feisty mind

Between real and magic, I am oh-so many things: aspiring author, witch, mother, sportswoman, ambitious corporate professional, feminine bitch, slightly crazy.

So this is not a perfectly curated life here, it’s messy. Some of us were not, indeed, built for still waters.

Here I lay it all down (or almost all): the questions that haunt me, the quiet truths that won’t let go, the books that change me, the words that keep me awake at night, and the worlds I long to live in.

Feisty mind. Restless soul. Always moving toward the next chapter.

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  • Not sure how to do it

    Review and edit until exhaustion chapter by chapter is not working. As soon as I decide to add something or go back for more information, I need to do it all over again. Maybe I have to settle with the fact that I will write a full book as a first draft, and then I…

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  • Side plot

    Struggling with plots in my book. Several stories are happening at the same time, like crossed wires, but I still think that it is not enough for two 500-page books. Which is my initial goal. After my last two books, realized several things: With this in mind, will need to make an unexpected side plot.…

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  • Manacled

    By SenLinYu. After several months of postponement, decided that it was time. Another piece of information about me, I am a Harry Potter fan. The kind of fan who reads the books more than 5 times each, in English and Portuguese (my mother tongue). The kind of fan that uses daily golden snitches as earrings,…

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  • Reading Challenge 2025

    So the goal this year is to read 52 books. One per week only. The goal last year was 40 books and I doubled it, with 80 books read in 2024, excluding the re-reads. It was an excess and it cannot happen in 2025. Discipline. Control. I can do it.

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  • Nocticadia

    By Keri Lake. The first 5* book of 2025. An exact mix of an amazing thriller plot (science-based as I like it), mixed with romance, wonder places, and good smut. And the writing had the perfect depth, never cliché. It made me feel a lot of things. I tilted my head back towards the window…

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  • Under water

    With everything except the book. Still in the office, I struggle with life choices. When I said in December “this is a topic for January”, I did not realize how many topics I had left it hanging. Nor how many would pop-up on my desk at the same time. Some days, the only thing I…

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  • New Year’s resolutions

    For 2025, the same as for 2024: Having this book written. Because this is more than a book, this is a plan, a dream, a goal. Since 1995 when I got my first diary (a small, green book from Naf Naf with a locker), writing and reading have been my escape from life, a way…

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  • The book genre

    Should I do a big reveal for it? Or probably you guess it already? Although I am due to a lot of “currently reading” books for you… But the genre is High Fantasy. With a side portion of romance, a pinch of contemporary, some drops of poetry and a breeze of smut. It will be…

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  • Nights off…

    …at the office. Little plate of pasta, 3 decafs, 2 screens and a lot of research and learning done. If you want to write undisturbed and you have young kids (as I do), the quite night office is the way to go. Of course, for the first time, had to explain to my boss why…

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