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Creeza:
sorry this is late... Its a lie! My namesake? Benjamin? It cannor b na, tell me you are joking. Dont mind me iam obviously doing that. Its nice to know that we have atleast onething in common. Im honored.

Hactually iyaf shin hitt since! But busy schedule did not halow me twe replies ( in jenifa's voice)

You have been a source of motivation to many writers on this platform. I remember meeting your moniker on lleigh's thread ( or was it yours?) about writing believable dialogue in stories. That was when I saw a brilliant writer who wanted to make waves and write his heart out to the world( cant believe i just described you with eight words starting with 'w' . Writing is fun tho

on that note Bro Im still waiting for your novel ' Grabbing the hot Gates'. I want to buy and read it so earnestly.

Bless up sir!

Awawwwnnn... Thank you very much... it's really an honour...

Audreytimms, ma....
Name: Location Relationship Nl Crush...

Many times, themes don’t just erupt like molten magma. Well, on a second thought, they are like molten magma. They don’t come out like seed of a fruit that must be planted before the huge tree comes forth. They wait for the period the people of the land can’t really escape from their eruption.

The concept of Last minute theme discovery is such that you have finish the first draft of your full plot before stumbling upon the theme. The good thing about this is that it gives you the chance to ensure the theme is fully explored while rewriting the story.

As we have discovered earlier, every theme is an argument. Most times, people don’t know what they are arguing about until the last minutes. In the theme level, that is your eureka moment. This means that you don’t have to fret if you have a good story without a theme to give it a deeper meaning.
Funnily, your readers would unearth themes, you didn’t see yourself. Many people find lessons from quotes of the narrator(you), from characters’ dialogues, events of the story. This means that there are many lessons that have been buried on their way to the end of the story. Therefore, you must ensure you have a great time giving out a very interesting story on your path.

The problem with theme is that it is very slippery. You have to notice them on your way through your writing expenditure. If you overlook your theme, the entertainment part of your story would only remain with them for a short period time. The theme would Rebuild itself in their story. In her interview with Writertain, Emem Bassey, Author of Dark, Deep, and Dangerous, made us understand that the themes of most her books were discovered in the last minutes. According to her, ‘ Most times, the story writes itself. I might create a structure, but when I’m through, it’s sometimes far from what I’d structured. It’s all relative to different personalities, and upbringing and experiences‘.

All I’m saying in essence is that as much as I have advised you not to fret, you’re not at liberty to stop thinking about it. Let it be the song on mouth, the thought lingering on your heart.

http://writertain.com/2017/11/08/%e2%80%8blast-minute-theme-discovery/

dojnr4real:
wow! Nice one. Divepen1 more ink to your pen sir.

Thanks boss..

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1) Toyin Taiwo 2) PamelB 3) Onyeneke Abel 4) Darousmart Emmanuel

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favch:
(2). Oyin prince best in detective/crime thriller
(6). Most consistent wtiter is marrianneada

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Self-publishing, as we have discussed in one of our previous posts, is something that everyone can do. However, it would take sometimes. You can either use popular self-publishers or you can try doing it yourself. If you want to consider doing it yourself, you would need this checklist to forge ahead.

1. Book Covers Design: you need a well-designed book cover for your books. For example: Imasetng, the official book cover designers for Writertain Publishers.
2. Book Editor: you need a very good book editor to ensure that the book is topnotch.
3. Book Publisher : this refers to the medium you want to use. Are you ready to self-publish the book as an Ebook or as a hardbook or both.
4. Book Distributions : this is your marketer.
5. Synopsis : the best summary is required to make a great sales.

6. Book Reviewers: these are people you can easily talk to make others see the message others have not seen. They enlighten the world about your book before it is being published.
7. Marketing Book Reviews: this is the book review you wrote yourself.
8. Obtaining and Assigning an ISBN (
hardcopy)
9. Obtain Copyright Registration
(hardcopy)
10 Printing Press: if you are for hardcopy, you need to get a very good hard copy. A very good example of such person is
11. Book Launching: the date and all other things required to make sure your book is exposed to the world on a personal level.
12. Awards that can be contested for.
13. Speaking Engagement.

http://writertain.com/2017/11/07/%e2%80%8ba-checklist-of-self-publishing-your-publishing/

So, in recent times we started a series on Characters. We are exploring Character’s voices and how to strengthen it.


Confidence Level
Confidence level refers to the background building of your character. They are the things that encourages the speech of the character. Let’s take Clarisse from the Percy Jackson series for examples. She was able to talk rudely and confidently because she had won several battles and was assured she could win any new ordeal.


