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I have been writing since I was 17 and when you churn out news articles all day every day, it stifles any creative inspiration, writes subscriber Lucy Ghose.
However, when I was made redundant it spurred me on to join a local writing club.
I entered a short story competition in 2013 which they were running, on the theme of ‘autumn’ and I used to spend my lunch breaks writing in a churchyard. I was looking at a brown leaf which had holes in it, and I thought, ‘What if autumn happened early? What if it wasn’t Autumn, but all the trees were dying?’ I had the start of an eco-thriller right there.