Silent Scream Book Tour – I Knew I Was A Writer Because By Angela Marsons

On the book tour for Angela Marson’s brand new thriller, ‘Silent Scream’ Angela, tells us how she knew she was a writer.

One of my earliest school memories is of a ‘Sentence Maker’. It was an A4 sized folder which opened to reveal plastic word tabs and slots in which to place them. I would wait at the doorway ready for this weekly lesson where the other items on offer were musical instruments. Forget your drums, guitar, symbols, triangle and tambourine. I wanted the sentence maker. I remember one occasion whereby they were being cleaned and re-covered. I was given a recorder instead. Oh, how I sulked.

My favourite gifts to receive for birthdays and Christmas were notebooks and pencils.I accepted the disbelief of my siblings at my excitement and my offers to do ‘present swapsies’ for what they termed ‘empty pages’. But they weren’t empty to me.They were exciting, they were beckoning. They were filled with possibilities. They were waiting to be filled with the thoughts in my head and those thoughts were plentiful.

My early teens were spent making up situations and exploring how I felt about them. I specifically remember pretending that my Dad had left us. I poured out my heart and committed every emotion to one of my exercise books. I wrote through my tears and the pain of my loss. He’d only popped over the pub for a pint but it was real to me. On another occasion I told my younger brother he was adopted as there were only eleven months between our birthdays. I convinced him it took 12 months to have a baby and so as he came last it couldn’t possibly be me. My study of his reaction was cut short when he went crying to our Mum who very quickly put him right.
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For many years I worked a variety of administrative jobs which often meant enormous amounts of copy typing letters, memos, reports for other people. Often I would receive the comment ‘but that’s not what I wrote’ and I would patiently explain that their version was boring. So what if the correspondence was no longer factually correct? It was far more entertaining and interesting to read.

Throughout my school life and working life I have been inquisitive. Every one of my school reports stated ‘Angela would do well if she minded her own business as well as she minds everyone else’s.’ It was a fair assessment as I would constantly listen to the conversations of others. I wanted to know everything. I wanted to know what people were thinking and how that affected the way they acted. It caused me detention more than once but I always felt it was worth it.

How you view people and situations.

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