Sarah just got her book published. Hurray! The book writing journey has been a tortuous one and she is now thinking about pitching. She’s also heard of cold pitching. What do you think she has to do before cold pitching? Ok, if this scenario is similar to yours here’s what you have to consider …
At a notorious writers event, she’s looking smart. Her natural hair in a lovable up bun while she stands in the midst of two casually dressed writers. They are on the platform, taking turns, pitching about their work. Many writers are paralyzed at the prospect of pitching their stories. Here’s why you …
ANTAGONIST CHALLENGE . Antagonist are definitely the bad guys in the story. When they are mentioned, you begin to puzzle over what they are doing to hinder the progress of the protagonist. Now, a good storyteller knows how to use antagonists to heighten tension and create conflict in the story. Also, creating antagonists could …
Let’s meet the characters in this fiction story, The Dreadlock Lady. This story premiered on making Monday Mild. You can begin reading the story here THE DREADLOCK LADY Now the characters. NENGIYE KALIO First, Let’s deal with the major conflict which is the stereotyping of the main character. A stereotype is a fixed general image or set of characteristics that …
In my office the following day being a Monday, I try to act lively and forget the woeful weekend’s happenings. The Heads of departments meetings are ongoing and it would take like centuries before they head back to their respective departments. While I sink into my chair, I occupy myself with swiping through …
The walls of the classroom glitters against my eyes as I step in. Paintings of the sky and rainbows hang just beside the whiteboard. Everything is well placed, mixing colours against each other. The grade 4 pupils are playing round till they sight me and scramble for their seats. I observe some of my notable …
The Dreadlock lady synopsis. The story talks about a young lady and her hair journey. It sheds light on views held around her dreadlocks. It also incorporates her friendships, love life, career and frienemies. The hair brand reference in this hair story is @hair_by_zil on I.G. For more stories read here, Wives of …
Happy Monday! Sit, Sip a drink and See how this style stuff works. Let’s assess why it is important and which group your Writing falls into. Maybe, you’ve been flattered by the way most of your favourite writers, write. Maybe what’s going through your mind is, ‘Gosh, this writer’s style is so bam, how do …
A confident character, how would they react? A funny character how would they react? Now put them in a context. Say Teacher vs Student Boss vs employee etc A shy character on a stage would act differently from one who is as bold as a lion. The stakes would be the character feeling …
We believe that we are writers and as writers we have assess to vast wealth of knowledge stored up in us hence, people can benefit massively from our independent and even random write ups. From our writings, lives can be built or torn down. Stories or writings still offer a solid form of …
