Remember the Reason Why You Write
By Elouwdi Smit The first piece of advice I received about writing was to have fun! Don’t be serious – just enjoy it. I will never forget the day I received feedback on my radio drama play that placed me in the top 5 in a local competition. The giddiness, pride and plain old happiness lasted […]
Best Writing Advice: Give Your Characters Life
By Sufia Aleia For a story to exist, it must have characters. For characters to exist, they must be given life. After all, lifeless, inanimate objects can’t carry a narrative, can’t captivate a readership, can’t plunge a hand into a reader’s chest to take out their heart and examine it and say, Yes, I know […]
Best Writing Tip: How to Get Away with ‘Murder’
By Tarumbidzwa Chirume I was 15 when my English teacher, Mrs Williams, told me to commit murder. It was Speech Day, and we all had to speak our self-written speeches for three minutes. I was confident in my speech – it was well-written, and I’d learnt it off-by-heart – so nothing could go wrong. Or […]