Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Elisa Guidelli. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Elisa, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

At a certain point in my life, I took a risk and made an uncomfortable choice: I quit my job to devote myself only to writing. I felt that I could not give my best in what I love, so I made this decision. It was painful, in a way, because leaving a safe path creates uncertainty and precariousness. But I told myself that I had to try, I had to give myself a chance, at least one, to try, and maybe fail, but I would not have the regret later that I did not try. It happened right at the beginning of the pandemic: like so many others, I preferred to seize the moment to try a path that would make me happy, rather than hold on to one that took away my joy in life.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I started writing as a child, but it wasn’t until my early twenties that I thought of coming out of my shell and started entering literary competitions and selections for emerging authors. My first publication was in the early 2000s, and from there I have not stopped writing: I love to change stories and genres, I have written non-fiction books, historical novels, sentimental comedies, thrillers, novels for children and teenagers. Then at some point I decided to devote myself to screenwriting, and I wrote subjects and screenplays for short films, feature films and TV shows, participating in numerous competitions. The two paths may converge, in fact I have adapted one of my historical novels dedicated to Matilda of Canossa into a historical drama: I am looking for a way to realize it and turn it into a TV show.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

What drives me is telling the story of women: the great women of the past, those forgotten, those left behind, but also those of the present, their struggles to assert themselves and make their voices heard. They all have a name and they all have a definite history, but they speak to women in a universal way, as each of us can identify with their struggles, yesterday as well as today.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Being creative gives me the opportunity to create or recreate worlds, to give voice to those who do not have one, to learn new and untold stories and tell them in turn, to share them with others. That’s what writing is to me: it is giving ourselves the chance to know and make known unknown worlds, it is creating connections and threads that unite us in unexpected ways.   

Contact Info:

• Website: http://www.eliselle.com/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/elisella/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elisellanana
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-guidelli-687925166/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/elisellanana

Image Credits
Pietro Sorano & Patrizia Cogliati