
Reading my morning story in Menston library. Next to me is our wonderful leader, Ruxandra Moore, who founded our writers’ club
Our writers’ club, Writing on the Wharfe, yesterday gave story reading sessions in two local libraries yesterday, Menston Library and Ilkley Library. The theme was ‘winter’ or ‘Christmas’. This follows similar readings in just Ilkley for Autumn and Spring. As we expect families to our readings I wrote two ‘children’s stories’, I’d hardly call them ‘fairy stories’.
They were both inspired by children I know, in a way.
Here’s my introduction to the morning story in my local Menston village library: “We have a very special young lady in the audience this morning. Last year our writers’ club ran a competition to find the young writer of the year and she, then just six years old, took second place. I think she got that place for her creativity and that creativity inspired me to write a story just for her. The rest of you might find it rather strange. Her story was about a shark in a rather strange situation.
To read my story which she inspired go to:
The shark that ate half of Father Christmas
For the afternoon I was inspired by three even smaller girls who I know only through their mother’s blog. Following their daily lives gives me a great deal of pleasure so although the story is fictional it is not entirely so.
To read it go to:
December 21, 2017 at 11:38 am
Nice post.
December 18, 2017 at 5:40 pm
First of all, I love your cheery Christmas jumper and that you give your time to read at the library. I used to go to the library regularly as a little girl to listen to story time in school holidays. I enjoyed your stories, we had a little playhouse once and my big brother spotted that rather large spiders had taken up their home in there, we were too scared to go and play in there after even though my parents caught them between a glass and piece of card and put them out, this reminded me of that.
December 12, 2017 at 9:44 am
You know I have a thing for sharks and spiders are not that bad either :)….So, tough choice…Children are always a source of inspiration.
Your abilities of a story-“threader” 🙂 reminded me of another story-teller from Out Of Africa. 🙂
I do like Spiders more.
December 12, 2017 at 4:18 pm
Thank you so much Iulia; from you it is inspirational. I like ‘Spiders’ more because the shark story was written to appeal to one reader, Olive in the story (it is her real name) and built on her story.
December 10, 2017 at 1:42 pm
I like both stories but “Spiders” is the best! 🙂 I really doubt Nelle can pick up a spider 🙂
December 10, 2017 at 2:20 pm
I didn’t think so 😉
December 10, 2017 at 8:03 pm
🙂