Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Friday, October 27, 2006

The brain starts ticking ...

At first I just started getting ideas that made no real sense. I thought about fairies or Ppfairies as I called them They were a mixture of pig and fairy living at the bottom of gardens. Quite bizarre! But these early images were to have a profound effect on my writing life. As young girl - yes, I was one too - I had always loved fairies and mythical creatures. Then as I began teaching fate stepped in - in the guise of Year 2 children. Have you ever noticed how children aged 6-7 never seem to have all their teeth? Yeah, well me too! I used to get inundated with tales of how the tooth fairy had been the previous night and left money under the pillow. Day in and day out came the news of the tooth fairy visit. It all got too much one day and my kind exterior finally broke down ...

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Me - write a book??

I was never really one of those writers who had always wanted to become an author as a child. I wanted to be a window dresser! The fact that my artwork was actually rubbish did not deter me. I was determined to be a window dresser and guess what - at fifteen I left school ( no exams taken!) and became ... a banker!! So much for doing what you really want to do! I stayed with banking for quite a few years and accquired a marriage and two children on the way.
Yet still at this point there was no story even contemplating entering my head. I don't even think I read that much at this point, so what changed? Well, let's just say that after my first marriage collapsed I found new confidence. I started to realise that I could do anything I put my mind to and with that went off to college to train for five long years to become a teacher. Then the strangest things started happening in my mind ...