Cherry Potts, Writer

Tag: inspiration

  • Inspirations – Deja Vu

    I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of Déjâ Vu, and this story originated in something I wrote when I was still at school, a highly melodramatic piece about walking into one’s own past. That story remains as just one scene, as Lucy/Hilary steps out of the train at a station, and goes to a…

  • Inspirations – Dancing in the Darkroom

    Getting a book ready for publication (Typesetting, proofreading) even second time round and twenty years later, does send me back to the roots of the stories, and with so many of the stories in Mosaic of Air I can remember exactly where and when the idea first stuck its claws into me. Ladies Pleasure, the…

  • Inspirations – The Archetypal Good Wife

    The first story I ever got published, Penelope is no Longer Waiting ( A Very, Very long time ago) came from my finally reading Homer (not in the original Greek, comprehensive schooling isn’t that kind of comprehensive) as opposed to interpretations of… and I found that what I thought I knew about the Odyssey was…

  • Inspirations – claustrophobia in the closet

    To celebrate HM the Queen’s royal assent on Gay Marriage, some thoughts about what it used to be like when I was first coming out in 1982… when I wrote Trying to Tell You… A story about coming out,  not to straight colleagues or family, but to the only Visible Lesbian ( this is my…