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Where Do You Get Your Inspiration From?

September 6, 2016 By Ellie Morris Leave a Comment

Sounds cliched, but I get inspiration from everywhere. From music, to books, films, drawings and places, I get inspired by many things. Most of my inspiration, however, comes from real life: people that I meet, experiences that I’ve had, a ray of sunshine on an auburn lock of hair on a friend’s head during French class… I like to daydream. Constantly. And almost anything mundane can become romantic and thrilling in my head, once I’ve grabbed a thought and run with it. Girls become princesses and nobles, flowers symbolise love, growing everywhere, and even the smallest remark can bite and sting, depending on how it was delivered. Things from real life get twisted and romanticised to the point of hardly being recognised as a memory or resembling reality; that is what inspires me to write, as I can live things twice, and put a different play on things that seemed unimportant – or decidedly very important – at the time.

Trips to countryside houses always generate ideas. Could there be a mysterious intrigue, a forbidden romance, inside its halls? Was the castle home to vampires, or fairies? Music that I listen to on the way helps (I’m a huge fan of Malice Mizer, and their music provides me with lots of inspiration, especially the album Bara no Seidou, which is like the soundtrack to a future novel that I have planned out).

Right now I’m very inspired by film. A sequence of events, or imagery, in films can be that final cog inside my mind, that prompts me to write and tells me how to progress a scene. Stuck? Look at a film of a similar genre to show you how one scene cuts to lead to another, and progresses the story. Favourite films include dark and gritty, taboo subjects and forbidden loves set in a historical background, such as Les Amities Particulieres (1964), Madchen in Uniform (1931), For a Lost Soldier (1992), and Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (1971). Most of the films that inspire me are European, and often quite old, for rather than a blatant, obvious romance, we are faced with little hints and clues that you have to piece together to make sense in the context of LGBT love. I like films and books subtle, so that I can read between the lines.

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What Are You Currently Working On?

July 12, 2016 By Ellie Morris Leave a Comment

Another GoodReads question, which I thought I’d answer here on my blog seeing as the covers and synopsis may not be sorted for a while.

This summer I’m working on a new fantasy novel, called Tears of Tiphonia, which is aimed towards older children and teenagers – though of course adults can read too! It’s inspired by the bizarre yet beautiful worlds of Lewis Carol and L. Frank Baum, whose stories of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz and their heroines have inspired me to create my own.

Summary so far: When Lucy Smythe finds herself in the wonderful country of Tiphonia once again, she becomes more and more aware of what civil unrest means – something that she had not picked up in her innocent years, regardless of the wars and tension in her own life. Tiphonia is falling apart at the seams, with war looming around every corner, both in an uproar against the bad witches and distrust of the royal family. Laying her life down for the people and her princess, Lucy must chose between peace and conflict, love and home. 

Currently I’m working on chapter four, and have thirty chapters planned so far.

At the same time, I’m working on Roses For Margaret, and trying to work out the ending. There is a lot of writing for this story, so I don’t want it to go to waste, especially seeing as it deals with themes that I wished I could have read as I was growing up.

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What’s the Best Thing about Being a Writer?

July 10, 2016 By Ellie Morris Leave a Comment

Hi everyone! Just recently I joined GoodReads as an author, and you can see my profile here. Feel free to ask me any questions if you’re interested, and I’ll answer here on the blog and on GoodReads!

One of the questions GoodReads asks you, as an author, automatically is “what’s the best thing about being a writer?”. This is a really interesting question, and one which I was discussing with another writer friend a while back. We determined that the best thing about writing is that you can live in another world, one of your own creation, where you can retreat to when the real world is too painful.

People that have lived through illness, trauma or despair – which I’ve been subject to now and in the past (illness and depression), something that I shall write about in one of my future novels, called Roses for Margaret – can retreat to a fantasy world, both through reading and writing, and live through their characters from time to time. Writing has really helped with my depression and sickness, simply in the way that I can live through somebody else, write about my experiences, and give my characters either my dream life, or a twisted version of my own life – this is a really comforting process, and I’d recommend it to anyone struggling with stress and physical/mental health problems.

With my friend, we discussed that writing can become an addiction, something that you can’t live without, and the same goes for me. I could be anywhere, and suddenly the urge to scribble down my daydreams and little flights of fantasy would come to me. There is hardly ever a time where my head is not up in the clouds, and a lot of my imaginings becomes a part of my characters or plots.

This summer I’m writing a new book – and it has nothing to do with Aika or Carrie this time! 🙂 (though I must say that more books about them are either in the planning stages, or being written in bits and pieces…) More on that is to come soon, when I’ve worked out the synopsis and cover situation, but for now I can say that it’s a fantasy novel.

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