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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Horror In African Fiction And Why We Need Genre Fiction
There are so many genres to explore and with the African clime chock full of folktales, superstitions and traditional beliefs, you cannot begin to imagine the epics that would come out of bending our rich reality into these genres.
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Demystifying Writer’s Block
If suffering from writer’s block was a sport, I’d likely win a medal. You probably would too.
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Protest Literature and Why African Literature Protests
Protest: a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.
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Masquerades And The Thing With Individual Perception
Last year I spent Christmas in the village. The highlight of the festivities for me, followed closely by my skilled
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Modern African Literature and The European Influence
I am only appreciating our growth and ability to write about Africa without needing to reference anyone else—no pre-colonial, no colonial, and certainly no post-colonial. Just Africa.
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To copy Or To Line: Editing A Manuscript
The discussion about exactly what a line or copy edit entails is one as old as time. Some editors swear they are one and the same, others argue about which comes first, and almost all of us have different definitions of these stages of the editing process.
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Self-care For Writers: How To Glow Up Like A Smart Creative
Not the bubble baths and scented candles, although they are a part of it, but the self-care that is specific to the struggles writers face.
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find your storyteller: A lesson on point of view from scout finch.
I’m not talking about the first, second or third point of view either. I’m talking about the person who tells the story. The eyes through which we see that world: Scout’s.
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