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The Stories below were entered into the Storymoja/GenerationKenya– Kenyan Conversations Contest last week. Please read them, and vote on them to choose the story that will be entered into the Kenyan Conversations Final Judging Round.

As a writer, I have accepted the fact that my creativity is required not just in the arrangement of words into script that communicates, maybe even entertains, but also in learning and using new methods of presentation that are constantly challenging the modern professional.

The Stories below were entered into the Storymoja/Generation Kenya – Kenyan Conversations Contest last week. Please read them, and vote…

I thought I’d share some humorous writing tips I came across while doing research for this blog. If you read carefully, you will see the point demonstrated. If you don’t, you have absolutely no business calling yourself a writer.

Yes, there are some definite challenges when it comes to writing humour. The first of which is that it is painfully difficult to do. At least if you want to do it well.

People keep asking me how I handle writer’s block. I tell them I don’t. Because I never get writer’s block. I get a massive wall standing between me and that article that’s supposed to be at the editor’s desk first thing in the morning.

You are done with your novel. You are excited, and anticipate seeing your book in print. After all the hard work, you just can’t wait!

The Kenyan Conversations Writing Contest is still on. As you may have noticed there is quite a bit of dialogue going on in the comments section under the photographs we posted last week.

Twice a week, on Tuesday and on Thursday, we will post a photograph on the Storymoja Blog and on Generation Kenya website. These photographs will be of Kenyan People, in Kenyan Scenes, talking about Kenya. If you comment, or send in a story/dialogue, you stand the chance to win …

A large part of any writer’s demographic audience ‘lives’ on social media platforms. If you write for a living and not just for pleasure, you need to sell your work and social media can help you to do that.