About the Author
I’m 22 currently, dealing with the everyday life. I enjoy my work but it drives me insane the same way it would drive anyone insane. It’s a routine chore required for success in life. HOWEVER, I believe there is more to life than merely surviving the tedious world of work.
I believe in making the most of the time I have. Do I enjoy going outside? No. I’m afraid to say I do not like the outside world (Well, I do and I love it but the thought of going outside makes the beast within me burrow further into a hole). Ironic, because I LOVE writing about adventure. I LOVE ‘The Lord of the Rings’ which encourages that. When life gets tough, I will literally sit there and tell myself: “Would Samwise Gamgee give up because life is a little hard? NO! He would pluck Frodo off of the ground and carry him up that damn mountain!” because that’s life! My life is not some cool adventure, so it all seems a bit bleak at times, but then I remember that the world in chaos is not a world we want. I want to live in a world where people help each other, where we are free to be ourselves. To love who we want, to do the things that make us happy (along with the rule that as long as you’re not hurting anybody else, then it’s fine). Follow your dreams, no matter your age because life is too short to give up on them.
Dreams
How It Began
I will say, I started writing in a weird way. For me, I needed an outlet. I don’t think I realised it at the time, but I would play with my toys (Lego - I have too much Lego) as an escape. Who knows what I was escaping from, but I loved to take my characters on adventures – as any kid does. What I didn’t realise, was I was using it to help me with my own problems. I could give anyone a whole world of advice but could I give them to myself? No. That would be too easy. So I would create scenarios within my games and I would help those characters with those problems, therefore, helping myself in a subtle way. However, as you get older, you can’t play with toys anymore. So, while everyone was growing up, wearing makeup, going out … I was scared that I was losing what kept me in balance. I was worried that I wouldn’t cope without my worlds, so out of nowhere one day, I decided to write them down. It was bold to say the least. As a young dyslexic—who did not read, by the way—I decided, “Hmm, I’m going to write a novel.” WHAT? But just wait, not just a novel … A TRILOGY SERIES! I don’t know what I was thinking, but hey, little ambitious me did it. She wrote herself a novel and did not care when people doubted her. That book series to this day, remains my favourite writing piece. I have recently finished the second novel and I’ve almost finished editing as I’m on the last chapter (date: 27/06/2023), so I’ll be moving onto book 3 soon.
I’m going to edit the edit just for timekeeping’s sake: this trilogy is now a 5 book series (oops) and I’m currently 220 pages in on book 4 (04/03/2024).
My First Published Book :)
Conclusion
Fun fact about this photo … I’m not someone who likes to take selfies and upload them about myself. When I was asked to take a photo for my publishers, I was like, “Oh no …”
I tried … and tried again … and then rage quit. So after days of putting it off, I asked my wonderful cousin/friend to help me, so she kindly did and we finally got a photo out of me that is reasonably sensible.
My Love For Writing
^See, I have been known to go outside!
Thank you, Brodie, for forcing it out of me.
So this is where I lead to my dreams. First and foremost, being an author. TICK. I did it, yay. For those who do not know me, it’s best to read a lot of what I say with sarcasm. It’s a tone I have, even when I am being serious. But anyways, yes, I have wanted to be an author for the longest time. I always said I started writing when I was 14, but truth be told, I don’t really remember when I did start it. I think my timeline is a little off because I remember giving a blurb for ‘Hidden Words’ to my nat5 English teacher … but that was the second book I had written and I clearly was through that enough to feel confident enough to write a blurb? And I’m certain I was 14 then but that means I wrote my other book way before that … I dunno. Simple answer, I don’t know.
Lol this was my blurb and cover idea before I learnt how to do anything.
When I wrote my first novel, I realised how much I adored writing. It was so much fun and I would give anything to do this for the rest of my life. But once I finished that first ‘novel’, I decided to take a break from that series to learn how to write in other ways. Thus came ‘Hidden Words’ written in first person AND a completely different genre. I can’t explain my mind - other than it goes too fast and has too many strange ideas. I just let it do its thing and I’m along for the wild ride.
Despite all of this rambling, all I needed to say was, I love writing. I’ve recently discovered my own love for editing (now that I know how to), and of course, I love doing my own art. I love to create, I love music, I love drawing costume design concepts and I would be more than willing to learn how to make them for real. So if you keep up with my journey, I hope together we’ll create many things. I encourage people to do artwork for my stories because to inspire someone else to create something? That’s insane. I look forward to the future despite always living in dread of the boring doom of the everyday basic life … but I will work hard to enjoy life as best as I can, so I can help others enjoy their lives, too.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about me as a writer :)
Can you see the pain in my eyes?
Oh no, not this section. Another excuse for me to waffle on. BUT DO NOT LEAVE YET! Let me start off by explaining a little about myself.