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Why I Never Stopped Writing

  • ellekweewrites
  • 6 days ago
  • 2 min read

I have been writing for fourteen years.

Sometimes that number surprises even me.

Fourteen years ago, I was just a kid sitting in front of a screen, refusing to accept an ending.

I was obsessed with Teen Titans (2003), especially a character named Terra. One day, she was there. The next, she was gone. Questions were left unanswered. Stories were left unfinished. So I did what many young writers do.

I continued the story myself.

Scene by scene, chapter by chapter, I filled notebooks and documents with possibilities. I gave characters new adventures, new conversations, new endings. I didn't know it then, but I was already falling in love with storytelling.


Years passed.

The stories changed.

And so did I.

Life became heavier than I ever expected it to be.


As I grew older, I experienced years of sexual abuse from a family member. Later, while I was in college, I found myself in a relationship that ended in sexual assault. Those experiences left scars that would take years to understand and even longer to heal.


During that time, writing stopped being just a hobby.

It became a refuge.

A place where I could breathe.

A place where I could process emotions that felt too large, too complicated, or too painful to explain out loud.

Looking back, I think that is why I became so drawn to darker stories, especially dark romance. I was fascinated by broken people. By scars. By redemption. By the question of whether love could survive after devastation.


The page became a mirror.

Sometimes it reflected who I was.

Sometimes it reflected who I wished to become.

And through every season of my life, I kept writing.


When I was heartbroken, I wrote.

When I was angry, I wrote.

When I was afraid, I wrote.

When I had no idea what came next, I wrote.


Fourteen years later, I am still here.

The difference is that I am no longer writing from the same place.

Writing once helped me escape.

Now, after years of healing, I find myself wanting something different.

I want to share.


For a very long time, my stories belonged only to me. They were small worlds I guarded closely, afraid to let anyone inside. Every character, every chapter, every unfinished manuscript felt deeply personal.

But I don't want to hide forever.


I want to explore.

I want to learn.

I want to grow as a storyteller.

And most importantly, I want to write not only for myself, but for you as well.

Because stories are meant to travel.

They leave one heart and find another.


My hope is that these books will mean as much to you as they do to me. That somewhere within these pages, you will find excitement, comfort, wonder, heartbreak, hope, or perhaps simply a place to stay for a little while.


This website is the beginning of that journey.

And the first stop is The Lightning Prince.


Welcome to my world.

 
 
 

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