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 …

Organisation

Charlie and I like to think that we have things pretty sorted. I mean, we know what we’re doing right? We have everything set up wonderfully and it’s all well organised and we know where we have to go for this file and that file … that is, until one of us moves it and …

Lilac Walls

You’d think that with Charlotte being away for the weekend again that things would have ground to a halt. But that hasn’t really been the case, they say that the life of a writer means that you never switch off and that’s pretty much true. I don’t think either of us can say ‘yep, we’ve …

Language

The thing about writing when there’s two of you doing it, is that you have to get used to one another's idiosyncratic ways. You have to learn about your individual writing styles, about the way one another works and so many more things before you can actually get down and into the process of writing …

Tormenting Pages

There’s nothing quite as daunting as a blank page.  It stares at you, quite literally with that taunting look on its face.  It has a way of emptying out every good idea that you’ve ever had, making it land up in a rambled mess of words that more often than not don’t make sense.  Blank …

Characters & Their Problems

So it’s been a couple of months since we last updated this.  Because this is the joy of being a writer, you think you have things sorted and in place and then one (or a couple) of your characters throw you for a loop.  As a writer, you like to think that you’re in control …