Heide and I are members of Birmingham Writer’s Group, the oldest, largest and most bloody fantastic writing group in the West Midlands. This summer (that’s Summer 2011, future folk), the writer’s group held a workshop on collaborative writing. There were some writing exercises and some discussion and not much came of it really until a few weeks later Heide mailed me to ask whether I fancied attempting some collaborative writing with her.

That’s how it started…