Creative Ways To Avoid Using Clichés It’s hard to come across a writing tip without a sentence advising writers to avoid using clichés. They make your work look flat. The reader would find it dull. And thousands of reasons why you shouldn’t use clichés. What are clichés? Clichés are words or phrases that have…
May 12th, 2022 – Chinonso Marymartin Okoabu | Creative Nonfiction Nothing shook the country greatly like the death of Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. It was not that she had succumbed to the cold hands of death as all mortals would someday, it was the gruesome way…
Free International Writing Competitions For You To Enter | June 2022 New months bring new opportunities for writers across all genres. In this article, we’ve compiled over 20 international writing competitions with no entry fees for you to enter, most of which have June or no Deadlines. The descriptions contain a link to the main…
Using Cheat Sheets as a Writer When you hear the phrase “cheat sheet,” the first thing that probably pops up in your mind is a student using “chits” in an exam hall. While the term “cheat sheet” originated with those tiny pieces of paper smuggled into exams, there’s a lot more to the term we’ll…
Point Of View: What You Should Know When you read anything, the first thing that registers with your subconscious mind is the author’s point of view. In general, works are divided into subjective and objective perspectives. The literary device of point of view is used to indicate the angle or perspective from which a story…
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