![]() ![]() We’re never told its name or its favourite TV show or what it likes to have for breakfast. There’s always a monster or a maniac or an evil presence in this type of story, one we never see up close. I call it the Nameless Faceless Fear story. ![]() Gradually I realised we were being told a story, a very familiar story. But still we weren’t getting to meet any of the people ourselves. They were criminals, we were told, health-risks, cheats, queue-jumpers, and some of them, it was claimed, were probably terrorists.īig and scary accusations. Just far-off glimpses.Ĭertain government ministers and media commentators had plenty to say about them. Back then we didn’t know much about who was on those boats, and the government didn’t seem to want us to. For weeks I’d been seeing small overcrowded boats on the TV news. Which is how it was with Jamal and Bibi and Boy Overboard. When I do it’s often because of something that’s happening in the outside world. Usually characters appear in my imagination unexpectedly, seemingly for their own reasons. For me it’s mostly an internal process.īut not entirely. ![]() The essence of their story, what happens in their thoughts and feelings as the story unfolds, the ways the characters change by the end of the story, everything grows out of that meeting. ![]() Which is really good.Īll my characters first appear in my imagination. I’m Manchester United and I’ve got the ball and everything is good. ![]()
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