I’ve spent the last few days scouting novel locations and building out the beats for a larger project about the Sibylline. One of the big holes was an ancient, mystical location in Ukraine. Scouting story locations is one of the most fun parts of writing. It inevitably leads me down rabbit hole after rabbit hole…
After my post on the Men of Maiden of Gevaudan, I wanted to come back and really let you dig into the woman power that is the crux of the novel. Their lives and motivations are why I even wanted to write it in the first place. See, the reality is that the legend of…
One of my favorite pieces of plotting out a novel is the process of casting characters for all of the parts. A dear friend of mine, BC film writer and YVR Screen Scene maven Sabrina Furminger and I once even cast an entire novel full of Canadian actors. Some may call it procrastination, we called it character study!…
The bichura is a fascinating creature in Turkish mythology. I discovered them with my weird reading habits and couldn’t resist creating a character. When I pull together characters for stories, the number one rule I have is “Every adventure story needs a Groot.” Or an R2D2, even a Hodor. Characters who are integral to the…