I’ve done a lot of things in my life: a professional drummer, songwriter, radio producer, film sound designer, screenplay and novel writer, and an environmentalist, before becoming a gallerist. And now I’m back to storytelling.
During that time, I’ve made and lost money, my ego and my pride, but throughout it all, it’s my love for storytelling and the interest I have in people’s motivation – through life and the hundreds of films and tv series I’ve watched over the years – that has left me with a fascination for the human psyche.
What I find most interesting is what happens on the snooker table of life – be it a family, village, town, city or nation – when the different colourful characters of that cosmos are smashed into change by the white ball of circumstance.
Some fall down holes, nearly all of the colours move and realign themselves before settling into different positions until, once again, circumstance hits them, disturbing that new found mediocrity.
For me, this is what makes a story and it’s the modicum of understanding I feel I’ve gleaned over the years about what makes people do what they do, that drives me to write about those molecular changes.
We all react differently to any situation and that makes for so many wonderful combinations of outcomes when life moves us. As audiences, we love watching these changes and interactions, too, whether funny, moving, thrilling or mind-boggling and when writing about them, I discover more about myself as I immerse myself in the mindsets of these characters to understand how each might tick in the scenarios I create. Utterly fascinating.