Finding my voice

I spent much of 2018 crafting a story; the premise, setting, characters and scenes were clearly defined before started. was careful to choose my words, tossing around synonyms try find perfect fit, paying particular attention sentence structure mulling over form conversations that would be included. tried get sense imaginary reader whether descriptions enable them visualise scenarios depicted. Yet, story not mine, it somebody else’s; rewrote it, in English. There is an adage which says “translation no substitute for original”. That correct. Translations have always been substitutes originals (Bellos, 2011, p. 37), case literary translation, best ones are performed by writers. In this paper discuss evolution from translator writer.