Absolutely friggen insane. You know what? No, I’m absolutely F*CKING insane! So insane, in fact, that I have agreed to take part in something called “12 weeks to a trilogy.” What this means, is I will endeavour to write between 175,000 and 244,400 words in the next 12 weeks. What this will translate to, is […]
A Writer’s Guide e3 – Characters
Your characters are one of the most important aspects of your book and they deserve some love. So this week, I’m shining a light on your amazing creations. There are a million and ten different ways to create a character. For me, my first glimpse of a story and it’s world tends to just pop […]
July Update!
Once again this is going to be a frighteningly short post due to a horrible bout of sickness (knocked me out for two friggen weeks!) followed by a colossal assignment to write that required a shocking amount of research, intertwined with putting something very exciting in the works. I had the joy of working hard […]
New camera love
I recently acquired a new camera and have fallen completely in love… I’ve always adored trees and nature photographs and now finally I have a camera that can do my passion justice…. I’m absolutely obsessed with all of the amazing photos that I have been capturing… That I just have to share as many […]
How to choose
My online ‘handle’ started off as thevoicesinmyhead and the reason I chose this is because that is what my characters to me. Voices nestled in my mind chatting away to one another and to me whenever I’m inclined to listen (and often when I’m not). As you may already know I have quite a few […]
A Writer’s Guide e2 – Writing Emotional Wounds
Last episode of a Writer’s Guide, we talked about physical wounds and injuries and some descriptions you can apply to those. This time, we are exploring wounds of the mind. Like physical wounds, mental and emotional wounds can fester and scar. Unlike physical wounds though, the wounds that lie within can burn and inflict damage […]