This is the “Behind The Scenes” post for the story “She And Him“. Please read the original story first if you want to avoid spoilers. I stumbled around looking for an idea for this week’s story until Friday night – I knew we were going out Saturday, and that was also the day of the […]
Behind The Scenes: Road To Back Home
This is the “Behind The Scenes” post for the story “Road To Back Home“. Please read that first if you want to avoid spoilers… Yet again, the curse of not being able to think of an idea for a story struck again, and yet again my backlog of ideas bailed me out. This one has […]
Behind The Scenes: The Quick Brown Fox
This is the “Behind The Scenes” post for the most recent story, “The Quick Brown Fox“. I have to say, I quite enjoyed writing this one, despite spending three or four hours staring into space trying desperately to work out how to end it. In the end, I went with the idea of them smuggling […]
Behind The Scenes: Penny Drops
This is the “Behind the Scenes” post for this week’s story, “Penny Drops”, which you can read here if you haven’t already This one didn’t really come together in the same way as the others. Penny’s a character that I’ve had in my mind for quite a while, although I’ve never had a surname for […]
Behind The Scenes: The Onyx Ring
I’ve wanted to bring back Munro ever since the story “Elkwood”. (I also want to take the story Elkwood and rewrite it a bit, but that’s another story.) I had the name first and then wondered what would be special about this ring, and what it would do. Of course, it was evil, naturally. I […]
Behind The Scenes: Next Time, Be More Careful
The idea of a were-man – a wolf that turns into a human at the full moon – came to me some time on Monday, but I couldn’t work out exactly how to make it work. Rebeca suggested the answer one day while we were out walking the dogs, that I tell it from the […]
Behind The Scenes: The March Society
First off, I have no real idea what inspired me to call this one “The March Society”. The idea that a music journalist wouldn’t see the name and immediately think of John Philip Souza and other purveyors of vaguely military-style pieces in two-four time is nonsense. Second, the idea that someone who was opera mad […]
Behind The Scenes: Leo’s Last Show
The clichéd question that every writer gets asked is “where do you get your ideas from?” Well, I’m not sure, but for the last few weeks the ideas haven’t really been flowing freely. In fact, this was the third attempt to write this story. I started off thinking I’d bring back Mr Munro of the […]
Behind The Scenes: The Killer, Unmasked
When I first wrote If, Never three weeks ago, I didn’t think it would have a sequel. Even in my wildest dreams did I think it would turn into a trilogy (and some of those dreams and pretty funky, thank you for asking.) The initial premise of the first story was expanded on, and I […]
Behind The Scenes: Jenkins Is The Problem
Having written last week’s story “If, Never”, I started reading it through for the final proof, and wondered not only why Jenkins was murdered, but how. And so the idea of writing the story again, this time from the view of the murderer, started to take shape in my head. It was actually easier to […]