FireforGod:

Yes,it is my pleasure

EvaJael:
Hello everyone! Wheww! It's been a long while. Lots of things have happened here. I'm not even sure I am known here anymore. #Smiles. It's alright anyway. I'm still EvaJael and I've missed literature section sooo much. I've been away because of acacdemics but I'm back, at least for a while. I came back to meet everywhere so quiet unlike how lively I always knew it to be. I know Divepen1 is doing his best and I still appreciate him but we can also put in our two cents. I think we should start by introducing ourselves (especially the new writers here) and maybe from there we can do something together.
So, I'm calling on
Divepen1
Kayo80
Queenitee
Cbella
Pearl05
KimberlyWest
Pinkfeet
Gracile
Angelsss
Shewrites

And everybody else. I'm so sorry it's been a long time. I don't really remember many monikers. Please invite others especially the new writers here
Eva cares.

Centino:


A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people - Thomas Mann.

EvaJael:
Hello everyone! Wheww! It's been a long while. Lots of things have happened here. I'm not even sure I am known here anymore. #Smiles. It's alright anyway. I'm still EvaJael and I've missed literature section sooo much. I've been away because of acacdemics but I'm back, at least for a while. I came back to meet everywhere so quiet unlike how lively I always knew it to be. I know Divepen1 is doing his best and I still appreciate him but we can also put in our two cents. I think we should start by introducing ourselves (especially the new writers here) and maybe from there we can do something together.
So, I'm calling on
Divepen1
Kayo80
Queenitee
Cbella
Pearl05
KimberlyWest
Pinkfeet
Gracile
Angelsss
Shewrites

And everybody else. I'm so sorry it's been a long time. I don't really remember many monikers. Please invite others especially the new writers here
Eva cares.

Pinkfeet:


you are welcome

kayo80:
Nice move Evajael... And welcome back.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Kayode Odusanya... I'm a romance novelist. I focus on short stories and novelettes...they are easier for me to write than Novellas and Novels. My dream is to be Nigeria's first billionaire author. I don't know how I am going to achieve that goal yet, I just know I am going to do it.

queenitee:

Big head, I'm here. #winks

EvaJael:

I assure y'all he's gonna get there sooner than we all excited. His works are to die for. There's something else I love about Kayo, he'd do his possible best to help this section prosper. You can always count on him to put in a word or two that'll help and encourage writers here. A round of applause for him jare. We're still waiting for the rest

shontellybee:
I just hollered back.....
Hello dude!
..........what exactly am I supposed to type now?
(thinking)

Eberechi24:
nice move Eva,

I'll appreciate it if this section will be revived, seriously.

am not a writer but I can read for Africa. I have read so many stories here, hope am welcomed?

HORLADSTAR:
Viewing this thread in 4D

Centino:
“If I want to read a novel, I write one” – Benjamin Disreali

I’m Centino. Relatively new here. The above quote is why I write. I have no heroes of the letter; I follow in the footsteps of none. I am my own inspiration.

I got bored stiff with “literature” and began to fancy myself to do a good enough job for me. I reckoned if I wrote my kind of book, surely I would find likeminded people who will appreciate my style.

I do not like fluff. If something happened in the afternoon, tell me what happened. I don’t see the point of describing the sun. How the environment laughed because the yellowish red hue of the sun tantalized the roofs. What’s that? I know what an afternoon looks like! I like a story. A good plot. Who likes who? Who hates who? Who is after who? Who fvcked who? The human experience is robust and I just want to hear of it. From every perspective. And for goodness sake go straight to the point! If an adverb will drive home a point, I will use an adverb. If a simile sounds silly, I cut it out. If you are obsessed with words and you want to wa.nk to them go and read a poem. Rules? They are not for me. I will write my own the way I want to. “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self” – Cyril Conolly. Word.


“The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income…" Ellen Gilchrist. And I will add, then you can experience true freedom.

I will not write about an asylum seeking PHD holder who ends up as a cab driver in New York so that I can be appreciated internationally. I will not carry my Katakata Street to okada books and sell 10 copies in one year so that I can get something for my troubles. I will not read “how to be a successful author” and burn myself out trying to sound like someone else. If you want to be the next Chinua Achebe, sorry you came 60 years late. So I make sure I am not hungry. If the money comes, I want it on my own terms. So I write when I want to write, if I want to write, how I want to write. The only people I want to kill are the ghost readers of Nairaland. Come on guys…Tell a brother/sister that s/he is trying. You don’t know how far that can go. You think this is easy? Try it.


Finally. Most tellingly… “One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions” – Salman Rushdie

At Easter, I wrote a chapter I called "food for thought". In it, I asked why anyone thinks Jesus whose flesh was dust like mine and yours would ascend to heaven where there is no such consistency. Do you think God is in the business of impressing people? Do you think creating heaven and earth and trying to save the souls of man is a circus? (Didn’t put it quite like that but you get my drift…). The result? I got the fewest likes that week. And guess what? It doesn’t matter. I will say it. I am a writer.

Aunty Eva Jael. That is me o.

Having said that, you can now bundle over here and see what I do for Nairaland mostly on Sundays. Many thanks.

https://www.nairaland.com/3893393/number-225-katakata-street

EvaJael:

Thank you dear. You are highly welcome. Your comment just gave me hope. I was beginning to feel like I'm wasting my time here. I hope you've enjoyed the stories you read here. Have you read any of mine?

Eberechi24:



yea, hidden diamonds, you are a great writer

EvaJael:

And he used to be my personal person o. Issorite

HORLADSTAR:

So am no more ur personal person. Issokay(USED TO BE).

Welcome back Eva, I really missed ur writeup.Keep going more high higher on the smooth ladder.
#horladstar cares.

EvaJael:

Thanks dear. I'll check them out. Welcome. We'd be delighted to have you do a brief introduction

EvaJael:

Oh! Centino, I owe you big big hugs. May God make ghost readers repent. It's obvious you've forgotten me sha #sobbing. I used to follow number 225 Katakata street before I left nairaland for a while. I'll join the train again this Sunday. Thanks for your comment, you have lifted a sister's spirit

EvaJael:

Awwww, I'm blushing purple. Thank you dear, na learn I dey learn sha. How's literature section been for you?

holarbolu:


I'm Ayub by name, an aspiring being with no less than four novels to my credit, although none has been published yet on any platform. Only you sweeting people on NL are permitted the luxury to enjoy my stories.

Eberechi24:


it's been funfill until recently but am glad you came back

your storylines are captivity




#accolades

EvaJael:

Thanks dear. I'll drop another one, hopefully before July. I don't want to start what I'll take hundred years to finish. Have you met queenitee? Another vibrant reader just like you

Eberechi24:


alright. am always at your back. mention whenever you start

she's really a vibrant reader i must admit also, very supporting and encouraging. I admire her zealous commitment toward stories and its writers.

Onetop:
I'm Onetop, I love reading and writing stories, especially when am bored Nairalanders(literature section) are helpful so far.


One funny thing is that; updating can be tiring sometimes, I don't know if it's only me.


As for ghostreaders; they are so discouraging , they don't know the power of comments, quotes, likes, and shares on writers, especially new writers.


Here is the link to my story, not forgeting I appreciate everyone following my story.


www.nairaland.com/4445957/ajayi-tenants

EvaJael:
Shontellybee
Infant
Princiology
Favouradeyemi6
Holarbolu
Kemistab20
Piercy
Nonnywhite
Skylard101

So these are the few monikers that don't look like the ones I used to know some months ago. I hope they reply our mention

Skylard101:


Present ma