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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The ‘Untranslatable’ In African Fiction
Words that do not have a counterpart in the English language. Words that stem from a culture and cannot be understood without first understanding the culture. These words are like music to the ears and they always stand, sentinel against the complete transformation of a work of art.
Take Ikenga in Things Fall Apart for example.
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An Introduction To African Speculative Fiction AKA Africanfuturism
In African literature, speculative fiction has a name sweet to the tongue—Africanfuturism. Africanfuturism is a subgenre of the broader speculative fiction
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How To Give Yourself The Mental Space Necessary To Create
I’ve realised that to create really is brutal work. Nothing like the romanticised version I’ve had in my head all this time.
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What To Do When Stuck In The Middle Of Your Novel
In other words, how do you get out of the midpoint drag?
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How To Keep A Reader Interested In Your Novel
Today I’m not talking about grabbing your readers’ attention—start with a sizzling paragraph and you’ve got readers hooked—I’m talking about keeping that attention, because unless you cultivate that skill, your reader will move on to the next book that has an even more sizzling opening paragraph.
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