Samuel Vaughan

Samuel was winner of Derek Owusu's masterclass 'Starting Your First Novel', with ‘Colours’.

"This story was a tad experimental, I’d never written in first person before, let alone written a story without describing or naming any of the characters. I wanted to give it a go and see how/if the story would work with these differences.

As far as what inspired me, it was pretty random, (most of my ideas are a bit random in how and when they show up) when I was watching the masterclass I suddenly got an image in my head of a city covered in a sprawling forest with big, colourful birds swooping through it, not sure where the image came from, but I felt inspired to try and write a story based off it."

© Samuel Vaughan, 2021