I'd imagined that opening night would have a cinema full of cool people who follow Charli XCX on Instagram. In fact, my cinema was full of women, each one clutching her own bottle of white wine, clearly longing for the impossible fantasy this Heathcliff provides: a man who loves you so much he will gallop across the moors to embrace your cold dead body. But this is ultimately a cold dead film. It's fun enough to watch for a while, but will probably leave you with a strange unfinished feeling. This is because it breaks some of the most sacred rules of storytelling.

Every creative person has had a happy accident with chance. Sometimes it is simply an unexpected meeting, or event. Sometimes a word will pop into our mind and we know we have to do something with it. Sometimes we enter a (fictional) location with some characters and just see what happens.

I often function better when I'm busy. There's no point in me going away for a two-week writing retreat, because I will feel trapped and pressured and bored and panicky. I am the kind of person who gets my best ideas when I'm supposed to be thinking about something else. What insights to you have on your personality that might help you?