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Nicola Davies

Posted by: Nicola Davies

On: 05 November 07

Hi, my name's Nicola Davies, well Nick actually, that's what all my friends call me. I'm a writer, and like all writers I spend a lot of time staring at my computer screen, then deleting what I've written!

When I started to write - which was bits of script for a television programme called 'The Really Wild Show' - I thought that you couldn't be a writer if you didn't just sit down and write a whole book in a morning. But now I've learned that nobody gets it right first time - re writing and changing things is all part of the deal! I've also learned that sometimes the shortest books take the longest time to write. Some of the books I've written are just 500 words long, and they take AGES to write because every single word has to work extra hard to earn its place in the story.

I write non fiction books and fiction for all sorts of ages. All my books have something about animals or nature in them, because that's my big passion in life and I just try to share it with as many people, in as many ways, as I can. Sometimes that might be wring a short (!) non fiction book for quite young children that shows them a particular animal; other times that might mean writing a full length novel to get over some quite complicated ideas and feelings. I really like writing different sorts of books...like kind of cross training for my brain!

Got to go...I'm off to a Science Festival in Italy soon....and I need to pack.