Alison Brodie
My advice for aspiring writers is: enjoy writing! It's tough, very tough, to write a novel, but if you have the guts, the tenacity to improve, improve, IMPROVE, you will do it.
In my mind I write for only one person, a person I will never meet: a single mother in a council flat overlooking the Westway Flyover in London. When I drove past the council flats years ago, I saw a tricycle on the dilapidated balcony and imagined the mum inside. When I am writing, I picture her reading my book and it makes me determined to help her forget her life and to take her somewhere far from poverty, depression and hopelessness - if only for a few hours.
In my mind I write for only one person, a person I will never meet: a single mother in a council flat overlooking the Westway Flyover in London. When I drove past the council flats years ago, I saw a tricycle on the dilapidated balcony and imagined the mum inside. When I am writing, I picture her reading my book and it makes me determined to help her forget her life and to take her somewhere far from poverty, depression and hopelessness - if only for a few hours.
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