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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Technical Difficulties

Bit by bit the last of the missing pieces are slotting into place and clearing up those questions that have been nagging in the backs of our minds. Sometimes if you combine that with glitchy chat programs, it backfires epically… But other times when it doesn’t sabotage us, it gives us more insight into the …

Changes

It's the end of another weekend where the two of us have been able to buckle down, look at our endless list of characters and very quickly had our idea shattered of ever being done with the discussion of our lot. We always tell ourselves, okay, this is the last time! We will get them …

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 …