by Ndidi | Sep 20, 2011 | WRITING STEERS
I was listening to Elizabeth Gilbert talk on nurturing creativity on Ted.com; I could not help but ask myself if it is important to have a specific time for writing daily. She said she gets up at the same time everyday to write. Furthermore, Jurgen Wolff in his...
by Ndidi | Sep 13, 2011 | WRITING STEERS
Have you ever asked yourself this question? Perhaps the thoughts of you being a writer have crossed your mind a number of times. You may dismiss them because the critic in you can’t imagine you can write. As you discuss with friends, or you read on writing you ask,...
by Ndidi | Aug 25, 2011 | WRITING STEERS
How did writing start in the first place? Did it start with the Greeks who are known to have been knowledgeable centuries ago? Perhaps it may have! Or was it the Romans that initiated writing? Or the Egyptians? What caused the Greeks or Romans or the Egyptians to...
by Ndidi | Jul 19, 2011 | WRITING STEERS
A number of us are stuck in our jobs such that we don’t have time to pursue a passion. We write a host of genres in our minds but not on paper. Our times have been so encumbered (or so we think!) we have concluded it is impossible to ever be writers. And of course...
by Ndidi | Sep 28, 2010 | WRITING STEERS
If you have a desire in you to write, one of the hesitations you may think you have is what to write. The challenge is not really what to write but I believe aspiring writers are more conscious of criticism than actual writing. When you remove your focus from what...
by Ndidi | Aug 5, 2010 | WRITING STEERS
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain From Mark Twain’s quote, it is understood that there will always be fear but it has to be resisted by taking every step it does not want taken. A number of people perceive...
