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On Saturday March 8th<\/sup>, African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) facilitated an all-day Writer\u2019s Master Class. Critically acclaimed South African novelist Yewande Omotoso, whose debut novel Bom Boy <\/i>was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize, led the creative writing workshop at the AWDF resource center. The 28 attendees represented a wide range of ages and experiences: younger and older women, aspiring and professional writers. Ms. Omotoso began the event by inviting each attendee to share her name, and the reason she decided to come to the workshop. \u201cWriting is not an easy thing that comes to me\u2026 I\u2019m here to learn,\u201d said one attendee. \u201cI am here because my biggest source of inspiration is female writers,\u201d said another attendee. When it came her turn, Grace, the human resource manager for AWDF, stated: \u201cWriting is everybody\u2019s business.\u201d We could not agree more. After the introductions, Ms. Omotoso revealed a surprising bit of information: \u201cI\u2019m just beginning the workshop [by saying] that I don\u2019t know if workshops always work.\u201d In order to grow as a creative writer, \u201cthere is something that you have to do in your own quiet hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For Ms. Omotoso, the decision to pursue a career in writing was a difficult one. Her parents encouraged her writing at a young age, but when she told her father that she wanted to be a professional writer, he told her, \u201cYou should have a proper job that gives you money,\u201d continuing to say that, \u201cI never want you to have to depend on a man, I never want you to have to be shortchanged because you don\u2019t have your own career.\u201d While her father\u2019s concerns were valid, Ms. Omotoso has been able to have her own career, and was able to share her wisdom with us. She led the group in a second introductory activity: a truth and a lie. Each attendee told a fact about herself along with a myth. Ms. Omotoso explained that when you are a fiction writer \u201cyou are in the world of make believe and you are trying to be a good liar.\u201d We learned from the game that being a good liar does not simply mean being able to convince people that the lie is true. It means being able to surprise people, make them laugh or stare with wonder.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Omotoso showed us a book called The Amazing Story Generator <\/i>that she uses as a writing tool. By shuffling the flaps of the book, different, sometimes outlandish, ideas for stories appear. \u201cIf something is startling or absurd, we look a bit deeper.\u201d She explained how many writers recycle the same tired phrases, so we must challenge ourselves to be original. \u201cI call it being lazy or using shorthand\u2026 They use clich\u00e9s. For instance, a \u2018beautiful\u2019 woman\u2026 What if you couldn\u2019t use that word and had to show me in a different way?\u201d She discussed other challenges that plague contemporary authors: \u201cSometimes perfectionists struggle with writing or making art because you have to make a mess first.\u201d Many of the attendees responded to this notion, discussing how fear of judgment often impedes their ability to put words on a page. According to Ms. Omotoso, a writer must have the strength to be gentle with herself and still charge forward in her work:\u00a0 in other words, she must have \u201cgold ovaries.\u201d After this talk, the attendees shared the introductory paragraphs to their own short stories, sharing opinions and advice.<\/p>\n

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After a brief writing exercise, the legendary Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo made a guest appearance, and conducted a special session. Ms. Aidoo appreciated the work of the attendees: \u201cThe bar has been set so far!\u201d she exclaimed. She spoke about her current love for flash fiction: a short story that is told in 500 words or less. She recommended using flash fiction as warm-up exercise. Aidoo discussed her hesitations about infusing her work with a political agenda. However, \u201cwhen you have what I describe as a politicized imagination, nearly everything you write has a political tinge to it.\u201dAfter reading a short story of hers, she talked about her experience, explaining that she does not like being described in terms of \u201cfirsts.\u201d \u201cI like the feeling that I stand on the shoulders of some really fantastic people\u2026\u201d Undoubtedly, Ms. Aidoo serves as an inspiration for many of the women in attendance.<\/p>\n

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After Ms. Aidoo\u2019s departure and a delicious lunch, Ms. Omotoso initiated a writing exercise: choose a partner and describe them in 100 words. After this activity, the group discussed the difficulties surrounding dialogue. Several attendees said that they actively work to avoid writing dialogue. Others shared the dialogue that they had already written. Although some women expressed trepidation about dialogue, far more feared writing sex scenes. The group launched into a discussion about the discomfort that comes with writing sex scenes, and how it is necessary to push against this discomfort in order to express the realities of African women\u2019s lives. \u201cWe are afraid to write [sex scenes], but if we don\u2019t write it [50 Shades of Grey <\/i>author] EL James writes it, or some porn king writes it,\u201d remarked Ms. Omotoso. The women in the workshop discussed an explicit scene in The Justice <\/i>by Boakyewaa Glover, commending Ms. Glover on her fearlessness. Noting Ms. Glover\u2019s repeated use of the word \u201cgorgeous,\u201d one attendee remarked: \u201cUgly girls can have good sex, too!\u201d This exemplifies the importance of African women telling their stories: no two voices are the same. The Writer\u2019s Master Class gave women an opportunity to share their thoughts on the writing process, and have their work critiqued by successful writers.<\/p>\n

We are thankful to Yewande Omotoso, Ama Ata Aidoo, and the attendees for making this event a huge success.<\/p>\n

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By Sarah Lewinger<\/p>\n

Photos by Emily Barnard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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