• What’s my mood board

    What’s my mood board

    I love the recent trend of making mood boards, character sketches, Spotify playlists and book trailers to give the reader an understanding of the vibe a book is going for. It’s such a cool way of engaging all your senses while reading, making it an immersive experience.

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  • Writer’s anonymous

    Writer’s anonymous

    I have been having a weird time finding the will to stick to writing. I have tried just about everything and I will start a writing project and inevitably, I will abandon it. I have told myself to give it a break, I have told myself maybe I’m not feeling it, I have tried going…

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  • Barbie and being Kenough

    Generally, when I watch a woman-centric movie, I am accompanied by this melancholy that stems from knowing a lot of people won’t watch it because it’s “talking about a cause I don’t relate with” or “I’m not the right audience” or “how many times will they say the same thing, we know things have to…

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  • For the strong ones

    For the strong ones

    This is for the strong onesWho are standing with a sword and shield held aloftDressed in armourWaiting for a fight that has long been over.

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  • 6 things that 6 months of journaling taught me

    I’m fineI don’t get stressedAll is well are phrases I am intimately familiar with. It took me the longest time to even acknowledge that I get stressed or I have worries. A lot of that has to do with the constant diet of “you’re strong” I feed myself with. Allowing myself the bandwidth to be…

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  • Reading tales: Time War and The Spear

    Recently, my mother saw me charging my Kindle for the second time in a week and she said, “I preferred it when you were going to the library for books. At least that way, you’d take breaks in between.” It made me laugh. Because now that instant gratification has become a thing with the Kindle,…

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  • I’ll follow you until you love me, paparaZzi

    I should stop, I tell myself. I scroll through AG’s stories. I pause at a story where they are posing with a girl in a bikini. Something ugly rises inside me. But I don’t stop. God I’m being pathetic. I should stop, I tell myself again.

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