6th May 2012 The Voice (and I'm not talking about Jessie J)

When writing is going well, it's like a force of nature, unstoppable and instinctive, akin to riding a wave or being drowned in a whirlpool, the former probably being the preferable scenario! So when people ask me how I felt when writing the harrowing and horrifying scenes in Black Heart Blue, it's hard to recall any exact feelings other than the sense of being carried away by the ideas and needing to express them as quickly and as powerfully as I could.