Sidik Fofana

About Sidik Fofana

It was tough for him to be a public school teacher and write “Stories From the Tenants Downstairs”. It was one of those things where he had to constantly guard his time. He might set 45 minutes aside and the entire time think about lessons he was planning or other bureaucratic things he had to do. When he first started writing the book, he’d be lucky to get 45 minutes in. Many of the word counts for the day were like 50 words to 100 words. The most was about 343 in one day. He would get discouraged because he would hear about writers getting 500 to 1,000 down in a day, or people writing four hours a day. The only thing he was consistent with was writing each and every day. That constant thinking about it, even if it would just be for a short time, helped him parse the novel out in his head