Home Comforts – Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hop where writers get together to share their inspiration.  This week I've been revisiting an old character I love dearly, but who has really been through the wringer. He's the guy that saw danger coming and couldn't get anyone to listen to him. He's lost a lot and as the world literally …

A Time for Answers: WIPpet Wednesday

It's WIPpet Wednesday again, where I crack open my Work in Progress to give you a peak at my writerly heart. Today's WIPet, in honour of the 27th is taken from page 27 of The Legend of the Kings. Legend was the book that started this great big epic fantasy of mine and I've been …

Making Good Art – Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hopwhere writers come together to discuss whatever inspires them.It's been a tough old week - where keeping this blog ticking over is all I've been able to manage on the writing front. Like the title of this blog, I've been dreaming of other realms, but have had little time to sit down …

A Persistent Fool – WIPpet Wednesday

As promised in my last post, The Perils of Falling For Your Villain, this week's WIPpet Wednesday introduces my newest bad guy known only as the Elder. Have you ever known one of those people who just keep pushing their point far past the point of good sense. Well this poor fool is pushing the …

The Perils of Falling For Your Villain

It's fun writing the bad guy. He's the one who pushes the moral envelope, takes the plot into all sorts of dark places and gives our hero the opportunity to prove his mettle. However if I've learned anything studying the craft of writing, it's that characters need to be well-developed, with believeable motives. And in …

Tagging Thyme Meme: 11 Random Questions…

A few weeks ago the lovely Margaret E. Alexander (of the Story Addict Blog Fame) tagged me to play this meme of silly questions. Thanks Margaret! And because I am the kind of person that likes to embrace silly (and because there is a Tolkienesque question included), I was happy to play along. So here …

Amazing Powers of Observation – Thursday’s Children

A weekly blog hopwhere writers come together to talk about whatever inspires them.After a solid run of editing, it has become apparent that the dialogue in my WIP needs work. This is a good thing! I figure if you can identify a problem, you're half way towards fixing it -- and I already have some …

A Bully by Any Other Name – WIPpet Wednesday

It's time for the WIPpet Wednesday, when a group of us open up our Work In Progress to give you a sneak peak. This week's WIPpet is 13 lines from page 13 of The Fall of the Kings. I particularly like the oaf in this passage. Despite the fantasy setting, a bully always looks like …

Tubers

A weekly blog hopwhere writers come together to talk about whatever inspires them.So many things have inspired my writing this week it's been a hard road to pick which one should carry the flag into the Thursday's Children fray. There was reaching a goal - finishing chapter edits of the first third of the book …

An Impossible Visitor – Wednesday WIPpet

It's Wednesday WIPpet time again when, along with my fellow WIPpeteers, I crack open my Work In Progress to give you a sneak peek into my creative process. In honour of the 6th of February, today's WIPpet is six lines from page 46 of The Fall of the Kings. In this scene Josiah is at …