When the accent was removed from the ‘solo’, the battle began, which, for the writer Elvira Sastre, was “funny to a certain extent”, since it united “many writers” who have expressed their desire that this accent be maintained . And it is that to stop putting it, for the “solotildistas”, was never an option: “Writing is a tic. Every time I sat down at the keyboard, the ring finger was going to label me the ‘solo’; when I write by hand, it’s almost a body whiplash,” says writer Miguel Ángel Hernández.

In the same vein, the writer Anthony Lucas confesses that he has always written ‘only’ with an accent: “Both in my texts, as in my books and in my poems, I have always been persistentwhile some correctors suggested that the RAE already allowed the elimination of the solo accent”, something that has also been done elvira tailor: “During these years, I have continued to use the tilde in ‘solo’ in my poems, articles, narrative and on WhatsApp with my friends.” However, the writer points out that “when it comes to publishing a book and passing the publisher’s filter, they have corrected it.”

Despite this, editors like roger Sunday, they have continued to label ‘solo’ in each of your posts. “Whenever we received a manuscript without an accent, what we did in our style correction process was correct the accent, we sent the manuscript to the author and we explained why we had added it,” acknowledges Roger Domingo, director from the publishing house ‘Ediciones Deusto’.

Now, writers and publishers celebrate that this ‘literary rebellion’ has worked, since The RAE has changed its criteria, and has reported that the adverb ‘can only’ have an accent if the writer sees a risk of ambiguity. “He has won what he always wins, which is the natural inertia of those who have not adhered to a rule that has not led anywhere,” highlights Antonio Lucas, while Miguel Ángel Hernández expresses that he will celebrate the change in criteria of the RAE “putting accents almost as if there were no tomorrow”, as if his finger and hand “could be free again”. And it is only from freedom that the best stories are written.