What I'm interested in.

As a writer-producer, I’m most interested in fiction that subverts dominant, "correct" storytelling models. Contemporary pop-fiction must be an exercise in narrative anarchy, an attempt to stare the panopticon in the face and get the machine to dream again.

This means finding radically new stories to tell, and new ways to tell them.

Which is probably impossible to do without engaging with complex and often contradictory forces that shape our current cultural landscape:

• Emergent behaviors on social networks

• Online-to-IRL subcultures

• The emotion-panopticon

• The gig economy

• Power and its relation to technology access

• Information flow via unusual media and hacker-punk approaches to free speech

• Privately owned mythologies

• Cultural exports and global soft-power

• Frictionless self-expression and how it’s changing notions of society, family and individual, especially in India

There are of course many, many more points of inquiry, but these are the ones that I personally find to be the most provocative and rich for narrative exploration right now. From these will emerge new plots and new protagonists - and hopefully, new living, breathing story-worlds.

However these are thorny subjects with no easy answers, and if you gaze long at the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you etc etc., but it seems like the only path towards a newer, more illuminated storytelling idiom is through the wasteland of cultural detritus. This seems like a challenging but worthwhile exploration. Now more than ever we need compelling, hopeful visions of the world and our place in it.

I intend to use this space to document some of these explorations. You can also find me on twitter.