STAR LETTER
WRITE FOR LIFE
I am sceptical about fate but serendipity is a beautiful word. When April’s Writing Magazine landed on my doormat I was even more excited when I discovered the theme of the issue: life writing.
I wrote a novel when I was eleven and later went to university to study literature and creative writing. I loved my course and made lifelong friends but I had little to say in my writing; I needed to live. Unsure what that should look like, I had two goals in life – to write and to have children. I fell into an admin job and partied through my twenties then, wanting a more meaningful career, I retrained as a teacher.
I absolutely loved teaching but ten years later I was married with no children, no time to write and a diagnosis of infertility. I quit teaching toreached my hands that embryo was a newborn.