The Best Place By The Fire

A defective writer has delayed my posting for awhile, however I am now on the mend and posting later than my new Sunday blog update (which is going..umm..yes..well..haha.. but rectified as of this week). I mourned the passing of John Hurt earlier this month not for any of his more well known roles but for one that is probably unheard of by the majority of people, but has and always will be my favourite. The Storyteller is what opened my young eyes up to the world of writing, that someone’s words could transport me so vividly and told so well by the late John Hurt (with the company of many Jim Henson creations including a dog who always looked cheesed off at yet another story being told and yet stayed to hear it).

He in effect planted the seed of the would be writer within my young heart and for that I will be eternally grateful. Opening my eyes up to a world of imagination full to the brim with stories, heroes, quests to be undertaken and mysteries to be solved. I think even the stories themselves helped shape me into the person I am now and I think every child should watch them, take Sapsorrow, for example it taught me not to judge a person by their outward appearance and made me dream the same dream I think of every little girl to find someone to love her.

I wonder if there is anything in your past that stirred you into being the writer you are today?

“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for… The Storyteller“

Now how can you not become a story teller when John Hurt utters that immortal line?

I hope that one day my stories are told by someone with as much presence and as much talent as the wonderful John Hurt even though I fear he was a one off.

I will leave you with one of my many favourites a retelling of sorts of Cinderella and a testament to the man who I owe, in part every word I have ever written. RIP John Hurt