# Melissa Nathalia > Writer, musician, filmmaker Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [About Me](https://www.melissanathalia.com/about.md) - I am a lover of words, sounds, and lighting - and this drives the majority of my world-building endeavours. I started songwriting at the age of 7, then started recording music in Kenya (I'm third generation Kenyan-Indian) at the age of 14. After dropping out of high school involuntarily, I took up… - [Books](https://www.melissanathalia.com/books.md) - [Current projects](https://www.melissanathalia.com/current-projects.md) - I am not capable of working on one thing at a time - in fact, it took me many years to learn that doing so slows me down. Here's an updated list of my current projects. As a solo artist, I'm currently producing and writing an 8-track album titled Utaniona, for which I will be doing everything but t… - [Home hero](https://www.melissanathalia.com/home-hero.md) - Moving between airports, apartments, and temporary routines, Between Cities is a novel about the restless rhythm of modern life—belonging, ambition, and the search for permanence when the ground never stays still. - [Home quote](https://www.melissanathalia.com/home-quote.md) - Chisomo "Chips Chipo" Nkhoma VFX supervisor, longtime collaborator and friend Sometimes hilarious. - [Melissa Mondays](https://www.melissanathalia.com/melissa-mondays.md) - Want to know the story behind Melissa Mondays? Click here to read it. - [My AI Policy](https://www.melissanathalia.com/my-ai-policy.md) - I do not belong to the group of people who froth at the mouth upon mere mention of AI, believing that AI will make us all rich and happy. A large percentage of this group are unfortunately grifters. However, I also do not belong in the group of people who scream that AI is terrible while unknowingl… - [Subscribe](https://www.melissanathalia.com/subscribe.md) - Subscribe - for free! - for stories galore! - [The Story behind Melissa Mondays](https://www.melissanathalia.com/the-story-behind-melissa-mondays.md) - 12 years ago - before social media was used to share things that weren’t just your personal images - I decided to make a weekly newsletter called “Melissa Mondays”, where I’d share helpful things I found on the internet. And cat pictures. And some of my art news. (Keep scrolling all the way to the… - [Writing](https://www.melissanathalia.com/writing.md) - All forms of writing that aren't serial can be found here. ## Posts - [Tabitha](https://www.melissanathalia.com/all/tabitha.md) - [Veer](https://www.melissanathalia.com/all/veer.md) - [Prologue: Snapshots of a Broken Sky](https://www.melissanathalia.com/all/prologue.md) - Prologue0:00/330.15466666666671× The sound of muffled explosions in the background seemed insignificant next to the loudness of her own laboured breathing. The world was pitch black, but her steady heartbeat and breathing sounds told her she was alive. Alive but... where? And how? And who- Before h… - [Join me as I write my debut novel - publicly.](https://www.melissanathalia.com/the-debut.md) - Synopsis of the opening pages: The sky has been destroyed by primordial goddess Tiamat, leaving its strongest soldiers without memory, and all gods and magic banished to the underworld. A scrawny barista would love nothing better than to be disqualified - or skipped over entirely - from military se… - [What I learned in 2021 that I wish I had learned far sooner](https://www.melissanathalia.com/what-i-learned-in-2021-that-i-wish-i-had-learned-far-sooner.md) - ✨A note on the em-dash usage: Please note that this post was imported directly from my old Medium account. Medium has a habit of replacing any short hyphens with this now notorious em-dash symbol —. While I've been a writer for over 2 decades, I apparently never quite learned to use the em-dash in… - [Is social media guilt destroying your mental peace?](https://www.melissanathalia.com/is-social-media-guilt-destroying-your-mental-peace.md) - ✨A note on the em-dash usage: Please note that this post was imported directly from my old Medium account. Medium has a habit of replacing any short hyphens with this now notorious em-dash symbol —. While I've been a writer for over 2 decades, I apparently never quite learned to use the em-dash in… - [6 lessons learned from severe burn-out](https://www.melissanathalia.com/6-lessons-learned-from-severe-burn-out.md) - ✨A note on the em-dash usage: Please note that this post was imported directly from my old Medium account. Medium has a habit of replacing any short hyphens with this now notorious em-dash symbol —. While I've been a writer for over 2 decades, I apparently never quite learned to use the em-dash in… - [Life Lessons from Once Upon a Time: S1 E1](https://www.melissanathalia.com/life-lessons-from-once-upon-a-time-s1-e1.md) - 💡A note on the em-dash usage: Please note that this post was imported directly from my old Medium account. Medium has a habit of replacing any short hyphens with this now notorious em-dash symbol —. 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