During the past two or three years I have been involved in a study programme that will allow me, through time, to work as a counsellor, the studying process has allowed me the opportunity to get to know myself, This sound fairly bonkers, does anyone truly know himself ? Probably not, however I do believe that I have learned who I am in so much as I know where I have come from, what I believe , what I care about in the world, what makes me happy and what makes me sad. In these respects knowledge is a valuable tool. How does this transfer into the story telling process? Well I suppose it lets me realise that it is a good thing to be able to be self-critical and also to be aware of what I feel that I am capable of doing well. Honesty about oneself is surely a good way of exerting an element of critical evaluation about the written word. If its rubbish its rubbish, and although I may think that something is good enough, maybe a reader may think differently, because, surely it is the o...