Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu and the Creative Economy Working Group (CEWG) have sued the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) and its CEO Ezekiel Mutua on their decision to ban the film Rafiki. KFCB had in April 2018 banned the film in Kenya apparently on the grounds that the film’s producer had declined to remove what the […]
View PostSometimes coming up with a great opening paragraph is a struggle because this is the part that draws in your reader. It shapes the post and the idea around it. Should you be introducing another world (world building), a scenario/setting. The opening paragraph remains the most important and often where we make the most mistakes […]
View Post blogging tips, characters in posts, expectations, formatting, opening sentences, point of view shifts, stilted dialoguesInteresting opening sentence techniques are used to draw in your reader. Introducing a character at the beginning of the blog post works as one method of making our blog post stand out. For example, ‘In 1935, Edgar Allan Poe a well-known writer and poet, obtained a license to marry his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. […]
View Post blogging tips, favelas of brazil, J.K Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, kericho tea, pride and the prejudice, spoilers, tea farms In kenya, the hobbitGrammar is not as easy as you might think. In a world where our English is affected by our use of mother tongue, you shouldn’t beat yourself up because your English is not good. That is why there are many resources available to help make things a bit easier. When you are self-editing, sometimes grammatical […]
View Post adverb, auxilliary verbs, mother tongue, nouns, Pronouns, self-editing, verbsOne day while seated down with a friend we had an interesting argument about free will and will power. Were they the same and what was it that made them different? In my understanding, free will is the ability to make decisions for oneself despite obvious physical limitations while will power, for both of […]
View Post blogging, blogging guru, blogging tips, Languages, reading and writing, reading culture, vocabularyWhen a writer sits to pen a story, they just don’t write something bland. Instead, they come up with ways to entice and excite the reader to read their stories. They use literary devices. These are narrative techniques that add excitement to the story. They are what encourages the reader to continue gnawing at the […]
View Post cliffhanger, colloqualism, euphemism, flashback, hyperbole, imagery, irony, juxtaposition, literary devices, metaphor, multi-perspectivity, narrative techniques, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, poetic justice, satire, style of writing, symbolism, voice of the writer