Rupert Smith
Usually starts off with a setting, a milieu, and a bunch of characters, or even just a title. Sometimes it's been 'I want to do a horror story set in a seaside town' or 'I want to write about London clubland in the 70s when I was young'. Sometimes it's a more complex process.
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