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December 3, 2024
Featured Story #15 – The Lost Boy
We are sharing the next story in our series, Featured Short Stories, written by students in the Creative Writing Club.
Every week, the students in the club work on writing short stories, sometimes from their own ideas, and sometimes from story prompts.
This week’s story was written by Nuria, aged 10. Enjoy!
The Lost Boy
The light of the full moon lit up the gloomy forest, causing shadows to cast among the ground.
Suddenly the sound of a voice echoed through the vast forest.
A wolf howled somew...
December 30, 2016
Year in Review: 2016
Hello everyone!
I hope you had a lovely Christmas break, spending time with family and friends, eating, drinking, celebrating! Did you get a visit from Santa?
As the year 2016 draws to a close, it's normal for us to look back and reflect on how the past 12 months have been. Did we make progress with our goals? Did we achieve anything significant? Did we grow in our personal lives? Did we learn some important lessons? And are we grateful for everything we received, and hopeful for the coming yea...
I hope you had a lovely Christmas break, spending time with family and friends, eating, drinking, celebrating! Did you get a visit from Santa?
As the year 2016 draws to a close, it's normal for us to look back and reflect on how the past 12 months have been. Did we make progress with our goals? Did we achieve anything significant? Did we grow in our personal lives? Did we learn some important lessons? And are we grateful for everything we received, and hopeful for the coming yea...
November 3, 2016
The Subconscious is Awesome
Did you know? Apparently, your subconscious mind is 30,000 times more powerful than your conscious mind.
I've been doing a lot of non-fiction reading in the past few months. I wanted to read more personal development books, books on successful entrepreneurship, books on living a life of purpose, books on growth, positive mindset and so on. In my reading, I stumbled upon some concepts around harnessing the power of the subconscious mind. These concepts are not new, in fact they've existed since...
October 20, 2016
Welcome to Lagos
Hi friends! I know I mentioned earlier in the year that I was leaving the UK, and relocating to Nigeria with my family. Which we did, and we gradually began to settle down into our new life. We were in Port Harcourt, for a while. I got to make friends with other parents in my daughter's school, I was invited to join a book club, which was great fun, and we eventually found a church that we liked, and stuck with. Knowing me, this was a big deal :)But somehow, I still felt like I was in transit...
March 8, 2016
100-Day Novel Writing Challenge!
Hi everyone!
Introducing my new project:
Calling all writers, aspiring authors and future novelists! If you've been thinking about writing a novel "someday", that's never going to happen! (Hint: There is no "someday" in the calendar)
You have to decide that the time to do it is NOW!
I've created a challenge for you (and me) to get us writing a novel in a short time. It's called the 100-Day Novel Writing Challenge and it's starting on the 15th of March.
I set up this challenge because I get a lot o...
February 23, 2016
My Podcast Interview on The Creative Penn
Hi everyone!
I know I disappeared for a while, but I'm so excited to share this news so I came back :)
Last year, I approached Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn to ask her if I could be featured on her podcast. I was very nervous to ask, because I know she features really awesome authors who are well established in their writing careers and have achieved both celebrity and best-seller status. But I decided to pluck up the courage - after all, what are the likely outcomes? She might say "No" and...
I know I disappeared for a while, but I'm so excited to share this news so I came back :)
Last year, I approached Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn to ask her if I could be featured on her podcast. I was very nervous to ask, because I know she features really awesome authors who are well established in their writing careers and have achieved both celebrity and best-seller status. But I decided to pluck up the courage - after all, what are the likely outcomes? She might say "No" and...
November 29, 2015
New Mini-Course for Aspiring Authors
Hi everyone!
Hope you are all doing great.
I've been working on a few projects for the coaching side of my business over at Accomplish Press. I put our research questions to my friends on Facebook and asked what kind of problems most new writers face, especially when it comes to writing a novel for the first time. Most people responded with things like: procrastination, self-doubt, not knowing where to begin, etc. I also asked what issues new writers who want to publish are facing. And with my...
Hope you are all doing great.
I've been working on a few projects for the coaching side of my business over at Accomplish Press. I put our research questions to my friends on Facebook and asked what kind of problems most new writers face, especially when it comes to writing a novel for the first time. Most people responded with things like: procrastination, self-doubt, not knowing where to begin, etc. I also asked what issues new writers who want to publish are facing. And with my...
April 14, 2015
"Boomerang" Short Film and other Updates
I've been trying to write this post for two months.
Every time I try to compose something, my head goes blank, and a million and one other things suddenly seem more interesting.
So let's just summarize the stories. I've been in Nigeria for four months. The year 2015 has already been interesting so far and my move back to Nigeria has gone better than I expected. Thankfully, we are settled in now, and we're all doing well. There are some things I've managed to adapt to, and some things I haven't...
Every time I try to compose something, my head goes blank, and a million and one other things suddenly seem more interesting.
So let's just summarize the stories. I've been in Nigeria for four months. The year 2015 has already been interesting so far and my move back to Nigeria has gone better than I expected. Thankfully, we are settled in now, and we're all doing well. There are some things I've managed to adapt to, and some things I haven't...
December 30, 2014
New Year, New Location...
... and New Beginnings....
It's almost the end of 2014, and like many people I'm looking back on the past year and making plans for the coming one.
But with one major difference.... I'll be starting out 2015 by leaving the UK and moving back to Nigeria, after more than fourteen years away - if you don't count those short visits back.
It's a move that I was initially very reluctant to make, especially when I went to Nigeria in March, spent four months, and returned to the UK at the end of July. N...
It's almost the end of 2014, and like many people I'm looking back on the past year and making plans for the coming one.But with one major difference.... I'll be starting out 2015 by leaving the UK and moving back to Nigeria, after more than fourteen years away - if you don't count those short visits back.
It's a move that I was initially very reluctant to make, especially when I went to Nigeria in March, spent four months, and returned to the UK at the end of July. N...
December 28, 2014
Videos: Highlights and Readings from the African Literary Evening
Hello friends,
Compliments of the Season to all. Hope you had a lovely Christmas and you're looking forward to a wonderful New Year in 2015.
As promised, we now have a video showing the highlights of the discussions, readings, spoken word performances and other happenings at the African Literary Evening. I think it is a lovely summary of the event.
I also have a video recording of my reading two flash fiction stories. It's the first time I've recorded a reading and it feels very weird to watch...
Compliments of the Season to all. Hope you had a lovely Christmas and you're looking forward to a wonderful New Year in 2015.
As promised, we now have a video showing the highlights of the discussions, readings, spoken word performances and other happenings at the African Literary Evening. I think it is a lovely summary of the event.
I also have a video recording of my reading two flash fiction stories. It's the first time I've recorded a reading and it feels very weird to watch...
