To write is easy, to write well and consistently is one of the hardest jobs imaginable! A professional author scratches his head thin, chews incessantly at a set of finger nails till the blood is drawn and suffers highs and lows as coffee is drunk and purged in endless rotation.

Life is not steady or assured, family and close friends sympathize and try to give unwanted advice on alternative careers and money is often scarce! But perseverance and doggedness can bring wonderful and often fruitful results, brief spells of writing frenzy can produce reams of excellent copy and to never give up is all the better when the results come home.

A writer lives for that one good article or that one perfect story and despite all the knock backs that editors issue out like machine guns in battle, the fight will be won. A true scribe will never listen to those around him, will suffer more failures and will use more paper than the toilets at Heathrow Airport! But the writing will continue until the ship comes in!

"I know its rubbish. You don't need to tell me that, I wrote the bally thing"!