1. Background of the character:
a character, who is from a military or cops background would definitely talk without fear. The wittiness needed to win an argument would be found in a poet, a public speaker or an actor. These things boost the way your characters reply and talk to other characters. This implies that you must understand the background of your character before you allow them give a reply to others, especially outsiders. That means, the readers would question how you allow a five-year-old boy to talk rudely to a stranger. This means that the child must either being from the ghetto or a spoilt brat or must have lived with very rude parents.


2. Emotional Attachment:
the emotional attachments of characters have a big role to play in the affairs of building your characters’ voices. They help you understand that characters are hinged on the words of whomever they are speaking with. A little child will confidently tell his parents about his ordeal at school than his distant aunt. So will a man tell his wife his ordeal at work than to tell a total stranger. And as human, we get angry mostly at those we know or love.

3. Vastness of Knowledge:
the vastness of your characters knowledge about a matter increases their knowledge of things. Funnily, these things can be seen in the works of most writers, but it would be easily controlled and used if you, as the writer, know about this. It would tamp the way you make them relate with other characters.

http://writertain.com/2017/11/07/596/

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It's high we started the preparation for Nairaland Literature Award...
There are different Sections.
Date: Voting starts November 7 and Ends November 30... Long right?

Voters
All you have to do is to drop the names of people you feel should win the award for any section. All you have to do is quote the section and drop your list..

Volunteers
We need people to count votes. If you're willing to do that just send me a PM.

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Cassava Republic is one of the most reputable TradoPublishing houses that have stepped out of the norm of regular printing presses and publishing house, and have made books fun for readers. Some of their authors include Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Author of ‘Independence’; Teju Cole, Every Day is for THE THIEF; Marilyn Heward Mills, Author of ‘Cloth Girl’

Although many people are desirous to know how to publish their books with them, they don’t know how to go about it. This post would enlighten you on how to do that.

1. Read Their Books: Not necessarily all. Try to read their works. If you can get your hands on the summaries of their books, do that also. It would give you a chance to know if your book can be published with them.
2. Your synopsis: Send Synopsisnot blurb or Teaser: Synopsisis what the editors read after they have read some parts of your novel. The synopsis gives them details on the main theme, major character, and the major conflict.
Whereas, a teaser is just to catch the readers’ attention. For example:

The Enchanted Swans by Christy Nicholas[i]

Fionnuala must care for her three brothers while learning to live under an evil curse. Will she find a way to break the spell, or will they remain swans, tethered to three places for nine hundred years?
[/i]
Meanwhile, Blurbs are quotes from other people on your book.

Cassava Republic would only accept a synopsis, and make sure it is not above 500-words.

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2. Send an Excerpt: Along with the synopsis, send the first 3 chapters of your work on a word document.
Send your sample chapters as a word attachment saved in the following way: date of submission (dd.mm.yy).firstname. surname.book title.
Example: 02.11.17.Aruakpo.Okoribe.Strangeencounters.doc

The subject of the email should be: Cassava Submission: [Author’s name], [book title]
Example: Cassava Submission: Aruakpo Okoribe, Strange Encounters.

They follow this rule because the submissions are logged and read chronologically.
Post your name only on the Title Page.


4. Format Your Work: Use the following format for any work you want to send to them;
Double spacing

justify to the left.

5. Submit On Their Website: On their website, you will be directed to Summitable. This resource help website get submission from different source. It is very easy to use.
6. Then, you wait.

Have any issue, let’s hear from you.


https://writertainpublishers.com/?p=589

kingphilip:
Name: Eze Philip
Location: Abuja
Relationship status: single

The literature section made me regular here and it's what is sustaining me here too


I appreciate all the writers on nairaland especially the literaturelanders who writes to entertain us on here.


I don't have any one I can single out to be the best because everyone is unique in their own literary way.


I'll like to wish you all success in your offline endeavors and hopefully sooner we'll hear of you making waves all around the world with your pen

Nl Crush

rachealfst:
Writers:
TiffanyJ, fiyah, MaxiOmenuko, ogodlovely1, Buttersss, Babsopey, Angelinastto, uncutz, Flakkydagirl, Nevetlbots, Olahjhdeh22, Chistar01, RolaDiva
Frozenfirenaija, glowingscenes, TMDavidwest, fiyah, flow1579, boyo123, TemitopeDaniel,

Readers:
Adesina12, ikombe, wizsolzy, Hadampson, yewande1234, Missmossy, ROYH, Countrygirl, olatex25

