What's Ray saying?

What's Ray saying?

Hey, folks, this is Ray, the source of all black knowledge.

In this special mini episode of What's Ray saying, I'm going to let Tiffany take over the

reins of hosting to interview one of my babies about her Webby Award-winning story and

her recent book. So, a little daddy nepotism, but give it a listen. Thanks.

Hi, you are indeed listening to what's ray saying but no i am not ray this is tiffany the other half of the ruminations duo ray's ride or die for life and i am

super excited to be speaking with my first born today, Ray's number three or six,

the person who made me a mama, Juniper Ray Dickens. Hello there. Hi. So let's start at the beginning.

You are such a creative person, a writer, an actor, a singer, all these things. But it really,

as I remember, it started with writing. When did you first know that you were a writer and that

was a thing that gave you joy? I think I've always been drawn to stories and I've always been the kind of person that sort of escapes inward

into my own head, into my own narratives.

And I think writing was just a medium that always made sense to me.

It was the medium that always felt like it gave me the most freedom to make what was in my head

a reality and sort of bring that forward. My first memory of like writing a book I think was

third grade where I had a little notebook and I illustrated a little story about a girl who had

pet birds on leashes.

Yeah, I think that's my earliest.

And, like, creative writing exercises were always the thing I looked forward to most in school, any sort of writing exercise.

Because it was the thing that allowed me to sort of enter into a flow state and sort of just exist in like motion.

It's wonderful that your first memory is the third grade because that's when I knew you were a writer.

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