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It has been said that if the first thing you think about in the morning is writing, then you are a writer.

If that is the case, then I'm probably someone who would REALLY like to stay in bed :-) Once I've been forcibly wrenched away from my duvet, then I think I qualify as a writer...

I've been writing for 25 years: fiction, non-fiction and songs. I'm lucky enough to have been published in both the UK and US and had songs covered by US, UK and Canadian artists.

Current hobbies are performing with several bands and indulging my money-making and thrifty urges at http://www.indebtnet.com/blog

Entertainment > Music (Other) The importance of music in our lives

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"It's OK for you - you're musical..." AAaaaaaargh! No! No! NOOOOO! I can't begin to tell you how frustrated I get when someone tells either my husband or I that. That is not how life works. It seems to start early in life, from what I can tell. People start to label you when you get to school (if not before) and you get labelled either 'musical', 'not musical' or 'tone deaf'. And this then colours how you see yourself forever after. Everyone not in the first category then resigns themselves to a world of listening to music rather than playing it. And it is so wrong. There isn't some chromo...

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