‘If scripts were changed so little and yet could be so successful, then is my work really better now because, using a computer, I can change it all the time? Or do I keep changing it merely because I can?’
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Rukhsana Ahmad speaks with John Siddique about her peripatetic childhood in Pakistan, how her concern for other people motivates her to keep writing across years and genres, and how she’s avoided the constraints of the ‘post-colonial’.
‘If I move to my laptop too soon I find it cuts off experiment and somehow ‘sets’ the poem in a way that makes if harder to make fundamental changes.’
‘Instead of trying to write I try not to write and let the urge to write build in me to a point where it can no more be repelled.’