Mike Schirn
The profits from my writing are donated to charitable causes.
I write across forms — novels, plays, a musical, a ballet, short stories — but the thread running through all of them is the same. Each title reflects an issue I care about, or a cause worth supporting. I’m drawn to stories about people at the edge: the trafficked, the grieving, the faithful and the fallen, the ones history tends to overlook.
I’m also interested in the bigger questions — about faith, and about the realisation that we are all fellow travellers on a journey between our human and our spiritual existence. I don’t claim to have the answers. I just think they’re worth asking out loud, and worth dramatising honestly.
I have made a conscious decision not to use A.I. in either drafting, storyline, character, description development or the narrative of my work. This is because, for a work to be the genuine fruit of an author’s imagination and communication, it has, in my view, to come from their own human resource. A work that may not be perfect. Nor follow accepted rules, and the accepted pattern of others. But something that belongs to the very essence of writing. To produce a work that genuinely reflects, belongs and relates to the writer’s experience, imagination and individual ‘voice’, whatever the subject or category.
And when we can’t think for ourselves… we’re all sunk!
“Words that communicate with the heart, always remain in a safe place.”