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Fashion › Re: The Truth Behind Wearing Of Waist Beads By Women (Photos) by theOGN: 12:09am On Mar 01, 2021

Jashub:
What makes homosexuality unruly...or what makes murder unruly...have you bother to ask yourself that?

Hi Jashub,
So I've been reading through your comments and would like to point out something. You haven't justified your point about waist beads being "unchristian-like." Yes, it is stated in the Bible, thou shall not kill, and I think there's also a place that speaks of homosexuality. But where in the Bible can we find, thou shall not put on waist beads? Pinning waist beads to religion isn't justifiable, however, if you argue that you find them irresponsible, I'm not sure why tho, then you're entitled to your opinion. Everything doesn't have to be about religion. There are so many things people count that I'm pretty much sure God doesn't even bother with. For instance, I once read from a Christian leaflet that watching football is a sin.

Anyways, waist beads are beautiful just like other bodily accessories. I'm sure some persons wear it without any spiritual or fetish undertones.

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Literature › Re: Sucide.... My First Or Last Poem by theOGN: 10:28am On Feb 11, 2021

Hey, I hope you're doing okay?

Switinthemiddle:
I picked up my pen today nd i couldnt stop writing... welcome to my head...

My mind is in a state of indecisiveness
am i bothered that at this age i dont even know what decisive means..

Just like a burning flame extinguished
my thoughts are all muddled up, putting me in this limbo of anguish..

Moving forward doesn't feel like the best option
but "going back to my roots" has never been my favorite caption..

I journey in my mind sometimes wondering what been successful would feel like
but coming back to reality, this state of paranoia grips me in a lock of bondage- prisonlike..

Hr tells me "there's a limit to what prayers can do
so you have to man up so thoughts of Sucide don't run up on you..

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Christianity Etc › Re: MISREPRESENTED Teachings-The Mission Of Christ On Earth by theOGN: 6:13pm On Oct 15, 2020

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Literature › Re: I Need A Competent Ebook Writer by theOGN: 2:42pm On Sep 22, 2020

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Nairaland General › Re: Simplify Your Life! Get Productive! by theOGN(op): 10:58pm On Jul 28, 2020

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Nairaland General › Simplify Your Life! Get Productive! by theOGN(op): 12:56pm On Jul 24, 2020

Hello.

Nnor.

Ekaabo.

Sanu da zuwa.

Welcome.

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• scribble thoughts and ideas as they come.
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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 6:28pm On Apr 29, 2020

pabon:
It would be an arduous task to list all the videos and podcasts. So, I just took a screenshot of my PC (these aren't all but you will catch the drift with these).
These are the ones I transferred to my PC. I have a lot of them on my phone as I'm always looking for more materials to improve the craft.
So, what you need to do it to type the name of any specific video you like into the search bar on YouTube. If the thumbnails tally, you've got your video.
I hope this helps.

Alright thanks a lot. Will check them out.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 8:47am On Apr 26, 2020

pabon:
Congratulations. You did it! That's what matters. Many dream to write but few get to the end.
You are not a writer until you write. And as your rightly quoted, no one can edit a blank page.
You could begin editing or allow the manuscript to 'fallow' for some days so it would be fresh in your eyes when you later come to edit and catch more errors.
I take it you know how to do the edits and proofreading? I could point you to books and videos that can help improve your editing if you'd like it.
Congratulations again.

Oh yes, please do. What books and videos do you suggest?

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 5:47am On Apr 25, 2020

I'm glad I decided to take this challenge. Not going to lie though, at some point I became super lazy, and there's this one day I just didn't feel like sitting down to write. I spent the entire day rereading an old book (and I'm not a fan of rereads, even if it's my favorite book. I'd rather pick up a new one). Long story short, when night came and I realized I couldn't go to sleep without writing anything, I got up and wrote, and wowza, the words started flowing(it's one of those days I had an uncompleted challenge).

So yeah, I'm glad I did this, and I'm glad I pushed myself because at the end, I came out with a 55k-word-half-ugly-half-fine-book.

Lastly I'd like to say thank you to everyone who supported and encouraged me in one way or the other.

Gracias

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 7:55am On Apr 23, 2020*

DAY 18

LAST DAAAAAAAAYYY!!!

I'm super excited.

The Challenge:
Write 28 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 11:03am On Apr 22, 2020*

DAY 17

THE CHALLENGE:

Write 21 pages

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 10:54am On Apr 22, 2020

pabon:
This is inspirational. You know, a few days ago, in my dairy, I was advising if one of the mods in the literature section could create a thread like this where writers can paste their daily word counts. I've seen it done on a foreign board one of my mentors frequents.
It feels so good to seeing what you're achieving.
If I may ask, in what genre do you write?

Hey, thank you!
Yeah, it will be cool to have something like that here.
I write contemporary fiction most of the time.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 1:04am On Apr 21, 2020

kayo80:
Nice. You are really motivating me to write more. Keep it up.

Thank you.

