Creative writing was the only film that came into my life at a young age. I am currently writing my first book self entitled 23.

I would love to get some advice on my future. My routine became very obsessive which ruined many, many opportunties I made myself with Film and TV Producers when they wanted to observe my ideas and works.

I was advised way back end of 2008 by a well known Film and TV Producer in Glasgow to take up writing full time. Back then I declined I was to obsessive with my ideas and my routine. This year hundreds of people encouraged me to write a book whole concept is to enhance my TV Dream.

I need advice really so I don’t make the same mistakes I did back then.

I would love to make a request to speak to Kayleigh J Moore because I have my personal fact file I would like her to read. Secondly some advice regarding possible studying Creative Writing.

Graeme Croton

ISBN: 978-1-906061-74-6

Many thanks.

~ Kayleigh

I’ve said before that I think this is fantastic, and that still seems like an odd thing to say. It almost feels wrong to use positive statements in relation to something like this, but I certainly appreciate and respect the way it’s written, and I’d go so far as to say that things like this NEED to be written. When we see headlines in the news, it’s easy for us to distance ourselves from them, or to twist them in our brains into something less horrifying, but the way you describe exactly what happens to the child in such amazing, vivid detail forces us to acknowledge just how shocking and disgusting the crime is.

The opening paragraph sets the tone brilliantly, reinforcing just how helpless the victim is in this situation. The relentless nature of the story makes the reader almost feel the same way. Even the breaks in the action force you to continue thinking about what is happening and how it compares to other terrible acts of humanity (the section questioning whether it is easier to cope with a massacre than a single murder is painfully truthful). These musings work with the story and never feel out of place, and you always manage to keep the reader focused on the marrative. Perhaps a couple of these random thoughts are a little too abstract compared with the overall tone, but that is really just me desperately trying to find something to criticise!

It occurs to me that you do not express much emotion in the piece, nor do you tell people what to feel. You give them the clinical facts, make a few suggestions and then leave them to react on their own. That might be the best, most personally affecting way to approach something like this. Certainly, it is both devastating and difficult to come to terms with, but all writing exists on a spectrum, and things on the edge are just as important as things in the middle. I consider it a great success.