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Straight from the  Compost Heap to you!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Both River Rule and Broken Rule came straight from my compost heap –  my writer\u2019s compost heap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The home of River Rule,  Khamosh Valley, was written in a couple of sentences when I was eight in junior boarding school. Rather than write it in any more detail I remember drawing it with a temple and then colouring it in with oil pastels.  I soon forgot about the picture but did begin to write my growing pains, thoughts and words and dump them on a growing writing compost heap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty or so years later a surprising whiff from my writing compost heap arose.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It happened when I was \u00a0in front of a whiteboard while teaching eight to nine-year olds about cliff-hangers in an English lesson. I am a visual learner and teacher so found myself drawing what I meant. When I moved away from the board to see what I had done, I gasped. I had forgotten about the picture and sentences I had written so long ago. Yet they were in my illustration of cliff hangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That class is now seventeen years of age\u2026 just in case you are wondering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow the rest is history. A year later I gave my notice in and began my professional writing career with River Rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morale of the story<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compost all your writing in your journals in between other writing projects. I have columns of writing journals dating 1991 and one notebook from my high school days. It\u2019s a shame I no longer have my earlier picture of the temple with countless steps and the bridge with the torrid river flowing underneath it. Then again, my drawing skills haven\u2019t improved\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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