What is your earliest memory? The one you you associate with the beginning of childhood.
For me it is Star Trek.
I love science fiction. Weren't Kirk and Spock great? Saving the galaxy, fighting off wonderful nasty monsters and meeting beautiful space princesses. Fantastic stuff. A bit later on I saw the Star Wars trilogy (Wow) and more serious material such as 2001, Silent Running, Blade Runner (My favourite film of all time) and many more mind expanding pieces of fiction.
At a similar point I was reading Tolkein and CS Lewis and many other brilliant speculative fiction authors. Whether it was Han Solo, Dave Bowman or Frodo Baggins I was seeing characters that inspired me.
These kind of stories are liberating. They should provoke new thoughts and ideas. They must entertain. I had a happy childhood thanks to those wonderful men and woman who wrote, acted and directed in them.
Thanks guys.
Maybe I can carry on this tradition. To do 'good work' with my creative writing is my top objective. The best thing any writer can do is to inspire someone else.
Wish me luck.
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