Enchanting Wolf

“A rose by any other name is still a rose…”

Names are fickle things. Sometimes we like them, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we’ll go by different names to our given ones. Names that have stuck since childhood, middle names and other such things. As writers, we give our characters names breathing life into them. They’re the things that identify them, making them who they are. And sometimes, with those names you can get backstories – how a…

Good morning on this lovely two for one day!

Not only is it Easter Sunday, but also April Fool’s…. Which is going to make this entire day a question of are the chocolate eggs actually hidden, or is this all one big joke?! Asking the serious questions here.

The eggs are cooking, the buns are being baked in the oven, and it’s about to be time for some serious elbow grease when it comes to juicing…

Not a lot has happened this week, Charlotte is away and I’ve been pulling anywhere between 10 and 14 hour days at work which has meant my brain has been frazzled by the time I’m home.  Probably just as well that Charlotte hasn’t been about otherwise she would have found herself with one word and half coherent conversation. Today is my one day weekend in which I get to recharge my batteries…

If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it

It has really been a weird couple of weeks, and apart from knowing it’s a Sunday, and that I almost forgot my blog today, I wouldn’t be able to tell you the date. My sense of time has completely abandoned me this past week. I wouldn’t mind forgetting the part about it being Sunday, a Saturday would be better because it would mean Clara and I would have another day to get things moving along.…

Patience is a virtue, and if I’m quite honest it’s not always one of mine. But there are times where I’ve had to learn patience, to deal with things the way that they are or to find other solutions around it. One of the things, in particular, I’ve had to be patient with is a lack of a laptop for about a year now – I don’t have great luck with them, in fact that’d probably be the understatement…

This week has been a weird one. We rolled right into March, and right into various snowmen that have taken up all of the space. Clara more than me, my week has mostly been weird because she has been home from work before I have. Which for us, is pretty unheard of! There’s a sort of system we have in place, which consists of me being home before her. When that starts changing, all logic goes out…

When everything’s made to be broken

The ‘Goo Goo Dolls’ said it in their song ‘Iris’.  “When everything’s made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am” which I think for Charlotte and I has been a pretty apt statement this week.  We’ve said it more than once before that we’re fond of breaking things, a little too fond if I’m honest.  Putting them back together again?  Well … that’s the art that we’re still trying to work…

If there is one thing we can count on in this journey of ours, it would be the all too familiar ‘facepalm’. That moment where we come to face the mistakes we’ve made along the line. More often than not, it’s a mistake we’ve made before, and haven’t managed to learn from. It’s not something we do intentionally, but every now and then we lose track of the things we have, and try to shape it into…

All you need is love …

Sometimes, or alright a lot of the time, our characters leave us scratching our head and having a moment of … did that happen? Did you get the same thing that I did … is this actually what they are doing now?! And it’ll take us a little while to get past it because, well it shouldn’t happen. More than that, it shouldn’t work, and yet somehow it does. Somehow, it works so brilliantly that we have…