People, conflicts and choices inside worlds that do not exist yet. I find the telling encounter that turns an idea into a story.
“I’m carrying seventeen tomatoes,” Tom said, offended. “Some of us have responsibilities.”
Basil wants light. Barry wants carbon. The owner wants dinner. Your kitchen garden has become a household of squabbling companions.
Read the complete storyA birthday video. A bill. CCTV from the pub. A robot’s reasoning, entered as evidence. A family’s documents reveal what happens when essential care becomes a subscription.
Read Six MinutesA love story, a livelihood or a bargain that will not let go.
She paid to be in your dreams.
Everyone expectsNeural interfaces restore lost abilities.
People can purchase appearances in somebody else’s dreams. Aiden keeps seeing the same woman. His suspicion grows alongside feelings he does not want to dismiss.
Follow how it could happenIn a ruined world, somebody still has a job to do.
Everyone expectsAn emergency is something to end.
Farmers in microlights herd vultures along refugee trails, following forecasts of where people are likely to die. Rival herders compete for territory.
Follow how it could happenDo we rescue them—or hire them cheap?
Everyone expectsA time gate lets us rescue our descendants.
A time gate connects us with people living in a damaged future. We have resources they need. They have labour we can buy cheaply.
Follow how it could happenBring a question, research, a premise or a possible world. I develop the people, tensions and choices through which a reader can experience it. For an existing film, television or games project, we can work together in the writers’ room.
Worldbuilding and story developmentA premise, a subject, a character or a blank page.