“When I was 8 or 9 years old, I was in the back seat of my mom’s car on her way to work. We were discussing the ages people get married at, go to college at, have families at – all things I did not want to participate in. 25 seemed too young for so many goals to be done by then, just like marriage in your 20s. She said it was common and I felt like…if that’s an inevitable conclusion to your 20s then I wanted something to set forth the ideas I felt strongly about before being associated as someone’s something. I thought turning 25 seemed overrated, it was being presented as like the end of childhood for real…so I wanted to write and publish my first book at 26. It’s the longest standing goal and always felt like a way to honor myself, especially in all that goes on in your life. 

 

Just getting up each day and actually doing it, not focusing on introductions or characters in the way I do with my sketches but more about committing to the act of creating. Had to really let go. It's freeing to know that I have my back in this process and that I can let go of perfectionism and let these thoughts develop and speak for themselves.” – Rebecca Franklin