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 …
Tag: Story
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 …
“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 …
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 …
Control Freaks
Summer feels like it’s finally on its way, as spring is well and truly here! Which is great for us, because we’ve finally got ourselves into gear. We have turned our world on its head, re-written our characters and our realms and our world and it finally feels as though we have everything where it …
Speed Dating
Over the last 24 hours I’ve come to the conclusion that writing is like speed dating. Nothing has really changed, and yet it has. You have characters, and you put them into a ‘trial’ piece of writing together, and within 20 seconds of doing that you have more of a backstory on said characters than …
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 …
A year in the making
So, yes there was another little blip last week which we’re just gonna gloss over and pretend never happened! But we’ve been doing this blog properly now for about a year, on two different blogging platforms before we stuck with this one. And by properly, I mean on a weekly basis we had a few …
Trials
We had a blip last week, getting so engrossed in our writing, we both managed to forget about our blog! I’m still pretty impressed with us though for managing to keep up with this on a weekly basis and to have come five months in without missing a week? It’s a pretty good record! And …
