Hello and welcome to my very first blog. I spend a lot of my day writing but I'm usually in another world living someone else's life, so it's going to be tough for me to try to keep my feet on the ground and talk real.
I love reading, so it seems natural to me to write. I have a wild imagination and it's a great way to capture what's boiling in my head. Sometimes I just write it all down and then sort it out later. It's like daydreaming. At least you can capture it in the daylight, whereas dreams you have at night seem to fizzle soon after you wake up. Maybe my brain can't tell the difference. I don't know.
I think children understand, that's why I feel comfortable writing for them and talking to them. They see no limits. There are no rules except the ones adults teach them. If they ignore those, anything can happen.
So that's where I sit, really. One day, in a paper boat on Willy Wonka's chocolate river, ducking under the candy canes and fighting through candy floss. The river can be any colour I want, maybe stinky cabbage soup instead. I can eat the candy floss or turn it into butterflies. I can change the umpalumpas for raptors or maybe sloths. I can make it all smell of oranges or horse dung.
Another day I can be flying on a dragon into a mountain where the snow is popping candy or the crushed skulls of mutants. He can breathe fire or cascades of blueberries, pennies or chicken gravy. We can join with a thousand others to take over the world or do it all ourselves with the help of flying fish.
On a bad day I can swim through rivers of blood to claim the golden chalice that poisoned the king five miles under the Earth. I can rouse the earthworms to revolt or teach slugs to fly. I can turn an orphan into a witch with diamond nails that will scratch out a demon's eyes.
Nowhere else can I be in such total control. It's my escape from the pressures of daily life, earning money, catering to family. What's yours?