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 …
Author: Charlotte and Clara
just two fantasy writers. it's harder than it looks sometimes!
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 …
Catching Up
As the coffee is slowly making it’s way through our systems, waking us up and preparing us for the day to come, we’re settling in to get back to sorting things out. With a project on this scale, organisation is vital. It’s very easy for us to loose track of where we are, what we’re doing, and who we’re …
Love is a many splendid thing
Love is a many splendid thing. It comes in many shapes and forms and sizes and it’s not always apparent of just what and how it’s capable of until you’re not looking at it. Our characters know love, for some of them it’s a fuel, a fuel to fight with and for others of them …
