The Anything Goes book is the core of my writing practice. And I believe it’s the key to inspiring young people to write. Story ideas can be captured in Notes on a phone, as a voice message or jotted on a serviette or a hand. But my favourite way to capture and develop story ideas is in my Anything Goes book. It’s a concept introduced to me by my fourth-grade teacher, Mrs Bannister, who would ask us to write in our ‘Anything Goes’ books every morning for a few minutes, to really let loose, not worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation…