A few years ago, scrolling through social media when I should have been writing, I came across a photo of the Lady Bird edition of Rumpelstiltskin. The miller’s daughter finds herself in my ideal writing environment: time spent alone without distraction. He’s a basement kind of guy,” Stephen King tells us in On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I don’t have much to offer Rumpelstiltskin except my undivided attention, so I do what he wants – I play. “You should stay away from your potential,” Dylan Moran quips in his stand-up show Monster.