Extract: Utrecht Rain by Jonathan Wilkins

Extract: Utrecht Rain by Jonathan Wilkins

Cover of Utrecht Rain, by Jonathan Wilkins. I was provided with an extract from Utrecht Rain to post for the Damp Pebbles Blog Tour! Utrecht Rain Maandag Chapter I Dom Toren, Nacht She realised quite quickly what it must feel like to be a football as the boot thudded...
Character Wants – Are They Necessary?

Character Wants – Are They Necessary?

“What does your character want?” Have you ever come up against that question and felt stumped? I have. I can have a good sense of a character, and their story, and still find it hard to articulate what it is that they ‘want’. Do your characters need to have clearly...
White Fragility: Book Review

White Fragility: Book Review

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism synopsis Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has –...