To have a child is something that many people yearn for, a special experience to grow a small cell into a developed baby is beyond beautiful. Yet, we understand the elements of pregnancy aren’t always as pleasant as its typically portrayed in film and TV. Many women experience their own hardships, from morning sickness to complicated medical conditions and even miscarriages.

MYLO

I’ve been here many times before, staring at a blank page and wondering what words will escape me to fill what seems to be, the biggest void in the world. I have no words to conjure up and I have no idea when I will – this has been my battle throughout quarantine and up until now.  

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My childhood was beautiful. Raised in a single-parent household with my mother, it became the perfect vision of a family to me. I was so in love with the life we built, that I don’t ever think I questioned my father’s existence much (apart from the odd “Who was he?” and “Where is he now?”, which I never remembered the answers as it was that unimportant to me).

MYLO

I’m sure there’s been a time when you’ve thought “I wish I could just stay at home and write” and now the time has come when we have all been instructed to stay at home, but the question is, are you writing? Is this lockdown truly the writer’s paradise we thought we could make use of?

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In this overly expressive, socially addicted, commitment-phobic culture we live in, we are practically killing the idea of ‘settling down’. I’m sure you’ve heard of the term ‘settling down’, which basically means getting married and committing to a stable, mature relationship. The term ‘settle’ isn’t really used in the best light, and usually, when someone says they’re settling it’s never a great thing – it’s the thing you have to do because it is the left-over option.

Black Ballad

As creatives, we are often put on trial to perform our roles excellently and there’s usually very little space to be anything in between mediocre, but with art and creativity being so subjective, who is qualifying us to be a ‘filmmaker’ or an ‘artist’? Is it us the creative? Then the audience? The ‘gatekeepers’? or Who?

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There’s this song and dance we writers sometimes do – where we carry the pressure of trying to produce a perfect piece within the first attempt, then once we realise it’s not perfect, we scrap everything and are left with a blank page. Then after staring at this blank page for weeks on end, the frustration of not having any work builds up to the point we just start writing anything (or you wait for the motivation to eventually kick in, which could be a long time). 

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We have had discussions with a number of writers out in the industry, and thanks to the likes of; Grace Offori-Attah, Tomisin Adepuju, Delia-René, Phil Ossai and Ambreen Razia, we’ve managed to collate a list of 10 things that writers should probably be doing!

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When we think of films, we typically first think of actors, then directors and eventually writers and sometimes we think of cinematographers (but that’s usually the film snobs), but we rarely ever think of the producers. In fact, after having a few conversations with producers, it almost seems as if there’s this big grey cloud on what a producer actually does.

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