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 …

A week in the making

https://78.media.tumblr.com/3e3b946894992180180335b95247d154/tumblr_n2lew0Kr0Q1sh0yuao1_500.gif Sometimes, a week really isn’t long enough. For us, we could say that we needed longer to sit down and sort out everything. And to some degree that’s right, but on the other hand? This week has been incredible for us, where we have had a week to focus on what we want out …

“A rose by any other name is still a rose…”

Names are fickle things. Sometimes we like them, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we’ll go by different names to our given ones. Names that have stuck since childhood, middle names and other such things. As writers, we give our characters names breathing life into them. They’re the things that identify them, making them who they are. …

Patience

Patience is a virtue, and if I’m quite honest it’s not always one of mine. But there are times where I’ve had to learn patience, to deal with things the way that they are or to find other solutions around it. One of the things, in particular, I’ve had to be patient with is a …

All you need is love …

Sometimes, or alright a lot of the time, our characters leave us scratching our head and having a moment of … did that happen? Did you get the same thing that I did … is this actually what they are doing now?! And it’ll take us a little while to get past it because, well …

Resolutions

You know how it goes. New Year, new start, new beginnings. We make all of those resolutions and for the first week of January (if we’re lucky!) we manage to keep them. But, from there on out over time those good intentions slowly start to go out of the window … and before we know …

Silence is … golden?

The problem with characters is that sometimes they won’t tell you what’s wrong. They go from talking, talking and talking to sudden silence and leave you wondering …. what happened to create such a dramatic shift. Sometimes it’s something that we’ve done or said as writers that makes them go quiet, and at other points …

Fairytales

With those good intentions I mentioned the last time, I had every intention of writing my blog post early, making both of our lives easier. I did make a solid start this morning, but something came up and I lost where I was going with my post completely. It's evening, I'm starting over, and Clara, …

Speed Dating

Over the last 24 hours I’ve come to the conclusion that writing is like speed dating. Nothing has really changed, and yet it has. You have characters, and you put them into a ‘trial’ piece of writing together, and within 20 seconds of doing that you have more of a backstory on said characters than …

Fantasy

It’s been a bit of a week of revelation and discovery for us. Or well, I say that but it’s nothing we didn’t know already! We’ve been looking at our world and finally putting in place our long awaited calendar. Long awaited because the world we’ve created isn’t simple, and certainly not when it comes …