KTHT Weekly Prompts for the Week of August 1–5 — Guys want to chat me up all the time. The mask on my profile picture is no deterrent. Some may think I consider myself some kind of guy magnet. Not true. I have had my heart handed to me in pieces more times than one. I have had my offering…

Quora is a social question and answer platform with 300 million active users. I’ve been posting intermittently for the past year mainly in response to relationship questions. They sent me an invite to the Quora + revenue share program (by invitation only last time I checked) whereby contributors can get…

Why readability statistics matter — Dear reader, I am by no means an expert and neither do I have much experience in writing but somehow my articles seem to draw consistently high engagement (this one article has earned me close to 💲300)— be it on this platform, or on NewsBreak (12K followers and a completely…

According to Copyblogger, on average 8 out of 10 people will read your headline but only 2 out of 10 will read beyond that. A great headline makes the difference between being read or 🦗 My strategy’s simple — write emotionally impactful titles with the audience in mind. It’s helped…

Why I’m fortunate to have it — I am a shy, introvert. And I am wary of letting anyone close. But many of you already know that — there are two sides to me, Juli who shies away from the limelight, and then there is Yana who is quite the vocal writer. Are you surprised? Well, I…

What I have to say about the Coffee Times debacle — Waking up to a bombshell Dear reader, Last Saturday, I woke up to a private message from a writer/editor asking me about an article that was published by a pub I write and am an editor for. I had no clue about what was going on until I checked the editors' messages on Twitter and…

Identity — Who Am I? KTHT Challenge Prompt July 6th, 2022 — I must admit there was some trepidation prior to me visiting my parents after 6 long years. Mainly because it is a culture where divorce is frowned upon. Like I’ve somehow failed — myself, society, and women in general, wives in particular because they are considered the locus of a…

USP means “what you have that competitors don’t.” We can all agree that we want our voices to be heard, our words read — otherwise why bother publishing? Your USP is what makes you stand out in a sea of writers (think 244K on Medium). Of the 103 responses to…

Imagine reading advice on how to save a faltering relationship and then writing for that same website a few years later… For someone who calls herself an accidental writer, I never dreamed I would be giving relationship advice to others. With an article in mind, I pitched it to the…