Hmm, I woke up this morning feeling positive about myself. I actually slept late yesterday shaa because I was trying to exhaust my YouTube mb before it expires. Guess what? I stumble over one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's videos. It made me look over some of her videos and all that but am really amazed to know she isn't the kind of person I thought she was. I saw a different kind of cool person plus her enticing stories about herself and family which made me to actually like her for real. That was black box interview with buka last year on bounce. I did enjoyed their talk together as he kept asking questions that we needed to hear. By the way, I want to commend Ebuka for that, you're doing well for us.
Thinking about my writing career after seeing few of her videos made me Googled her to see what I can hold onto. I have loved creative writing and I still do but my problem is that I never get to finish a book when I start not even once. I did threw away and lost some of the ones that I had written. The first time I remember starting out to write a novel was in secondary School. Then it was a thing for us in our room, it was a boarding school. I liked the idea, it was so cool trying out new things and I really enjoyed those moments of my life. I could remember our storyteller back then, Somto Aralu and she was so into it, like it gives her joy doing that. Honestly, that's a talent of her's that I admire a lot because I love stories ehh. She was really good at it and that's why am acknowledging her here on my platform.
Throwing back to that year, I felt the reason why I actually stopped creative writing was because I wasn't able to publish it and I felt my parents wouldn't support that either so I decided to stop till am ready to publish. I kept writing halfway stories anytime I felt like writing just to be deceiving myself that am a writer tho I was actually doing it for the fun of it shaa and not as a career.
I read interesting novels that I felt I was supposed to read at that time,w did motivated me to feel like writing up until I entered senior class. I started doing literature as a subject then found out that I don't actually like this things oo, especially all those literature novels we were asked to study. Ahh, God knew that I couldn't read those boring books no matter how much I tried. I only managed to read purple hibiscus that year because many people were talking about it and I heard it was interesting. That was the only literature novel I finished if my memories are actually correct but the rest were just sounding nyamahhh to me. Couldn't deal with it but it didn't stop me from wanting to write anyway.
Sometimes I go back to browse about being a writer and also look out for successful personal blogs to get an insight of what I should be doing on my blog but hell no, it seems to me that am the only one on this page. I haven't found any personal blog Journaling like am doing so this keeps making me feel like am not doing it right. Funny enough, I did checked again this morning before writing this but nah, am home alone on this. Over the years I have been trying so hard to make my blog the normal way blogging is done which is more of article writing and less of storytelling if it's not a news blog. Hmm, am really finding it difficult because that's not what I actually want to do.
Wow, writing is so cool and expressive. Had to flip the pages of what I have written and am like, when did I get here. I mean this is enough for today and it should be wrap for me guys. Let's continue the gist next time.
Bye
