Published in New Writers Welcome·May 9, 2022Developers Are Mostly Love Starved. Here’s Why?Please meet my developer friends — I saw a tweet this morning from a lady by the username of @NanouuSymeon It read: As a Developer, are you in a relationship? That was when I began to think of all my developer friends, and I realized that while they are doing great jobs in making the world…Developer3 min readDeveloper3 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Apr 25, 2022If You Can’t Let Go of It, Don’t Give It.My mum was a hustler. She grew up on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. Growing up, she worked as a house help, a dishwasher, a trader, and a messenger. In between all of these, she learned how to sew clothes. All of which explains why she’s kind, loving, and has…New Writers Welcome2 min readNew Writers Welcome2 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Feb 12, 2022When You Say You’re Different, What People Hear Is “You’re a D*ck”Time to rethink your marketing — We are all marketers, and somehow, the majority of us are full of sh*t. We tell our prospects we’re the good guys. We’re different. We’re the omicron. We’re the god. If we all claim to be the god, who’s really the god? It’s the guy who didn’t say he is. It’s…Writing2 min readWriting2 min read
Feb 10, 2022Writing Short Sentences Is Not Hard. You’re Scared.Write. Breath. Write. Breath — Once Kurt Vonnegut wrote that he read a story and his favourite sentence in the entire story was “She was tired.” The sentence, at just three words long, is not only short, it conveys a powerful emotion. It was in an article where he was trying to teach writers how…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Jan 5, 2022Write About A Character Whose Intuition is Always Right, Until One Day — And Win $250A writing prompt — Reedsy puts out exciting writing prompts every week of every month (of every year). Their prompts are usually fun and let writers flex their writing muscles with style, anyhow they want to. This week’s prompt is all about ‘Gut Feeling.’ Now, Merriam Webster defined gut as Arising from one’s inmost…Writing Prompts2 min readWriting Prompts2 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Dec 1, 20215 Reasons Extroverts Psychologically Like Introverts2. We’re okay to not dominate — It was the first time I had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me — Charles Bukowski, Factotum. Being an introvert or an extrovert is not a…Psychology3 min readPsychology3 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Nov 21, 2021We were Supposed to be FriendsAren't we? We were supposed to be friends Just friends Nothing more But you got too close To my heart I got too close To yours And instead of sharing Our dreams Like we always do Our eyes made love Then our lips And then we forgot time We’re drowning Drowning fast No help’s coming Let’s just drown baby Let’s just drown Love’s not to be fought It’s to be lived. Let’s be like two butterflies Without a homePoem1 min readPoem1 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Nov 19, 2021How to be The Josh Spector of Writing Email Subject LinesNovember 17, on Twitter, Josh Spector asked his audience to tell him what they’re trying to sell. He’d suggest a subject line or opening sentence to help them grab people’s attention. Tell me something you’re trying to sell. …Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Nov 18, 2021Freedom Vs WritingI wrote this article in under 20 minutes and published it immediately. I had never done that before. I would edit like crazy and lose the story in between. However, today, one short tweet changed how I perceived writing. …Writing2 min readWriting2 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Nov 15, 2021Important Headline Trick I Learned From an Article That Got Me to Click Without BlinkingI came across a fantastic article a few days ago. It was written by a Pakistani nerd and the title: How to Make Money Online in Pakistan 2021. It’s not a very great title, but I clicked on it immediately. The article was nice but didn’t say anything new. It…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
