My stylish friend; this was such a lovely compliment to receive from you. In truth though, this piece played with metatextuality - and was really just me having a moment of writer's block, having gathered my first line I was intent to introduce a prophecy into this piece, and I couldn't find where to go. I had my cat sitting on my lap, I went to the kitchen to get a coffee, I realised I overlooked the raven in the piece. I even called the writer Tim!

In regards to style, I actually do have a hot tip that I live by when I've been writing, and it's the same thing I drill into my students. - It's simply this, 'Don't write a story, just capture a moment in time'. One of the things I always do is slow down the description in my pieces, and frequently, nothing actually builds in a series of events, the word limit wouldn't allow it. Or, I think of the pieces as being a character study - and find the quirks or the mundane to explore in them.