Link to MIDNIGHT AT THE MAUSOLEUM Back in 2016 I was writing and editing my thesis. Because it required a strong academic slant, I needed to write something that satisfied the creative side in me. I studied films; also, I created them. Short stuff. Nothing too extravagant, though in my mind the ideas were high-concept and too fun not to produce. So I did. But writing, shooting and editing a short film is a very complicated task. I needed something quick, something to get the ideas out of me alongside the feeling of frustration and determination I had within me. Enter: the idea of a man struggling with his writing. It was too perfect - the struggle to want to say the things I wanted to say but not being able to say them, or say them in the way that I wanted to say them. Writing a thesis for a master’s program is like that - it’s a collaborative effort between the student and the supervisor. Though my ideas and interests were there, it wasn’t quite the journey I wanted it to be. So I mad