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 …
Tag: brain children
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 …
“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. …
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Resolutions
You know how it goes. New Year, new start, new beginnings. We make all of those resolutions and for the first week of January (if we’re lucky!) we manage to keep them. But, from there on out over time those good intentions slowly start to go out of the window … and before we know …
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 …
“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 …
