Reading

It is great to escape into a good book - I'm doing this myself at the moment with The Lord of The Rings.

What are your favourite books?

Lord of the Rings is one of my favourites! I also like The Book Thief, Starless Sea and Harry Potter books.

What are yours?

Harry Potter is pretty good - I particularly like the audiobooks narrated by Stephen Fry.

My favourites are probably anything by Terry Pratchett (read all the Diskworld books at least once) but also like some more "thinking" books like Isaac Asimovs Foundation series and Arthur C Clarkes Childhoods End.

I need to be in the right frame of mind to read those mind you, but it does feel like taking your mind to the gym for a workout at points.

Have you ever tried writing something - even a short story?

Your writing sounds interesting. I think the perspective of a lot of children's toys and bears must be interesting. I hope you can find the mental space to start this.

I might try some typing writing see how that goes for me.

My Gran used to do a lot of writing. She had this really old typewriter and she would sit at it for hours each day writing. She used to write stories for me when I was little and they were really good. I often thought she should have been an author.

Katy said:

Do you write?

Mostly advice and techical stuff - I had started writing short stories written from the perspective of a toy bear my nephiew used to have - kind of the horrors he suffered at the hands of the snotty kid and mostly for the target audience of the adults around him.

I have various story arcs written up in plan form but need to find the write mental space to begin the writing.

You don't need to use pen/paper - you can write on your computer / tablet / phone / misted up mirror or whatever (just take a picture at the end)

Katy said:

Do you write?

Mostly advice and techical stuff - I had started writing short stories written from the perspective of a toy bear my nephiew used to have - kind of the horrors he suffered at the hands of the snotty kid and mostly for the target audience of the adults around him.

I have various story arcs written up in plan form but need to find the write mental space to begin the writing.

You don't need to use pen/paper - you can write on your computer / tablet / phone / misted up mirror or whatever (just take a picture at the end)

Your writing sounds interesting. I think the perspective of a lot of children's toys and bears must be interesting. I hope you can find the mental space to start this.

I might try some typing writing see how that goes for me.

My Gran used to do a lot of writing. She had this really old typewriter and she would sit at it for hours each day writing. She used to write stories for me when I was little and they were really good. I often thought she should have been an author.