Thanks

Writing is a journey. Most times, we don’t know where we are going, but we are exploring the events as they unfold. In this Authorview, we would be reading the words of a brilliant Okadabooks’ author, Emem Bassey, as she describes her thematic journey.
Writertain: So let’s get to know you
Emem Bassey : Emem Bassey, second child and first daughter out of four. I’m from Akwa Ibom; and I love to write. I sleep and wake writing. I’m not perfect but I’m working towards it. I have a temper, but I’ve successfully worked through it.
Writertain : Wow… How many book so far?
Emem Bassey : So far…about 17. 12 published on okadabooks.
Writertain : Names of the notable ones?
Emem Bassey : Baby’s Angels…my debut novel. Duct series, which has 3 series so far- Duct; Chance Happened; Deep, Dark and Dangerous. The forth is in the making, called Mums.
Writertain : What motivated you into making them series?

Emem Bassey: The characters just scream out to be developed .
Writertain : As if they are pleading with you?
Emem Bassey: They don’t plead o! They bother…ringing in my head until you write them. When I complete a story, and it feels incomplete, then it just has to have a series.
Writertain : That’s beautiful. So, I first noticed your desire for fat ladies to have their story in Okadabooks’ interview with you, then in your books. Can you let our readers see your passion for these ladies?
Emem Bassey: Well, first of all, I’m plus sized. Second, I’m a reader…And in all the books, romance and others that I’ve read, the ladies described are slim.
It started feeling like we didn’t exist. It felt like fat ladies didn’t have romance in their lives.
So I took it upon myself to write what I know… Because, let’s face it, a writer’s story is the sum of his/her experience. So, as a fat person of experience, I wrote what I know about fat ladies.

Writertain : So, in order to be specific, I’d rather we discussed Unromantic, and ‘Deep, Dark,and Dangerous’. So, let’s start with unromantic, Rose’s case. Why did you pick the theme of Parental’s verbal flogging?
Emem Bassey : Let me explain something I’ve discovered about writing…When I set out to write Unromantic, it wasn’t a series, it was just supposed to be a novella, about a weird fat girl, who loved fun and a guy who didn’t. But when I finished the first one, it felt unfinished.
So, I went for the second series and before I started, I knew I’ll have a third one, because, I had to examine why these people acted the way they did.
I didn’t consciously choose parental verbal abuse, but…well, you could say I was spiritually inspired.
Verbal abuse from parents is a reality in Nigeria. It might not be a focus at the moment, but it holds great sway in the character development of an individual. They don’t know any better. With age and exposure, our generation, at least some of us, are realizing that not all our parents’ child-rearing styles are right.

Writertain : Still on Unromantic, can you describe how your characters Rose and Akan influenced the theme of ‘Fun’?
Emem Bassey : Most times, the story writes itself. I might create a structure, but when I’m through, it’s sometimes far from what I’d structured. It’s all relative to different personalities, and upbringing and experiences.
Fun for Rose was a means of escape from her personal demons. The fact that her own parents had treated her less than the furniture.
Fun for Akan was sin, an abomination that only resulted in problems because of the experience he’d had with his baby mama, and because, well, his Army father had brought him up in a regimented environment. So, when he met Rose, he felt lost and couldn’t understand her careless freedom.

Writertain : And she did made him lose the beast in him.
Emem Bassey : (laughs) She did.
Writertain : I can see that even a character’s ideology can be a theme on their own. That’s why I quickly go to Character’s ideology. In Deep, Dark and Dangerous, do you think Alero’s Ideology about cultism affected the outcome of life:Marrying Clem Edem.

Emem Bassey: Yes, it did. Experience. Since her step sister had given them scares due to her cult boyfriend, Alero became who she was. And even though she’d really liked Morgan, that deep fear couldn’t be erased. That fear drove her into a hasty decision to marry Clem.

Writertain : So, from your point of view, how does our ideologies affect our lives?
Emem Bassey : Our ideologies are our lives. It’s that simple. You can’t say you have an ideology and then you act contrary to it
Writertain : But how do you think we should take or use them when dealing with people?
Emem Bassey : The fact that it can be called an ideology is because of the personality, the character.

When dealing with people, an intelligent person knows that as faces are different, so are ideologies. And for comfortable living, we all have to Live and Let Live. The constitution speaks of the freedom of belief as long as it doesn’t hurt the next guy. But wars break out because people try to force their ideologies on other people and are angry because they don’t believe it.
Writertain : That’s deep. I noticed that your use of POV is the 3rd person Omniscient, which you used beautifully. How has using it influenced your plot and theme? Or helped you fully explain your theme and plot?

