This is what I'm Tolkien about.

I started reading books on my own from an early age, I loved to escape into my imagination and I'd sit for hours recreating my own versions with my Play Mobil and Barbies. Of course I didn't just take inspiration from reading, a lot came from films too. I remember having a male doll that I named Clark and he had a big secret...he could fly! Too much Superman I think there.
Once when I was about eight at school I was told off by my teacher for daydreaming in class, she had given us the task of writing our own stories so it was her own fault really. I was merely thinking about where I wanted my story to go but she couldn't understand that and decided I was just being naughty, as punishment she made the whole class stay in at break and told them it was because of me! What a Bitch! Way to encourage bullying.
As I got older I pretty much stopped reading so much and started to write more but never as much as I really wanted to. It was all done on paper and took ages and I was a bit lazy therefore I would start a story and never finish it. When I was about eighteen my lovely dad bought me a crappy second hand laptop such was his belief that one day I could write something propa gud. I appreciated his enthusiasm but because I hadn't written anything for so long I had turned into a negative Nancy and decided that I was rubbish. Of course I may well be rubbish but now, at the age of thirty two I have chosen to use this blog as a sort of practice. I am aware that my grammar isn't anywhere near perfect, this is what comes of having a memory like a sieve. However I am now of the understanding that if I don't write anything then I won't get anywhere. If I enjoy doing something who cares if it isn't great or well put together, I'm sure I'll comments that I won't like but at least I'm no longer letting people turn me away from something I love.
Reading and writing can take you out of your bog standard boring world and take you to places like Hogsmeade, Rivendall and Narnia, and I know that, for me, they're worlds I'd much rather live in.