"500 Words showed me resilience", meet the sisters who became inspired to become authors of the future

So, after we submitted our 500 Word stories and unfortunately didn't get through we then turned our 500 words into tens of thousands of words and then we went on to self-published them through a crowdfunding campaign.

So, we've each self published one book and they sold about 700 copies each.

We discovered a really shocking statistic, that an animal or an inanimate object was more likely to be featured in a short story than someone from an ethnic background.

We decided to put our own books into school libraries because we wanted to show children that no matter how young you are no matter where you're from no matter what your background is you can do anything.

So our aim is to inspire younger children to read and write for pleasure and we also want to spread diversity awareness.

So we began doing workshops in mostly primary schools and the title was ‘Creating worlds with creative writing’. Now these workshops entail all things creative writing, reading and our love for both of those two subjects.

I think it's very important for primary school children to write stories it helps them develop their brains from a really young age and it's a really good hobby to pick up.

I think people from all background should submit their stories to 500 Words because essentially the people submitting those stories are creating the writing in the future they are the authors of the future you could say.

500 Words is important to me because not only did it kickstart everything that we do now, it also taught me a lesson to say that failure doesn't equal simply just failure. It showed me resilience in that just because you fail doesn't mean that has to be the end of the story and you can pretty much continue the story quite literally.