A little bit more about me

Hey! Welcome to my writing journey, I'm so happy you get to be a part of it. Here's a little more about me before we get to the real journey.

As you know, I'm Julia, but you can also call me Lia. I started writing—like many of us—as an escape from the real world. Those stories, though, will never see the light of day. Whoever's telling you should have a masterpiece for your first work is lying to you.

No path is simple, much less straight. I lost myself countless times before returning to creative writing and following through with it.

After graduating film school, I was desperate to work in any area they'd have me. I wasn't as passionate for any other area as I was for writing, but it’d have to do. As I was working on a set I felt the sudden urge to write, and so I did.

I'd been trying to write something down, but all my ideas were too complicated, requiring time I didn't have at the moment. So I got the simplest story I had from my giant Google Drive of ideas and went for it.

I'd come home mainly dead from a 12 hour shoot and write for as long as I could before heading to bed. After that job was done, I kept going, in need to have just one finished project once in my life.

I never thought it'd get this far–nor this complicated. But I finished it. An eighty four thousand word manuscript about the one thing I like to write about the most: human connection and how we deal with them when there's change.

I'm super excited to be sharing this journey and hopefully, one day, this book with the world.

xx — Julia