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Author and Founder of Spoken Black Girl Publishing Rowana Abbensetts-Dobson shares her journey to becoming a fiction writer.

As a typical millennial growing up in the 90s, I got swept up in playing many video games. Sonic, Mario, Zelda, Tomb Raider, even Ms. Pac-Man—you name it, I most likely played it. Funny enough, playing video games made me fall in love with storytelling. I loved the creative input of worldbuilding, the power of the characters, and the crazy, sometimes convoluted plotlines. Video games were a fun escape from homework and playing outside. I enjoyed tapping into imaginative world