Well, Hello!

“You’re not always meant to know where you are heading.” - Unknown 

I don’t remember the first time I knew I was going to be a writer. I can’t remember when I first held a camera in my hand. These are just things I’ve always done, like I was born to do them.

My parents often tell the story of when I was young and we were scraping by that they would read the same stories to me over and over until all three of us had them memorized. One particular story my dad can quote back to my nearly verbatim all these years later, even without the book.

It didn’t come out first as a story on a paper or a photo to put on the wall. It started with dress ups in my grandparents basement with my cousins, transforming the house into runways, stages, or scenes. It evolved into creating plays, stories, and songs as we got older - most of them silly, none of them our best work. 

But this start instilled in me (or maybe brought out the natural parts of me) the need to find the story. I dived into reading. I studied films, television shows, plays, and musicals. I longed to understand the history of locations. In all forms, I found the imagery intertwined with the stories.

So I put my pen to the page and my eye to the viewfinder and began creating.

My name is Lauren Elizabeth and I am a storyteller. Every storyteller’s journey is different. This is the story of mine.