My nineteenth book — The Flame of Truth: Lights in Darkness

I conceived the initial idea for this story 10 years ago. I had a draft with the plot, its characters, and world elements. I used many of them for the writing.

This book represents a milestone in my writer’s journey because it is full of new features.

The first one is the genre. This book is a religious dystopia. For those who are not familiar with this term, dystopia is a story that depicts a world where there is extreme oppression, suffering, injustice, and violence; usually under an authoritarian political regime.

The story takes place in the 22nd century in Brazil, with a reality very far from the present (I hope this reality never comes true).

Another new feature is the inclusion of illustrations. Using the Playground AI tool, I’ve created scenes and characters. I suppose this will make the story more engaging and vivid.

I wrote using Bing AI as an assistant for grammar correction and consultation. Microsoft’s tool helped me to choose more common words and expressions that improve the text/reading flow.

This was the book that took me the longest time to finish, about 7 months from the start of writing to the final punctuation.

I changed my English accent in this book; I switched from British English to American English. I don’t even know why I’ve used a British accent before.

And finally, this book has significant changes in dialogue. Previously, I used : (colon) in the book’s dialogues—wrong for English writing— and now, I’m using “,” (comma). Besides that, I reduced the use of these marks in the text, I studied other books and noticed that the excessive use of them makes the reading slow, like a theatrical play.

I hope you enjoy this new work and its improvements.

Release date: Aug 4th, 2023

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