A Writer’s Journey
When did you first start to write? Can you remember what you wrote about? I remember being rewarded for my creative writing by being in the termly school magazine at Moor Park. The school featured in ‘Harry’ and those were generally recounts or poems.
My first attempt at a novel was at about ten. A friend, also featured in ‘Harry’, Philip Crosthwaite-Eyre and I started the first chapter of a book.
We set the events in East Germany, far away and obscure enough for us not to worry about getting details about. Started on a rainy day, we never developed the story, school Ife and exams got in the way. A Writer’s Journey
My next attempt was more successful, writing a novel Vive La Difference, set in France, where my middle sister, Georgina lived. I could write to her for details and a school trip to the Le Mans 24-hour race, helped me to get a feel for France.
The book been written over two terms, my sisters, Catherina, Georgina. Fiona typed up all 200 pages and we sent it off to publishers after photocopying it painstakingly.
A rejection letter and kind praise from Macmillan fuelled our enthusiasm, then the project died. At fifteen, I was ready to start the life of a writer, but school and ‘A’ levels stymied the sequel. A Writer’s Journe
Leaving school, I wrote a few plays and even took up acting briefly. A proper job came along in the guise of working for the brewery that Patrick. My middle brother had started in 1977. Coming back from sailing with my middle brother Anton, I worked my way up from drayman to sales manager until the brands were sold to Gibbs Mew. Then, I left to help run a company in New York. Sadly, Gibbs Mew sold their brewery, which became a car park.
Returning to England at the birth of my first son, I went to university and retrained as a teacher. I written The Taint Gallery and Waterwitch followed by Switch, all of them published by small independents and I have not looked back since, writing when I can.
