Molly is non-conformist, guileless and describes herself as a, "bit of a postmodernist" She has been deconstructing nearly everything since she was about ten but admits to not succeeding much! She is noted for including 'cookies' or 'Easter eggs' in much of her work. She delights in incorporating coincidences and parallels from our real world.
Has a reader discovered any?
Molly Cutpurse was born a native of Stratford in the East End of London in September 1952 and raised in nearby Leyton, developing a lifelong interest in literature, joining her local library when she was three. Always a scribbler, she wrote her first stories as a child and her favourite book is a dictionary. Oddly, she admits to being terrified of the process, comparing it to walking blindfold along the edge of an unknown high cliff, constantly panic-stricken, wondering where the path may lead next. To doom or safety. She however, often finds joy with the correct placement of a single word.
A polymath, shy, slightly synaesthete with a predilection for the supernatural since childhood and transgendered, after working at hundreds of jobs for twenty-five years, she decided that writing was the only activity she could do passably well and so, in 1994, after the death of her parents, decided to change her life around and write as a transgendered woman. Although having assisted in various TV and film projects, Molly enjoys privacy and is known for her hermit-like existence, being fully cognizance of how people react to her preferred gender. However, she is known for her positive outlook and broad sense of humour. Her work has been described as too complicated, too dark, too brooding and too baneful to have popular appeal and its doubtful that it ever will...and that's the way she likes it! Molly believes, to her detriment, was a heavy user of LSD in the late sixties and admits the drug experience probably caused long-term permanent changes in her personality and life perspective.
She feels comfortable working simply. During the embryonic stages of a piece, she prefers to have very little between her and content. Although her pieces are written up and further constructed on a word processor, the initial, 'layering of the landscape' is achieved with nothing more than a sharp HB pencil, a wad of new paper and a clean white eraser. This method of creation, she accepts as pure, free from electronic distraction and infinitely and immediately alterable. Pareidolia often plays a part in her creative process.
A lifelong migraine and panic sufferer, her work reflects the subterranean, saturnian, plutonic, spiritual, solar and luna aspects of human existence as she continuously attempts to understand our world. A lifelong fascination with time, abandonment, love and death are four qualities which motivate her to write. In 2004, she signed for the release of THE LAST WINTER. In 2006, A Life Lived was released to critical acclaim for innovation if not for treatment!
Despite uncertain financial support, as well as novels and full-length screenplays, Molly has also penned a number of short scripts, some made into strictly amateur films directed and produced by her. Her creative output also includes several hundred songs written over a period of thirty five years but, in her words, "You wouldn't pay to hear them!" Her other passions are listening to Tom Waits, Capsule (a Japanese pop band-resonably unknown in the UK), Bach, trance ("It grinds to a halt the awful consequences of my thinking") and film music. Walking and meditation also play a substantial part of her daily routine. She believes the greatest gift she can give to anybody is her silence and her four most cherished proverbs are; If one plants poison ivy, one does not get to pick strawberries, what you think of me is none of my business, we may not always get what we want but we always get what we expect and, we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. She does her best to live by The Golden Rule.