I am back for a third year! Welcome new PitchWars hopefuls :) Pitch Wars is a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors,...

Finally! Continuing from Part Two. The rules of #pitmad were simple. If a literary agent or editor liked your pitch, it meant they wanted...

Right…continuing from Part One. I got my first rejection a few days after I sent that first query…and I was thrilled!!! Someone actually...

Before I got an agent I used to consume posts like these, so I think it’s only fair that I document my own experience for other persons,...

When I was in secondary school, I decided to participate in its beauty pageant. As you may know, the formal wear is a key segment, and so...

Last year, March 2nd 2013, I wrote a satirical post on how to handle a rejection email.  It was meant to be all fun and games, but...

Earlier this month I announced that I was going to publish a collection of short stories called “In Time of Need” and I received a lot of...

On Sunday, September 15th, I was 4 pages away from completing my second feature-length screenplay; a psychological thriller called Two...

In a previous post about how I met Olive Senior, I mentioned that I wanted to do a separate blog post on the Bocas Lit Fest session with...

Last night I dreamed about a movie. It was one of my favourites because it is so brilliant – a fantasy movie with poignant main...

So if you’ve been following my scribbles and read the post about the Evolution of my Writing voice, you would know that Olive Senior is...

I am angry. I do not want the “I’m sorries” and “My condolences”. I would like things to be fair. Good people – live. Bad people – die....

Don’t laugh at me. But I was catching up on some old episodes of Glee, and Rachel Berry was singing “Don’t Stop Believing” in her dream...

I attended a workshop on Writing Creative Non-Fiction on Wednesday, March 20th, conducted by Andrea Stuart, and organised by the NCF...

I’ve wanted to write this post since my partner in words, Hadlee Sobers, asked getWriters what writers most influenced their writing...

“You’ve got mail!” “Many thanks for sending your work to us at …… Your submission was interesting; however, after a preliminary internal...

It’s easy to lose your way when writing, especially in Act II. Here’s the diagram that I use to help me control the plot and structure of...

Excerpt from an unfinished novel: "Michael’s dreams taunted him. There was a world in his sleep that disappeared when he awoke. Even...