Keep on Going. Keep on Hoping.
Good sometime, sweetlings, how are you doing? My name is Aviva Godfrey! A pleasure to make your acquaintances, one and all. I’m an artist and author of many years, and in general, I serve as ye olde familiar oddball.
I’m from [insert the whole Deep South right here], and Texas on my best days.
I spend far too much time collecting new story ideas, so I’m trying to actually do things with them now. This includes the smallest first steps of laying the groundwork to start writing, the middle steps where I design the characters…and even the big, sparkly-eyed dreams of making animatics and animations one of these days. Here’s hoping you’re ready to join me for the ride. ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
Education
It’s easy to poke fun at my educational background, because the undergrad degree on the wall is impossibly vague and a total in-joke at this point.
It reads something like “Bachelor of Arts, Integrated Studies.”
If you squint with your psychic powers, it might say something like “Majoring in English, Linguistics, and Business, with a concentration in graphic design and a minor in Japanese.”
Maybe your psychic powers are stronger than mine?
Still, I’ve made good use of all five of my undergrad college experiences, and all eight of my majors. I may now boast myself as a member of the 2021 Class of Southern New Hampshire University, having received my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, with a certificate that allows me to be an online writing teacher.
What I Do
As dear mother will tell you, my catchphrase is “All the things.”
I’m a writer, obviously—and I do a lot of it. I’m writing novels. I’m also working on producing online video content. I’m also-also working on my goals to become a super-darling of a lady, studying sewing, crochet, knitting, lace-making…really, I have no restraint. It’s terrible, but also terribly fun.
Generally, though, I only bring my writing and art to the internet, because those two work in good harmony. I do my own character and cover art, and the great majority of art on this website is also my handiwork. If you like my artwork, and would like a piece of your own (whether for your own characters or from a franchise you fancy, because who doesn’t love fanart?), please be encouraged to check out my commission site and give me a shout. I’ll be accepting a few here and there as time permits.
My Mission
Storyteller extraordinaire that I am, I tell a lot of tales about mental health — or the lack thereof.
I have anxiety. I have depression. I have PTSD. I’ve been suicidal.
Life is hard. It can kill you, inside as well as outside. My stories are for the people in the trenches with me. If I’m the grizzled old soldier, let me lend my survival expertise to the younger, the less sure — those in a more precarious place than I am.
Thinking like that is what inspired me to tear down a lot of my previous storytelling choices, and instead use my place in this world to speak to people just like me.
Not for them, mind you. To them.
Tomorrow keeps coming, no matter how hard the present is, or the yesterday that came before it. I find myself hoping for tomorrow’s possibilities, its hope, its “I can.” I would be honored if my stories do the same for my readers.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Aviva Godfrey 