To Read is to write

"She'd read the book twice before, but she liked reading favourite books over and over. Even now, she'd still go through her aged copies of 'The Little Prince' or 'The Wind in the Willows' with pleasure on a rainy afternoon. New books were enjoyable or not, but old books were pillow comfortable."

Adler - Carly's Buck

To get creative, you need to know where to start, and where to start is with your nose in a book. You have to expose yourself to every kind of writing; Shakespeare to Pam Ayres, Hardy to Ambrose...the extent of writing that is out there and so easily available is immense. Tempting titles, fictitious foreigners and captivating chapters...

So wipe the dust from your Library card and head to the place where thought's on cold storage. Open the crusty pages, breath deep the familiar scent and glide an eye along the thumbed lines, creased edges, mirrored margins...and let creativity spark thoughts and wonders.