Books are some of our best friends and companions for a lifetime. Words of an incorrigible bookworm, no less. But books guide us through a fascinating world of wonder, learning, hope, entertainment, a world available to us all.

There are countless ones who are no longer apprentice writers, but we are all writers’ apprentices forever…

WELCOME! Wherever you are, feel at home here.

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The Writers’ Apprentices is an individual blog, just in English, with only two pages. But it’s also an extension of the bigger blog called Aprendizes de Escritores. As I use to say, Writers’ Apprentices and Aprendizes de Escritores are twins, but not identic ones. I created Aprendizes de Escritores in April/2011 and, since then, I’ve been translating it to English to turn it into a bilingual blog. The whole blog has 15 pages, and there are lots of parts there in Portuguese that are already in English too. As I am a translator, I want both blogs to be shared with all people, no matter the language, or the profession. In order to know the whole bilingual blog of 15 pages, if you’d like after you visit here, please click on the link at the pen below. Here, on the Writers’ Apprentices, you’ll find lots of interesting things too, in a pleasant way, such as articles, texts, phrases, comic cards, general comments and tips, etc.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

WA Blog’s Tip


     
     An excellent and free website is Scrapee.net to add texts, frames and apply several visual effects to your images or personal pictures, and to easily create beautiful and exclusive collages and mosaics. It’s a safe, practical and complete website, and it’s easy and enjoyable to use.
     I’m always there creating new things for Writers’ Apprentices, facebook and my other blogs.
     I’ve discovered that, among all the other options we find there, we can turn images into gifs like these two below I made to AE-WA. I enjoy gifs, and I think they give a special touch to blogs, e-mails and pages on the social networks.

    Whenever you use general images, check to see if their rights are reserved or not, and choose internet public domain images and free stock images, because there are countless ones available.


Monday, May 5, 2014

Modern Days

At older times, you would be reading this by
 candle light, having coffee in a tin cup.
 And my fingers would be calloused after writing
 so much with a quill pen and ink!
Now, we can enjoy a blog with a tablet in
 a charming café, at the airport, in a waiting
 room,or wherever we want. I still prefer
 that books are of paper, but, surely,
 I have to applaud the numerous
 marvelous things progress
 brings us.