Jaachi Writes

Greetings! My name is Jaachi and I run a website called Poemify that is all about poetry, fiction and non fictional literature.  When I was out of secondary school, I managed to create/design blogs/websites for clients and also successfully ran a news blog that earned me fat figures. That was how I got started. Since then I've been working from home and experimenting with different ways to use blogs to make a living. While I have had some success, that doesn’t mean that my way is the only way. In fact, there are people out there making a hell of a lot more money than I do. That being said, the methods that will be outlined below are much safer, though slow. Yes! S. L. O. W.  I've always been the kind of person who takes his time to learn, unlearn and relearn and would choose a slow-growth but secure online income over some Apian way method that might work really well or not at all.  So, if you're looking for a super-fast get-rich-quick ponzi-look-alike kind of scheme, thi...

So You Want To Be a Poet? I remember dressing up and whistling Don William’s ‘Jamaica’ while getting dressed up for a poetry get-together organized by FOS, Owerri chapter. I was feeling both anxious and intimidated at the same time, owing to the fact that I will be meeting poets I admire from a distance, for the first time. My roommate, a friend who had no interest in poetry, asked me why I wanted to be a poet. “You know how hard it is to make money as a poet?” he added.  It felt like a betrayal. A dispiriting stab. “I don’t care about making money,” I told him. “I just want to write awesome poetry.” Despite my show of idealism and optimism, I was wounded inside. A feeling of inadequacy crept in and I began to question my interest in poetry writing.  As soon as I wrote my first collection of poems titled ‘Diary of a Broken Poet’, I believed I would be an instant success. Of course, that’s not exactly how it happened. Sadly, my first book was a colossal failure. Not one sale ...

Writivity || Ways to Make Your Self-published eBook More Accessible to More Readers These six quick and easy tips will help you avoid classic rookie formatting errors that make eBooks difficult or impossible for a significant proportion of potential readers around the world.  Text Should Be Text! By that, I mean don’t load any text as images, such as logos or graphics of fancy titles, because these won’t be recognized as text by devices designed to turn eBooks into audio for the visually impaired. Avoid fancy typography effects such as drop caps. Again, these won’t “translate”, and although they may look pretty, they won’t be legible to text-to-speech readers. Inspired by  Self Publishing Advice From The Alliance Of Independent Authors For More Detailed Guidelines These tips are excerpts from 'Self-publishing Successfully', a  step-by-step guideline on self-publishing, it's important and ways to monetize an eBook, by the Stefn Sylvester Anyatonwu. You ...

Ever felt out of place?  Have you ever wondered why you are thinking or feeling a certain way?  Ever been frustrated because your friends or partners couldn’t ever possibly understand you because you don’t even understand what is going through your head?  I have found that the best way to grasp internal turmoil is to write poetry.  Here's more, poetry: It slows the world down around you.  It streamlines your thoughts to short, direct sentences, while soothing the anxiety out of your body with the lyrical style.  It makes you think: It puts a spotlight on what the issues might be and forces you to logically and methodically answer to it.  Writing poetry helps one to pour out one's soul in forms of lines and verses. Reading poetry allows one to see into the soul of another person (the writer/poet), see what is weighing on their minds and on their hearts, and can open doors to feelings that are sometimes suppressed until that door is opened.  Writing...

Imagine how different your life would be if you could focus on your writing and research instead of whether or not your book would sell!  Wouldn’t it be a dream come true to have readers come to your site and purchase your books and products while you sleep?  If this appeals to you, then Self-publishing Successfully might be the best  #1,200  you spend all year! It will show you how to put your eBook to work for you, to excite buyers' interest even better and bring in lots of new sales! Self-publishing is the fastest growing segment of the publishing industry; authors find it attractive for many reasons.  Unlike using traditional publishing companies, self-publishing allows the author to be in control of the entire creative and selling process. As a self-published author, you pay the full cost of producing your work and are responsible for marketing and distribution. This book helps the unpublished aspiring writer quit the long queue of traditional publishing an...

Writeousness: This Is How I Wrote My First Chapbook Whenever you published writers give advice on writing, it almost always includes this: Start to Finish. What they mean is, don’t just start a bunch of writing projects and never finish them.  This is the struggle, because we are prone to getting rather too excited about NEW ideas at the exact same time you get sick of working on the OLD ideas. This shouldn't be. It gets one nowhere. I used to be in this cult of 'off to new goals', leaving old projects half done and unrealized. I would be working on a book project, then of a sudden, a new idea sneaks in, I abandon a solid 20 pages of ten half-thought out books moved to 'revisit folder' (which I never get to revisit) at the very first brick wall of writers block. It’s easy to go, “Well, 'Story A' isn’t going anywhere, so what’s the point? I’ll just work on 'Story Z' instead. Life's too short to expend energy on one project. Go bro! Go!”  How sad! ...

