Ask the Author: Elizabeth Pridgen
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Elizabeth Pridgen
I have always wanted to go to the Percy Jackson fictional world, especially when I was in middle school. I actually owe a lot of credit to Rick Riordan and the Percy Jackson series since it really inspired me to get creative and to be a writer. Yet, if I were in the fictional book world of the Percy Jackson series, I would honestly be extremely nerdy and exploring namely Camp Half-Blood to fufill my inner middle-school-spirit dreams.
Elizabeth Pridgen
This is actually a really good question... So, I've actually been thinking about this... I have been friends with this guy for almost ten years. He's come in-and-out of my life in various ways. He was one of my first dates, he was one of my first friends... So I thought about perhaps calling this re-appearing and disappearing man story "And He's Gone Again" or something along those lines. But I am obviously going to make the story way more exciting and interesting because my personal life isn't very exciting.
Elizabeth Pridgen
Ok, here is my sarcastic two-sentence horror story... "He opened the door to the fridge, hungry as hell after working a nine-hour shift at the bank. But there was nothing there for the starving, exhausted man - out of luck, energy and food."
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Elizabeth Pridgen
Be bold with your story and be courageous putting it out there for readers. There will be critics and there willing be lovers. Yet at the end of the day, it matters what you think of your own story, whether if it be good or bad because you’re the one who created it.
Elizabeth Pridgen
For me, the best part about it is that I can escape my ordinary life and get into the shoes of someone else in a rather extraordinary life. I always wanted to be one of the superheroes on movies and TV shows... Unfortunately, since I realized that’s be impossible at around 9 or 10, I got into writing at 11. Yet, since then writing has always been my own paradise and I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else.
Elizabeth Pridgen
I get inspired to write through my desire to live another person’s life. I’m not saying my life is uninteresting, but for me, it’s always been entertaining to go from the average college student I am to someone like David Earl Penning or Leo Stevenson. So the constant drive to be someone else in their own world is definitely the drive that keeps me writing.
Elizabeth Pridgen
I deal with writers' block by watching videos on YouTube, reading books from a genre I've never read before or writing stories loosely based off events from my life. Writers deal with it in different ways and I'll admit that I have weird ways of coping with it, but it helps me almost every time.
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