I was ten years old when I wrote my first piece. There was a popular Super Nintendo game called The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past out at the time that I was deeply fascinated by. I was in the fifth grade and really had nothing else to be immediately amused by rather than that particular video game, except a boy named Ben. Having a typical school girl crush on that boy next door, I decided to make a movie, and in doing this, make me the lead girl and trick Ben into being the lead boy. I took the video game (which had the basic Prince saving the Princess ordeal) and adapted it into a full screenplay. Being only ten, I really didn’t give a hoot about format or bad dialogue, I just wanted to kiss the boy. Nevertheless, the film never made it into production because my father seemingly wouldn’t let his little girl and her friends mess with his video camera. Smart move. I would have broken the thing anyway. But thus began my fascination with writing and films. That was ten years ago. Since then, I’ve written over thirty screenplays and penned a fiction novel. I realized that writing was a way for me to escape from the real world and disappear in a world that I had created. Okay, maybe that was just the case because I was grounded throughout most my high school life. Just recently, I was hired by a production company to pen a script, which has potential.
But I get a different feeling when I sit down to work on the "Layla's Kingdom" stories. Although being a screenwriter, I sometimes take comfort in writing the Layla series because it helps me express a side of myself that I could never do in a script. These characters that were created are like children to me, they're my creation. Especially the main character, Vinni Wakefield. Maybe the reason why I favor Vinni out of every single character I’ve ever written is because I wish I could be her. I gave her my personality traits, friends, and memories, but she’ll always be someone I aspire to be. Some entity that’s greater than life itself. On some level everybody wants this, to be noticed and thought of as bulletproof.
I currently reside in Sacramento, California with my beautiful family and my outspoken circle of friends.
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