The first story that I remember writing that actually made any sense was when I was 5. I was told to write a story about somewhere I went in the past week so I wrote about taking to train to the market with mother and witnessing a fire in a building opposite a butcher's shop.

I don't really have a process per se. I may, at times, write several books simultaneously, so I write whatever comes to mind in a 'draft document' and then decide where it goes. I only read over an entire book once I'm satisfied that it's finished and that there won't be any further additions.

I actually write part time, I spend most of my other time either tending to my other businesses, learning something new online or going about to get more inspiration for new stories.

I read a lot of magazines on my iPad, but as far as books go I'm really into books with colourful diagrams that illustrate how things work.

The iPad. No question about that.

When I was 14.

That's a complicated question. I grew up all around and got to travel a lot. So in a way, that affected my perspective on life, I no longer felt like I was actually involved in my life and let like a third-person observer. This actually gave me the right perspective to start writing. Another thing that had an impact on me was that moving across borders left me with almost no friends so the only way I could 'talk' was to write. I would write to kill time and write to express myself when there was nobody to talk to, which led to me piling up a whole lot of stories in on my computer since I was 14.

Initially, I only wrote as a past time, but as time passed I wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages, after which I thought it would be a waste not to share my stories with the world. Of course, it would be nice to make a little side income to supplement my other creative pursuits so I continued writing. If I enjoy doing it and other people want to read it and I get a little something out of it, why not?

Dense. Though I always know where everything is. There's a clear are for different types of things such as electronics, cables, stationery, decorations and so forth. I like to keep myself comfortable so there's some food as well a bluetooth speaker.

Keep it simple. If readers don't know what your book is about within ten seconds of seeing your cover, it's not a good cover. I like to use a large and clear title with a few words on what the book is about below the title. I don't like using images.

I think I mentioned this in one of my prologues or afterwords in one of my books, but I wanted to create an 'archive' of my life that I could look back to and my children can look back to and understand what life was like in my time where I was. That was it, but as time went on, I actually found that I enjoyed it and writing now serves the purpose of self-reflection for me.