There’s a romance associated with the ocean; the rolling in of the waves, the lonely lighthouse or the abandoned house that sits on top of the clifftop as the mist rolls in early morning or at dusk and captures the ghosts of a time long since past. There are days when it’s tempestuous and violent …
Back in the Game!
So, I think it’s fair to say that for the past year Charlotte and I have been struggling. Our writing was suffering and more importantly so were our characters. Not for any particular reason, mainly because we weren’t realising what we were doing to our writing but also because of various things going on in …
Keep calm and write on!
As it stands, between Charlotte and I we have over 300 characters. Not all of these are main characters and a fair few will be NPC or secondary characters by the time we’re actually done with things. Some of these characters have been with us since day one and others are only a matter of …
Lessons
Writing is hard. There’s no two ways about it, sometimes you even question why you put yourself through the trauma of doing it. Not only do you have to put words on the page, but you have characters to contest with … and sometimes those characters are the best and the worst. Sometimes they act …
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 …
We’re Back!
So, Charlotte and I took a break. Not from writing, just from blogging and a few other things so that we could focus on our writing and get ourselves into some sort of shape for the New Year. We are very easily distracted and adding things in like social media, blogging or anything else really …
“Life finds a way”
Shuffling people around and you don’t expect it to have much of an impact. Or at least, that’s what Charlotte and I somehow keep fooling ourselves with. If we move person x to family y then what’s the worst that can happen? We get a fully functioning family and character that’s more fleshed out and …
