While working on the Lifespan trilogy, I've grown increasingly aware of my relationship with time. After all, it is a time travel story. While working here in the studio at Jacky Winter Gardens, I've found myself slowing down - reading existing scenes on paper rather than on screen, and writing new scenes by hand rather than typing - both slower, more contemplative ways of working. It's as if the house itself is helping me to soften, to sit and consider. What a precious gift - a softening of time.