When did you start writing and why? I joined a creative writing group. Somehow I became an author! I still attend that very same writers group! What is your favourite…
When did you start writing and why? As much as I’ve always loved reading, I didn’t start writing seriously until my late twenties. I was looking for a way to…
When did you start writing and why? My first novel, The Doomspell, came out in 2000. I wrote it for my daughter, Rachel, but I was lucky – it got…
When did you start writing and why? We’ve always loved writing and have written stories since we were in Key Stage 1. We started writing together almost by accident. We…
When did you start writing and why? I loved writing stories at school and I journalled all through my teens and twenties, but it wasn’t until New Year’s Day 2000…
When did you start writing and drawing and why? I had always drawn since being a toddler. My mother taught me to read and write when I was about 5…
When did you start writing and why? I wrote my first poem when I was about five or six years old. You can actually see a selection of my old…
When did you start writing and why? I used to write a lot as a child, but really got stuck into trying to write a book about ten years ago.…
When did you start writing and why? I couldn’t not! I’ve always just made stuff up. My first poem – The Electrified Spiders – came when I was 8. By…
When did you start writing and why? When I was six years old, 1965 (‘Roman times’, as I tell the children during my school visits). I already had a thirst…
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