We are back from our holidays.  Some of you may have noticed that there were no new entries for several weeks, due to an agreed break (by our staff). 

Despite a desperate need to continually write (which I wrote about in my last editorial), it is equally important to take time off and explore the world.  What we bring back from these experiences enrich our writing beyond measure.

Writing, much like any creative art form, has the potential to become stagnant.  A writer is only as good as his knowledge and life experiences.  Certainly one’s imagination plays a large part in how we create, but despite ourselves, this imagination is still most often rooted in some form of reality.  The more we know and have seen, the more broad our pool of knowledge can be.  This allows us to draw far more from it, which translates into richer stories.