Fair warning; if you have not seen the film or read the book, you may wish to leave now because I will spoilify you. The new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic 1986 novel IT is likely to be the highest grossing film adaptation of King’s work to date. Directed by Argentine film director Andy…
Category: Characterization
Looking at Both Sides – Adventures in Co-writing and Historical Fiction
Around the end of September 2015, my friend, historical fiction and non-fiction author, Matthew Willis, said the immortal words ‘Hey, does anyone want to write a book about the battle of Hastings with me?’ (I’m paraphrasing but that really was the gist of it.) I hadn’t studied anything to do with the Norman Conquest…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume one – Plot and Character
(First Published on my old blog, 28th October 2013) By now I wouldn’t blame you if you were thinking, ‘just how long can she go on about York FoW13? It was a month ago!’ And you’d be right in as far as no amount of blog posts can recapture the experience of going yourself. That…
Throwback Thursday:Tales of York, Volume One – Lovers, Buddies and the Tragedy Paper.
(First published on my old blog, 7th October 2013) The first seminar I attended at York FoW13, was ‘Lovers and Buddies; 7 steps to friendship and romance’, by Jeremy Sheldon. I’d never been to a writing seminar of any kind before. In fact any seminars I usually attend have horrifying medical slide shows attached, so…
Throwback Thursday: Harnessing Demons
(First published on my blog, 3rd October 2013) I’m bouncing this post off of a conversation I had at York. A man I met on the first night was telling me about his crime novel. Naturally I won’t divulge details – for one thing that would be unspeakably rude. For another who wants to be…