Going off Grid

I now recognise that this sensation was what I was seeking when I started writing as a child. Aged 12, I began my first book. It was about 100,000 words, and is the same book that I rewrote on that Scottish Island. I never tried to get it published. I sat on it for a bit, thought about where the characters in it had come from, and then wrote a prequel (which became The Wolf).

Being unable to leave home and seek out physically otherworldly experiences, I explored them on the page instead. My unfortunate characters were wrung in the most testing ways I could envisage, suffering so that I didn't have to, in the vain hope of gaining insight of some kind.