Today on Dani's Recommended Reading: Wicked by Rémy Ngamije
It's a story of a woman who finds herself in a romantic relationship with morally wrenching complications.
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As Octavia E. Butler said, “Writing is a form of gambling.” Bet on yourself, bitch, and keep writing.
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nabokov unprovoked on an average tuesday
Today on Dani's Recommended Reading: A Modern Marriage by Grace Oluseyi
This is a story of two people using each other to get what they want.
The trade-off here reflects the sad realities of many whose lives have been deemed negligible and less than.
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We should try not to get drunk on our literacy that we become blind to the possibility of being fallible. We must keep watch over the arrogance that can brew from perceiving ourselves as more intellectual than the average. Even Shakespeare no go crash out like this.
Today, I put aside a long short story I've been at, inconsistently, since Wednesday and tried the shorter story idea I got in church and now I have:
1) a complete 700 word first draft that I like very much
2) showed myself that I can finish things
3) a renewed strength story #1
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finished a book and texted my friend "READ THIS NOW" with zero context. that's love, actually
I simply cannot bring myself to believe that any writer who is highly critical of other writers is a good writer. To be a good writer, you need to write a lot and writing is such a humbling endeavor. How can you not be graceful when your pride is being checked on a regular?
Today on Dani's Recommended Reading: Who Is Like God by Akwaeke Emezi
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Today on Dani's Recommended Reading: If You Sing Like That for Me by Akhil Sharma
“Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?”
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The secret to writing better is writing and rewriting...
The secret to knowing what to write is reading what others have written...
And the secret to being so good at it is to do it so often it begins to blur... – at Barakin Akawo, Nigeria
Today on Dani's Recommended Reading: Shock Me I Shock You by Ola W. Halim
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy
A tale of dysfunctional families, toxic masculinity, mental health and childhood.
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Raye performing “I Hate The Way I Look Today.” at the Mercury Prize Awards Show tonight.
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The winner of the 2026 Mercury Prize is...
RAYE – 'THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.' 🏆
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