My Writing

When I was younger, I always had a belief in my mind that I would one day make some kind of living from writing. I chose psychology as a subject when I went to uni because I felt that a better understanding of how the mind works would make me a better writer. But although I’ve continued to write to various degrees over the last decade or so, making a living out of my writing has felt less and less easy to do. Partly due to building a career in the NHS, partly due to becoming reliant on that steady wage for myself and my family, partly due to being too busy to make time for it and partly just due to the difficulty in knowing how to even begin.

I sometimes wonder if I should have made more attempts to share my writing – submitting work online or entering competitions or just posting on forums – but building online networks never really came naturally to me and I just found myself thinking that instead of doing that I could be writing something else (or drawing, since that was also something I liked to make time for!). So I kept working on things and having ideas but only a handful of people ever got to read them and then they got put to the side for something else.

I can’t say that my ideas or writing are good enough for people to want to read them. But there are some ideas that I keep going back to. The Link Saga, which I’m starting to post about on this website, has been in my head since I was a teenager. I drafted my first novel in that world when I was still in school (definitely not sharing that now!) and my mind has kept going back to it over the years, thinking about different characters and places and events, some of which have never gotten any further than playing out inside my mind.

For those who are interested, the Link Saga is a modern fantasy world and the ideas that I have for it are largely in the Young Adult category. The story that I’m working on  – George Square – is a prequel of sorts to some of my bigger ideas in that world but hopefully reads well on its own too. I can’t promise that I will always be the best at providing updates but I’m currently on maternity leave, so hopeful to have some predictable down time during naps, and also hoping that sharing chapters on here motivates me to keep going too!

I have no idea if anyone will like what I’m writing, or even if it will reach many people (as I said, I’m not very good with the whole online networking thing), but I guess that’s what this website has been set up to test out. Please do take the time to read my work and leave any comments or feedback that you would like. Also open to feedback about the website as I’m still very much getting to know WordPress and how it all works!