Hello! I am an undergraduate student attending George Mason University. I am pursuing two degrees - one in clinical psychology and one in poetry. This site holds a collection of my works. Poetry is a big love of mine, but I also am a fan of fantasy! :)
I am careful and contemplative. Oftentimes in my works I look to the details of my life or life in general for inspiration. I see reading and writing as being more than just as a method of escape from reality. More deeply, it is a way to think about reality and either nonjudgementally observe it or to confront it. One of my personal goals is to write something new. A theme that has come up a few times in my writing is the idea of equating the belief in religion to the belief in the supernatural or paranormal, such as ghosts or aliens. The works of mine that deal with this theme often critique blind faith. I wrote a little bit of this idea into Apocryphal. When writing That Which is Nameless, I was playing with the idea of using fantasy to comment on real-world concerns such as climate change. Incorporating these views, which may be controversial for some, into a digital format got me thinking about the ideas I have as actual ideas that can be spread and shown to others. It's a little scary to think about, especially as someone who's always been pretty nervous and reserved when it comes to sharing my writing. But it does seem less scary to me than reading in front of the whole class. The digital space allows me to be a little more bold in what I put out there, and to start seeing myself as a writer with opportunities, and a voice with important things to say, in an even wider community outside of my college.
As a digital writer, I'm glad to find that I can pay much more attention to aesthetics and trying to make things pretty becomes one of my top priorities. I can bring my love of art into the picture in order to make my works visually appealing. It's a lot more time-consuming, and the perfectionist in me finds it painful yet enjoyable.