Yesterday my housemate was busy taking apart his bike and putting it back together. Sat there, with the various parts of a derailleur laid out on the side he asked me, how does somebody even begin to make something like that? Who sits down and thinks ‘I’m going to make a derailleur?’ I’ll be honest, I have no idea how a derailleur is made. I didn’t even know what a one was; I had to Google it just to be sure how to spell it. The question did however make me think about the creation process; something that’s very important to me as a writer, but should also be important to us all. To one degree or another, we are all creators, …
