A brochure of my best stuff. — I was telling a friend the other day that I was an emotional writer. While I thought she wouldn’t understand what I meant, she said, “Oh! Just like Adele.” “What?” I said, confused. “Adele has claimed she wrote her best works during a heartbreak.” “Oh!… Yeah exactly like that.” In…

If you haven’t been paying attention, this will help. — It’s not only Medium that’s prone to change. Developers constantly tweak algorithms to achieve their aims. It’s why every social media platform in the last ten years isn’t what it used to be. If you’ve been here long enough, like me, you’d have noticed a few changes on Medium. And…

A piece of good news. No! A piece of fantastic news. — My phone’s ringing. It’s Eddie. I just spoke about him not quite long. “You will live long!” I said, immediately I picked up. “Mumu, dey jump!” He announced, with a delightful voice. Mumu is a pidgin word for fool. To joke and to tease. I love him crazy, and our…

How our world comes to be. — By Benedicta Chiwendu You can tell a lot about a person by listening. You know where they’ve been by the stories they tell. And the stories they keep out. That’s how you know what’s in their life or what’s missing. Life begins in the mind. A common truth. Every thought…

Weird stuff that drives me nuts; 1. I hate to change position! — I stormed into my room, fell on my bed, and took a fetal position. “No! It’s not it.” I turned. “It doesn’t feel like it.” Curling even further, I squeezed the pillow and groaned, “Ohhhhhh!” “What are you doing?” Sara, my cousin asks, puzzled. “The position!” “What position?” …

There are worse things to worry about than the covid. — “Itz clear!” Pepe exclaimed. “The world is end now. Itz very clear! Look! What they do?” In his broken English, Pepe expresses his frustration as best as he could. The only problem is, I disagree. But I listened, nonetheless. “You can’t! You can’t forze pippo do what they don’t want…

The reader may be quality-blind. — Eddie Redmayne is the best screen actor ever. I say that to risk being wrong and judged. Regardless, I said that to make a point. And that point being, what makes a movie, an act, a piece of writing or poetry one of quality? For quality, they say, is relative…

Reviewing your literary mistakes since January. — No writer is above edit. And that’s the beauty of writing. We can create and then modify — until it peaks at perfection. Whatever perfection is for you? Knowing that mistake is part of the human experience. But beyond that is also human potential. That is, we can always better…

An essay on emotions and experience — By Benedicta Chiwendu The day we separate ourselves from our emotions is the day we stop being human. Our emotion is the reason why we can form relationships and create bonds with others. However, of all of humanity’s pain, the worst kind is emotional. …