A Place Apart
Slowly Aisha came to. As the haze cleared, she saw a blurry face scrutinizing her just inches away. Startled, she scampered back, stopping only when she bumped into a chair. […]
All moved in
Aisha was bored. Bored and annoyed. So bored that going outside in the near 100-degree heat that had hit Brooksborough for the last couple of days didn’t seem half bad. […]
Dreamscape – Music and dreaming
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. –Marsha Norman So I created a “Calling all Dawns” radio station on Pandora and then promptly fell asleep. […]
The Writers Toolkit – Descriptive Adjectives
One would think after years of writing for school and simple communication, that the exercise of writing would be a breeze. It is not. Writing for a project is one […]
Starting a New Media Project
Conversations are wonderful tools for stirring one’s creative juices. This past weekend was spent conversing with friends, family, watching the Olympics (well, watching the Olympics was merely for fun, but […]
Meet Aisha
It all started one rainy Friday night last year: April 8, 2011. And before you ask, of course I remember the day–my life was going to change forever, and I […]
Brainstorming..
So I’ve been mentally tossing and turning, trying to figure out what to write, and how to write it. What is my audience? What are their expectations? How intricate can […]
Character Development
Have you ever been so engrossed in a story that you mistake the events and characters for being real; or shed tears for a character who (when it all boils […]
Modeling the Human Head
My graduate advisor is of the opinion that to learn some new and complicated thing, you need to be thrown into the deep end: you’ll either swim or drown. That […]
Why Call These Stories the Anansi (spider) tales?
(Children: Amma, Kofi, Adwoa, Efia, Kojo) (Narrator: Naa Kwesi) (Parents: Cecilia and Kobbi Baiden) (Story characters: Ananse, Python, Bees, Tiger) ————————————————————————- Opening Scene: (a group of children run after a […]
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