Unless you hire someone to write a biography for you (or you’re famous enough that someone else has already done it), you’re put in the rather awkward position of having to write one yourself. Not that this is anything particularly unusual I guess – whether writing songs or stories, my greatest source of inspiration is my own life – it just feels a little bit odd.
I’m loathed to pretend to be an outsider: “ever since the tender age of ten, Colin Thurston showed an interest in making music”. It seems disingenuous. The fact is that I am almost entirely unknown, and will likely to continue to be so for some time (if not all time) so I might as well give you, one of the very few that have managed to find me, my full attention and respect.
I’ve reached a rather intriguing point in my life. Recently graduating from university with a Philosophy degree, the only thing I wanted to do upon returning home was to sit down and write. So I did. I wrote a little book of short stories called ‘Delta’. Whilst I was working on that I also recorded a collection of original songs for a record called ‘Did You Ever?’.
This is what I do, full time. I write a blog, and I keep very busy with many other creative projects. In truth, there may come a point when I cannot afford to do this any more; but life is full of so many people who wish they’d just sat down and done this and that, and I’m determined not to feel that way. So I’m going for broke, because there’s still a lot more that I want to do – and I won’t be held back.