fiction writing

I’ve been writing things on the internet for most of my life. Like other incredible storytellers, I got my start with fanfiction. It taught me skills like how to format copy online, how to use basic writing tools, and how not to use punctuation. (Remember the overusing ~ tilda ~ days, y’all?) This definitely led to my day job in user experience writing, but it did more than that. It gave me a deep and lasting belief that great stories can come from anyone, anywhere in the world, using whatever tools they have available.

I returned to trying to write original fiction in 2018 after I spent a year writing 120,000 words of copy for an airline website. Though I was proud of the work that paid my bills, I finished the project and found myself asking, “What would it sound like if I wrote 120,000 words for me?” This led to a frantic dive back into the creative writing community studying in the Stanford Continuing Studies program, a private cohort with incredible writer and teacher Samina Ali, and workshops through Sackett Street Writers in Brooklyn.

With a lifetime of experience being a fencing and weightlifting athlete, chaotic bisexual, competitive idiot, and writer, I’ve started writing stories that are equal parts swashbuckling, feminist, and fantasy. I’m not sure what’s going to come of it, but I’m going to find out.