I have carried stories with me all my life. At age nine, I started writing songs and short stories. I began writing poems at thirteen. I wrote the first draft of my novel at twenty-seven.
But some stories transcended words; the stories of the flowers that bloomed outside my childhood window; the stories my sister and I made in the garden as we played ‘make-believe’; the stories whispered through drunken lips at parties; the stories cried out against the shower tiles.
I write down what stories I can, but I do not write them all – most of them I simply experience. But all of them contain magic because all true stories do.
Your story contains magic too. If you do not write it, at the very least live it.
Natasha Cox 