the new Ogliastra Province which contains the works of several well-known linguists, journalists and writers as well as many of her own articles. In July 2006, she won the AVANT GARDEN LITERARY PRIZE with her novel Sirbone. A writer with a strong interest in journalism, her works have been published in the national weekly magazine Diario, as well as in many literary reviews and websites.
Rina Brundu manages two national literary prizes:
as well as two literary online magazines:
Rina Brundu is the author of a modern update of the Twenty Rules for Writing a detective novel by S. S. Van Dine. This work has been pubblished by several magazine in different countries and was translated in many languages.
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily. In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book. The theme is defined, the style, the tone. At least in my case, the first paragraph is a kind of sample of what the rest of the book is going to be. That’s why writing a book of short stories is much more difficult than writing a novel. Every time you write a short story, you have to begin all over again.
-- Gabriel García Márquez
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, “Is he as crazy as I am?” I don’t need that question answered.
-- Philip Roth, 1971
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
- Isaac Asimov
