How to write stand-out stories

NAIROBI: Many of us are creative, but we are also known for being perpetual copycats, in business, music and even writing. One person writes something and another does a similar thing. I would like to say from the onset that being a copycat will not take your far.

 

We are living in a time when many people would rather do anything to 'make it'. There was a time I received a manuscript from a would-be author who had written a story on the late John Garang.