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 …

Familiy

Family plays an important part in our world - no matter how many times we try and break families apart, more often than not they come back to one another.  We have families that are born families and families that are found families. There are perfectly happy families and then there are the broken, dysfunctional …

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 …

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 …

Week in Review

A lot happens in a week.  We don’t often stop and reflect on what has and has not happened, but sometimes it just hits you out of nowhere that a lot happens.  It sounds obvious, I know, but sometimes you need those moments to sit back and reflect on things that have been achieved.  We …

“Something wicked this way comes”

It’s Halloween Weekend!  Charlotte is away for the weekend and I spent most of yesterday doing spooky things.  Taking pictures of a local Stately Home which had been decked out in all it’s Halloween glory followed by a Ghost Tour in the evening.  Granted, it wasn’t as spooky as could be, but it was a …

Heroes & Villains

There's something in every story where you need to have heroes and villains.  You've got the good fight and you've got the bad fight.  Or at least, that's the way it so often seems to me.  You're cheering on the side of the hero and willing for the villain to crumble down.  Or occasionally, when …

“Bringing up Baby”

Having Characters muddling around in your head is a little like trying to raise children at times.  In fact, one could go as far as to say that they are your children, or well brain children at least! You start out with them all fresh and new and exciting and they're obedient little things that do what …

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 …