By Chad Magee Each day I wake up and have a cup of coffee while I read the news and check my email (articles about early morning email be damned!). Inevitably, I end up reading the Medium newsletter —
By Lauren Langford To become a better writer, you must read often; everyone who aspires to write well has heard this before. Without further instructions, however, a budding writer can find themselves feeling lost as to what kind of reading
Ah, the old enemy. Writer’s block can happen to anybody no matter how good a writer you are. From writers like Malcolm Gladwell to writers like the author of “Nkechi the bush girl.” Not just authors but musicians, speech
Unlike the conventional short stories which take pages to complete, Flash Fictions is a literary genre comprising fiction which can be as short as a two-line paragraph, or even few words creatively written and still convey meaning.Flash fiction is
At first glance, the rules of capitalization in English might seem very easy, but as you write you might find out that capitalization goes beyond proper nouns and the first word of every sentence. Thus, here are 10 capitalization
Writing sometimes is a skill most people take for granted because they feel once you are learned then you can write. This is why as a writer, you should work twice as hard as people in other professions like
You may be very good at writing, but scared of becoming a writer because you don’t think you would be successful at it. But when you think of successful writers like Daniel Steel and Sidney Sheldon, you wonder how
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill Criticism is the reward of every writer's
Getting a job in Nigeria is considered difficult; however, in a world where content marketing has become a trend, companies such as magazines, newspapers, and blog owners are in regular need of contents. So, even if you don’t have
The blank page is a nightmare. The great writers of the ages have feared it more than evil spirits, wasting disease, and visiting in-laws. Yet, if you want something to happen, you’ve got to spill the ink on that
