There’s a theory that the classification “Homo narrans” is more apt for the human race than “Homo sapiens.” Humans are a narrative species — we understand the power of words, and we wield that power on a daily basis. Words have the power to create war or to broker peace. The human body is composed of words. The skyscrapers are composed of words. The cosmos is composed of words. Words are everywhere and anywhere. Words are eternal.

Words are our lifeforce.

Human storytelling is the personification of our creativity, and our stories are the most powerful entities that any human being can produce; our stories are alive in all

of us - there are ballads in our bones and epics in our ears, dramas in our hearts and sonnets in our souls. 

Collaborating with The Creative Process is a chance for me to uphold my core beliefs of and respect for creative storytelling, but to also replenish my own creativity by working alongside the creativity of others. I hope to use my talents to put good energy into our world, our society, and our universe.It’s more of a personal project than an "official" one, but I’m currently working on creating and designing the first draft of a book that I’ve always wanted to publish — it’s always been a sort of distant dream of mine, but it’s something that I’ve recently started to take more seriously and something I’ve really started to conceptualize outside of my head. 

I’ve always wanted to work with words. I have memories of hurricane-caused power outages from when I was really little, maybe five or six, and writing pages and pages of stories on scattered sheets of paper underneath a flashlight. Ever since, I’ve hoped that my career would dive into the world of editing and publishing. I’ve studied words my entire life — I find magic in tweaking them ever so slightly in order to find their full luminosity. For my future, I want to work as an editor for a publishing company or for another creative organization. For my future, I want to find the magic of words

If you had one wish for the future, what would it be and how do you think we could move towards achieving this goal?

Empathy. If I were to have one wish for the future, it would be that we all become even a little more empathetic  to those around us. Kindness is so much more important than a lot of people realize, and I think the most effective way to demonstrate this is to keep telling our stories. Now is not the time to whisper — empathy is born out of inspiration, and no inspiration can be sparked without the life-changing creative thinkers that it comes from. We must raise our voices to tell our stories, and we must raise them with kindness.