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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 10:32 am by Storymoja Africa

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• Aspects of your Plot.

  Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:30 am by Storymoja Africa

  Let us define plot. We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. ‘The king died and then the queen died’, is a story. ‘The king died, and then the queen died of grief,’ is a [...]

• Story of the Week – Dear Mr. Death, Hurry Please by Julius Rutere.

  Posted: August 28, 2009, 11:25 pm by Storymoja Africa

  Your votes are in and the story of the week is… Dear Mr. Death, Hurry Please by Julius Rutere. Read it here Do you have any ideas about how to make your weekly reading more fun? Please send your suggestions to blogs@storymojaafrica.co.ke today. Join us here on Monday for the next batch of stories and be [...]

• How Serious are You?

  Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:30 am by Storymoja Africa

  Good writing allows the writer to be taken seriously, and being taken seriously is always important in communicating ideas. If a person’s writing is awkward and clumsy, readers get the mistaken notion the person is that way, too. (”Seriously” doesn’t have to mean “serious” though, so you shouldn’t feel compelled to make things sound [...]

• Story of the Week – Mirages by Mercy Ojwang’

  Posted: August 21, 2009, 11:09 pm by Storymoja Africa

  Your votes are in and the story of the week is… Mirages by Mercy Ojwang’ . Read it here. Do you have any ideas about how to make your weekly reading more fun? Please send your suggestions to blogs@storymojaafrica.co.ke today. Join us here on Monday for the next batch of stories and be sure to vote for [...]

• Deliver Your Impact

  Posted: August 17, 2009, 9:30 am by Storymoja Africa

  Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information. – Orson Scott Card A lot of the writing that is published online should ideally be very short. Online, readers get [...]

• Story of the Week – A day in the Life of a Weed Head by Stephen Mwangi

  Posted: August 14, 2009, 5:00 pm by Storymoja Africa

  Your votes are in and the story of the week is… A Day in the Life of a Weed Head by Stephen Mwangi Ichungwa  Read it here Do you have any ideas about how to make your weekly reading more fun? Please send your suggestions to blogs@storymojaafrica.co.ke today. Join us here on Monday for the next batch [...]

• Taking Applications: Kenyan Visual, Literary and Performing Artists’ Mentorship Program

  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:28 pm by Storymoja Africa

  The Imagine Company, publisher of KenyaImagine.com, introduces Next Level, a two-month mentor-ship program aimed at improving the quality of Kenyan visual and performance arts. The project will include a similar program for writers of commentary/critique of art in Kenya. Support will be provided for the purchase of materials and for transportation. This support is intended for [...]

• After The SHFK – Time to write, learn and grow, again.

  Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:30 am by Storymoja Africa

  I truly hope that you attended enjoyed and benefited from the Storymoja Hay Festival. If you did, and would like to share some of what you experienced, your pictures from the festival and so on, please send in your stuff to blogs@storymojaafrica.co.ke I was very pleased by the response I got from you during the period [...]

• Tabitha Mwangi’s day at the Storymoja Hay Festival.

  Posted: August 6, 2009, 10:13 pm by Storymoja Africa

  I arrived at the airport when the program was just about to start so I really did not mind that the taxi was going a bit fast. At the Nyayo stadium round about, the driver took the wrong lane and most foolishly tried to evade the traffic policemen when they waved him down. They seemed [...]

• Stella Riunga’s day at the SHFK

  Posted: August 6, 2009, 10:05 pm by Storymoja Africa

  Painting There was an artist displaying some of his artworks, and the best part of it was being given brushes and an opportunity to paint. It was fun! The bad news is –I CANNOT paint to save my life. My human looked more like an alien – sad! Kenya Burning I think this was the most [...]

• My thoughts on the Storymoja Hay Festival by Reeves Sinei

  Posted: August 4, 2009, 12:22 am by Storymoja Africa

  A wise horse once said, “Make hay while the sun shines.” I wonder if it was ordering its keeper or just being wise. Whatever the case, those who attended the three-day StoryMoja hay festival definitely ‘made hay.’ Not only did they use the opportunity to meet up with friends, they sampled the various displays that [...]

• Storymoja Hay Festival Pics courtesy of Kenyanpoet

  Posted: August 4, 2009, 11:51 pm by Storymoja Africa

  Look at the SHFK pics here More SHFK pics here And more here All pics courtesy of Kenyanpoet Posted in Writing

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