Nature’s Courtin’ of the Birds

I'm a holistic therapist and medical secretary living in the North East of England. When I was 15 years old I wrote a short story for a school English assignment with the remit of putting yourself in the place of someone else. My story involved a person trapped at the bottom of cliffs with the tide coming in looking back over their life. The English teacher gave me a D (I was used to A's) and wrote "How can a dead person tell a story?". That comment knocked my confidence until the last couple of years when my husband encouraged me to enter a local short story competition. My story was an updated version of that original essay. It was published this year in the short story competition anthology book. I've now got the confidence to move forward, writing a series of books based on my life experiences and with a message you should never give up on something you love. I love writing, am loving life and strive to pass a little of that feeling on to anyone who isn't in quite such a good place.