.jpg)
The moment I wanted
to be an author . . .
With a last name like Kipling, I think that my future as a
writer might have been predetermined at birth. . . . . well, at least it assured me a good place
on the bookshelves.
Like most writers I’ve always been an avid reader, but unlike
many authors I can’t proclaim a life long ambition to be a writer. My dad was a
factory worker, my mum a chambermaid, so I anticipated that when I left school
I’d get a ‘proper’ job. Being a sensible type of teenager that’s exactly what I
did. Unfortunately this means that I don’t have an inspirational ‘eureka’
moment where I realized that writing was my passion. Instead I rediscovered a
love of writing in my 30’s while I was simply going about my everyday life.
At school I enjoyed writing and won a couple of story competitions.
For reasons that I can’t really remember, somewhere between teenager and adult
I stopped writing. It wasn’t until my late 30’s when I started travelling with
my job and needed something other than work to fill the long hours spent
delayed at train stations and airports that I started writing again.
A few years ago a number of my writer friends decided to
take part in a ‘fake’ NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). We’d missed the
real event as we’d all been busy in November. I discovered that I thoroughly enjoyed
the process of writing every day and it really fired up my imagination. I continued to write at every opportunity;
these were mainly failed attempts at novels. Finally about three years ago I
had the idea for the Union Trilogy. This was followed by two years of frantic
writing in airports, train stations, taxi ranks etc, until Blinded by the
Light, the first book in the trilogy, was complete. Interestingly, I found that
two of my earlier failed novel attempts were actually a storyline and back
story for book 2 of the Union Trilogy. So its seems that the story had been
percolating around my subconscious for a lot longer than I realized.
.jpg)
If you don't have the ebook and paperback already here are some buy links where you can purchase the book
Link to eBook: http://amzn.to/15Yb3NZ
Link to Paperback: http://amzn.to/
Link to Paperback: http://amzn.to/
Click on the link to enter the giveaway of a signed copy of Blinded by the Light
http://totalteenfiction.blogspot.co.uk/
Comments
Post a Comment