I started writing the final year because everything I write is a combination of three things, my life, lives that I've seen, and stuff that I make up. So I'd watched stories happening around me when I was a teacher, and it always interested me the lives of young people, 'cause sometimes in class you get very loud people, very quiet people. So as a teacher, it was very interesting to watch young people. And I was able to talk about what life was like for me when I was at school. And sometimes stories just come together. And if your brain is wired like mine is, eventually you have to write the ideas down to let them go, otherwise, they just knock on the inside of my head.