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Author Statement, The Box In the Woods:
Have you ever played a multiplayer game with a friend and they left you to die? This work is inspired by similar events and by my love of giving the reader a choice to choose. In a game you have to make split second decisions sometimes. This story is more of a thriller than other things I have written, but I enjoyed writing it nonetheless. I think this story will also tell you a bit about yourself as a person.
I would describe myself as a free thinking writer, and for the most part I do not use a whole lot of structure.
One of the best methods I learned in sixth grade, when my language arts teacher taught my class a fun writing exercise.
We would essentially open our one dollar notebooks, find an open spot, and write as much as we could within a five minute time frame.
It could be a comic book, it could be a story, literally whatever came to our underdeveloped twelve year old imaginations.
I try to use that to my advantage as much as possible, to keep my writing fresh and something I enjoy. I have recently enjoyed writing memoirs, as a sort of self-reflection on my life.
It has healed a few memories, and inspired a few new concepts for what I enjoy writing in my day to day life.
Digital writing has been a unique experience, and one I have enjoyed immensely. When presented with the challenge of writing an Ebook, I really dove into wanting to explore poetry.
Pre-pandemic, I used to love writing and reading. Something about isolation changed everything for me.
Isolation was miserable, and I did not want to do anything to change it.
Now, two years later, I have rekindled a love for both. This class in digital writing has changed my perspective on authorship, what it means to be an author, and challenging yourself to use a new platform in order to create something entirely new.