Which animal inspires you to write?
Families are a deadly web of relationships. 
You awake to find you are a pantomime character. 
You are invited to invent a new country. 
History is the story of the evolution of a species, a race, a family unit. 
Sit in a public place. 
Open a journal for the wronged one to read when you are gone.
Write about how life was like for you two centuries ago.
Create a lover for yourself. 
You receive a private twitter message in error begging you to continue an affair. 
Write about two people affected by the opening of an old crime case. 
Britain will appoint its first laureate for storytelling in London in January as part of National Storytelling Week.
Every person on the planet is important. But you knew that already. As a species we live and prosper by the accumulated knowledge of our times and of those that have gone before. 
WRITING articles for nothing is good writing practice; but it will not keep the wolf from the door for very long unless the wolf likes a good laugh. A working writer needs to target a market where she will see a return for her effort. For return read money.
Beginner writers have as much chance of having work published as an established writer.
It’s easy to be a writer.
A writer running a writing business is paid for what she produces.
