When Up is Not Really Up

Hi! How was your weekend? Productive? Lazy? Relaxing? All of the aforementioned? Boy-oh-boy do I love the speculative fiction genre! Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Eureka, Battlestar Galactica, Fringe, The Matrix. I can watch these over and over and over again. So now you know what I did this weekend! Traveling through space with a…

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To Sum it Up

Hello readers! How are you doing today? I was burning yesterday, but today I’m frozen. I only noticed it once I stopped what I was doing. Here is the result. I hope you like it! UPDATE: Apparently you have to click the picture. I’ll figure it out for tomorrow. Right now I have a story…

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Inspiring Art

people whose stories compel us to look into the faces of passers-by, acknowledging their pain, celebrating their success, protecting their insecurities, keeping their secrets

Naming my Characters

Hello there, anonymous people of the intertubes! How do you fare today? Today is get-story-done day. I started a short story the weekend before last and it remains unfinished. It ballooned from a short story that was supposed to take a few pages (3 or 4) but is now 6400+ words long and I haven’t…

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Scripting my story

whenever I go by a store with Arabic letters written on the front I’m sounding out the words like a 6 year old, but I’m loving it

Geeking Out

Readers, followers, returning friends, how are you today? I am completely geeking out today. As an environmentalist, a scientist, a writer and an avid human+ advocate, the thought that we will soon be out in space, making changes to our wider surroundings and finding ways to live in peace with whomever else might be out…

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The Finish Line

Welcome back reader! Did you subscribe to this blog? Are you following me on social media? (links on the sidebar!) One of my least favorite things in this World are cliches. Ugh. I get especially irritated when I talk to people in business and they have all these “coined” phrases that they didn’t really coin…

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Thanks, But No Thanks.

Hurrah! The commonwealth does it again! How can we thank you? How can we convey our gratitude and thanks for the consistent and persistent support you have shown for African writers? In case you are reading this and do not yet know, the shortlist for the commonwealth book prize for 2013 includes FOUR African writers….

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Making Connections

Hello there reader! Welcome! How is your day so far? I’m in the midst of a flurry of Chrome tabs, clicking, linking and reading up on all manner of things. One of the things I am keenly aware of is the fact that authors need to make connections. Connections with other authors, connections with book…

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