Hello, everyone. Happy Friday. Welcome to another segment on Indie Talk. Today we will be speaking to Elsie Swain. Elsie is an author, her latest book being Swan Song of My Era and she's authored several other Dystopian fictions. Her writing is the way she navigates the world. She began writing at the age of ten. Her pursuits are not limited to writing, but she is artistically inclined as well and believes that a picture speaks 10 words
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 0:11
Hey Sharia, thanks for the lovely introduction. I wish I could say more, but yeah, that pretty much hits the nail regarding why I started writing
Thank you so much for joining us. Elsie. One of the things I wanted to ask you was how you knew that you wanted to start writing so young. I mean, I for myself could barely string a few sentences together, probably at that age. But here you were having a career. How did you come about knowing that you were going to write or you want it to write
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 2:01
Tolerance worse for ages because standing up from the start to get what they want by recognizing the pattern from the history was just an overreaction. From a shallow perspective, it wasn't much of a surprise since the so called Devil in the Devil Swap was captured to be Miranda Presley. For me, I wrote it in twelve days, actually Swanson of Mayor because it was mostly for me than anyone else. It was important for me to finish it as soon as possible. And yeah, I did
I find it so interesting what you said. Right. I mean, the traits that are considered heroic or may be desirable in a man is considered often rude and offensive in a woman. Is that something that came to you because of experiences in life? Were you troubled by the injustice of gender inequality, which is why you wanted to channel it into writing
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 3:24
What started out as a recognition of reading several Ya novels in high school or University settings, with majority of female characters pursuing English literature as the favorite major and me often? I wouldn't say often. I hardly went to school because when something bothered me, I found the solution of straight away rejecting or completely avoiding, which is what I did. If something bothers or troubles my mindset, I simply avoid that environment and in hindsight it actually helped me survive more than anything else
A lot of your ideas, the fact that you've arrived at them here in this point in your life is probably I don't know I don't know if this is a very aggressive word to use, but threatening to to lots of people who were probably not in your frame of mind at such a young age, just like you said, you didn't have a lot of support except for your mother. Did this hold true when you were trying to publish publish as well?
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 1:48
It's all things that I've come to expect over the years, but in reality I'm just shy and I have trouble opening up to new people. But people assume that based on my resting face, that I would just be there. And I didn't bother correcting it because again, I didn't know these people, so I didn't find the need to clarify that I wasn't there. So that dragged on
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 3:21
After a point I stopped bothering asking for decision or clarifying my decisions or my motives or goals with anyone, I would just go and check in or notify that with my mom and if she said it was okay, I did it on my own. So even with publishing, that's what I did after she said yeah go ahead. If you want to pursue it, you would have to do it on your own. But yeah, you have my own support and that not of approval is everything
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 4:10
When I first finished pitching in the plot for Swanson of my era, I knew that I did not expect that the factors of it being based in Asia here and centralizing our Saffic romance would be such a huge deal comparatively, because I focused on fleshing out the characters individually and how it worked. Because I was playing with the word of hope. And that's when I came up with the names Space and Hope, where space is the Latin word for hope and hope, literally the English meaning of hope
It's been great talking to you, Elsie. I have gathered so much from your process of creating Swan Song of my era. I will hold a lot of things you said very dear and thank you for your time. It's been great talking to you, and I'm looking forward to more work from you in the future
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 0:07
Yeah. Thank you for considering me in the first place. I enjoyed answering the questions as well
Priyal Kedia
@priyalkedia024 · 0:13
Hi. Ishua. So, first of all, thank you so much for starting this conversation and getting an opportunity for asking something from someone with master in it. And it's amazing. So thank you so much
Priyal Kedia
@priyalkedia024 · 0:16
Hi Ma'am myself pair it's great having conversation with you I want to ask you that what's the most favorable topic considered nowadays? Like that topic grabs attention among people and how to get the people mind and heart at a single time
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 0:46
One of the bitter reality is that struggle is not worth being a story unless it leads to success. That's the reality we face in daily life. Nobody wants to know about your struggle. Nobody cares enough unless it results in success because it gives them hope that perhaps there is an end to this. But everyone relates to struggle, no matter. It's warm. What pierces both our heart and mind is the solace of knowing that we're not alone with that
Priyal Kedia
@priyalkedia024 · 0:11
Thank you, ma'am. I understood the fact you said and thank you so much for your guidance as well and having conversations with you. It's amazing
Priya Jyoti
@priyajyoti · 1:36
So talking about the people they just only want happy part of yours and not the phases of yours where you have seen many things which you do not want to see again. So yeah people just want to see happy things
Elsie Swain
@elsie.1701 · 0:09
Indeed, you're absolutely right, which is why the expression of the raw, honest parts of struggle and stories connects with all