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Olivia Ramatta. Bio.

I'm Olivia Ramatta and I wrote Elixir.

My in-progress novel, currently entitled Elixir, is the product of a different project that took me nine months to get nowhere. It was a modern day high school story, one that I put all of my drive and efforts into but didn't get anything back. I'd been working solely on that for nine months, and vowed never to take up a new project until that was finished. Seriously, nine months, and I never even finished a satisfying first chapter!  One day, out of the blue, there were all these new, interesting characters spilling out of my thoughts. There was a story for them, already written and developed, and they each were brimming with intriguing personalities that I didn't even need to come up with. It was disorienting, I didn't even need to think! They named themselves, generously drawing their own faces in my mind so that I could see them more clearly. I knew them each so well, down to their birthdays and middle names. In two hours, I knew them a thousand times better than the characters I'd had nine months to associate with.

In one day, I did the impossible. I wrote a twelve page first chapter, something I hadn't achieved in almost a year of progress with that other thing. I tried going back to those high schoolers, but they were as dry as ever. Their story just had too many gaps that I couldn't fill. At first I tried to keep my promise, I didn't work on this new blessing of a story, but that didn't last. I declared that first book officially dead within five days, then began on the other project, hoping that this big, inspirational flare had lasted. And it has, so here we are.

Brooke and Lay came effortlessly, they deserve the credit for all the stories. I just struggle to keep up with them. I have fallen in love with each of them a hundred times, because I'm as shocked as you are when something big happens in the plot.

Aside from all the intense writing, I do have a life. I am addicted to the shade and the age of the lush forests that surround my neighborhood, and the golden sunshine were it falls in the open spaces. I love to read, play sports like soccer and softball, spend time with my friends, family, and border collie, Steph, and eat foreign chocolate. I have four other members of my immediate family who are all such inspirations and dears. I love you Mom, Dad, Roger, and Devin!