by Envoy | Nov 22, 2020 | Sarah Rayne
Music is a brilliant tool for setting just about any scene and creating any mood. For starters it can be unashamedly romantic: for example Fred Astaire serenading Ginger Rogers with Jerome Kern’s, The Way You Look Tonight, in the film, Springtime. It...
by Envoy | Jul 27, 2020 | Sarah Rayne
There are always decisions to be made during the writing of a book. Usually these are straightforward and familiar – for example, should a character be killed off in Chapter Three, or can the tension be stretched out until, say, Chapter Eight? There are also the...
by Envoy | Aug 24, 2019 | Sarah Rayne
The creation of a villain can be a surprisingly fascinating exercise. There are so many roles they can be allotted. For starters, it’s usually necessary – and hopefully interesting for the reader – to show their multi-layered lives, because they aren’t always...
