Parents make the best authors of Childrens Tales. (The non-parent authored Childrens Tales are ghost stories told around camp fires.)
The writer of the steamiest erotica I ever read was a 60 year old former Nun.
So I am wondering what brought you all down this road and what experiences are shaping your stories and style?
This is my third career, the first lasted seven years as a 'Regular' and ten more as a Reservist and consisted of running around the countryside with guns.
The second involved running around cities with a silly bit of wood called a truncheon, but the last six years of it were cool because I got to hang with TV and movie crews on location, eat really good free food, and fast track through the notoriously slow and strict security at the BBC, all with a flash of the badge.
Going to Buckingham Palace for briefings and meetings was cool too but I had to use the tradesmen's entrance at the side, just to remember my place.
All life experiences stored for later use but our outlooks may be a little different from each others. I do not mean stereotyping though as I, for example, became less conservative in views the more cynical I became, and that cynicism was earned with experience.
So come on, step up, what do you write and why?