Where do you find inspiration?

Where do you find inspiration?

Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: What drives you to write?; When did you first know you were a writer?; What do you love most about writing? and more...

I find inspiration really from the sea in a word. Inspiration is a very small part of the process of writing a book. In my case I grew up on the coast. Its like blood for me. And also the fiction that I've loved such as Herman Melville also used the sea as a landscape for their characters. And a combination of my reading of certain novels, like, lets say Moby Dick and my own experience as a coastal child has really been a driving forces behind my fiction. So there's really a watery theme behind everything that I write.