JOURNALISM BIOGRAPHY:

Writing at home, 1981

I learned to love writing when I was about 7. For some reason I was left to get on with working through an English text book at school. Having done all the word and comprehension exercises on the left pages, I asked if I should do some of the essay questions on the right. I ended up doing every one in the book. From then on I was always scribbling - poems, nonsense, stories, Bible Study notes and of course songs.

In this I was following my brother Nigel, who was three years older and was also addicted to writing. He still is. Strangely enough, apart from one story in the school magazine and an article in Cambridge University's Christian magazine, I had nothing published until I sent in an unsolicited article to the medical magazine Pulse in 1981 to try and get some pin-money. For my "professional career" see the journalism page.

Essex Radio studio, Southend, 1984

Apart from that, after I became a Christian I wrote a lot of studies and notes at first for my own benefit, then for groups I was involved in. In 1988 I became a church leader and wrote papers for discussion in the eldership, study guides and notes for sermons. I also completed a couple of books not deemed worthy of publication either by publishers or, on reflection, by me.

Though I'm no longer in leadership, I doubt I shall ever stop writing until my eyes or brain fail. It rather gets into ones blood.

Prophecy Today editorial meeting, 2004