Dear Medium, You Hurt Me; But I Couldn’t Break Free

Dear Medium,My name is Georgina Odafe, a writer in the faraway land of Nigeria, deep in the heart of Africa. Maybe not so far away because news of your fame reached me even when I didn’t know who you were. Every time I visited, I felt seen by your community of writers. You created a place…

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The Essential Ingredient of Writing

What happens when you give different persons the same ingredients to prepare a meal? Will the meal will taste the same? What if you don’t give them the ingredients? You only tell them to prepare the same meal? That is where individuality comes in. Because each of them will prepare it differently. Some might even…

The Throes of Editing

As a writer, you must have heard the not-so-much-spoken-about rule which says; “When you don't know what to write, write about not knowing what to write.” That's one of my reasons for writing this post. The second is the reason I don't know what to write about. I'm thinking and writing at the same time,…