OF DREAMS AND SOMEDAYS

I've always loved telling stories, ever since I was a child and told my mother about my dreams about donkeys and funny places. And I've always also loved reading stories, with books filling a lot of my spare time from a very early age right until these days.

When I grew up, I scribbled short stories in a little book - not just fiction but also stories inspired by real people I met or situations I got into. I learned that everyone has a story to tell, no matter whether they put it on paper or share it sitting with you at a cup of coffee.

After moving from my home country Slovakia to the UK in 2011 (and getting married a few years later), I started writing an original "book", which I maybe (hopefully) will return to soon. 

However, by 2020, when the world went into a very different mode, I truly discovered the world of fan fiction. I browsed to no end on fanfiction.net and spent hours reading stories based on my favourite TV shows. In fact, the very first fan fiction world I discovered was the brilliant 'Sherlock', in 2017. And that's where my fan fiction writing journey really began. I wrote a few Sherlock stories before taking a little break. 

The year 2020 may have been among the most challenging ones for me yet, however, it gave me the extraordinary gift of re-discovering my all-time favourite TV show - the 1987 TV series 'Beauty and the Beast'. If I got carried away with my imagination every now and then until that moment, once I dived into the BATB world, I couldn't stop swimming and my brain was literally overflowing with ideas for stories, inspired by this incredibly beautiful show. 

Meanwhile, I wrote a few fan fiction stories for other universes as well, but it's safe to say, that the BATB world remains my favourite one to explore. 

I hope the stories, just as my digital artwork or fan videos in this blog, whichever world they take you to, will make you smile, remember, think, understand, get inspired, or simply that they take you to places where you feel comfortable and safe. All these written and visual stories have one thing in common - promises of someday, the hope that somewhere down the line, good things can happen for everyone, either in personal life or in what we love doing.

Toni Morrison said, "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Although a book is still far ahead of me, I gladly follow her advice to reach my someday one day - hopefully, not too unsuccessfully...

Michelle