The Writing Room

MY OWN BIG WOMAN is a novel set in Jamaica. It is about the decline of a woman's relationship with her sister and their struggle to exist in the same space. Take a listen.

  I am not a fan of talk shows, so I don’t purposely watch them or listen to them. But, occasionally I catch snippets of the conversations. Recently, I overheard a conversation between a mother and the host of a talk show. The mother said that when her child was in primary school, he was obsessed with drawing. He once drew a picture of a celebrity whom he had never met and the resemblance was uncanny. However, when it was time for him to do the primary school exit test she badgered him to study and forget about drawing. She told him that there was no future in drawing (or something like that) and that he should focus on his lessons at school, which apparently could take him places where drawing couldn’t. He studied, went on to high school and probably beyond, (I missed that bit) and has never touched a pencil again. This child clearly had talent which could have been nurtured. His mother gave him one choice. He had to walk the academic path. She now regrets her actions. At the t...

MY OWN BIG WOMAN is a novel set in Jamaica. It is about the decline of a woman's relationship with her sister and their struggle to exist in the same space. Take a listen.

MY OWN BIG WOMAN is a novel set in Jamaica. It is about the decline of a woman's relationship with her sister and their struggle to exist in the same space. Take a listen.

How to be a prolific writer is the quandary that many writers need to work through. In this post, you should get some ideas how to do that. It’s been many minutes since I’ve shared with you, but I hope that during my absence you’ve been writing and writing and writing some more, because writing prompts surround you. You just need to allow your mind and your fingers to create images in words based on those prompts. If you are writing prose, follow the advice of Samuel Taylor Coolidge , “[Put] words in their best order” and if you’re writing poetry: [Put] the best words in the best order.” With a bit of research about writing, reading lots of different types of books by different writers and by practising writing, you will figure out the “best order” to place your words. If you are a budding poet, do your research to decide how to find the “best words” and how to put them in the “best order”. I stumbled across an article by writer, Rachel Toor , titled The Habits of Highly Productive...