Opening Lives: I’ve learned to turn some rage into useful biofuel

It was a way of telling people the chaos of life, the sheer bastardy of a bean spatula could be addressed by the courts and all would be well, writes Colm O'Regan

Rage — it comes to me easily. Over the years I’ve learned to turn some rage into useful biofuel. If someone is an arsehole, I put them in an ‘arsehole folder’ in my mind and hope that I’ll eventually write enough fiction to shamelessly plunder their arsholery and build a character.