I've had a rethink, a good look at my stories and how they stack up against the professionals.
Now my stories are good, many friends have told me recently. The ideas are fresh, they are fast paced, thrilling but I came across a quote the other month that got me thinking.

"Write as you, with your heart, your personality and be true".

That is what I've been doing but then I've begun to question that last bit, to be true. Am I being true to myself, actually BEING myself and letting my own personality shine through. And the answer? I wasn't sure so I begun to change my approach, to write from my heart in a way that my writing best represented me, about who I really am.
Now, anyone who knows me knows that I am a joker, a giggler, a funny joke telling giggling person who hates solemn occasions on account that I ask stupid questions like "Did he die peacefully and not like... Y'know, in pain or anything?" I have nothing else in my locker but shit questions that in my head sound sympathetic but outside in reality as they leave my lips sound atrocious.
So I've decided to run with it, go down the comedy route and guess what? I feel cleansed! Comfortable! At home!
My latest story is mad, crazy and full of loons that I think they are parts of my own psyche!

Anyway, it's been awhile since I last wrote but I have been knocking out more short stories for this year's run at victory and I can really see my style evolving as I grow up in this world of my head that I have been releasing out on my laptop for the last three years.

Still enjoying it and still very happy in my expanding planet of imagination. I feel like a ghost explorer inside my head, roaming from land to land, each different from the last with their unique cast and landscape. I just need to go back and bring people with me for this is a beautiful world and it must be seen by others.

Speak to you all soon,
                                   P.W.Gill.