Lost in Words

In 2022, I wrote a book called Son of My Father. I remember the moment the title came to me. I was pacing around my home, thinking — search...

One of Medium ’s biggest attractions for writers is the chance to earn money right away. You join the Medium Partner Program ( MPP ), write...

Medium tends not to release too many details of stats relating to the platform. The details provided here are based on finding numbers acros...

So, I decided to try writing on Medium as a member of the MPP, just to see if things improved. And they did — a little. My first decision wa...

When I first joined Medium, I was not a paid-up member. I decided to give the platform a try, and the free membership allowed me to do that....

It is September 2025, and I have just completed one year of being a paid member on the writing platform, Medium. Having completed that year,...

  Welcome to the modern age. The age of the short attention span. Was the last sentence too long? Maybe so, but it was shorter than this one...

When I was a young lad, if ever I got a little too ambitious, my mother would say to me. “You need to come back down to earth.” Sometimes, w...

As I have been thinking about changing the cover of my book, I asked ChatGPT to come up with something that was more upbeat and colourful th...

Do you have a happy place? A place you can go to where you feel better just by being there? I do. I found a happy place, and it was on my do...

                                               Until recently, I was not aware that Tipp-Ex, the correction fluid , was still available. I h...

I decided to find five English proverbs that best describe the writing journey.                                             Free image by Qu...

  I must admit that I had never come across imposter syndrome until recently. I was on Twitter when someone, a self-published author, menti...