#CharacterDevelopment

While a conflict of interest, be it in life or in fiction, can bring about self-introspection, strange though it may seem, a casual encounter could lead to self-discovery. So it happened with me in the wake of my rebuff to a dogged tempter, “money is not my weakness” and his “what is your weakness” repartee; for the record, either I had been a straight purchase officer or a strict loss assessor, occupations amenable to monetary mischief. However, the idea of this article is not to gloat over my uprightness but to present the genesis of my attitude to money and the vicissitudes of my life as a subject matter for possible research. But the caveat is that much of my growing up that...

I’m an early educator of 25 years; retired from the classroom. In daycare/preschools, we know that one of the main tools used in the classroom is children's books. I have read numerous children's books and when you connect that fact to me publishing a children's book series you can see where much of my background regarding writing is from.I assume it is safe to say if you are a reader, it can be natural to walk into being a writer if that is your gift. That leads me to the characters of the Mac and Roni Read Book Series regarding how they came about, or the professional term would be character development. Character development in my opinion is broad in that the development of the characte...

SUDDEN FEAR IN THE LAND WHERE I WAS BORN    Hail to the great land where I was born, a land naturally endowed with both human and natural resources. A land Located at the middle belt of Nigeria with different good sites for tourisms. So bless and rich is the soil that unique agricultural produce are cultivated on it like the oaths, wheat, sugar cane, potatoes, tomatoes, to mention but few. The hospitality and peaceful coexistence of the people over the ages has made the land to be known as the home of peace and tourism. With the enormous mineral resources in the land, mining becomes the predominant occupation of the people. The great land of tin ore, Jos [Tin city]!Plateau State is...