Meet Ja’Lynne Carter

It’s smooth now, but a few years ago, it wasn’t. I wasn’t consistent with posting my stories after the first one. Since it did really well, I was really hard on myself. I was questioning was anything else I wrote going to amount to what I’ve written already. So, I’d go weeks or months without posting a single thing. A lesson I’ve learned was to just put the art out. Do it for you and the joy of it and whatever comes from that is just a bonus.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?
I write and record my own fictional short stories. I write about the many forms that love comes in. When people think of love they automatically assume romance, yes? But, love is much more deeper and complex than that. I write about the love that hurts, self love, romance etc. When I write I put myself in the characters shoes wether they’re an adult or child. I try my best to capture those kind of raw emotions. While, yes, my stories are fiction but the emotion in every single one of them I’ve experienced. So, expressing them in beautiful, relatable ways is always pretty cool to me.

What makes you happy?
My family, friends, and creating makes me happy. My mom is really the reason I’m so into books. We’d go to the library once or twice a week to read and I absolutely loved it. My friends because without them, I wouldn’t have posted my first story. I wouldn’t have had the confidence to showcase my writings. I would still be writing, and all of my beautiful stories would be collecting dust in my notes app. Lastly, creating makes me happy because I get a break from reality. I get to just drift off in my imagination for a few hours and just be and create whatever I want however I want. Creating is very freeing and definitely a form of therapy for me.