Blythe tells The Metal Hammer Show at Australia's Soundwave festival: "Writing a book is a sustained exertion. I thought it was going to be easy - I thought, 'I'm just going to sit down and this stuff is going to flow out.'"

Others had warned him about the pitfalls, but he told himself, "that's not going to happen to me." However, he reveals: "In short order I exhibited every writer behavior that I thought I'd avoid, and made fun of. Endless urges to do housework, wash the dishes - the thing I learned is, the hardest part is not the writing itself. It's making yourself sit in the chair."