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rapmike: Oga, you no try, since our last contact about that novelette i sent to you, you no reply me at all. I no even sabi how e be for your eyes


by the way, welcome

I'm so sorry. I've been quite busy.

Space your paragraphs.

Okay. Show me the stuff you're made of.

Frank 317? Seriously? What happened to 16?

Repteam: Short stories. Any genre. Interesting + educating + funny stories have better chances. That is, any of d three or any story that sweep one of their feet.

Okay. Thanks for the prompt reply. What's the website? And I hope this is really legit.

It's so sad indeed.

When you say 'stories', what exactly do you mean? Short stories or full novels? What number of words? What genre?

Pelig, the post screams for paragraphs.

HumbledbYGrace: Oga Larry, how are the Lariets? Missed you tons. We need to throw a get together for all those days we've been apart, how we go do am?

Where've you been? I nearly came to Pretoria. Don't you ever leave me again!

maclatunji: Thank you for your interest, I will send you PMs. I will elaborate after I get a response from you. I am not sure of Nairaland's mail system's delivery or policy that guides who can receive mail from who.

Okay. My e-mail address is on my signature.

HumbledbyGrace! Wow! I live to see you again? That's an awesome privilege.

maclatunji: ...Keep watching then.

Where are all the writers in this place? Did some Goblin gobble them up? I have been drawn by one big magnet towards writing again but this time, I want to collaborate with other writers and I thought: "what better place to come than here?" There is so much talent either unsure of itself or idling away. Why not reach-out?

Okay. Can I participate?

Shuo! Why isn't my book in the list na?

I sense envy brewing among those girls.

hifaif: Literature affords you much more freedom than essay or article-writing where you have to stick to all the rules of grammar.
Ernest Hemingway is still described as the finest writer to come out of the American continent and one of the earliest Americans to win a Nobel Prize, yet the guy stuffed his works with conjunctions, especially, 'and'. It became his style of writing. Just read the opening paragraph of his book 'Farewells to Arms'. Just the opening paragraph alone and see the number of conjunctions there.

I don't want to derail the OP's thread. Poetry, a genre of Literature, may afford you the 'freedom' you said, but I disagree when it comes to Prose (fictions and all). You are the first man to tell me a work of prose can be wanting in grammar. I'm sure you know that essays and articles are also works of literature.

And as for your comparison with Hemingway, there is a diversity in styles, my brother. I read Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' and didn't find any fault in his use of conjunctions. What I am saying is that when the same conjunction appears numerous in a single sentence (as I noticed in the OP's posts) it becomes an excessive use.

hifaif: Bro, good observation. But you should know that there is no such thing as excessive use of conjunctions in works of Literature.

Really? You mean conjunctions can be overly used? Wow! Tell me something, I'm willing to learn.

Okay. Nice intro.

But I detect a faint whiff of redundancy in the narratives. And the former parts of the posts are guilty of excessive use of conjunctions; 'and' most especially. Some clauses also scream for punctuations.

Above all, you are doing a great job.

Orikinla: The quoted intro from a true news report and the response of Father James Thomas to the report shows that it is happening in America and in the present 21st century. But I have not made up my mind on the city in the US.
It is a crime thriller and I have to go through real life crime reports to be able to develop credible plots.

It's supposed to be a fiction, right? If it's, I wonder why a real report has to be created.

What's the settings of the story? with careful plot development, it'd be intriguing.

A very nice introduction. Well done, sir.