Music memories
Think about a time when you heard particular songs being played at memorable times in your life. When we hear these songs now, it’s not unusual for our minds to automatically go to the same place and relive the same …
Author: Lara Russell
Relatedness
If you live somewhere sunny and not in South Australia, you’re rather lucky. We’re currently experiencing one of those weird and rainy seasons that are entirely unlike the dry sometimes-warmth we usually have in Adelaide this time of year. I …
The ending
I’ve recently finished watching a reboot of a beloved show to many. I didn’t care for the show’s finale. I think I would have been much more content with the original show’s conclusion while holding hope for the characters’ futures, …
A time before smartphones
What did we do prior to mobiles? I have to admit, I don’t really think about it very much and if I do, I have flashbacks of taking landline phone calls while stuck in the room a phone happened to …
Changing character names
Do you ever wonder about the origin of words? To be honest, I don’t really think about it more than the next person. But when you do pause to think about it, rather than breeze past it like we do …
Music in novels
If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a song playing in your head on a constant basis, sometimes automatically and unnoticed, until it has focus again. This is especially true when I listen to a song in my car on …
My next book’s progress
This week I wrote 8,000 words, progressing the first draft of Book 3 to roughly 15,000 words. I also worked on my protagonists and minor characters more. So, now I’m not predominantly focusing on the plot. I know what characters …
Theories and reality
Have you ever wondered how facts pop into existence? Some theories on reality suggest that it’s largely based on perception. What we accept as the truth is our perception of that very truth. To confuse matters further in one way …
Memories
Have you noticed how we generally rely on a protagonist’s memories in fiction to give us a full picture of who they are, and where they came from – their back story? Whether we use flashbacks once the reader cares …
The best of times
You’ve probably noticed by now that my books, at least my first two, take place in the late 1990s to early 2000s. ‘Why?’ You might ask. A few reasons come to mind… The first and more obvious reason is that …