William Bundy

The Shadow of the Past, it's called.

So you might get to see him.

I think Stephen Colbert's involved in that one, yes.

Yeah, again, it wasn't a deliberate choice when I did it.

Again, it just seemed to kind of happen when I was writing.

I mean, there's been a few short stories I've written in the past, certainly in the past year, certainly in the past sort of few months where

I've, for some reason, been on this very kind of stylized journey with it all, kind of writing it in a very similar style to something that you might see in, again, to make a lofty comparison, but something that you might see in sort of Frankenstein, that very kind of particular language that you see in those type of works.

There's been a very, I don't know what's kind of drawn me to it, but there's been something in me that's,

wanted to get into that mode because there's one particular story the lighthouse story i spent a very long time on that one because there was something it felt like i was digging around digging around something quite interesting and and by the time i got through to the end of it it was kind of like i'd come out of a journey or something with it there'd been like a journey i'd gone on to sort of explore an idea and by the time i came out the end of it i was just like well

I've been to that Wild and Back again essentially and it's turned out in a very unexpected way.

So it always feels like I'm kind of engaging in something when I'm doing it.

And when I write the film screenplays, it's much the same.

It's just kind of, okay, here's the idea.

I've got this visual of something or there's a kernel of an idea here and it just begins to sort of flow.

And before I know it, there's an outline to it and there's all these other things going on.

So it's like this other life that I suppose I,

I'm living in my own head when I'm doing it, is what it feels like to me when it's happening.

And obviously, I expect for other authors, it might well be much the same.

Yeah, it's the whole idea sometimes of anything that's dreamlike or slightly surreal.

I think there can be a real power to that stuff because obviously it's certainly my own explorations of my dream landscapes and writing them and stuff just for my own.