Karmen Spiljak

2 months ago | janefriedman.com | Karmen Spiljak |Jane Friedman

Today’s post is by writer, editor, and book coach Karmen H. Špiljak. Writing fiction in another language might sound straightforward. Technically, you’re using the same tools as in your mother tongue, so changing the language should feel no different from, say, switching from painting with acrylic to painting with oil. At least that was what I expected fifteen years ago, when I started writing in English. What I learned was that it is much less about the tools and more about the painter.