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 …

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 …

Musical Chairs!

Okay, so this week has been spent playing musical chairs.  Only, there’s little music and it’s really not as fun as I remember playing it when I was a kid - plus there’s no prize at the end.  Well, no I lie there is a prize at the end.  The prize is that after shuffling …

“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 …