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@writergirl101 @arindown

I think I was about 12 when I actually started planning out my stories, but it wasn’t really until I was 14 that they started to shift away from that fairy-tale aura into something more serious.

I like to think that I never lost the innocence of my little-kid stories (or at least I’m trying not to).

I completely understand! That innocence is so pure and touching. I still try to aim for it myself, more so in particular stories. For example, one of my side projects is an account of a little girl who visits with Tomorrow–the figure tasked to hand each person their tomorrows. It’s narrated by the child’s adopted father, so it’s a bit more mature in that respect, but it still has a remnant of that delightful fairy-tale experience that I love to read in George MacDonald’s works especially.

Looking back, all my stories as a little kid were closely based off the books I read

We all imitate somewhere 🙂 It’s actually really fun to do purposefully, too! A lot of my older stories were essentially imitations of MG books I’d read (also The Secret Garden, The Little Princess, even Hardy Boys), but with a fantasy twist–or I even wrote some fairy-tale remakes.

I like to say I write and draw because, just as every one of my characters has a small part of me in them, I reflect Him by copying what He did first.

Beautiful!