I am not a writer who believes the first version must be the final version. I build. I revisit. I feel the story again. If a scene does not hurt enough, breathe enough, or make me see it clearly, I go back. My characters have to feel human. They can be loving and still make terrible choices. They can be strong and still be afraid. They can survive something and still carry the scars of it years later.
That is exactly how Trauma Toxicity developed. I wanted Josiah and Kyra to be more than characters on paper. I wanted readers to recognize pieces of people they know—or perhaps pieces of themselves. I wanted their love to be complicated because real life is complicated. I wanted trauma to have consequences, silence to have weight, anger to have a history, and healing to require work.
Poetry also lives inside the way I write. I care about rhythm, imagery, and how words feel when spoken aloud. Music, painting, and photography influence me because I believe every creative medium tells a story differently.
For me, writing is not about filling pages.
It is about making people feel.
If you finish something I have written and you are still thinking about a character, a sentence, a painful moment, or a truth you were not prepared to face—then I have done what I came to do.
- J.L. Williamson