9/1/2023 0 Comments Checkmating![]() So, the question became “how am I going to present this important topic in a way that is instructive, fun, easy to follow and visually appealing to the reader?” To tackle this challenge, I had to dig deep and tap into my inner creative reservoirs. ![]() So, this means one has to have the know-how of accomplishing the task. Get this, everyone who is playing the game of Chess is looking forward to checkmating the opponent. I went online and started to look for everything related to the word until I realized that this is not just a small talk. ![]() Now I have my title, Checkmate, then what? That was the question I kept asking myself the whole day. All these people around me seemed to be saying the same thing to me over and over again, then I remembered the words of the literature maverick, Herman Melville, who said: “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.” That’s when I decided to write my first word in the book, ‘Checkmate’. I had my Pastor who would sometimes give a prophetic word of how much I could accomplish, with hard work of cause. It felt like inception or hypnosis of some sort. The lady was always finding creative ways to remind me of how much protentional I had in me. However, motivation was never in short supply. I could not even open a word processor to jot a full stop. Like I mentioned before, I carried the idea of writing a book since 2018, in April to be precise. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” I find this to be true, yet easier said than done. The famous American storyteller, Louis L’Amour once said “Start writing, no matter what. I started to do some research on some of the important subjects in Chess and that when the idea hit me like a rocket-propelled grenade.Īlmost every writer will admit to this: starting is the hardest part. That’s when I realized that I’m going to leave this life without any legacy or heroic moments for people to remember me by.Īnyway, I managed to gather around some of the important resources that are critical in any literature project. I started to reflect on all the days I was healthy and strong. I remember in one of the bad dreams, I was struck with a terminal disease and was left with only a few hours of life according to the doctor. I carried the idea with me every single day. I couldn’t stop thinking about what he had said in that mini-lecture. So, he challenged me to be more active in my craft and write a book. I had no YouTube channel, no website, not even a single newspaper article that I penned myself. The gentleman could not understand how I was managing to survive on playing Chess alone, yet at that time I didn’t even have any social media presence. When I mentioned that I was doing Chess as a full-time job, it bothered him so much. We quickly got started on the right foot and started sharing some personal information about our lives in happy conversations. Before I get into what’s inside the book, I would like to share a bit of background into how this project was initiated as well as some of the challenges encountered along the way.īack in 2018, on the island of Sardinia, Italy, I met with a fellow Zimbabwean who is now based in England.
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