: About Me

Hello! Hmmm! this is like getting a new pen and thinking 'what shall I write to test it out?!' My name is Sara, I'm 35 and live in the north east of England. It rains a lot, it's cold, but with the beach four miles to the North, the beautiful North York Moors seven miles to the East and a great town centre five miles the the West, I think it's a pretty great place to live.

I live with my partner, Roy and children Laura and Theo. I work for the Public Library Service in the field of Reader Development - a great job!

My passions are writing, reading and music, red wine and good times!

My passion is ...

writing, reading & music

I know too much about ...

living on the breadline!

My parents always told me ...

not to swear, not to drink too much and get insurance for everything!

My childhood ambition ...

to be a musician

My favorite memory ...

Holidays in the Florida sunshine

Why I write ...

I write to read; I read to write. I'm passionate about both

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Scarlet Letter, Flight of the Conchords, Pearl Jam

My first job ...

paper round

My best moment ...

birth of my children and passing my driving test!

My inspiration ...

music, family, friends, the moon, the sea and sand...

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Fairy tales

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Once Upon a Time... ...fairy tales weren't written for children Fairy tales are a subgenre of the folk tale and are generally stories that speak of incredible and fantastic events in often unbelievable situations. Fairy tale' comes from the French, "contes des fee", as the French literary fairy tales of the 17th century tend to feature more fairies than the tales which are best-known and loved today. This can be partly ascribed to the French writer Charles Perrault[1] who gathered some of the earliest forms of folk tales we now refer to as fairy tales. Perrault put many folktales into the ...

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