Once Upon A Time...

There once was a girl stuck in bed, so poorly she couldn't read or write. But she could dream. She imagined fantastic places, exciting adventures and romances that swept her away. 

I'm that girl. I've had ME/CFS for 25 years and it kept me physically stuck in one place, bed bound for six years, but my imagination has carried me a million miles.

I loved reading as a child, the ability to escape into another world, to become somebody else, that's real magic. I dreamed of writing my own books one day but didn't know where to start. Then I was too ill to write anything down. So I started writing them in my head, imagining the stories, planning whole novels in my mind, just waiting for the day I could put pen to paper. 

In 2011 I discovered National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). You have to write 50,000 words in 30 days. A huge challenge but one that I was finally well enough to try. It was a bit daunting but really fun and I completed it, in fact I wrote 103,000 words! That's two first drafts of two different novels. I loved every minute of it, it felt like coming home.

Most of my ideas come from asking the question "What if?"

​Writing is an adventure every time I start and I'm excited to see where it takes me next.