Welcome to August!
I won’t even try to keep up with what’s not. Let me confess jejely: it has been a hectic couple of weeks. Y’all are going to have to forgive your girl.
My first published work ever was be released on the 16th of May, 2019 (my 27th birthday). Listen, the journey to this place in my life really needs to be televised.
One of the things that pushed me is a scenario I can never get out of my head no matter how hard I try.
I think it was 2010.
My elder sister and I were in her room. We were sharing a room because my mum had allowed a family to use my room pending the time they got a place (this one is going to be another blogpost! Lool). My sister was on holiday and I was catching her up on this a project I had been working on as we lounged lazily on our beds.
I had invested a lot in this project but I could not proceed because of a lot of push backs I was not equipped for at the time. Then my sister said “You seem to be starting a lot of projects but you never finish them”. I do not know why it stuck but it did.
"You seem to be starting a lot of projects but you never finish them”.
It has been my drive in every project I have embarked on over the years. If I had the boldness to start it, I must have the tenacity to complete it.
I started writing this novella on the 23rd of December, 2015 and I finished on the 27th of December 2017. The editing, proofreading, adjusting reconstruction, first draft, second draft and the many drafts, all took the whole of 2018 to complete.
Writing a book and publishing a book are two completely different topics. They are entirely different. However, every time I could have given up, I remember what my sister said calmly that morning and it pushed me some more.
The story took me four writer’s blocks and two years to get through. It would seem the matured even as I matured. I had to get out of the way many times. I had to understand that for a story to be epic, you had to surrender yourself as a vessel first and a writer next. Gosh, I grew. I had to.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
... A story on second chances
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