talking about?
We learn from stories. So let me go first.
I was born and raised in Italy. I lived there for over thirty years, and in 2018 I moved to the UK. I wanted to become an international writer. I only started writing in English in 2020, and it was not easy to begin. No AI, that's right. Google Translate was garbage back then. My first steps were an early grammar app called Grammarly, and a dictionary I bought from Waterstones. That was my whole toolkit.
In 2021, I published a science fiction romance novel called Echoes of Eurydice, a title I still struggle to pronounce to this day. But I did it. I got there.
It did not matter to the literary agents that I had essentially written an entire book by hand, in a language that was not my own. I collected over a hundred rejections.
A hundred.
I remember when the number stopped feeling like a wound and started feeling like a strange kind of badge. Every no was proof that I had tried, that I had put the thing out into the world instead of leaving it safe in a drawer.
So here is a piece of me, so that when you read my words, you know there is not just an icon with someone vague behind it. There is a real story. One of the ones that struggled, that had to fight against rejection, against prejudice, against racism. One that kept going when going made no logical sense.
I had faith. I still have faith in my path.
Now it is your turn. Take a moment and share it. It does not have to be long. It does not have to be polished. Just true. Let's see what happens. 👇
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Who Is the Person Behind a Book?
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