I want to write a book again. I want to feel the words beneath my fingertips as I type away on my glitchy laptop. I want to write words that bleed from the depths of my heart and soul. I want to feel the words like a wind beneath my metaphorical wings.

I don’t want my writing to be broken down to tropes and TikTok fodder. I want it to be something so much more than that. I want it to impact lives and change the world the way so many books have for me.

I want to write a book where the characters me...