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1. Writing a manuscript is like cooking jollof rice - it requires basic ingredients but can be elevated with extra flavors. 2. The basic ingredients of a manuscript are parts of speech like nouns, verbs, adjectives. But extra techniques like descriptive words, idioms, dialogue, metaphors can make the manuscript really stand out. 3. Using literary devices like oxymorons, hyperbole, and alliteration helps create vivid pictures in the reader's mind and makes the manuscript engaging and hard to put down.
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- 4. Writing is like COOKING JOLLOF. If you cook jollof rice and serve a guest, and then the guest asks, “Uhm…did you add salt?” Would you be happy with yourself? No!
- 5. This would be you…
- 6. Just like a pot of delicious jollof rice, a good manuscript has extra INGREDIENTS
- 7. But first, let’s talk a little more about jollof rice.
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- 10. - Scent leaf - Fried plantain - Curry - Rosemary - Tatashe - Green pepper - Nutmeg - Diced liver - Moi-moi on top - Coleslaw on the side AND A BIG PIECE OF CHICKEN Now, if you really want to cook jollof rice that will make the guest take off his shirt and sit on the ground to enjoy it, there is a lot more that you can add to that pot of food.
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- 14. 1. DESCRIPTIVE WORDS AND PHRASES Groggily, emphatically, gloomy, fiercely, excitedly, absentmindedly, like one who had been beaten up, as though the world had ended…
- 15. 2. IDIOMSIn his opinion, he already had a foot in the door.
- 16. 3. CONVERSATIONAL QUESTIONS AND PHRASES Have you ever had to break bad news to a loved one? Imagine having to bring such bad news…
- 17. 4. METAPHORS and SIMILELike a swarm of bees, they descended on him. They were shielded by the curtain of night.
- 18. 5. OXYMORONThe clang of a pot lid landing on the floor woke him up.
- 19. 6. HYPERBOLEThe sound was deafening
- 20. 7. ALLITERATIONThe big, bad baboon.
- 21. And so much more….
- 22. These extras collaborate to create a picture in the reader’s mind, making the manuscript easy to read, and difficult to put down.
- 23. And don’t just do the minimum that will get you by. Do your best. Colossians 3:22-23 (MSG)
- 24. Do more than write, EXPRESS.