Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Yes. It was about Strawberry Shortcake. I can still feel that old pulpy paper, the kind with the blue and red lines that help you learn letters. God love the '70s. The whole story was done in Mr. Sketch scented water color markers--hot pink, turquoise, purple.
What is your writing process?
I write constantly.
I am incredibly self-critical. That's a killer for creativity. It took me forever to turn off my internal self-censor and just let the pipes run clean. But I wrote until I overcame that nullifying voice inside.
The stories always take too long. I absolutely haven't the patience to wait for any given piece of work to come to fruition. So I'm always working on lots of stories. If one is dormant, likely another is having some lovely vibrant spring.
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