I love writing whether it’s for lists, poems, stories, drafts, form filling, online courses you name it, I love the actual physical act of writing them. I’ve always been a storyteller from as far back as I can remember. As a child, the eldest of five children, I used to make up bedtime stories for my siblings, scary ones of course, each night I always told a part leaving my siblings  in suspense. Now I do the same for my grandchildren, they choose the topic include a hero and a meany and I weave the story. Love it.

Over the years I’ve written travel articles, help articles, been shortlisted for the Fish prize, won competitions and  have been accepted for several anthologies, some of my poetry has been accepted for publication in the magazine Art Ascent, been part of the NaNoWriMo challenge and completed a draft novel, which has yet to be published. My latest project is an anthology on Galicia, a collection of short stories, travel articles and poems. It will be published in time for Christmas.

This marathon is a fantastic opportunity to complete a series of poems. I am going to write and post 12 poems using different styles and with the theme ‘Storm’. After the marathon I will have a small stock hopefully good enough for publication or to be read for personal pleasure.