I see writing as an exploratory journey, searching for a path through the known into the unknown, wishing to find in fiction resonances, symmetries, momentary flashes of human essence, the freshness of soul, the fragmentary, the beautiful as well as the painful drudge of time. 

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But I also love the conjecture of it, the what-if, the throw-it- onto-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks aspect of writing; the necessary distortion of the mirror, the portrayal of many future realities, ideas of a possible world just beyond. 

 

I'm as much inspired by the speculative fiction of JM Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, JG Ballard and Ian McEwan as I am by the sublime aesthetics of Marilynne Robinson and the thrilling work of Nicola Barker and Eimear Mcbride.

 

Coming to novel writing after many years of film scripting, the challenge is to free myself of the shackles of the real, the explanatory, the expository. I am learning to let the ideas lead to where they will go for, I believe that is the path into the unknown essences of ourselves as beings.  

 

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