About Me

I write original fantasy fiction and the occasional piece of non-fiction and get published professionally here and there, from time to time.

I started writing when I was 13 with a simple 1 chapter story based on a dream and went from there. I'm working on practising plotting and characterisation for my original work, and I find fanfiction is a good way to exercise those muscles.

I really love to play with characters and explore their psychology and physicality. I love to push them past their normal boundaries and add a bit of my creativity to them.

I have a definite method for writing. I absorb what I see of the actor's performance, introduce a situation and write down how I'd feel and behave if I were playing the character. I usually work with between 2 and 4 characters and I alternate between them.

It's very normal for me to literally lose my personality for weeks at a time. I did this for 6 weeks writing my Hobbit fanfic 'A Frozen Sun.' I worked the same way for 11 weeks on my Harry Potter fic “The Xeoforce Equation.”

Coming back down to Earth at the end of it is often a bit of a jolt and it can be super confusing because I often feel like my own life has been suspended while I work on the story.

I tend to write a skeleton draft with very little description, then 2 drafts to flesh out the story. Then I go through with a fine-tooth comb to find continuity and grammar errors, then I do another draft to bulk out the description and deepen the characters and settings.

Then I do either 1 or 2 readings out loud to check the characters voices and make sure I feel comfortable that their behaviour and choices are as close to the original character's psychology as possible.

My fanfic, like my original writing, is very much a work in progress. I'm no expert - I'm learning as I go along.

Lastly, if you read, please drop me a review. It helps me because I intend to take what I learn on here and apply it to my original work, so if you have a comment, a constructive criticism or opinion, give me a bell. I don't have an editor or a beta reader either, so obviously there's going to be things I miss in my read-throughs. I'm always interested to hear what my readers think!

Many thanks!