Notes on Writing – Episode 2

“𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭. 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵. 𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘺. 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩.”~ Paula Danziger ✍ I'm grateful for a photographic memory - I could remember places, faces and experiences really well. The beautiful thing about this 'superpower' (more …

Notes on Writing – Episode 1

Every writer I know has trouble writing. Joseph Heller The solution to my 'trouble of writing' is this: I create a system that encourages me to write.From 2013 to 2018, the foundation of that system was blogging.From 2019 to present, the foundation of this system is journaling.I keep at WORKing my system to ensure that …

A decade of blogging – GRATEFUL

I am grateful for 10 years (a decade 🙂 of blogging on WordPress. I have grown as a writer and for this, I am beyond grateful. To celebrate this milestone, I am happy to announce the release of my second book titled, 'I Will Tell You When I Write About It'. 'I will tell you …

I TESTIFY

For context sake: Written on the 30th of September, 2020 My God, He is God! He is my God! He is a faithful God! It's Testimony Time!!! YAY. After my trip to Paris on Monday evening, I realised that my neck was paining me. It just had this pain like a stiff feeling on the …

Childhood

"What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever." Mary Jo Putney The colour I loved as a child, I still love it. The love for conferences I found as a child, I still have it -yes! Even the joy I had as a child, I still have it - by God's grace. It's …

How I healed under a year from Journaling

They say that time heals, although writing does the healing sometimes 😉Blessing O. Okoro Photo by Jess Bailey Designs from Pexels Writing & Healing Last year was a lot for me, a young Nigerian living in France. I bore the burden from two countries (my home country - Nigeria and my host country - France) …

GREATness

You sit down and say, 'One day I will be GREAT!' You already are (when God created you, He made you GREAT). God created you GREAT.Although when you sit down and refuse to be who God created you to be, then you start to feel less of GREATness. I would put it another way, 'When …

The Birthright

First of all, the introduction. "207 What if an old mare gave birth to a little mule? And that little mule had both ears broke down. He was cross-eyed, and knock-kneed, bow-legged. His tail stuck right straight up in the air. What a horrible looking animal! Why, anybody…If that little mule could think, say, “Now, …