I stumbled upon some great writing advice last night. Instead of filling in long profile questionnaires (which I hate) to get to know your characters, just sort everyone into Hogwarts Houses! We all know exactly what it means when you say someone is a Gryffindor or a Slytherin, so why not skip all the unnecessary…
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Falling in Love with Writing Again
Where writing is concerned, I’ve been living under a number of false truths the last few years. I recently started working on Series 2 of my Mythical Menagerie short story urban fantasy serial, after the release of Myth Hunter, the compilation of Series 1, in June 2020. In the last two weeks, everything I believed…
What I’m Currently Working On: Plotting Mythical Menagerie Series 2
These last few months have both dragged on interminably and flew past faster than you can say “lockdown blues.” Can you believe we’re in July already? The last time I posted an update I was all excited about a new novella I’d been plotting. I scraped together the courage and flew through the first 3500…
Unsatisfying Happily Ever Afters in The Big Bang Theory
We recently finished watching the final season of The Big Bang Theory (yes, I know, we’re a little behind) and although I love this series so much, I can’t help but feel that the endings some of them got weren’t quite the ones they deserved. Especially so for the girls. Let’s unpack this a little.…
Where Have All The Boys Gone?
I have a four-year old son who believes he’s Elsa. I’m okay with that, because Elsa is awesome, and because who else is he supposed to look up to and identify with when watching animated movies? And with that, I specifically refer to Disney or Pixar movies, because those are our preference in this house.…
I Created My Book’s Characters in Sims 4!
Yes, I know, I’m a complete geek. I had some unexpected free time over the Easter weekend and, instead of using it productively to write my book or something else meaningful, I spent an hour or so quickly creating mock-ups of the characters from Myth Hunter, my upcoming novel, in the Sims 4. How cute…
What Makes You DNF a Book?
This past weekend, for the first time in probably a decade, I gave up on a book. I wanted to throw it across the room and out the window, but since I was reading via the Kindle app on my phone, I held myself in. Instead, I created a new DNF (Did Not Finish) shelf…
Ambrose’s Scotland
In SPRIGGAN’S QUEST, the very last installment of the MYTHICAL MENAGERIE Series 1, Ambrose has to find three legendary items. His quest takes him to Ireland, Wales and Scotland in a whirlwind race against time. When I think of Scotland, I think of cold, misty days, tartan, warm comfort food, shaggy cows, and shortbread! It’s…
What I’m Currently Working On: Something New!
Someone asked in my writer’s group why people are suddenly saying they are so much more productive now that we’re all confined to our houses during coronavirus lockdown. Is it because we’re no longer commuting, or gossiping at watercoolers, or going out for drinks in the evening…? The answer in my case is energy. I’m…
Ambrose’s Ireland
I’ll admit it – I haven’t been to Ireland yet! Something that I’ll rectify in the very near future, because we’re planning on traveling through the Emerald Isle in June 2020, if the corona virus allows. But that hasn’t stopped Ambrose from going there in search of luck in SPRIGGAN’S QUEST, the final installment of…
