The Best Writing Tip I’ve Ever Received: Write to Rewrite Someone’s Life
BY LYN CUBILLAS Time checked: six o’clock in the morning. I was gearing up for my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. I looked towards the corner of our house, near the aquarium, where my youngest brother usually slept. He was lying on his mat with headphones on, and he seemed happy. I woke him […]
The Best Writing Tip I’ve Ever Received: Get Your Hands Bloody
BY MESHNA BHATTARAI The best writing tip I ever received was to get my hands bloody. ‘Wrestle with words, scream at them, claw at them,’ my newest literature teacher told us. I stared at her, half in awe, half wary. First week, first day at a new school, and Ms Sorie was the only teacher […]
Best Writing Tip: This Is Material
By Ross Ian Fleming 1994 It’s 11.30 a.m.. Early April 1994. Probably a Monday. Our country is on the cusp of a ground-shaking change. But I have other fish to fry. I am standing on top of the tallest block of flats in Pinelands. The 14th storey. I have a bird’s eye view of Cape […]