Emem Bassey : I had to find the POV I’m comfortable with. I suck at writing scripts because I see all these details I want to cram into the story. I tried writing in the 1st person once -Duct (Chance Happened), which was originally a script, and I nailed it only because I mixed it up with the 3rd person Omni. The third person allows me paint a detailed picture of the story, delving into the past or flying into the future if required.

Writertain : That means, one need to take a lecture from Rick Riodan?
Emem Bassey : I don’t know him o.
Writertain : Author of Percy Jackson. He wrote books in 1st person POV, each having over 100k words. So, tell us about Skrivner?
Emem Bassey : You know about that? Well…Skrivner is supposed to be my effort to help expose upcoming writers.

Writertain : One day, we will seek you out for it, and another interview should be on its way, but for now I want to say thank you. Any words for your fans?

Emem Bassey : Thank you very much. F
or my Fans, I’m always happy to get feedback so I can create better stories, and I’m also extremely grateful to them for their support. Writers would be nothing without readers. I want them to also know that the Duct series, they’ve been clamoring for, is currently being created!

Thanks for reading. You can get her books here:
https://okadabooks.com/user/Ememjamesbassey

Kingphilips, oya drop your name, location Relationship status Nl Crush

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
I feel this thread is a reunion, one that brought people across the literature globe together. Why then does an awesome party have to end? I understand that the response has not been great in recent times but can't we just continue? Dive, let the thread run forever. It's a very nice initiative you've created, there should be no ending YET. No, no.

Okay, but I need suggestions.

EvaJael:
I support you jare. Divepen1, mbok,please,biko,dakun,let the thread run

Okay, but I need suggestions on names...

rachealfst:
Wow! Longest time indeed. Trust you are doing great? Thanks so much.

Indeed, I was caught in other things that I forgot about dropping the norm. Thanks for the understanding.....

skarlett:
Nice review

Thanks

Stores: Okadabooks, Amazon, Kindle, Paperback In Nigeria
Price: N5,000

In the movie, Scandals (created by Shonda Rhimes), Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) told Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young) that the only thing people want to read in her book is why she stayed with her cheating husband.

In the beautifully crafted Memoir, Juliana Olayode exposed the world to two of the top three questions they want to know about her.

The first question 'How old are you?' is one question she answered at the end of the book. This means that for anyone to get to that answer, such person must consider reading whole book to the end.

The next question 'Why did you lie about your virginity? Here, she narrated the painful ordeal of how she lost her virginity, and the stupid notion in her teenager's mind. In this book, she detailed some mistakes people made in referring to her as a virgin, and how she had to put up the pretence. She expressly discussed her regret and hoped people would forgive her.
However, she refused to answer the third question. ' Why Did You Leave Jenifa's Diary?' She had successfully evaded the question by almost telling us the same thing she had posted before, although she gave us fuller details this time.People want to know what happened between her and Funke Akindele.

The funniest part of this book is that the evasion of this question is surely going to raise numerous questions and rumors from friends and family. I, personally, thought, she wrote the answer in the book to gain more sales only to be disappointed by the absence of the answer.

Nevertheless, the book exposed us to many facets of her life. Her life was ridded with various ups and down that should have ruined anyone, but like the Christian she was, she held on to the name Jesus, and that served as the saving grace for her.
She also briefly mentioned her life as a celebrity and how the fame, she had, couldn't be compared to the wealth people expected her to have.

The book is so rich with details that didn't only show her as victim, but as someone that had done stupid things, of someone that had spent most of her life in fear, of someone that had faced death, of someone that had been rescued from the claws of death. The book made us have foreshadows of how she solely believed in the name Jesus. A lot of places in the book intrigued me, but not like the Fake Prophet that was led to rub her body with Oil.

Side hint: I started reading this book when I was sure I was done with 90% of my part in writing and editing novel 'Grabbing The Hot Gate'. I sent the draft to my editor, Precious Adejumobi, and hinted the boss in charge of Graphics, ImasetNg. But one thing had been bothering me, to whom will this crazy, Scary, Paranormal, Supernatural, Christian Novel be dedicated to. I finally know who I will dedicate it to: Juliana Olayode. She fought her way out of a dark side to a side she could proudly call the home of God.

http://writertain.com/2017/11/04/563/

EmperorLee:
Divepen, let us cast Skalett na

Already casted.

Lleigh,
drop your name Location Relationship Status Nl Crush

Pynkylypz:
Divepen1.. The boss himself..

All the best in life dear.. May God bless you more and more!!

Awawnnn... Amen...