My First Post!

So I've been reading a lot of blogs lately and decided it was time to take the plunge. If there is one thing in my life I wish I had pursued it would be my love of writing.

I used to write a lot when I was younger. In primary school I would spend weekends working on my stories, stories about my sisters and I going on adventures. My favourite one was 'Lost on a Deserted Island'. I worked so hard to tell the story of how my sisters and I were ship-wrecked on a deserted island and had to fend for ourselves. I was so proud of my story that I decided it deserved to be published, so I published it.

I wrote the story out as neatly and carefully as I could (after getting mum to spell-check it...no computer back then in 1991!) and illustrated it with my Derwent Watercolours. The front & back covers were made from nice, white cardboard and the pages stapled in. The crowning glory was the desert island I drew and covered in gold glitter...the sparkliest desert island ever!

I was so proud of this effort that I took it to school to show my Year 3 teacher Ms. Bond. She marked it for me and gave it an A and it was displayed at Book Week in the library.

To this day it's my only published work.

In high school I wrote a lot of angsty poetry. It was a way to express my feelings without having to actually confess them to anyone. Looking back on it now it seems I was a very un-happy teenager and some of it still makes me sad but I wish I could harness that creativity again, because, by my standards anyway(!), I though it wasn't too bad.

I think I'll post all sorts of stuff to my blog, some funny, some serious, some conflicting and definitely contradictory! This is just my way to express my thoughts and see if there's anyone else out there who thinks like me. And to stretch that writing muscle again. I think it's atrophied!