Darragh Ó Bradáin

Revisiting a character I created at 7 years old

When I was in First Class, I remember my teacher asking us to put together a story using the pages in our copies. The top half was blank and the bottom half contained those lines with large spaces between them. Somehow (don’t ask me how) I came up with the idea of a character who…

Turning my dad/teacher joke into a book idea

I took great pride in telling the kids in my school how they were all going to the broccoli factory on their school tour. This amazing joke also got great use at home, with my kids. When I caught the writing bug properly earlier this year, I figured that if I was trying out two…

When philosophy leads to writing a book

One evening back in November 2025, I felt bored. So bored, in fact, that I asked AI to compile a list of philosophy questions for me to ponder. As I thought about and wrote my answers to them, it occurred to me that I had a lot to say on certain topics! This may not…

Beginning the journey

I had the idea for this novel over ten years ago. I put together the rough idea, wrote a prologue, and promptly forgot about it until I did a routine clear-out of old computers files. I read everything I had written and thought to myself this could actually become something, so I downloaded Scrivener and…