On being in charge of your story instead of your story being in charge of you

Hello! I’ve been thinking a lot about a conversation I had a few months ago with my friend, the documentary maker Adam Curtis. I’d had a worry about how to portray a particular character in my next book and I wanted Adam’s advice about it.

I’ll tell you more about my worry next week, because I want to skip straight to his advice. Which was: “Put it in there.”