Love them, loath them?

They are a great source of inspiration for the writer; listen to the way young children speak, watch the way cats sun themselves on shed roofs, watch how the child pulls the tail of the cat and then looks shocked when it hisses and scratches.

Think on these things and start writing – it may feed back into your own childhood or parenthood. Just don’t go lurking around school playgrounds, though – you will get arrested!