The Roads I’ve Traveled
By Elissa Daye
Reading started me down
the path to writing. I was an avid reader from the moment I could read my first
words. I read everything I could get my hands on. I loved reading and escaping
into other worlds. My favorite books when I was a child were written by C.S.
Lewis, Judy Blume, and Jean Craighead George. I very much wanted to live on my
own and survive in the forest.
As a writer, I started
early. In second grade I remember getting a notebook as a prize from a teacher
and I started writing poetry where every line had to rhyme. Something like “The
little kitten lay, fast asleep in the hay.” In Middle School I constantly
entered the Young Authors contests with my poetry. I remember when my mom
attended a parent teacher conference for 8th grade. My English
teacher told her how impressed she was with my writing and told her that I
wrote like a 20 year old. It was the best compliment I had ever received at the
time and it made me want to do even better.
When I entered high
school I started writing short stories, mostly for school assignments. By the
time I was a junior in high school, my English teacher encouraged me to enter
for a chance to attend the Illinois Summer School for the Arts. At that point
in time I had already been writing longer short stories, one of them being a
ghost story, which I entered as an example of my writing. I won a scholarship
to attend the two week summer camp and had the time of my life. That summer allowed
a whole new door to open for me, and while my journey through that portal has
not been without challenge, it has certainly been worth it.
The Destined Series started after I had
completed my first two books, and while it was not the first completed, it had
been in my head for many years. First it was a series of scenes that I thought
would work well together. Then I discovered that there really were no
limitations for what I wanted to do. A story with magic? Absolutely, no problem.
Add some werewolves? Ok, why not? A steamy love story? Of course, what other
kind is there? When I let go of all my preconceived notions of what should and
could be involved in a romance novel, writing it was easy. It was passionate,
it was uplifting, and it was freeing.
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In Flames is just the
first leg of the journey. My goal is to create a diverse series that shows the
empowerment of women, and how the world could work in balance. I hope that my
readers will appreciate these stories and get a break from their world, if only
for a moment.
Links where I can be found?
Twitter @daenira
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