If you’re a budding writer, you’ve likely told yourself that you didn’t have what it took to create the right story, or that you’ve never make something good. If you’re from a marginalized community, or were born in a part of the world that doesn’t get the same opportunities as some others, you might’ve told yourself that even if you could write something great, it wouldn’t matter, because no one would see it or no one would care. I did those same things here. As a result, I robbed myself of at least the satisfaction of completing something that I knew I’d care about, and maybe even sharing my writing potential with others to be a part of something incredible in the future. I told myself that what I wanted to make, what I was coming up with, was not good enough. And then, out of nowhere, without even trying to talk to me, Jon Favreau showed me I was wrong.

For the last few years, my Patreon has run the gamut of my writing passions - Spoken Word, playwriting, fiction…but now, after my amazing writing experience at the Cropper Foundation Residency, I’m back at it again in a much more deliberate way. And I want you to share in the things I’ll be making!

I’ve been wallowing in the challenging bits of the literary community I’ve been eager to enter. Most notably of them is the fact that, like any other community, there is just as much likelihood that the people in it are harmful to those who trust and Love them. Perhaps they, like the ocean’s waves, are inevitable, and are more than powerful to pull down those who dare to tread among them.