YOU are all fantastic writers & I need you all to STOP listening to your perfectionism and stop thinking you aren’t enough bc there is a person OUT THERE who needs your story - perhaps now more than ever. Get off social media. Put pen to paper. WRITE!
I’m always going to look askance at people who try to tarnish the reputations of woc authors with vague stories about how “problematic” they are, meanwhile men like Neil Gaiman get carte blanche to be abusive while everyone worships the ground they walk on
I relate to George R. R. Martin because when I was 14 I started a wattpad book that amassed nearly 1million reads and one day I randomly stopped updating it and to this day it sits abandoned. It’s been years.
I was 15 in 2010 and my nana who knew I wrote poems made me go see Nikki Giovanni speak at Wayne State University. I didn’t know who she was and in my really stupid youth, I didn’t want to go because I didn’t think I would be interested in what such an old person had to say.
Official poster of the Ebony Witch animated film!!!! We're crowd funding to bring this indie animation project to life, Now on @Kickstarter !! The campaign ends in exactly 14 days!
Reminder that I'm doing signed pre-orders of my middle grade debut at my local indie, Books are Magic! If you're interested in a magical story about a girl finding a magical version of Seneca Village, or know a kid who might be, check it out!
I'm making an animated fantasy film about a Witch fighting dragons, so if you want to support independent animation we're crowd funding right now!
Back the campaign today on Kickstarter for more original films!
“Reading isn’t political” but your favorite series is Percy Jackson, where the biggest theme is that those in power don’t care about the consequences of their actions & leave the powerless to suffer/clean up their messes? Where the disabled kid is the hero?