Real Life Inspiration: Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hopwhere writers come together to talk about whatever inspires them.Writers can be terrible magpies - collecting colourful annecdotes, mannerisms or settings from all aspects of life and weaving them like wool and tinfoil into something new and colourful. However this habit is hard to explain to your non-writing friends or family members …

Alternate Endings – Wednesday WIPpet

Sometimes an ending just doesn't feel right. There's nothing wrong with it per se, it might even be what you planned - but months later you find yourself still wondering if perhaps it should have gone a different way... That's exactly what happened with a short story I wrote entitled A Place of Safety. The …

Shades of Darkness & Light: An Interview with Author K.L. Schwengel

Today I'm super excited to bring you an interview with the very talented K.L. Schwengel, author of First of Her Kind, the first installment of the Darkness & Light Series. Kathi hails from a small farm in Wisconsin, where she trains and trials working Australian Shepherds, paints, dabbles in photography and graphic design and weaves …

Why We Need a Back-up Plan – Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hopwhere writers come together to talk about what inspires them.  Some weeks are just tough on the old writing front. When the creative well is more of a dust bowl than a gushing font of inspiration. In times-gone-by I may have lamented my lack of talent and wallowed in self-pity, but frankly …

People You Know Too Well – Wednesday WIPpet

There are some people you know so well you can predict how they will react in any given situation. Things they'll find funny (that perhaps no one else would), whether they can laugh off a slight, or will get out the pitchfork over some pet peeve. In today's Wednesday WIPpet one of my characters, Jae …

Chapter Edits – A Quick Overview

I'm still in editing mode. Which means sometimes I feel like Sisyphus - the guy fated to push the rock uphill for eternity - because just when I feel like I'm getting somewhere I realise there is something else that needs attention and the whole process starts again. Discouraged? Surprisingly not. I figure I'm on …

Show Some Love – Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hop wherewriters come together to talk about what inspires them.Join us! Given it's Valentine's Day, it's only fitting this week's inspiration is about love. As a writer of epic fantasy I enjoy writing about strange magical worlds, conflict, and intrigue - but every so often my characters fall in love. And these …

Tender Moments – Wednesday WIPpet

After a week of frenetic activity, I'm so glad that today's Wednesday WIPpet is a quiet little piece on what is a momentous day for my characters. In honour of the 13th, this passage is about 13 lines from Chapter 13 of The Fall of the Kings. In this piece the Sanctuary is being dedicated, …

An Unlikely Source of Inspiration – Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hop where writers come together to talk about whatever inspires them. Join us! It didn't take much for the very talented Rhiann Wynn-Nolet to convince me to join the Thursday's Children weekly blog hop. Write about whatever inspires me? What's not to like. Plus it has the cutest button, don't you think? …

A Portrait of Grief – Wednesday WIPpet

Welcome to the Wednesday WIPpet, the day I give you a sneaky peak into my Work in Progress. Showing a first draft snippet like this is a bit like eating raw cake batter. It isn't what it could be, and it certainly isn't what I'd serve up as best; but I have fond memories of …