Understanding the Power in Your Writing, by John Chizoba Vincent UNDERSTANDING THE POWER IN YOUR WRITING It is only passion, dream, aspiration and wit that makes life worth living. Even if you find your passion late in life, don't let it go, pursue it with all your being. I have looked for many excuses to live in a world others made for me but, writing said no yesterday. It said no today and will still be saying no to that world until cinematography and writing cinematically create a balance in my craving life. The best person you could be is that person within you. Discover this person that has unique talent; this person that can dream and make a common dream uncommon reality, that one person that won't give up on you no matter how hard the journey seems. Discover this one person and never let go of him. Dare not become a common writer that nobody will employ. Be an influential writer, that force that people won't but only reckon with. That force that takes you be...

WE SHOULD ALL BE WRITERS (FACEBOOK WRITERS' PHENOMENON) In many cities of the world, especially the under developing countries, writers have been subject of abuse, neglect, exploitation and even in extreme cases murdered by evil critics who doesn't critique constructively. These writers, expected mirrors through which we see the society or rather the eyes of the society or something like that, experience various obnoxious and unbearable frustrations, depression and suicidal thoughts which in most cases make them end up in the street thereby being labeled as street/Internet writers or the most common one "Facebook Writers". which is not suppose to be so. The problem still lies in our society, we commonize these set of people. We never thought of their feelings and other things. We prefer celebrating them more in death rather than when they are alive. We all should be Writers to know what it means to be one. We all should be Writers burning candles and fuel to w...

You want to get published. You want to control the future of your inking and your writing career.  I wish to show you how to walk over the head of Traditional Publishing and Self-Publish your manuscript - whether you're a published author, entrepreneur, corporation, professional, or absolute newcomer to writing. In this second edition of Self-Publishing Successfully, he empowers you to publish your own work with minimal risk and maximum profits. You'll find: Complete step-by-step guidance on publishing and marketing a book Ways to leverage social media marketing to build your platform and make yourself stand out from the crowd A thorough explanation of the difference between POD self-publishing, subsidy publishing, and true self-publishing - and how to decide which is the best option for you Practical advice on making the decision between offset printing and print-on-demand How to leverage the Internet to create "buzz" and promote your book with killer PR The latest i...

UPDATE: OFFER CLOSED! POETRY WRITING:  10 TIPS ON HOW TO WRITE A POEM If you are writing a poem because you want to capture a feeling that you experienced, then you don’t need this book. Just write whatever feels right. Only you experienced the feeling that you want to express, so only you will know whether your poem succeeds. If, however, your goal is to communicate with a reader — drawing on the established conventions of a literary genre (conventions that will be familiar to the experienced reader) to generate an emotional response in your reader — then simply writing what feels right to you won’t be enough. What's to Expect? These tips will help you make an important transition:  away from writing poetry to celebrate, commemorate, or capture your own feelings (in which case you, the poet, are the center of the poem’s universe) towards writing poetry in order to generate feelings in your reader (in which case the poem exists entirely to serve the reader). Now, this is the c...

Scriptophobia: 15 Sure Ways To Deal With Fear Of Writing As a writer. You know how to write. You can write. You want to write. You know this and that, but it is still a battle you fight every day - The Fear of Writing. The fear doesn't go away. It just changes. The fear is always going to be there. The fear is going to change. Once you have conquered the first fear there will be new fear: A new worry. In the spirit of positive thinking let's call them challenges.  Many times people avoid writing because of fears or anxieties they have about writing. In this book, some helpful questions guide a discussion about ways you can calm fears of writing and begin to work. Understanding where fears are generated, and then understanding ways our writing influences others, can help lessen the fear of writing.  There will always be challenges and this book is a compass to the lost writer in the sea of doubts and ocean of overwhelming fear. So sit, grab a cup of coffee, cross your legs and...

For today's Literary Devices, we'll play on words and learn how to play on words. Have you ever heard someone describe a phrase as “punny” ? Punny is a blend word, or portmanteau, which combines “pun” and “funny” to describe a funny pun. This is an act of wordplay. What Is WordPlay? In simple terms, wordplay is the act of rearranging a word in a creative way to change, emphasize, or mock its meaning. Wordplay is a creative act which allows writers and readers to flex their thinking muscles. Wordplay has been employed by greats like Shakespeare to create entirely new words, modern poets to hide interesting messages, and quirky comedians to show off witty thinking. One may want to ask, 'of what importance is Wordplay?' Much of poetry and comedy makes use of wordplay to emphasize beauty, intelligence, and wit. It is also a way for wordsmiths to sharpen their creative-thinking in crafting words in new and unique ways. Wordplay serves as proof that literature is evolving,...