"Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences of my life"
o.0.o
Both Roxane Gay and I went through different personal ordeals in our childhood. She was sexually assaulted; I had an emotionally abusive father. Although our experiences differed greatly, we both dealt with them in the same way: we turned to reading and writing as a means to escape and work through our trauma. She became a fiction and nonfiction writer, and I started off with fanfiction before turning to fiction.
A/N: the genre selected reflects the current feelings of my life at the moment when I started writing fanfiction (or, it's the closest genre they have to "pain" or "sadness")