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Polaroid Images Reading ‘Who’, ‘When’, ‘Where’, ‘How’, ‘Why’, and ‘What’ Attached to Wooden Slats Writing might be something you learn as you grow up, but creative writing is a skill set. You may have a knack for weaving worlds through your words, but turning that knack into an art form will take time and a series of trials and errors. Urban novelist Charlie Mon was no different, but he worked to understand his mistakes and adapt his writing accordingly. Here’s how you can do the same. 1.   Starting When the Deadline is Near Creative writing takes time, so not granting yourself any is not the way to hone your craft. You might be tempted to rush through the process because you have a deadline coming up, and that’s where you’d be wrong. A deadline isn’t a call for you to get to work. It’s not a time limit for you but an indication from your publishers of how long they’re willing to wait for your book. Creative writing involves building a world out of nothing, and it consists of a lot...

  Scrabble Tiles Arranged to Read ‘You Choose Your Words’ Ebonics is an English creole  of the African American Vernacular English (AAVE), spoken predominantly by the African American diaspora. It’s widely used in Charlie Mon’s Never Imagined , an urban fiction  story representing the Black experience in a low-income neighborhood of San Bernardino. Keep reading to learn how Ebonics sounds and looks and how it’s perceived in pop culture. The Sounds of Ebonics Ebonics pronunciations are pretty distinct, but there’s no consistency to them. For instance, some speakers omit the final consonant in monosyllabic words ending with two consonants. You can expect to see terms like ‘past’ pronounced as ‘ pas ’, ‘hand’ as ‘ han ’, and so on. Turning a disyllabic word or a phrase containing two words into one monosyllabic word while uttering a sentence is also common. For example, the term ‘alright’ is pronounced ‘aight’, and ‘you all’ is pronounced ‘y’all’. You’ll also see ‘ I’ma ’ u...