It doesn't take a harrowing life to be able to tell a story. But for author, musician, and creative mind Christina Adams, it was a story she couldn't pass up writing.

In this episode of The Written Scene, Christina talks about the writing process with her husband and other co-writer Anthony Adams, why they chose to write a true story in the fiction genre, using music and books to escape life as a kid, how writing music helps her storytelling, the importance of working creative jobs that aren't writing when writing isn't paying yet, understanding the creative side of us can't be kept down, struggling to find or make time to also do nothing, how the skill of being highly organized carries over into writing, making sure a story is relatable and the reader feels something, the difficulty of telling a good story, and much more.

Side note: I don't know why but I called her Christine up front when her name is Christina. Apologies to Christina for the mistake.

Don't miss Christina and Anthony appearing as their nom de plume A.C. Adams at the Coronado Library on June 19th to discuss their debut book, Chasing Shadows.

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Music: Addis Ababa by Eshi Era