✍🏾 Who I Am and Why I Write

The Story Behind Minds In Design

Before I was a writer with multiple published books, a growing library of complex characters, and stories that dig deep into the emotional marrow of the human experience—I was just someone who needed a place to speak. A place to create. A place to breathe.

Minds In Design was born from that need.

And now, through this platform, I want to formally introduce myself—not just as an author, but as a storyteller, a human being, and someone who’s writing for more than just words on a page.

🧠 What Is Minds In Design?

Minds In Design isn’t just a name—it’s a mission. It represents the creative space I’ve built for stories that go deeper than surface-level entertainment. It’s a home for truth in fiction. A place where flawed characters aren’t punished for being real. A place where identity, trauma, hope, and transformation are explored with honesty and care.

The tagline of my writing could easily be:

“Healing begins where pretending ends.”

I created Minds In Design because I saw too many stories that avoided the messy parts of being human. The shame. The contradictions. The silence. So I made it my mission to write stories that don’t shy away from what’s real—stories that whisper to the parts of us we’re too afraid to say out loud.

🙋🏾‍♀️ Who Is Makitia Thompson?

I’m Makitia Thompson. A writer, a creative thinker, and a lover of layered storytelling that doesn’t mind making readers uncomfortable if it gets them closer to the truth.

As a person, I am deeply introspective. I don’t just observe people—I study them. I listen to what’s said and unsaid. I believe our pain, our silence, our joy, and our rage all come from somewhere. And that “somewhere” is where I like to write from.

As a writer, I’m raw and emotionally driven. I don’t write perfect characters. I write people. Sometimes they’re liars. Sometimes they’re broken. Sometimes they’re angry, selfish, or afraid to grow. But all of them have a beating heart behind their decisions—and I make sure you feel it.

I write across genres—true crime fiction, psychological character studies, dramatic memoir-style fiction, and more—but the through-line in all of it is this: truth through fiction. Every story I create is meant to reflect something real, something internal, something powerful. Something worth remembering.

🌀 My Creative Process: Where Stories Begin

My process doesn’t start with plot—it starts with people.

I begin by building a character, not a twist. I ask myself:

Who is this person when no one’s watching?
What do they need that they won’t admit?
What broke them?
What are they pretending not to feel?

From there, I build a world around them. A series of events that push them toward exposure. Toward transformation—or destruction. That’s where the plot lives for me: in the way the character collides with their truth.

Sometimes I sketch a full series before writing the first word. Other times, I write my way through the unknown. But no matter what, the characters are always at the center. I create their pasts, their parents, their losses, their lies—because I want to give the reader more than a story. I want to give them a person to understand. To wrestle with. Maybe even to forgive.

📉 When The Sales Don’t Come: How I Keep Going

Let’s be real: writing books is hard. Publishing them is harder. And selling them? That can feel impossible some days.

I’ve experienced the pain of putting my heart into a story, releasing it with high hopes… and watching it barely move. It stings. It discourages. It makes you question everything.

But I made a choice early on: I will not write only for popularity. I will write for truth. For purpose. For the reader who needs my story—not the trendiest one.

Every time sales are low or nonexistent, I remind myself:

Someone is going to find this book when they need it most.
Someone is going to feel seen in these pages.
And someone might even start healing because of a character I created.

And that’s more important than instant success.
Longevity matters more than noise.
And the right audience always finds you when the story is real.

🖋 Why I Started Writing (And Why I Won’t Stop)

I began writing because I couldn’t find myself in the stories I was reading.

Too many books were loud but shallow. Entertaining but forgettable. They didn’t reflect the quiet devastation of being misunderstood. The pain of growing up with silence. The heaviness of wearing a mask every day.

Writing gave me space to breathe.
It gave me language for feelings I didn’t know how to explain.
It gave me characters who could carry the weight of my voice.

And now, it gives me something else: connection. To readers. To community. To purpose.

Writing isn’t just a hobby for me—it’s the way I remind myself that I matter. That you matter. That our stories, even the ones we’re scared to tell, deserve to be told.

🧠 Why I Write Character Studies and Deep Fiction

Because people are complicated.

We are all shaped by what happened before the story started—by generational trauma, by unspoken rules, by survival tactics we learned too young.

I write character-driven stories because I want to show readers the why behind someone’s behavior—not just the what. I want readers to pause mid-sentence and go, “Oh… that’s why they did it.”

These aren’t stories built for aesthetic.
They’re built for introspection.

They tackle identity, hidden truths, self-destruction, healing, shame, and internal conflict. They’re not always easy to read—but they’re real. And real stories last longer.

📖 What I Hope You Feel When You Read My Work

Seen.
Understood.
Provoked—in the best way.

I hope my books challenge you to rethink the way you look at people.
I hope my characters remind you that no one is ever just what they seem.
I hope something in a sentence hits you in the gut and makes you pause.
And I hope, even in the darkest moments of my stories, you find light.

Whether you’re reading about Emily Cannister, Gregg Thorton, Joddelyn Anderson, Michelle Hartmann, or anyone else I’ve created—I want you to walk away changed.

💬 The Community I’m Building

I don’t just want readers.
I want a community of people who care about truth. About nuance. About characters who reflect the messiness of real life.

I want a loyal readership that doesn’t mind going deep. Who asks hard questions. Who sits with discomfort and keeps reading anyway.

This community is for:

The ones who’ve never seen themselves in a book before.
The ones who love emotional storytelling with raw edges.
The ones who care more about character arcs than happy endings.
The ones who want stories that remember you when they’re done.

You’re not just here to watch.
You’re part of this space.
Welcome to Minds In Design.

🙏 Who This Is All For

Everything I write is for anyone who’s ever felt invisible.
For those who were told to shrink themselves.
For the quiet ones. The misunderstood ones. The ones who’ve been overlooked too many times.

My passion is for you.

You deserve stories that speak your language—even if you haven’t found the words yet.
You deserve books that don’t talk over you or around you.
You deserve to be heard.

I may be one voice, but I promise to write like yours matters, too.

🌱 Final Words & Hopes for the Future

I don’t know where this path will take me.
I don’t know how many readers I’ll gain or how many books I’ll sell.
But I do know this:

I will keep writing.
I will keep telling stories that mean something.
I will keep giving voice to what’s usually hidden.

My hope for the future is simple:

To build a library of meaningful work.
To reach the readers who need my stories most.
And to create a legacy that centers emotional truth and storytelling that heals.

Thank you for being here. For reading. For supporting. For listening.
This is just the beginning.

Welcome to my world. I’m Makitia Thompson. I write to remember what matters. And I hope, in some way, my stories help you remember too. 💙

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