Fernando, welcome to this space. It's a pleasure to get to know you better and introduce you to the followers of this space, to start: How did you get started in writing? For me, the beauty of writing arrived sighing, spontaneous. I must have written my first short story on an old typewriter from my father. At school, in the English courses, my orientation was gaining body, even in an experimental way that accompanies me to the present.  But to start in the revelation that is writing was like a sigh - pure and innocent.

There are countless feelings that are born in the writer's heart.  Which ones do you identify with the most? Well, I believe fundamentally in my Writer's Voice.  Finding that voice took a while in adulthood.  It urged in me, in my first books, a need to mean.  This for me was the "x" of the initial question.  But my production took shape, and today I am a real artisan, someone who thinks and does.

What has writing changed in you as a person? As I became more professional, I began to pay more attention to the question of Art itself, respecting more its value of Existence itself.  Nietzsche's reading in «The Birth of Tragedy» is also advocated.  His inner portrait is of overwhelming power.

And as a writer, what have you learned? I have learned a certain sense of responsibility.  You can't write anything.  At the same time, it is necessary to print our brand, which is for very few.

How would you define writing in your life: a hobby, a necessity, or a chance? Writing, and writing precisely in Portugal, is undoubtedly a privilege.  But above all, it's a necessity, a need, and a profession.  In such fortuitous times, it is yes, an escape valve, a means of intellectual survival.  It comes, it's good to say, from an order of value.  Reading was no longer enough.  It was necessary to "put your hands in the masses".

You graduated in Social Communication.  Did this area have any influence on your writing? It certainly was and is part of my worldview. The standard of teaching was wonderful.  I am grateful to teachers like Maria Claudia and Bernardo for their teaching.  Unconsciously, karate was also very responsible for the formatting of my writing.

Between 2018 and 2019, you published three books; two fiction and one bio. Can you tell us about those publications and how those experiences went? Look, my writings remain current. In this case, it was the first stir in the melting pot of information that I had accumulated.  Being a freelance writer is something fortunate and this is recorded in my books.

Now you work on editing a new work "The Mask". What inspired you to write it? Look, one thing I learned: You can't stand still.  It's death.  Now «The Mask» comes from deep observations of the nature of things.  It is an answer to this Pandemic, of course, and it is an extrapolation of my readings.

How have the readers reacted to your work? I think with great respect for the nature of the craft in the first place. There are those who do not understand. There are those who love and there are those who worship. That's the game. I respect my readers and their intelligence and my main focus is that wonderful reader, far from my eyes and even from my analysis. These observers of life are the ones that interest me most.

Do you adapt easily to the various literary genres or does it require a lot of research and effort? I adapt relatively well.  But my literary breathing is quite authorial, and I don't see how to be different.  After many years of treatment for schizophrenia, I published the book "Psychology for Vision Leaders".  It took a lot of effort and research and is something more scientific, therefore less authorial in the broad sense.  Besides fiction and psychology, I surround myself on the margins of philosophy and marketing, as we see in «THE MASK».  I adapt to social networks as well.

If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would be the privileged one? Well, captious question.  In the name of my adolescence, I would take the volumes of "Prince Valiant", something that gave me great joy and pleasure.  No doubt a work still a little underestimated.  In the more adult phase, I would consider "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" a beautiful presentation to philosophy. However, as a film enthusiast, I would be left with "Limite" - by Mário Peixoto and "O Encouraçado Potenkim", by Eisenstein.

If you had to write a different genre, what challenge would you propose? I don't know, really.  I don't plan my literary career that way.  Saying anything about it wouldn't suit me.  Remember? I'm an author writing and that's what I propose to do.

What readers can expect from you in the future? More writing, more thinking, proposals, and a Copernican Revolution in which Brazilians are gradually realizing.

Describe yourself in one word: Amen.