As a child Enid Blyton and Robert Louis Stevenson were my favourite writers, from the age of 7 I started my own personal library - lending books to my friends a short periods of time and charging them when they returned books late. I spent many hours writing stories and sharing them with my friends. I was a prolific storyteller. One of my favourite stories in those days was 'The railway children'. While at University I came to appreciate Wilfred Owen, Seigfried Sassoon and Sylvia Plath. Nowadays, I simply appreciate good writing, modern or old. I am more...