My Fiction Bio-Annelise Lords

Summary

Annelise Lords recounts her personal journey of how growing up in poverty fueled her creativity and imagination, leading to a successful writing career with numerous awards and a vast collection of unpublished works.

Abstract

Annelise Lords, a fiction writer, shares her story of how poverty during her childhood inadvertently nurtured her creativity and imagination. With limited resources, she and her peers crafted dolls from cloth and paper, designing clothes from rags and old garments, which sparked her lifelong love for reading and writing. Lords credits her early exposure to a wide range of literature, from Nancy Drew to Robert Ludlum, for enhancing her creative writing skills. As an introvert, she attributes much of her understanding of humanity to observing and studying the people around her. Lords has a substantial body of work, including six unedited fiction pieces and numerous short stories, some of which have earned her recognition in her home country and internationally. Despite her children's disinterest in reading, she maintains a personal library of first edition books, reflecting her enduring passion for literature.

Opinions

Lords believes that poverty played a crucial role in the development of her creativity and imagination.
She values reading as a transformative experience, comparing its impact on her to the pleasure others derive from sex.
Lords acknowledges that her early education in sewing and embroidery, along with the necessity to create toys from limited materials, contributed to her artistic abilities.
She expresses pride in her writing achievements, including winning awards for her short stories.
Lords considers reading and observing people as her primary sources of knowledge and inspiration for writing.
She sees her writing as both a form of therapy and a way to exert control over her own universe, deciding the fates of her characters.
Despite her success, Lords faces the personal challenge of her children's lack of interest in reading, which contrasts with her own extensive collection of books.

My Fiction Bio-Annelise Lords

A Story about how Poverty aids in my creativity and imagination.

Image by Annelise Lords

I love to read. Reading does for me, what sex does many. Growing up in poverty there wasn’t a lot of things to play with, which gave most of us an imagination boost. We learn to make cloth and paper dolls, and we had a lot of fun creating. We designed clothes for our hand-made cloth dolls out of rags and old clothes, then sew them ourselves. They taught us how to sew and embroidery in Primary School.

For the paper dolls, we drew the clothes on paper from our notebooks. We color them with crayons, cut them out, then dressed or paper dolls beautiful.

I love reading. I read all of the Nancy Drews, Hardy Boys, Enid Blyton, Bobbsey Twins, and more I have forgotten about before I was twelve years old. At thirteen years old I read Mills and Boon Romance novels, Barbara Cartland, Agatha Christie Mystery, Grace Livingston Hill, Barbara Taylor Bradford, V. C Andrews, Robert Ludlum, Sidney Sheldon and I could go on and on. The more I read the better I became at Creative Writing in school. One of my sisters loved to read, and she had lots of friends, so I borrowed all of the books I read.

Reading opened my body, mind, and soul to a different world. A better world that I wanted to be a part of. Better than the one poverty gave me. My critical thinking was developed early.

I have won several awards for some of my short stories in my country and a UK based competition.

As I age, I think I get better and I learn a lot about humanity, humans, and our world just by reading. As an introvert, about 95% of my knowledge I get from reading and studying everyone I know and meet. Studying everyone, their life, choices, decisions, actions, likes, and dislikes helps me as a writer. It also helps me as a human, because I learn from their mistakes.

Writing gives me the power to create my own world, rules, and laws. I have the power to decide who lives and who dies. Lol. It’s also therapy for many of us. I also have a lot of fun writing too.

I have a slush pile of 6 complete, but unedited works of fiction, plus lots of short stories. I love to write. I have lots of ideas and time too.

I have a library at home. I collect first edition books and I have children that hardly read. I had to donate books to libraries because I can’t get my children to read.

I owe my creativity and weird imagination to Poverty.

Below are a few of my short stories.

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My Fiction Bio-Annelise Lords

Leaving Hatred

Hatred is a Vessel. Humans are the Carriers.

When Satan Falls Asleep, Souls Are Release

Illumination

The Body Clock

Illumination

Forgiveness

Can we run out of Forgiveness?

Check The Messenger Before You Take The Message

A Story on wisdom and common sense.

The Birth of Miracles

A Story on how we give birth to miracles unknowingly.

Annelise Lords

Interview with Annelise Lords