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    MY PATH TO PUBLICATION Blessing Musariri

    Dec 02, 2021 5 minutes

    From as far back as I can remember, I have kept notebooks and journals. I have always been a writer. I just never knew that it was something one could be as a profession, it was simply who I was but even then, I thought it was just a hobby – a thing I did because I enjoyed it. My first job after university was well paid and demanded very little of me. When I was unhappy and wanted to quit, everyone told me that if I was bored in the job I should suck it up for the salary and use any idle time at work to write. I failed to do that.

    ‘One day I dragged myself into work and stood looking down seventeen storeys at the

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