t’s nice to meet you. I hope you are well and I hope you are comfortable. I thought for this first post, while sitting with a vanilla-oat-milk-iced-latte in hand, that I shall let you get to know me a little more. After all, some big adventures await us very soon and we’ll want to be acquainted.
Now, where to begin and what do you want to know?
My name is Eliza, which I am sure you have already gathered, and no, it isn’t short for Elizabeth, it isn’t short for anything. Just Eliza. As I am writing this I am 20 years old (although my birthday is just around the corner!). Technically I am an adult but I definitely don’t feel old enough to be one. I live in the South of England and in the last four years, I have moved house five times! I have my very own flat and share it with my partner. We love to read, watch films under blankets on the sofa and dance ridiculously in the kitchen. I didn’t used to believe the love you read in books existed but now I know it is real and so incredibly sumptuous.
I am currently in the last semester of the final year of my Creative Writing degree. It has been a whirlwind that’s for sure and passed by rapidly. Before you ask, no, I don’t know what I am going to do when I leave but I couldn’t be more excited to figure it out.
My favourite book is Pride and Prejudice. Funnily enough, I hated reading until I read that book and now I collect vintage copies as an ode to the book which sparked my desire to write. Jane Austen was a marvellous woman and she would be at my table of people I wish I could meet, dead or alive. My favourite genre to read, however, would have to be fantasy. I have just started writing the second novel in my own fantasy trilogy (although I’ve put it on the back burner to focus on my dissertation, eek!) and the first one is in desperate need of a rewrite. I am praying to the writing gods that someday I can get them published.
I have always wanted to be an author. Well, before that, a marine biologist but I didn’t take to science. The issue is, the innate need for whatever I produce to be profound and sometimes that simply isn’t the case. I write because I want it to be good. But I also write because I love it and no matter how great it is, I am learning to always find the good in what I create. Someone will love it and it is okay if that someone is me. And that brings me perfectly to why I wanted to create this blog in the first place. I have a lot of things to say and a lot of stories to tell. If no one reads them, it’s fine, but if just one person, if you, read this or anything on this page, I hope it inspires and reassures you that you are brilliant.
I am going to stop my little ramble here. We are friends now and I hope to hear from you soon.
All my love,
Eliza x
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