Just Like Jo March…
Anyone who has
read Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women will recognise the character
of Josephine March, the young writer with big ambitions and a rebel soul. When I first read
this novel at the tender age of eleven I was charmed by Jo for she epitomised
everything I wanted to be. Like Jo I was
something of a tomboy and spent my childhood getting into scrapes with my older
brother; I loved horses and I had big dreams to be a writer one day, so I took
my cue from Jo and set about ‘scribbling rubbish’ in my spare time. I have been scribbling ever since and to
date I have published books, columns, articles, poems, songs and
correspondence courses. I have millions of published words to my credit. Josephine March served as my initiation into the
writing life and I have never looked back.
Fictional characters such as Jo
March and Anne Shirley have provided inspiration for many would-be writers over
the years since the books Little Women and Anne of Green Gables
were first published. Other would-be writers, myself included, have found their literary idols in the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, as well as other great classic authors. So my question is; who initiated
you? Was it a character from a novel or
an author? Perhaps it was someone else entirely, not related to the publishing world;
say for example an actor or director who inspired you to try your hand at
screen writing.
At some stage in
the past you decided that you wanted to become a writer. Why did you make that decision and what or who inspired you to do
so. Who or what
initiated you into the writing life?
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