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Cleo18:
I read the book titled WHEN A CHILD IS MOTHERLESS by Andrew Okogba when I was in primary school and cried a lot while reading it

Again, I read it while in secondary school and also cried.

No book has ever made me cry like that book did.

I should read it again.
Did any of you read it please?

WILLuKPquiet:
Its been a long time, but since I read it, it has helped me in my writing a lot. I can't remember which site.
If you use it and listen to your book read out to you, you will love it.

Then, there is a style I use in editing my books also.
This is for everyone to try. It helps a lot.

Download the app called @voice. Use it to read your story to yourself. Its an audio reader.

Now, open your book in word and follow the reading. It will help you to detect where you have made spelling error, omission error, and punctuation error. This is what I use all the time. You play your book several times and purse to make corrections on the word version at the same time.

Shalom to every writer.

WILLuKPquiet:
Lovely!

You are a good story teller and I have fallen in love with your style already.



When you write do not shorten your words except you are quoting someone.

For example;

I told him I don't like going there. I wouldn't do it for a million naira.

It is better written like,

I told him I do not like going there, I would not do it for a million. Or he told him he does not like going there. That, he would not do it for a million naira.

I read this in an article several years back that
It makes your writing more matured and professional.

But you can write it like you've done when quoting someone like,
He looked at him sternly and shouted, "I don't like going there! I wouldn't do it for a million naira,"