Because Blogging Is Hard But I Might Like The Challenge
Blogging is difficult. I have eyebags that won’t go away! Oh, I wish I could say it is all rainbows […]
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Your Eid Mubarak Reading: Broken by Fatima Bala
Broken: Not A Halal Love Story by Fatima Bala is a story about faith, love and the persistent reach for salvation even when broken.
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The Portrayal of Childless Women in African Fiction
These books, and many more, highlight the struggles of women (and men) in childless marriages and ask that you (the society or relatives) lay off these people. Their childlessness doesn’t take years off your lifespan, neither will them having a baby add years to it. But your undue pressures and damaging comments will take something from them.
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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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