Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2011

The Beginning

Magic, Wizardry and Witchcraft have always fascinated me from the time I was 7 years old.  I would actually walk into my Grammar School library looking every day for a new book to read that would encompass the magical world.  There was even a time I would say books were my best friends and by the time I completed Grammar school I had read every single book in the school library that contained those subjects, Fiction, Non Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction and the world of mind powers. My greatest treasure I found at the time was the book "Half Magic" by Edward Eager which showed me a world where children just like me could do incredible things.  I went on to discover Arthurian Legend in the form of the book  "The Once and Future King"  from TS White from that moment on I was hooked to Merlin and anything having to do with him.  It became my lifes aim to read absolutely anything about him and the entire Arthurian Legend.

I had never been a typical little girl playing with dolls and house instead my imaginative play was filled with Witches, witches brews, Genies, and other magical creatures.  I would even get the other children in the neighborhood I played with to join in on my magical games.  My world was never boring whenever I felt that way I would escape into the fantasy world of either books or play.

At the age of 12 I discovered I could write down my stories and fantasy worlds.  From that time I never stopped writing.  I wrote and wrote and wrote never ever showing another human being anything since I had no confidence that anything I wrote was any good.  But I could never stop writing.  It was my secret obsession.