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Things to learn

I’m currently reading Sentence of Marriage by Shayne Parkinson and as I sat on the commuter train with my Kindle, it suddenly struck me that my own writing lacks sufficient description of details. In the novel, Amy shows a nurse into a bedroom for her to have a...

Getting back on the horse

I totally slacked off and didn’t write anything related to the Spicers in a long time. I had another project happening, as well as taking on a second job that takes up quite a chunk of my time after coming home from my regular fulltime job. So how do you get...

Character Sheets

I’ve been introduced to the idea of character sheets for writing quite late into the process. I knew character sheets from gaming, where you record the strengths and weaknesses of a character, and note changes like level ups and so on, but for writing this never...

Tuunish Saltkale (the recipe)

Tuunish Saltkale features in the spicer stories. It’s a kind of salty stewed kale that you either love or hate. My friend Pepper asked me if I had a real dish in mind when I wrote about it, or whether I just made it up. Actually, at first I made it up and it was...

Decisions, decisions…

In my plotline, one of the characters travelling in a group gets separated from the rest and has to strike out on her own. So far, so good. When I first came up with my plotline, she got separated quite early on in the story. It provided me with two separate...