My Inspiration - Rotary Young Writer's Entry 2019
This piece was initially written as an entry to this year's Young Writer Competition, which is organised both on a local and international level by the Rotary Club of Great Britain and Ireland. I'd seen the leaflets for the competition floating around on the noticeboard of my School's English Department for a month before I decided to write an entry for the competition - thinking, rather naively, how hard can it be to write five hundred words? As the creative cogs in my mind began to whir, I started trying to decide what exactly I should write about. My initial thoughts were to write about my family; for those who know me, I take a huge deal of inspiration and encouragement from both my mother and father, who saw the hard times through and came out fighting on many occasions, only for things to nosedive again soon after. Nonetheless, they continued persevering - and I've always admired the strength they showed. Yet, I thought this was slightly cliché; how many othe...