Firstly, apologies for my blogging absence for the last 2 weeks. I had to learn how to create my new photography website and migrate both my domain and emails for the first time – a steep learning curve! Anyway, today it’s back to writing. I recently took up martial arts again, this time something closer […]
Today I will briefly introduce you to another of my main characters, Macalla. A ghost. Not literally, you understand; this is a nickname given to the araquan people of the Velderwood. The araquan are an elder race, beautiful in an otherworldly fashion with skin as pale and flawless as virgin snow, white hair and grey almond-shaped eyes. […]
There is something wonderful about fantasy novels in that they evoke a sense of ancient history, as though when turning the pages we rediscover a forgotten part of our world. In turn, these stories often refer back to even more ancient times, where the foundations of that world began and the seeds of the story were […]
When writing creatively this question has been my most powerful weapon. As a writer you have to possess this boundless curiosity for what could happen next. It probably started in my early teens reading Fighting Fantasy novels, do you remember them? Where you had to choose what to do in the story before flicking to […]
Magic exists… really. Whether or not in the real world, it certainly does in the worlds I create. I have to believe in it, and somewhat paradoxically it has to have rules to be believable. For a good long while I didn’t structure my magic in Warlords of The Dreaming God because whilst it is […]
It was only a matter of time before I felt compelled to share my subjective and somewhat strange list of favourite music to write to/get inspiration from. Some of this music I used to roleplay to as well, so it’s been in my collection a long time. I highly recommend it for either purpose, or […]
A tricky question. I don’t believe there is any one place where ideas are made, like some vast creativity factory churning them out then shipping them across the ether to eagerly awaiting minds. Ideas come from many places, and at many times. I recently saw the excellent BBC2 series Wonders of The Solar System and […]
All creative writers go through this genesis, of creating something from nothing. But it is never quite nothing. We give birth to ideas, stories and characters from the primordial heavens, inspired by memories, experiences, moments where our attention is drawn to something different from the norm. Sometimes these things are the unimportant detritus of life, things […]