As a writer, I tend to write from "within my mind," using passing thoughts, feelings, or memories as starting points from which to build pieces of fiction or poetry. As I expand upon these thoughts, I often color them with additional thoughts and feelings inspired by sights I have seen in nature, personal experiences, or even musical inspirations. (Music and scenes from nature tend to play a large part in my writings.) From these foundations, I tend to produce writings in which the characters themselves often dwell largely in their own minds, isolated and apart from the worlds in which they live. As such, my writings tend toward the sentimental and nostalgic while also containing themes of alienation and isolation.

The impact working in digital media has had on this approach of mine seems to be dependent on the form of that digital media. In producing my ebook "Clark" (itself a perfect example of the themes of isolation and alienation I mentioned earlier), I did not feel like the process was all that different from that which I normally do. As a matter of fact, "Clark" was a preexisting short story of mine that I merely converted into an ebook format. In doing this, one challenge I did encounter outside of the writing aspect was the fact I found myself more in control of the finished product than I normally would be: instead of merely writing the story, I also had to create and arrange a cover for the work.

The Twine project was a bit more challenging as it could not necessary be written as one would "traditionally" write a piece of fiction. For this project I chose to do a parody of sorts of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books with which I was familiar as a child. I started writing from scratch and let the story take on a life of its own (which it did almost too well!). As I wrote this piece, I had to constantly keep track of both previous and upcoming narrative branches to ensure I did not introduce any plot inconsistencies. In addition, I found myself having to struggle to guide the narrative toward some sort of final conclusion (aside from all the intentional deadends scattered throughout the piece.)