About Me

I have been making stories on the regular since before the first grade. I can still remember drawing picture books on printer paper, the text oversized and misspelled. Yet I knew what I was reading, what I was seeing. 

Even though I wasn’t diagnosed on the autism spectrum until middle school, one of my main past times should have been a notable indicator. At recess or at home, I would pick a spot, usually a tree, and simply circle around it for a very long time. During this, I was imaging stories and scenarios, the visuals and plot and sound so clear to me. As it became a habit, I would later simply call this experience ‘thinking’ to rationalize the behavior.  

As I grew older, my want for stories did not falter, but perhaps not in the right direction. I didn’t read much further beyond my own grade level, and I would often find myself in trouble in class for writing overblown fiction pieces for non-fiction assignments. The early two-thousands was also a boom in horror films, and although nine year old me was not watching these films, they were still consistently advertised to me on regular programming. This led my ideal stories to be unnecessarily dark and monstrous, as was my interests at the time. 

But as I came to high school and actually began reading classic literature while expanding my media diet, I began developing the Another Sky project properly. Nearly every free opportunity I had during high school was used to develop this story and its world, not reaching a conclusion until just before the Covid pandemic. With how much time I put into this project and ideas for smaller ones at my disposal, I chose to pursue this further in my education and eventual career.