Introduction
I don’t know how to start this but here we go.
Hi, I am Elise, the creator of The Mad Lab and a student at Nottingham College who’s currently doing a Level 3 creative writing for media course. I’m getting older by the second and my birthday is on the 5th of April 2005, meaning I’m an Aries – if you care. I’m a little lady (standing at around 142.3cm and will be for the rest of my life now) and my pronouns – if you’d like to know – are she/her.
The genre I prefer to write is usually Horror but I do like to throw Romance in there and then twist it until the reader is concerned for my well-being. I’ve begun to notice I like to write Fantasy stories as well, I find writing them a little difficult right now but I’m getting there.
I’ve always been interested in writing since I can remember, however back then I was absolutely awful at writing, I’d use ‘and’ or ‘then’ or even ‘and then’ at least 29x in a sentence and punctuation didn’t exist but I improved and I’m quite happy with my writing style although I feel like it could still improve.
Some of my favourite writers are… I’m not too sure… I remember I used to be really interested in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer back in Primary school but I’m not interested in the writers, I just want a good book to read that has a well-written psychopath in it (if you have any authors who do write good psychopaths then let me know). Jane Casey is a good author, I read one of her books in January or February (even though I bought it around June/July time last year) this year called The Killing Kind. At first, I was a little confused and reluctant to get into it but I read on and now I’ve read it many times. I love how she portrayed John Webster who – if I remember correctly – was the main antagonist. And lastly C.S Lewis, another author I was infatuated with in primary school. I remember reading The Silver Chair and Prince Caspian and I loved them, I enjoyed the story more than the characters I believe however the characters were good as well.
That reminds me to tell you, I love creating and developing characters. Especially severely messed up ones, I love creating psychopaths or an ordinary person who has been traumatised to the point of no return. I sometimes base the main character off myself as I had a very troubled childhood but let’s not delve too deep into that.
In life, there’s so much I want to do. However, as much as I hate to do this, I have to make a decision. From a singer to a director to an editor, I have to choose one I’d like to primarily focus on.
From as far back as I can remember, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with my imagination.
When I’m trying to sleep, I wish my brain had a physical switch I could turn off or unplug because it just keeps playing the worse things. Replaying specific scenes over and over, trying to fix parts to make it worse to the point I would cry at night. But sometimes I wish I could marry my own imagination. My mood will suddenly spike as a random but incredible idea slips its way into my main thought train and I make sure to quickly write it down wherever possible.
For example, something I love to do is draw and I love to create an image that is more than what it seems. So when I get a random thought, usually it’ll have stemmed from an album I’ve listened to, like DPR IAN’s Moodswings In To Order, I had the thought of creating a drawing to represent as much detail as possible about each song on the album. I created Pinterest boards full of references for it and spent hours analysing lines of lyrics to try and understand what feelings said artist is trying to convey just to realise what I want to do is such a big project that it’s intimidating and so I decided nevermind… I’ll just keep it as something to do later on if I don’t lose the feeling I got from it originally.
Anyway, as I was saying, I love imagining things and creating something from my imagination that makes the viewer pause and think. I love it when I watch a music video and I’m like ‘hang on…’ and then gasp as the dots connect. I love to think about something even though I’m a massive overthinker. I’m not the sort of person who will cry if you don’t think of what I thought, I encourage you to interpret it in your own way so I was thinking maybe more of an editor. A visual editor maybe a video editor perhaps.
I want to change the colours on the screen to leave the viewer feeling a certain way afterwards, I wanna add effects to make the experience just that bit more unforgettable. I like the idea of writing however sometimes words aren’t able to convey such complex feelings. Editing seems a lot, so that’s why I stick to drawing at the moment because it can look simple yet I will know just how much important each detail is, and that’s why I like people to stop and think instead of looking.
Yes, I agree, it hurts to think but sometimes it can be the spark for something far greater than you’ve ever imagined. Sounds cliche but it’s true.
Well… welcome to the bottom of the page, thank you for reading… unless you didn’t…
I hope you all enjoy everything else I pour out on this blog and hope you all have a good rest of the day/night.
Featured photo: Dream Perfect Regime via YouTube.
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