How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes