This Is One Of My Most Controversial Books Yet
I just finished the manuscript of my 3rd book. It has required a lot of sleepless nights and soccerless days, but its finally done. I am particularly excited...
Lately Life Has Been Hard For Me In Nigeria by @katehallet
Life has been…hard lately for me in Nigeria. During most of March and April I have had serious electricity and water issues in my house. This makes a...
10 Adopted Rules Of Thumb
I confess that I stole found this 10 Adopted Rules Of Thumb when surfing the internet today. The words are found painted on the wall of furniture-maker...
How To Dress Like An African Writer
Every fiction writer out there is trying to become the next Chinua Achebe or the next Chimamanda Adichie, who can blame them though. Based on the startling...
Finish Your @#$&ng Novel
Finish your @#$&ng novel is what I want to scream out when I meet an aspiring author that has several hundred manuals but no completed book! But I live in...
One must be drenched in words
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. — Hart Crane
So You Want To Be A Writer
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and...
I Like Nonsense
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a...
My Weird Beef With Chinua Achebe
I don’t necessarily agree with Chinua Achebe on a lot of things. For instance, I felt that his ending to his first book Things Fall Apart was bad. Bad...
