Teaser : Come Back Abayomi
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Free Chapters: I’m Not A Fucking Mop!
The true story of an ordinary woman who found saffron pastures at the heart of an abusive past. Available in EBook and Print.
Karma Crime
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Dearly Beloved
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Come Back Abayomi
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What the bleep happened at #JozisBBF?
If you weren’t there, ex-minister Pravin Gordhan encouraged writers to rise above ordinary events and draw the connections between them. That’s a pretty loaded statement considering he’s a man battling an insidious corruption at national level. He stood there like South Africa’s own Commissioner Gordan, the contemplative cop from Batman, but were his words really […]
Readers learn the same lessons as characters because they go through the same experiences together.
Conflict and Desire in Stories
It has been said often enough that stories are about conflict. Story structure is the tool to use to articulate that conflict and that eventually plays out in your plot with scenes and emotional values. But it’s easy to just get lost in all that those little details if you don’t have an inkling of […]
Deciding what to Include?
Probably the most daunting problem you face when writing a story is what details to include. Often your notes and initial inspiration will yield hundreds of little details that you want somewhere in the story but aren’t not sure exactly where they fit. There are a couple ways to solve this problem. Understand that it’s […]
Rebels do it by themselves!
4 Story Ingredients
Ok Imagine this: A beautiful Japanese spy is sent a Versace dress in a box. In it is an invitation and the instructions for her mission. It says she should wear the dress to the party and infiltrate the upper VIP level where the mark she has to kill sits. This dramatic situation came out […]
Managing Story Ideas
A lot of ideas will come at you while writing. Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, the challenge is to collect, process and structure that information so that it serves the story. You could leave it in your head, but consider the world we live in today. The information age has changed the nature of […]
Bad Love
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Theme essentially illuminates something about life by showing characters having experiences, making choices, and showing the consequences.
Finding easy topics for books
So you want to write a book, upload it Amazon or something, and need a good topic to write about? You’ll get a much more productive answer by rephrasing that question. Try, for instance, what can I write about that adds value to others? Notice how shifting the focus charges your quest with experience. […]
Book covers that inspire sales
You may have written a killer book but it needs a face that will get the attention of readers. There are so many books available from so many marketplaces that just getting yours seen is a challenge on its own. Remember that you’re also competing for attention with radio, television and all the content that […]
3 Steps to writing strong proposals
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text drop_cap=”yes”]Whether you’re pitching your big idea to private companies, government or individuals, the problem you’re faced with is how to make them care about your idea. This is especially true for book proposals because it’s too expensive for publishers to take on every proposal that interests them. They’re extremely selective, as are other institutions […]