Truth and freedom as compasses

I was asked: why do you write? The answer is simple: it is a necessity. First, writing allows me to put my head in order. And although every journalist or writer does it to reach or inspire someone, in my case, it is also to find inspiration. Facing the "paper" daily is a big challenge, even if done in a few lines, as in this post. I've read a lot about why to read and what to write, especially about the mental processes of creativity. The book I found most accurate on how to awaken creativity is the best-seller "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron, which I read and reread ad nauseam. I recommend it. It is a source of creative inspiration or, at best, a manual on awakening creativity. Cameron recommends writing every day, no matter what. Just the act of writing sparks creativity - it's the formula!

I wrote tons of words in my more than four decades as a journalist and press freedom advocate. And I always had truth and freedom as my compasses. I analyzed reality and understood the world, with all its nuances, through those two values and their countervalues: lies and oppression.

After decades of experiencing those virtues and disvalues, as I did in 1993 when I published "The Painful Freedom of the Press: In Search of Lost Ethics," I thought it necessary to face the same issues and fears, but in a fictional novel. Thus, "Robots with Souls: trapped between Truth and Freedom" was born, a mental "investigation" of why and how these values and their counterparts move everything in the universe.