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Pyrrho: OP, OP. Wat shld our Writers write abt? Shld they write abt d love, wen many brothers ar dying of bomb blasts and one police officer jst slapped u at d junction. Shld u write abt a bright future, wen thr is no electricity? Shld I write abt an utopia, wen my salary is delayed, even though its xmas?
Jst tak a look at d last thread, wat an 'interesting' question.

breathing: yeah I agree with you that not all works of creative arts need to send a message, but I disagree when you say it is only the old generation who patronise these works of art. If you start following writers on facebook you would see an amazing number of young people who want to read, and what's even more amazing is that most of them want to read
genres that no one is writing in Nigeria yet.







Tnx very much for this post. You may nt know that it has encouraged me to go ahead wiv d publishing of my book entitled- 'Louder'. It's of d drama genre. I noticed almost every popular writer of today writes in prose nd I've always been skeptical about the success of my book. It has a gud storyline which luckily is nt the usual 'civil war' story background dat dt OP emphasized. Tnx for d post.

I think the first author who takes up genres like this, and dedicates time and effort to it, would be able to make a good living out of it. These days everyone is talking about it, but no one is actually doing it.

breathing: yeah I agree with you that not all works of creative arts need to send a message, but I disagree when you say it is only the old generation who patronise these works of art. If you start following writers on facebook you would see an amazing number of young people who want to read, and what's even more amazing is that most of them want to read
genres that no one is writing in Nigeria yet.
Tnx very much for this post. You may nt know that it has encouraged me to go ahead wiv d publishing of my book entitled- 'Louder'. It's of d drama genre. I noticed almost every popular writer of today writes in prose nd I've always been skeptical about the success of my book. It has a gud storyline which luckily is nt the usual 'civil war' story background dat dt OP emphasized. Tnx for d post.

I think the first author who takes up genres like this, and dedicates time and effort to it, would be able to make a good living out of it. These days everyone is talking about it, but no one is actually doing it.

Tobitbooks: Publishing is a broad step with many parts. A publisher actually don't charge for ISBN. When you give them a book to publish, your fees covers everything.
Nevertheless, you can buy an ISBN from the publisher for 6000 naira. I.e if you want to self publish.
Or simply, you can just upload your manuscript to us and we will publish your books in the next five days for 55 naira per copy with 150 copies as the minimum. Then pay additional 4000 to get ISBN.
Thanks. Send a mail to tobitbooks@yahoo.com
TOBIT. ...Write.Publish.Sell

FrontPageLawyer: For many, learning to write fluently in English is much more challenging than learning to speak fluently. written communications can come much more slowly in English than spoken communications.

on this forum, I have come to realize that mistakes are not permitted in English writing. It is a taboo even though typographical errors are allowed in some cases. So many members have fallen victim including me on "typographical errors". Yesterday I saw a member's comment on a particular thread “picture of AY and wife in New York City”. He erred while commenting, I said to myself in laughter "this person has murdered English language and he will find no sleep" before I could refresh page 2, the thread has already jumped to page 4 and insult keeps cascading, members capitalizing on the mistake made. Attention was immediately shifted from the main topic and the focus was on this erring member until the thread got to page 10. One good thing is that, you'll learn from your mistake immediately. Reasons why we are here, share ideas, learn, be informed and get educated.

But i said to myself that even in Britain where English language originated from, English is still being taught and students still fails, but on this forum Nairaland, nobody cares. You have to be very careful or don’t post at all.

I know a lot of people that speaks fluently but can’t write, because, written communication is more formal while spoken communication allows for more 'mistakes' also Less reflection goes into spoken English than written English

Which is more difficult, English speaking OR Writing?