Beginning to write…
I started to write twenty two years ago when I had six months living by myself and had some spare time for a change. I guess the spare time was more like having some mind space to do something else instead of thinking about social work issues and worrying about the safety of children and families that I was supporting. Any way I began to write "A Rich Mixture"….. It was always going to be called that! I wrote a story based on real life experiences of often coming into contact with children and adults who had a fragile sense of self and didn’t have strong roots or a grounding of who they were, how they had got to be who they were and where they currently were in life.
I have always been a thinker and a questioner and enjoyed performing in one way or another. As a child I went to ballet class and performed in shows on stage and took ballet exams. I would get my friends together and make up stage shows to perform to our parents…..so I guess extending myself to others and making relationships has always been part of my personality. I have always enjoyed writing e.g. Stories and poems at school. Starting to write a children’s book was something I had longed to do, so…I did it!
When I first started to write I didn’t find it difficult in fact I surprised myself at how quickly I could put words on paper. However, I didn’t realise just how much my first book would change before it was published and what a learning curve it would be along with an emotional roller coaster of a journey.
