There are times that we hate our characters. And sometimes, we really hate them. They do what they want. You want them to do one thing, they tell you where to go and do what they want, and in the process change the entirety of the story that you had plotted out. Then, there’s that …
Tag: world building
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 …
A week in the making
https://78.media.tumblr.com/3e3b946894992180180335b95247d154/tumblr_n2lew0Kr0Q1sh0yuao1_500.gif Sometimes, a week really isn’t long enough. For us, we could say that we needed longer to sit down and sort out everything. And to some degree that’s right, but on the other hand? This week has been incredible for us, where we have had a week to focus on what we want out …
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 …
“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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Fairy Dust
There are times when Charlotte and I get into a rut. And at those times, we need something almost astronomical to come out of the woodwork and bite us. Going ‘HEY THERE! REMEMBER US?!” At which point we have a moment of “oh my god, look at what we can do”. The problem is, we …
Books, books, glorious books!
I like to think that I’m an experienced reader. I grew up in a household where if you had the choice between watching television or a film or reading a book, the books won every time. And if it wasn’t books, it would be story telling competitions that would go on between my brother and …
Time Ninja’s
This week has been one of those weeks where time seems to have … vanished. Or as we've come to call it the 'time ninja' theory, where something unknown creeps in and steels our time. You know, the things that make time at work crawl by so sloowwwwllllly but then somehow, our time in the …
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 …
