Having Said That, I'm A Huge Jack

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.

The Most Terrifying Thing I Can Think Of Is Being Alone - And I Mean Utterly Alone, Like No One Else In The World Alone - At Night. That's The Nucleus Of The First Story In My Collection And It's Also Where The Title Came From For The Book.

It's Not Just That Toil Allows The Appearance Of Spontaneity. It Allows The Actuality Of Spontaneity.

I Don't Know Anyone Who Actually Likes The Dark Or Night-time. I Don't Care How Much They Say It Doesn't Bother Them. That's Why We Used To Huddle In Caves And Light Fires When The Sun Went Down.

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.