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 1:03am On Apr 21, 2020*

DAY 15

The challenge:
Write 19 pages

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

DAY 16

2 more days to go!!!

The challenge:
Write 26 pages

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 1:46pm On Apr 19, 2020*

DAY 13

I wasn't able to post an update on yesterday's challenge, so here it is:

Write 27 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Shame on me I couldn't get up to 27, but I wrote 24. Will add the remaining pages to next challenge.

And to today's challenge:

DAY 14:

Write 25 pages.

So I'm writing 28 pages today.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 8:13pm On Apr 17, 2020

DAY 12

Today's challenge was to write 24 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 11:13am On Apr 17, 2020

Creeza:
Keep it up dear. Just write, you will edit later and all the gaps will be filled. Trust me. It's never easy writing and editing at the same time. . . Your challenge is just eight days left... wow... Way to go. way to go ( applauding)

Thanks for the encouraging words.

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 9:30pm On Apr 16, 2020

DAY 11

Today's challenge was to write 23 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed. I wrote a total of 27 pages.
I use page counts instead of word counts because that's what fast draft is about. It's the pages. And I find it much more convenient.

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 9:09pm On Apr 16, 2020

kayo80:
Nice one OP. So what's your target? I mean how many words? I think my biggest accomplishment with these kinds of challenges was when I wrote a 7,000 word story in 5 days back in 2016. Yeah, that's not much, but I am a slow writer, and I felt great when I completed it.

Thanks Kay. My target is about 50k words.
I'm a slow writer as well, so I totally get what you mean. This is my first time trying a challenge like this, and mehn, I don't remember the last time I wrote so much words in just a few days. It feels good. I feel good.

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Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 7:39pm On Apr 15, 2020

DAY 10

Today's challenge was to write 18 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
I wrote 16 pages. I'll make up for the extra 2 tomorrow.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 8:19pm On Apr 14, 2020

DAY 9

Half way through.. yaaaay!!

TODAY'S CHALLENGE WAS TO:
Write 22 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 4:27pm On Apr 13, 2020*

DAY 8

THE CHALLENGE:
Write 20 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 2:22pm On Apr 12, 2020*

DAY 7

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ― Jodi Picoult

I'm almost half way through this challenge, and so far it's been pretty good. I'm actually enjoying it more than I thought I would.

TODAY'S CHALLENGE:
Write 16 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Task completed.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 1:08pm On Apr 11, 2020*

DAY 6

THE CHALLENGE:
Write 17 pages.

PROGRESS REPORT:
Today was quite busy and crazy hectic, but I found time to write this night.
It's presently, 11:45pm.

Battling sleep wasn't an easy feat, but, I made it!

Yup. I wrote 20 pages.

I'm totally going to see this thing through.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 10:33pm On Apr 10, 2020

PROGRESS REPORT:

I wrote 17 pages as against 15 cool

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 9:09am On Apr 10, 2020

DAY 5

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.— Louis L’Amour

Finally I'm through with the outlining and planning process, time to start the actual writing.

THE CHALLENGE:

Write 15 pages.
There's plenty of gaps atm in the story, but I'll start from anywhere (end, middle, or beginning), the gaps will eventually close up.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 1:01pm On Apr 09, 2020*

"Don't guess. Do the research" – Ellen Brock.

And Ellen's quote leads me to DAY 4 challenge: this is the part I think is most fun 'cos it involves seeing a lot of YouTube videos, reading blogs, skimming through memoirs etc. Just anything that gives me first hand information of people's personal experiences that relate to my story. Historical events and all that. I did a bit of research when I first got this story idea, so this is like a continuation.

PROGRESS REPORT:
task completed.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 5:31am On Apr 09, 2020

PROGRESS REPORT FOR DAY 3

Task completed.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 12:55pm On Apr 08, 2020

Annnnnnnd, it's DAY 3!!!

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ― Terry Pratchett

THE CHALLENGE:

TASK 1: Put my story in order.
The braindump from yesterday has a number of scenes I think might take place in the book. I will just pick those and put them in an order of occurrence. I might decide to change things when I actually start writing, but this will serve as a guideline.

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 10:33pm On Apr 07, 2020

PROGRESS REPORT FOR DAY 2

TASK 1: Completed
TASK 2: Completed

Today's challenge was great. Braindumped and created my Pinterest board. Can't say which task I enjoyed most.

Looking forward to tomorrow's challenge!

Literature › Re: #18dayswritingchallenge — Writing A Novel In Eighteen Days. by theOGN(op): 1:25pm On Apr 07, 2020

DAY 2

"If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained" — Neil Gaiman.

The challenge:
Task 1: Create a pinterest board.
This is a way to have a visual version of my story. The board will include character inspo, setting inspo, dialogue, costume inspo, etc. Just whatever kind of pictures that fit into my story.

Task 2: Braindump
Braindump literally means taking every idea I have in my brain about this story and dumping it on paper. (this is probably the lamest definition ever, but yeah, you get what I mean). I already have scene ideas and dialogue, will put all that down. Doesn't have to be in any kind of order.

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