I build the architecture, place the doors, decide who enters, and know roughly where everyone should end up. Then the characters discover the plan, form a union, and refuse to cooperate. I call the wreckage organic storytelling.
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“Bro, five minutes.” // His five minutes / has no relationship / with the five minutes / known to clocks.
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Thank you for your email. I do value candour and with that in mind, I wonder if you might indulge me.
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Nizarudeen reworks Langston Hughes’ ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, replacing Hughes’ historical subject with the Moplah, a term deeply entangled with the colonial history of Malabar Muslims.
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Some of my books are set in Russia. I needed to come up with a lot of Russian names so I basically just plundered Dostoevsky.










