Goodreads asked G. Donald Cribbs:

How do you get inspired to write?

G. Donald Cribbs Writing first began as a coping tool for me. I was silenced by the trauma I experienced in childhood. Through reading first and writing second, very slowly I coaxed words out of me and onto the page. This is what saved me. Besides God, and the people who crossed my path and helped me heal a little in my recovery.

Child sexual abuse is what happened to me, but writing helped and continues to help me make sense of it, on this side of it, in the throes of the aftermath as it rakes across my mind and gouges me in wounded places. It was so freeing for me to discover, in an almost secret way, that I could find a pathway around the silence, and most importantly, a way to use my voice to take back what had been stolen from me without my permission.

In high school, this writing developed into poetry, which was a kind of super-charged way to use words to tell a story or a truth, as if each word were a chapter of a book. I loved discovering the associations one word has with other words, and the way these words would interplay when placed into a line of poetry.

I find many other ideas coming to me for future book and story ideas. One of my most recent ideas is for a MG series about Dragons I plan to write with my sons. We've begun plotting out a series of books and details about the world and framework for the stories, including who the main characters are. I love world building, researching, and jotting down the ideas of stories I hope to write soon.

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