Procrastination: A Creative’s Villain

Writing is difficult, but it’s even harder when you’re a lazy writer like me. It’s funny how I know on many occasions when I should be writing, and I’m not, that it’s not the absence of creative inspiration that’s keeping me away from the craft, but my slothful attitude towards writing. For example, I should’ve

Writer’s Block (The Logocade)

Writer’s block? What exactly is it? An inexplicable case of sudden agraphia set off by transient amnesia? Jargon, that’s what it is. It’s a period of great confusion when gods are humbled by the absence of their subjects. This moment of literary incoherence can sometimes take the form of a graveyard with long, tortuous dialogues

Be the Sun

Every time I ask how you’re doing, you always tell me you’re fine, and your life online, you seem only to wine and dine. I guess your life is better than mine. But if it’s not, I will never know as you never show a sign of gloom. Is it possible that you get your

Life’s a Thriller

Every day in life is a new page of an infinite genre-bending thriller. The dexterous author, for the most part, is the great universe. It’s this complex network of creatural determiners featuring serendipity, coincidences, and what many call providence that direct the courses of our narratives. We only serve as protagonists in the work, diligently

Get Out from Under The Pressure

When the pressure gets too much, please, take it easy on your self. Life will always throw problems at us; it’s the only thing it’s good at. Sometimes it seems our only purpose on earth is to fight giants and scale mountains. Life feels very much like a game, and every level is packed with

Coloured Blue

Blue?But it doesn’t look good on you.Why not wear a different hue?You’re not the dying painter’s muse—it’s true. ColourI know this one suits your horror.This morbid black against your figure.Why not go for fire and vigour? GreenYes, green. It’s nature’s thing.You can be her twin, another queen.You should try it on to see what I

Embracing Rejection

It’s weird, isn’t it? This idea of accepting rejection. The possibility of hitting another cul de sac on our path to authorhood is one many of us approach with enormous fear. It’s most especially concrete for budding writers—sprouting tendrils—hoping to get published in some form for the first time in their lives. Of course, self-publishing