Tuesday 23 April 2013

The Perks of Being a Writing Revolutionist

Well, i'm here again. Yeah, i know that i've hardly been here in a very long time and you're all wondering what's happening. It's been what now? Say five months, right? I can hear you think out loudly. You're thinking, 'but i read her post in February'. Well, i do remember trying to drop a few lines about love. I won't say i was lovetsruck. I guess i just stopped being afraid to tell the world how exactly i felt about that person i truly love and care for. Yeah! You just heard it, I'm in love. And it's sure a beautiful thing.

That's the end of that story. Now to a new one. Or did you think i will just go on giving you such privileged details? No way my dear! That's for another medium. Not a public space. I'm far too private.

I've been trying to write a novel since like forever. I think this thing called procrastination is getting the better of me. I have managed to scribble down the first few pages of the first chapter. The issue is that i have not learnt to put my thoughts together on the theme of the book. I will like to do something that is not normally Nigerian but incorporate the Nigerian setting into the whole plot. I hope you can reconcile that in your mind? (Trust me, it was hard for even my mind to sell such idea to me also)

I just read on SuddenlyMarketing (a very resourceful blog, by the way) about the best way to write. It says, Write drunk, edit sober. Check it out! http://www.suddenlymarketing.com/write-drunk-edit-sober-how-to-blog-like-you-mean-it/ I totally buy the idea! I remember writing once that the best way to write is to just write. It's just that everytime i decide to 'just write' i begin to think of what the other person might think of the copy if he/she saw that i was the one who did the writing. Well, SuddenlyMarketing must have thought about me when writing that post.

I have therefore decided that since it is all on my inside, i might as well just start writing without thinking about the technicality of the copy first and then edit like i'm the editor-in-chief of the whole world. I have not tried it but i believe it isn't a bad strategy because alcohol always brings out the real person in a drunk. In the same way, writing drunk and editing sober will help you communicate your deepest thoughts without fear of not hitting the target intended.

The best writers, i believe, have written because they believed that what they were writing was going to create a sort of revolution somehow and did not care about whom it will favour and whom it will not but whom it will change.

I want to change things! I want to change people positively! I want peace in the world! I will write like every person in the world is reading henceforth and not care a hoot what negativity is injected into my resolve! I will write and will win!

Saturday 9 February 2013

My B



My Baby, Brother, Boo and Best Friend

What more could I wish for in the world

How else should I ask to feel

Why should I pray that it stops

B, you're the reason for my joy

 

Love is indeed a beautiful thing

I never knew this was how it felt

Love for every song I sing

It is new heights I know I get

B, you're reason for my joy

 

For every smile I give out to the world

I know your thought brought it out

For every tear I cried to the world

Your perseverance sought it out

B, you're the reason for my joy

 

You must be an angel from above

God has never felt so dear and close

Just because with you I'm in love

My heart simply froze

B, you're the reason for my joy