As promised, here is the first of my writing about writing posts. I believe I said we'd be starting with Setting. So here goes. When I was 15, my very first novella was set on a farm in South Africa. The reason for this was the characters felt as though that was where they wanted to be. Perhaps there was also an element of my own desire to be in that particular landscape. I’ve never lived on a farm but was lucky enough to know people who did and had watched an abundance of Little House on The Prairie . Young and naïve as I was at this writing lark, I thought that was all I needed to know. Now however I never think too much about where I set my writing. But countries, cities and particular areas I visit, work and play in, always predominate. During my university days and for a while after, I studied and lived in Manchester and its surrounding areas. So I have a great fondness for tit North. It will come as no surprise ...
I write therefore I am