Write about places you've never been. I don't know if that's strictly true or not. I mean a writer's greatest tool is their imagination, and if you can't imagine foreign places, like another city, country, continent, world, universe, what good are you?

Going back to writing by myself is hard, after co-authoring that is. I have to rely on my own head to take me places and make events that other people would actually like to read about. I'm bad with ideas that way. They blossom, a snap shot and it's like a bell toll of inspiration. But then when I've written that down the flow dies and I'm left with a sepia photograph which could tell a thousand word story but with no...story.

I know that writer's find writing hard, what would be the point otherwise. I find it incredibly frustrating though that I can have so many people and places in my head but they don't seem to like the light of day. Maybe my head is too comfortable even with the crowding issue. I'm flicking between modern Hungary, 80's New Orleans and a planet in a far off part of the Universe where machines reminisce the 19th century and the future.

They say you have to show a story instead of telling it. But surely you have to know the storyline before you can mess with the words, weave them into a whole that could be as clear as any eye blink...I wish I could crack open my head and let it all spill out onto the page. Messy, but effective.