You and the pen and the paper are a thruple, writing as one.
What I love about being a writer and creative person is the insight it gives me into art and art-making.
You can’t chase two rabbits at once.
There are things I am still afraid of, but being myself will no longer be one of them.
Writing is a mystery to me, a heroic mystery. It’s such a challenge every time I go to the page. I never know how I’m going to finish anything without first getting into it.
One should never resort to dullness, ennui, tedium, languor in order to embrace acceptance.
I hadn’t thought the manuscript was so bad it deserved being torched.
When I go deep with my direct community of women we are able to identify needs to aid in the development of our juiciest, most creative selves.
Editing is where the poems take shape and come to life.
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The feedback I'm getting is that for many sex workers, who feel so starved for validation and positive representation, holding the book itself, the actual artifact, is quite powerful.
I revise multiple times, even when I'm convinced I've finished the last draft.
I wanted to do everything in my power to make sure that other Black girls and young women were better prepared for navigating structural racism and sexism at work.
If you care about change, it's crazy not to look back at what came before.
The month is so charged and uplifting...like a long holiday for writers.
I'm trying to straddle this line between digital game design and poetry in my own work at the moment.
San Francisco is a town full of writers, just as I’ve always suspected.
