I'm Fortunate In That I'm A Lecturer

Sometimes I'll Hear A Phrase Or A Word And Write It Down In My Little Black Notebook (a Writer's Best Mate), Then Come Back To It And Work A Plot Around It.

It Was Relatively Easy To Write 'the Cave Of Lost Souls', Though, Because It Came To Me One Night In A Dream. I Remember Waking Up And Having This Idea For A Complete Story - From Start To Finish - In My Head, So I Jotted It Down, Then Later Began Writing The Thing.

Writing Can Be A Very Solitary Business. It's You Sat At A Desk Typing Words Into A Computer. It Can Get Lonely Sometimes And Lots Of Writers Live Quite Isolated Lives.

Considering The Amount Of Work I Put Into Each Piece, The Amount I Need To Make From It Is Pretty High. I Won't Sell For Less... But That Means I Rarely Sell.

As For Goals, I Don't Set Myself Those Anymore. I'm Not One Of These 'i Must Have Achieved This And That By Next Year' Kind Of Writers. I Take Things As They Come And Find That Patience And Persistence Tend To Win Out In The End.