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 …

“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. …

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 …

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 …

Hangovers

Reading is bad for you. Ok, no it isn’t, it really isn’t, but sometimes it feels that way when you’ve stayed up until 4am reading your book because … you’re so engrossed and you can’t put it down - not just yet! And then, you fight that ongoing internal battle of … I should put …

Building

When you begin the process of building a new character, a lot of things come into play. It’s something that goes far deeper than just their appearance or some of the basic traits and defining them as a good guy or a bad guy. It’s about finding out their strengths and weaknesses, those moments that …

Rollercoaster Ride

Love is a strange thing.  As people, we’re used to that emotion and many others that come with it - it’s part of the great gift of being human.  You feel.  You fall in love.  You laugh.  You cry.  And sometimes, just sometimes you’ll sit in a corner and shake like a ball of angst …