Fortunately, there are still plenty of kids who love reading and love sharing their thoughts about a great read with others. Ellissa Freestone is one of them.
Elle read and wrote stories from a very young age. Creative writing has always come easily to her with a poetic writing style that often invokes intrigue. Novels are binge read between her other passions of drawing, basketball, and singing, both privately and choral. Elle also studies piano to a current grade 4 AMEB standard whilst excelling in her high school studies. Discover more about Elle from her 12 Curly Questions responses below. Meantime, welcome Elle!
1. Tell us something hardly anyone knows about you.
On my tenth birthday I competed in the QLD Ninja Games with no training or experience and ended up runner up. This included me climbing up a really long rope hung from the ceiling using only my arm muscles.
2. What is your nickname?
Where to start? Elle, Ellie, Elle
Belle, Lissy, and Lis, are my main nicknames; but I also have crazy nicknames
like Wissy, Wee Willy Wissa, Eggy, Eggnog, Elfy, and Ellesmere!
3. What is your greatest fear?
The ‘typical’ fears like spiders or
heights doesn’t scare me, but I am terrified of geckos. I don’t know what it is
about them, they just freak me out.
4. Describe your writing style in ten
words.
Fluent, elaborate, detailed, creative,
intense, emotional, relatable, descriptive, deep, engaging.
5. Tell us five positive words that
describe you as a writer.
Heartfelt, true to myself.
6. What book character would you be,
and why?
If you I was a book character I would
be Elli from The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman. I have read
this book numerous times and every time I finish reading it I walk away
motivated and feel a strong connection to Elli’s character and personality?
7. If you could time travel, what year
would you go to and why?
If I could time travel, I would go back
to the past in the ‘80s because I think it would be fun to wear the weird,
wacky outfits and hairstyles.
8. What would your ten-year-old self
say to you now?
YOLO! I would encourage my younger self
to take more opportunities, live life to the fullest and to worry a little less
about consequences.
9. Who is your greatest
influence?
My mum is probably my greatest
influence because she is always there to listen to any problems I have and she
will always help me solve them.
10. What/who made you start
writing?
I’m not gonna lie. My English teacher
made me start writing at school, but I quickly discovered a love for it and
started to write stories in my free time at a young age.
11. What is your favourite word and
why?
My favourite word is Fructose (the
sugar in fruit) because it is surprisingly fun to say and rolls off the
tongue.
12. If you could only read one book for
the rest of your life, what would it be?
Well that’s just an impossible
question. If I absolutely had to only read one book for the rest of my life I
would choose Are You There Buddha by Pip Harry.
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