And today I wrote my second column for my $5 Patreon (it was so hard!!). My mistake, I believe, was not to write there as I do here.

First I fought with the “technical issue” of writing about a historical place in another language, then with the sales tone that I should add to the text, that should try to convince people (in a time of so many uncertainties) to come to Brazil as tourists. But what a quest…

I never was good at selling anything. I was always gentle, attentious, my clients remember me years after the last time they saw me (last week I found a client that recognized me in the market). But I was never a good salesperson.

Maybe, writing for you guys, I answered my own initial questions.

I don’t need to be always selling airplane tickets or hotel rates. I just need to show how much I care to promote Brazil to the brave souls that come here, with almost no information available in English, for a few days of rest.

Anne Rios

amodafala@gmail.com