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CWP Day 2

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:37+00:00May 14th, 2008|Commonwealth Writers Prize|0 Comments

Commonwealth Writers Prize, day 2It has been a long, long, long day and I’m dog tired and really should be in bed, but again dedicated soul that I am, I’m blogging away, because I don’t want to forget everything that happened today. I got to bed in the wee hours of the morning, 3am to be precise and was up at 8am because we had an early morning start. Not as early as tomorrow or should I say this morning, seeing as it’s already past midnight. We’ve got to be on the bus for 6am to catch our flight to Cape Town. I didn’t really get to see much of Jo’burg, what I have seen has been through a bus window on the way to the various venues. This morning’s bookshop is called Boekehuis and is in a wonderful house, with requisite garden. I think I’ve improved on my reading [...]

2:08 pm 2:08 pm

Commonwealth Writers Prize, Jo’burg 1st Day

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:37+00:00May 13th, 2008|Commonwealth Writers Prize, CWP|0 Comments

Hi everybody and welcome to my Commonwealth Writers blog. I’m truly excited to be in South Africa and my first impressions are, it sure aint LL (Lagos or London). Beyond the rush hour trek from the airport, the reading at Xarra bookshop and the discussion at the Roka Lounge, I haven’t yet seen much of Johannesburg and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to. What I have seen, has been through sleep deprived eyes, so I can’t comment yet. But so far it has been a wonderful experience, I’m just glad to be here. It’s so weird, it’s 3 in the morning and as I sit here tapping away I’m trying to think of words to describe how I’m feeling right now and the only way I can describe it, is that I feel like an Oscar nominee. Every year when I watch the Oscars, every nominee says, [...]

10:16 pm 10:16 pm

Beyond Lazy

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:37+00:00April 12th, 2008|Commonwealth Writers Prize, Self Publishing|0 Comments

Okay so I've not posted anything in 5 months. Not that it really matters. I know for sure that no one is reading these posts. I put a stat counter on and there's only been one hit and I reckon that was me. :-)Since I'm talking to myself in cyberspace, (I'm avoiding another deadline) I might as well recap on my life since the last time I conversed with myself. Anyway where to start, so much has happened since I last logged onto blogger. Book two wasn't going so well so I decided to go back to school and learn how to read and write properly. I figured to be a writer I had to properly learn how to be a writer. I've now come to the conclusion that you can't really be taught. It's one of those things I just have to figure out for myself. Not done too [...]

10:45 pm 10:45 pm

I’m still here

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:37+00:00November 28th, 2007|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Yep it's been awhile, but since I'm only having a conversation with myself, it hardly matters whether or not I post here daily or monthly. Talking of monthly, I'm making a pact with myself to at least post 3 times a month. We'll see how long that lasts. No doubt it'll go the way of all my New Years' resolutions. I'll keep it up for a couple of months then something more pressing will no doubt take over. Well I just realised that I have no pictures on this blog, so I'm going to put pics from my library readings up. I quite like the ones where I'm reading to an audience of chairs, hmm I know I'm crazy, but no one turned up so I figured I'd practice for my next reading. That I might add also didn't go too well, only 3 showed up to that :-)