It's astonishing how true the saying is that all writing is autobiographical (Bradbury?). But it is not often straightforwardly so.

I was hardly aware during the writing of 'Anomaly' how much and in what strange ways I was writing my own self into the characters of the book. I was hardly aware how I was creating metaphors for incidents from my own life - insignificant ones as well as not so insignificant.

A writer unwittingly divides herself into many parts and finds bits of herself in many of her characters - both male and female.

Is there something of me in the cop? Yes. Is there a part of me in the obsessed lover? Yes again. Are there bits of me in the killer? Well, yes, there are.

If I tried, I could possible also say what exactly is of me in these diverse characters in 'Anomaly', but that would be giving too much of myself to the world. As Thomas Mann once said, it is better for the reader to never learn of a writer's inspiration.

I would be very interested to know what other writers feel about writing their own selves into their fictional works - knowingly or unknowingly.