School days… the real ones, not the drunken night out.
I went home these past few days as it was my little brothers birthday, and much cider and beer drinking was needed as a result.
Whilst not drinking or eating I sorted through some old school books and paper from primary school, and I found that almost every planned story I wrote involved either witches or shrinking, or in one particualarly creative occasion I combined the two.
Speaking to friends it seemed that shrinking was the subject of some of their stories too, or meeting a dog.
I just wondered wether there was some popular book around at the time that inspired the creative talents of a young generation?
The witch influence definitely came from books. The Colin and Jackie Hawkins books in particular. I loved them. Monsters, Witches, Vampires and Pirates. And I always felt safe on the family visit to Irealnd because according to the Vampires book, the Irish Vampires didn’t drink blood, but ate shamrock.
07 Mar 2007 23:49
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Jim
I wrote stories about shrinking people. They found lots of little devices that looked like stop watches which did different things. The first one they found was a shrinking machine.
16 Mar 2007, 14:02
I remember reading Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat. Poor little Gobbolino wasn’t as good as his brothers and sisters, cos he wasn’t black. What kind of witch has a tabby cat?
I can’t really remember the rest of the plot, but I remember finishing one of the books and crying and crying about it!
03 Apr 2007, 16:55
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