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| xxx xxxDear Success Seeker, xxxThe following writers have been kind enough to share their stories with us. xxxIf you would like
to contribute your story and photo to me, email them to: xxxThank you. xxxIsmael Akango
I wanted to become a lawyer not because I enjoyed it but because I thought it was the only hot product in the market then. It is only my English teacher who kept on acknowledging that I could make a good writer but at the time, I took her for a joker and believed books were written by people from other planets, until I read a book by Major Mwangi,,a Kenyan writer as he took me through the tall buildings of Nairobi to the backstreet life in Mathare. “Gosh!, you mean they have named Nairobi!”, I wondered but as I studied slowly I understood how possible it was to publish a book anywhere on this earth. Still I could not take a step forward despite my inner pressure to become a writer. If writing and publishing was that easy, then how comes, professors in this country are not all published? I wondered until I came to learn that healthy talent growth is about sacrifice, passion and determination. I joined a youth group (SYEG) privileged to sensitize the community through drama. At the time, they had ran out of quality drama scripts with no one to produce. My friend Peter had read some of my work and proposed me as the writer. I was shocked to see that out of the best actors I saw, no one could construct even one scene of a play. I got inspired with some little courage and produced one of my scripts I had written during my leisure. We rehearsed then performed and the reception was overwhelming. This is when I realized I had to do something about my talent. I went on picking anything and everything that had information on writing. I perused through all magazines and newspapers hungry for writing information until I came across an advert on the writer’s bureau. At the time, my parents had forced me into a computer engineering course. I wanted to join the writersbureau but had no funds and this is when sacrifice had to come in; aware of the consequences, I took my first term fees for computer class and enrolled at the writersbureau without my parents’ knowledge. They realized it four months later and withdraw from paying my school fees. Three months later, the writersbureau also stopped sending me study material since I defied their payment terms. I couldn’t give up. Meanwhile, I signed up for their monthly e-zine and that’s where I met Rob Panell.His great gift to me ‘easy way to writing short stories that sell’ helped me publish my first short story in the Nation Newspaper-Weekend Magazine on 7th July last year. His website www.easywaytowrite.com has moulded my writing career to greater standards and there is more for me in store this year, I am planning to launch my writer’s website mid next month. I guess it shows how serious I am with my passion. For you to succeed in any field, you have to deny yourself, take up the task and follow your dream. xxcTo us, xxxWrite-Intention |
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I got good marks from composition
and essay writing in exams while in high school some five
years ago; little did I know I could make a good writer.
I was only 19 with no knowledge about publishing, where
to submit screenplays nor who to submit to.