Eagerness to write continuouslyPhoto by Brad Neathery on Unsplash Currently, we are about to face new year, which means new topics that we writers are going to write about. Focusing on Christmas thoughts and New Year resolutions. Writing has been a part of me since it started as a hobby and changed to a habit overtime. […]
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Insights on the writing life after publication from novelist Anat DeracinePhoto by Jonathan Meyer on Unsplash When I published my first novel, Driving by Starlight, writers started asking me for tips on getting published. I was happy to share my own path, but I made it clear it was just my path, and what worked for me […]
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Your online portfolio is the portal through which both clients and readers learn about you and your work — and one of the best ways to land writing jobs. That means that, for many of us, creating a writer website is hugely intimidating. I put off creating a writer website for months simply because I […]
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As writers, we know that the process of writing is composed of work and worry. The work is a grind of word counts and applied methodology, but the worry — a mix of fear, doubt, stress and resistance to the process — can be more difficult to navigate. During the four long years I spent […]
Continue readingPicture Source: Pixabay“If I make you to write like me, I would have killed your individuality.” –Emeka Nobis. One of the decisions I have made in 2019 is to live alone. Well, alone here could mean many things. I mean, I started living away from family since 2001 when I got into a boarding secondary school owned […]
Continue readingPhoto by energepic.com from Pexels It’s Saturday, so I am not working at my full-time job. My laptop is open on the only corner of my kitchen table that isn’t covered with junk from the week. My husband and son are cutting a hole in my kitchen floor — seriously. With a Sawz All, which is making my […]
Continue readingThe End of the Tour Revisited: A Film Based on David Lipsky’s Account of an Interview with David Foster Wallace Writers enjoy movies about writers. You can see it in the number of blog posts here on Medium about this film alone. Photo by Pereanu Sebastian on Unsplash In one way or another films about writers usually reflect […]
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