Writing is overlooked because you see it everywhere. You don’t realize how important it is until it’s missing. You could say writing is taken for granted.
I learned a few things from my grief, but only after I came out of it. It started long before my mother passed, the grief. When she was sick, I had a new baby, an injury, and a full time career outside of the home. That 9-5 in an office where expectations are often higher …
How can I escape the default future when writing my science fiction novel? In One Way Ticket, there is no grand dystopia or utopia forcing April to move on. Just her own world spinning out of the control.