Who Inspired You To Write?
I was decidedly short of inspiration this month - so I decided to look to my fellow Authors Electric for an idea. I found it in Ann Evans' post from earlier this month, about James Hadley Chase. I enjoyed Ann's post a lot, and it made me wonder: Was there a particular writer who inspired me more than others? The name that came immediately to mind was: Rudyard Kipling. When I was seven years old, my father gave me, for Christmas, three books: The First Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and The Just-So Stories. He gave them to me because he had loved them, when he'd been a child. I read them. And re-read them. I read all the Mowgli stories first. Then I ventured out and read some of the stories which aren't about Mowgli - The White Seal, Quiquern, Rikki-tikki-tavi. I ca...