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 …
Author: Charlotte and Clara
just two fantasy writers. it's harder than it looks sometimes!
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 …
Progress
Developing characters is a treat. 10% of building a character is determining some features and a name. The rest? That's mostly down to them. We don't get a say in their personalities, their traits, everything that makes them unique. We have always tried to. We've tried making them a specific type of person, a good guy …
sabotage
Sometimes, Charlotte and I are just that good. Sometimes, we stagger ourselves with the amount of sheer brilliance we have. No, scratch that … it’s not brilliance, it’s utter stupidity and self sabotage. We’ve been talking for a while now about how utterly brilliant we are at self sabotage, at destroying our own pieces of …
Struggling
Funnily enough, until a couple of hours ago, I didn’t really have an idea on what to blog about. We’re still going through the motion of trying to fix the things we broke and trying to shape everything into what will ultimately be our world, our characters and our story. Which although it is a thrilling topic, it’s …
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 …
Dramatic Monday
Our holiday already feels like it’s been months ago, and that we’re long overdue for a new week…. Or three… The bad part about having a solid week together to buckle down and get to work, is going back to our usual lives afterwards. It doesn’t just feel like we’ve stopped making progress, it feels …
