Spotlight On Writers
Nina Taylor
- Where, do you hail from?
- What is the greatest thing about the place you call home?
Hinckley is a normal everyday town but Leicestershire is very pretty in parts. I guess the best part is that I recently bought the house I had been renting so I can call it my home now. I live with my cat Teddy and have a number of friends and family that support me emotionally. But maybe the greatest thing is that it was the birthplace of my story characters (the old lady, the dog, the cat and little brown mouse) that started to take shape during the first Lockdown
- What turns you on creatively?
I have always worked with children either professionally or as an informal childcarer and I think it is their creativity in play that inspires me. I love doing story time with children and began creating my stories as a way of keeping in touch with grandchildren during Lockdown. I try to think of adventures the characters can have based on what children like doing. So they are ordinary escapades but made a little extraordinary because the characters are animal friends and perhaps the old lady is really me in another world. I hope that children can relate to them.
- What is your favorite word, and can you use it in a poetic sentence?
Perhaps my favourite word is ‘make-believe’ because we can inhabit different worlds in our minds. To use that in a poetic sense I could perhaps say that:
Make-believe renders the mundane magical
- What is your pet peeve?
Hard to answer this one. I don’t really get annoyed by much although I hate clutter!! So at the end of the day everything has to go back into its place – especially toys after a day with children. Oh and if a toy part is misplaced I have to find it!!
- What defines Nina Taylor?
I am a pretty ordinary mother, grandparent and childcarer. I love spending time with young children and encouraging their creative play and learning – getting messy is the best thing. I don’t consider myself to be a writer- perhaps more of a story-teller and hope that the adventures I create in my stories will entertain children and make them feel happy.
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