Challenges

Sometimes, when writing it’s very easy to forget that there are heroes and that there are villains.  I’ll be the first to admit that I can wax lyrical about villains and how they deserve the same treatment as heroes in a story; but I’m also very bad at practicing what I preach.  It’s easy to …

Love is a many splendid thing

Love is a many splendid thing.  It comes in many shapes and forms and sizes and it’s not always apparent of just what and how it’s capable of until you’re not looking at it.  Our characters know love, for some of them it’s a fuel, a fuel to fight with and for others of them …

Heartbreak

I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m a bit of a comic geek and have been since I was little.  I’ve read a wide variety of them over the years, but my heart is always with Marvel. And Charlotte is well versed with me waxing lyrical on Bruce Banner, Victor von Doom and …

Control Freaks

Summer feels like it’s finally on its way, as spring is well and truly here!  Which is great for us, because we’ve finally got ourselves into gear. We have turned our world on its head, re-written our characters and our realms and our world and it finally feels as though we have everything where it …

When everything’s made to be broken

The ‘Goo Goo Dolls’ said it in their song ‘Iris’.  “When everything’s made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am” which I think for Charlotte and I has been a pretty apt statement this week.  We’ve said it more than once before that we’re fond of breaking things, a little …

Facepalms

If there is one thing we can count on in this journey of ours, it would be the all too familiar ‘facepalm’. That moment where we come to face the mistakes we’ve made along the line. More often than not, it’s a mistake we’ve made before, and haven’t managed to learn from. It’s not something …

Happy New Year!

Time goes fast. I've barely gotten used to jotting down 2017 instead of 2016 and now I have to adjust to 2018?! You're killing me here!   It is almost time to say goodbye to 2017 and embrace 2018. Or fall face first into it after a little too much champagne! Whichever way you celebrate the end …

Books, books, glorious books!

I like to think that I’m an experienced reader. I grew up in a household where if you had the choice between watching television or a film or reading a book, the books won every time. And if it wasn’t books, it would be story telling competitions that would go on between my brother and …

Goosebumps

Clara has got me into reading.. I know this is something that we’ve mentioned before, about books lying on the side for a year, and me finally opening one up to give it a shot. It seems like an almost silly achievement, for a writer to be proud of still reading daily, but for me.. …

Break my heart

I want a villain to break my heart. And I know, it’s something that I’ve said before but sometimes I think people forget that the villain is as important in the story as the hero is. I read a lot of books, which isn’t a huge surprise to anyone who reads this blog, and I’m …