When I grew up I liked writing poems, they were little packages of words that I could fit into my busy life.
After doing lots of different jobs, I became an English teacher. I taught an evening course called ‘How to write a novel'. It gave me the idea of writing my own novel but there never seemed to be enough time.
In 2016 I became ill and had to leave teaching. I knew I would never be able to go back to being a teacher so I began writing. While I was wondering what to write, I remembered a dream my daughter once had about flying over the Twin Towers in New York in a small aeroplane with one of her schoolfriends. I had always been fascinated by how dreams can help us to see things differently and allow us to do extraordinary things that we might not be able to do in real life.
I couldn't stop thinking about the dream and thought of how, if we could see into the future, we might be able to change what we do and stop environmental disasters and other major world events from happening. I also thought about all the young people I'd taught and how I always encouraged them to do things they didn't think they could do. This is how I got my idea for the novel 'The Wolfeagle Awakening'.
R S Hall
R S HALL
About the Author
As a child I enjoyed writing. I used to love looking out of the window in my lessons and thinking about what was beyond the sky and what gave the world its colours. I was a 'daydreamer'.
When I was ten, a teacher tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to write a play about Florence Nightingale; a brave nurse who set up the first hospitals on the battlefields of the Crimea. The play was put on by my school and to my shock and surprise everyone seemed to enjoy it. I loved hearing the words I'd written being spoken by actors.
'Peppy looked across at Mim. She was staring straight ahead, grinning maniacally, her hair sticking out at all angles from underneath the flying hat. Occasionally she made whooping noises or broke out into raucous gales of laughter as she realised that for the first time in her life she was flying a REAL PLANE.'
R.S. Hall
'Peppy looked across at Mim. She was staring straight ahead, grinning maniacally, her hair sticking out at all angles from underneath the flying hat. Occasionally she made whooping noises or broke out into raucous gales of laughter as she realised that for the first time in her life she was flying a REAL PLANE.'
R.S. Hall
Quote from The Wolfeagle Awakening