Humour In Contemporary African Fiction
Although humour is agreed to be a universal phenomenon, it is also culture-specific, and hence cannot be neatly packaged into […]
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A View on the Representation of Autism in the African Fiction Space
Canonically autistic characters are characters who are explicitly identified by the author or within the storyverse as having autism. Autistic-coded characters are characters who exhibit autistic traits but are not explicitly identified as autistic.
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TIPS ON WRITING GOOD DIALOGUE PART 2
People have different manners of speaking. Some people would rather speak indirectly about something, usually in a bid to avoid confrontation, while others are fine being direct.
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Tips On Writing Good Dialogue
So, your characters speak. Sweet. Do they speak well enough to keep your readers interested?
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Fiction As a Tool For Social Reform
Because words have the power to inspire action and one person who speaks or writes enough of these words will attract people who can move mountains by sheer will and number.
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Tradition vs Modernity and Why We Should Stop The Comparison
Traditions did not come with the first humans to walk the earth, like some sort of manual. They are not unchangeable, older-than-life truths. Instead, they were created when they were created…
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How To Create Well-Rounded Characters Part 2
You cannot write what you do not know, and this is true for your characters. Like we discussed last time, a well-rounded character is a character who feels real and nuanced.
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How To Create Well-rounded Characters
So, how do you like your people? Round or flat? I have to say, I quite like mine globular. Ahem,
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