#67 - Agnes Gomillion - Write Through The Roof -

Interview with Afro-futurist writer Agnes Gomillion

“I wanted people to reflect on their relative state of freedom.”

Writes something every day – maybe poetry or notes but not necessarily her ‘work-in-progress’
Poetry, songs and lyrical writing
Sleep is writing fuel of choice
Afrofuturism – lift the audience from reality for the purpose of looking back and better understanding African-American culture.
Humanity with an African-American lens.
Writing about the underlying person brings different people together.
Perseverance
‘Story’ by Robert McKee – how to create a character and how to use structure to ‘show, don’t tell’.
Having to incorporate more structure in the writing day with children
Jesmyn Ward – Salvage the Bones, Stephen King
Frederick Douglass inspired The Record Keeper with his spirit of freedom. The story of how someone overcomes their fear set in a dystopia after World War 3.
Octavia Butler comparisons
Working on the sequel – The Seed of Cain.

“Humanity with an afro-futurist bent.”

“Slavery is more than physical chains.”

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#67 – Agnes Gomillion – Write Through The Roof