blogging – Becoming The Muse

Awards and Challenges

Of WinterABC2022 Storytelling Festival

1 Jul 20221 Jul 2022

June has been Afrobloggers WinterABC Storytelling Festival. Each week of June carried a theme and bloggers were challenged to put on their creative caps and figure out how to interpret…

Of Techzim: Blog To Marketplace

17 Jun 202117 Jun 2021

When I started my blog almost 8 years my go to place for information was TechZim Answers which was a crowd-sourced answers solution, similar to Yahoo Answers but made up…

Defining Moments

Of Being A Creative: Things To Not Say To A Blogger

• I don’t like to read. Oh really now… well, you have come to a right place, I happen to write you can learn to love to read by starting…

Beaton’s Cut: Emoyeni Digital Twitterview With Uncle Of Bloggers

1 Jun 20211 Jun 2021

For the first day of WinterABC I am sharing the Beaton’s Cut of the EmoyeniDig Twitterview hosted by Melody Chingwaru on the Culxure Mag Twitter account for #EmoyeniFriday. Emoyeni Digital…

Of Things To Do When Staying At Home In A Pandemic

26 May 202126 May 2021

What do you do when you have a bit of time to kill and you want to take your mind off “things”? With the global pandemic this has become ever…

Of Coffee On Silent Mornings

1 Mar 20211 Mar 2021

If you were having coffee with me, I would greet you with Hello March… A new day, a new month, a new folder and I am feeling great…. https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/1366266495966314496?s=20 Its…

Defining Moments…

Of The Blogger’s Creed

22 Feb 202124 Feb 2021

....After some reflection and introspection on my journey here's my blogger’s creed... https://videopress.com/v/aYGtlM6R?preloadContent=metadata I am a storytellerWhen I write,It’s not my hand that writes,It’s my father's hand.And my grandfather'sand his…

Of Coffee With Milestones

12 Feb 202112 Feb 2021

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that I might act like I never check my stats and that I would still keep this tangle of…

Of My Blog’s Highlights In Case You Missed It

1 Jan 20211 Jan 2021

If this were Christmas, I would have been Father Christmas, if this were a mafia outfit I would be The God Father, but I am a mortal with a blog…

Awards and Challenges

Of My Best Bloggers Of 2020

31 Dec 202031 Dec 2020

Coming to the end of my Best Of The Year series I cant call myself the uncle of bloggers if I don’t do a blog roll of blogs and bloggers…

Defining Moments

Of My Immortality

23 Oct 202023 Oct 2020

Long-time visitors to these, my tangle of words, know that one of my reasons for running this blog is to be immortal or rather the next best thing which is…

Defining Moments

Of Paid In Exposure and Non Disclosure

1 Sep 20202 Sep 2020

Hello September…. New Month New Folder. This month my blog will be about my no good, absolutely bad, unscrupulous, questionable and otherwise dodgy dealings with the truth, business, relationships, love…