Today we’d like to introduce you to Sarah Elizabeth.
Sarah, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Storytelling became real to me at six years old. I was reading Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle” in a little rocking chair in our playroom. For the first time, the book came alive like a movie in my mind. It started an obsession with books.
After a few years, the reading habit inspired me to write mysteries about my Webkinz stuffed animals. They would solve cases, Nancy Drew style, around the pool clubhouse. I also read classics like Little Women and The Lord of the Rings and attempted to write stories just as epic. Eventually, my high school English teacher showed us “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe and I fell in love with writing even more.
It wasn’t until 2023 that I began writing online. At the time, I worked as a copywriter and was essentially ghostwriting all day. That job was very kind to me and taught me a lot, but I wanted to find out what Sarah sounded like when I wasn’t being paid to write in someone else’s voice. That’s when I realized words help me verbally process life with God.
These days, I primarily write nonfiction on Substack, but I’ve had poems and prose published in several journals, including Prosetrics, Calla Press, and The Clayjar Review.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I’d say most of my struggles have been the typical growing pains of any young artist. In high school or in college, it’s hard to want so badly to change the world — to say something that touches the humanity in someone else and marks them forever — but feel like you just can’t get the right words out. Practicing honest writing has helped me as I try to find my voice. I write what I know, am honest about what I don’t know, and promise to always tell it to you how it is. No pretending.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I primarily write nonfiction these days, with poetry and prose sprinkled in. If you feel the gap between how things should be and how they actually are… If you want to grow old without growing bitter… Then you’re my kind of person.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://wordsbysarahelizabeth.substack.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wordsbysarahelizabeth/
