As I said, ideas can come from anywhere, but sometimes you can’t just sit around and wait for an idea to come to you.

Throughout high school, I filled up several journals, read poetry books and performed in Poetry Out Loud. Poetry was my life until it wasn’t

The only way to really get better at something is to do it, and that’s all I’m hoping to do during this entire process.

At the end of the day, it is your writing and it is whatever you want to make of it.

My pain does not make my art. I do. I make everything. I am not my emotions, my emotions are mine.