I wrote and directed my first play when I was 10 years old, we rehearsed in the local wood, not sure I would be allowed to do that now! And it ended up with presenting our form teacher with an Easter Egg!
Reading books was always fun from an early age and I have to confess I ALWAYS read the last page(s) of any book I read.
Why I hear you cry? When I was younger I was distraught and devastated at the end of a book, when a character I had grown to love died.
It did not matter that this was fiction!
So I promised myself that this would NOT happen again, and resolved to read the ending of every book so that if someone was going to die, I would know about it.
Loved treading the theatrical boards, started around 22 years of age, and have been blessed with performing many wonderful roles, and a literary agent once said that she believed I write so well because of the amazing playwrights I have worked with.
From Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Somerset Maugham,Edward Albee to Peter Nichols and Mike Leigh.
These wonderful writers taught me to hear the rhythm in their writings and to appreciate the masterful use of language.
Performing in theatre for many years was amazing, but my acting isn't confined to the stage I have always been a storyteller. Many a night I have left a party or dinner at friends and thought "OMG I talked too much didn't I?"
Thankfully I have always been invited back so I could never have been that bad, in fact a friend wrote to me the other week to say she really missed my stories, and she recalled how her stomach ached for two days after some of my tales!
Owning and running a cafe at a private flying club for many years, was hard work but lots of fun. I utilised the quiet times to learn my lines, and rehearsed my roles for the budding pilots with many coming to see our productions.
I took a Shamanic Healing course, which opened up a totally new way of thinking and being.
This is reflected in Scarletina's Quest for Fairy Wings, the respect the fairies show to our Earth Mother, is following the teachings of the Native Americans and First Nations in Canada.
Shamanism gave me the insight and courage to open many doors, spiritual and earthly, that had previously only been knocked at. I would not be where I am today, if I hadn't gone down that particular path.
Travelling down many paths, I have learnt a myriad of things and began to think I was Jill of all trades, and mistress of none, but now I realise that all of these journeys helped write my book.
My beloved husband's nickname for me is Obi Two Kinobi .. yet that isn't that what we are here for? To learn from the life we live? To become wiser overcoming obstacles and revelling in the smooth path. It isn't always easy, changing my life at 50 was challenging, not the change, but what that change brought.
Writing Scarletina has given me the opportunity to let my imagination run riot, making up names for the fairies, flora and fauna living in Nightingale Wood.
Logic didn't have to come into it, or did it?
Oh the hours I spent making sure that something was 'feasible' and 'true.'
Children, though open and believing also have an intrinsic radar for untruths from an adult!It had to make sense, be truthful for me, they would then sense that honesty and enjoy the read!
The 'teachings' in Scarletina are there for adult and child because our perspective and understanding change. That is my belief, my perspective and if children or adults want to enter into my world then I welcome them with open arms, Scarletina's arms.
Oh my goodness I do digress, always have done lol... when I used to give talks I always said, "listen to me, because I digress and I will come back to you to put me back on my path!"
Well my very welcome readers, get used to me, I am trying to be more disciplined, sort of, apologies for grammar, left school at 14 so do my best, with everything I have learned.
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Thank you for visiting, blessings to you xoxoxo
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