first lesson I learned about writing

Looking back over the last thirty years, I was always telling stories, and my stories got even better, more detailed, funnier and exaggerated with the more wines I had and depending on what country I was in. In the Australian outback and an in Oman, it became quite a tradition  to tell my story of the week around a blazing camp fire and it was massive fun. When I decided to turn storytelling into writing, I realised that I had entered a whole new world and that novel writing and story telling while appearing to be similiar, were in fact, worlds apart.