Hi, I’m Diya Aedula, a young writer and the person behind Stories by Diya. I started writing because I’ve always enjoyed coming up with stories, characters, and ideas. What began as a few ideas eventually became my first book, Unheard, a middle-grade novel about friendship, dysgraphia, and finding your voice. Writing Unheard has taught me that stories rarely stay the same from the first draft to the final one. Characters change, scenes get rewritten, and sometimes an idea that seemed perfect at first ends up taking the story in a completely different direction. I’ve learned to enjoy that process instead of trying to make everything perfect right away. Outside of writing, I enjoy reading, learning new things, and coming up with new story ideas. I’m still figuring out where writing will take me, but I know it’s something I want to keep doing. This website is a place where I can share my writing, my progress, and some of what happens behind the scenes as I work on my first book.
When I was younger, I loved to read. I enjoyed the stories and world building and plot twists. Back then, I actually wanted to be an artist. I then realized that my drawings sucked. My favorite part of art was that I could be creative and express myself. The books I read inspired me and I started writing my first story.
As soon as I decided I wanted to write stories. I was a very proactive child so I got right on it. I took around 30 sheets of notebook paper and started writing.
My first story was about dwarves that live on Pluto (get it? because Pluto is a dwarf planet?😉) Pluto and all the dwarves on it got sucked into a black hole, but somehow 3 best friends managed to escape. They make a deal with the Black Hole and go on a dangerous mission to find a geode on planet Earth. Sooooo basically 3 dwarves make a deal with a black hole and try to find a shiny rock… I was many things when I was younger but unoriginal was not one of them😭