The short version
I'm a rising senior, and most days I'm somewhere between a manuscript and a red pen. My focus is character — the psychology underneath a person's worst decisions, and what a story looks like when it refuses to let anyone off easy. It's the same instinct pulling me toward psychology as a major: I want the clinical vocabulary for what I've spent years circling in fiction.
A multi-POV novel, 92,000 words and counting
It traces how toxic masculinity gets built — and, occasionally, unbuilt — inside the people who carry it. Told across shifting perspectives, it stays close to psychology rather than judgment: no villains, just characters making sense to themselves.
He had a way of apologizing that made you feel like you'd made him do it. He was sorry[cut — show, don't tell] — that was the trouble with him, the sorry always arrived already spent, like he'd rehearsed the shape of it more than the feeling.
Opinion Editor, school newspaper
I lead the Opinion section — assigning, editing, and shaping the argument in every piece before it runs. Most of the job is the same instinct as the novel: figure out what someone actually means, then help them say it better.
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