Watching my son sift through soil at the grave site. (September, 2013)
In 2013 and 2014, I wrote posts about the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys after I learned that my great-uncle was buried there as a teenager in 1937.
I decided to write a novel about it, The Reformatory, which is still in progress.
In the post on Medium, I open up about how grief has both stalled and spurred my creative process as I’m writing a novel steeped in family history about a haunted reformatory in my fictitious town of Gracetown, Florida.
I have been writing past my grief, and you can too.
Tananarive Due Writes 
You got this. Won’t be easy, but you can do this even through all the tears.
Thank you! 🙂