Oh Faithful Guest
Oh faithful guest
The day you come for me,
Will my soul be at its best,
Waiting to be free?
writing
Ramadan: Finding Allah in Nature
February was a month of fast-paced days, hours that felt like minutes, and nights that ended too soon. I became used to rapid, short breaths, the constant whisper of stress, and a schedule that felt like it would break me.
March, the month of Ramadan, found me like a beautiful pause, a deep breath, a cool breeze wiping the sweat from my brow.
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Writing Authentically by W.B. Abdullah
Ok, I’ll say it. National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) and I don’t get along so well. It’s a competition. It’s a power struggle. It’s another reminder that I haven’t arrived yet (to the popular novel completion crowd)….that maybe there is a time to just cut off research and just write. So here I am…facing another
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Just Let Me Bee: On Finding Your Creative Niche
Just Let Me Bee: On Finding Your Creative Niche by W.B. Abdullah The weavers of stories are always wrestling with the concept of place. We want to give our characters believable settings and stages to perform on, and we personally yearn for comfortable environments to write them into the scenery. But behind the scenes, we
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Write Together: The Blessing of a Writing Buddy
Write Together: The Blessing of a Writing Buddy by Najiyah Maxfield When I first started writing, I had a secret weapon. I had a friend who had self published her very own novel. It was 2002, and we had just endured the first “after” year of the divide known as 9/11. Her novel was a
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