It's been a while

Holla!

Happy 53rd Independence Day, Nigerians!

What do we have to be happy about? Life and Hope. At all, at all, na winch!

Anyway, this is what I've been up to:

2013 Reading Challenge

Timendu has
read 225 books toward her goal of 300 books.

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225 of 300 (75%)

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This is what I'm reading now:

Timendu's bookshelf: currently-reading

Surprised by Joy

by C.S. Lewis

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Amplified Bible

by Anonymous

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The Message Remix

by Anonymous

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On Black Sisters Street: A Novel

by Chika Unigwe

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And this is my current playlist:
Once More With Feeling

• Dog days are over - Florence and The Machine
• When it gets down to it - Fred Hammond
• What the water gave me - Florence and The Machine
• Ring a bell - Late Night Alumni
• Hope is rising - Downhere
• The sun is shining - Third Day
• Breathe slow - Alesha Dixon
•  Love song - Third Day
• Supermassive black hole - Muse
• Loved on me - Fred Hammond
• Till it happens to you - Corrine Bailey Rae
• Automatic - Tokio Hotel
• Atmosphere (remix) - DC Talk
• Reformation - GS Megaphone
• Sing, sing, sing - Chris Tomlin
• A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
• Stronger - Mary J. Blige
• In my place - Coldplay
• Don't wait - Kaskade feat. Haley
• Letters from the sky - Civil Twilight
• Poison and Wine - The Civil Wars
• We are hungry/I will not be silent - Jesus Culture

I've also been writing but I won't be sharing it with you yet. Let's just say it's some kind of weird, not totally made up Ijaw mythology. So if you've got stories of any unusual weird occurrences by the waterside, drop me a line.

Thanks.

Oh, and Papa Goo's movie TABLOID for EbonyLife TV (Channel 165 on DSTV) will be airing on the 6th of October. That's in 4 days. Make sure you watch it!

Where were we?

Hey hey hey!

I dropped off the map. I know. I wanted to try out writing, rather than just blogging about writing, and as usual, found the process frustrating and depressing. Alas, maybe I am not supposed to be a writer.

Sigh.
But wait...The Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop called for entries. I sent in mine. What would it hurt? And I was invited for the workshop.

Yay!

I'm not so bad. Lazy, and lacking discipline and self control (damn romance novels. And chocolate. And cake), but not a bad writer.

Whoooopeeee!

Workshop took 10 days. A couple of my fellow participants - Uche and Sifa - blogged about Day 1, and yes, it was life changing stuff.

Can you see me? Hint: Pink shawl

So now what?

Now to make my wonderful teachers proud. Speaking of teachers, a very big THANK YOU to Chimamanda Adichie, Eghosa Imasuen, Binyanvanga Wainaina, and Aslak Sira Mhyre for investing their time and knowledge in me, and all of us (The Girls and Boys Club of Chimamanda).

I'm off now to make it work.

PS. A big Thank You also to Papa Goo and The Goo for giving Mummy some time off. Big Hug!