About Me




 Hi, my name is Julia. I am an English literature teacher, sports trainer, Football Australia soccer coach, lifesaver and freelance writer who has worked voluntarily as a publicity officer writing articles for newspapers and magazines. For many years I have enjoyed the love of writing; writing was never something that I found difficult to do. At school I don't recall being taught how to write 'A standard' assignments but somehow I could write them. For most of my life I have followed my initial dreams of wanting to play sport professionally, which until I broke my ankle and turned my ligaments and tendons into the human body's version of a rubber band I was doing quite well at achieving; playing Premier League Football (soccer). Throughout it all though my passion for writing never went away it just became more prominent when my lifestyle changed.

At University I was lucky enough to be lectured by those who were educated at Oxford University (UK) and immersed in one of the richest cultures, where fabulous literature was an everyday appetiser. The passion my teachers had clearly was transferred to me because it was here my writing turned from quotes and 'love' poems to novels, political pieces and adventure short stories. So in 2011 when I moved to London you can imagine how thirsty I was for the plethora of cannonical texts in easy reach of my fingertips.

Since returning to Australia last year my pen and paper has been writing like crazy, many short stories have been written in a mere couple of days; and the pen scarcely wants to stop. So why write? I write because I believe literature is a perfect mouthpiece for projecting what society would otherwise have no courage to say. Too many books I find, especially for teenagers, lightly touch on the real issues (bullying for example) and don't nut out the utter truth of situations and resolutions so that they become useful for their readers. I fear also that if as writers you don't write pieces that create social reform (even in one person's mind), in a society that's so hell bent on political correctness and never offending anyone then we might as well never take the lids of our pens. This opinion is laced throughout the variety of my work through the development of themes in my short stories or rather bluntly through some of my argumentative pieces of prose.

I hope you enjoy the original works I share with you on this blog along with images (or stimuli if you will) and story starters to spur you on to write, what I've been up to, fitness workouts so you can feel superb whilst writing superbly; and literature that gave me the ability to revolutionise the way I saw the world...as a story.

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