E C Hamilton

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If I ever have the opportunity to ask an author a question, I usually want to know about the very first idea. What was that first, tiny spark that turned into the massive flame that became their completed book or series? This is especially true for authors I admire who have written books that I love. I know a lot had to happen for me to hold this beautiful, important piece in my hands. How did it all begin? When I first heard the story of how Harry Potter began for J. K. Rowling, I was fascinated. It thrilled me, because it started with a single spark of inspiration one day on the train, and she spent the rest of the trip mapping out the stories in her head. I didn’t know it, but it would be a very important story for me to hear. I would later know exactly the kind of wonderful, thrilling experience it is to have a spark and let it totally consume you. No pencils, no paper, no writing down, just you and your thoughts, and this magical story unfolding just for you. When I...

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My relationship with word limits has been difficult, to say the least. When I first began writing, I thought the word count meant something. I thought the more words you can write, the better you are. Ha, ha, let’s all have a good laugh about it now. This both negatively and positively impacted me. The first draft I ever wrote was under 80,000. I was just doing it for fun so it shouldn’t have mattered how many words I wrote but I knew a novel had to be long , so there were times I was adding in unnecessary bits, just so I could name it a novel , as opposed to another piece of writing. When I finally began to look into it, I didn’t really think ‘I should look this up’. No, I was more thinking about what it would look like, how many pages there would be, how thick it would be to hold it in my hands. I wanted to compare my word count to that of a book I had on the shelf. So, I went to the thickest book I had at the time: Brent Week’s The Way of the Shadows . The 183,135-word co...

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Productivity is something we crave, we treasure, and something that doesn’t necessarily occur nearly as often as we wish. A productive day can make us feel ten times better about life, and an unproductive day can make us feel ten times worse. The positive that comes from this, is one really productive day can make up for five awfully unproductive days, but one unproductive day doesn’t change the wonderfully productive five days I just had. My experience is that productivity doesn’t really come day to day. It comes week-to-week, month-to-month and, very surprisingly, (I didn’t realise it was a thing) year-to-year. I’ve had weeks, months, and yes, thanks to 2018, whole years where it felt like I’d done nothing. What happened in 2018 is a lack of everything I was doing right in 2017. The last two years have taught me that productivity doesn’t come and go. It starts with us and what we do. We can nurture it or we can hinder it. 2017 was a very productive year for me, but there ...

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If we’re being honest, it was never going to take long for a Disney post to appear on my blog and, if we’re being even more honest, it most definitely won’t be long until the next. Whether you’ve found life-long loves in Disney like me, are a part-time fan, or could not care less, Disney and Pixar characters are everywhere. From a cartoon mouse to a rat chief, from motor vehicles to emotions, from princesses to demi-gods, Disney has had a huge influence on popular culture. As a writer, my character inspiration can come from anywhere, and there are a hundred great examples to draw from. There are plenty fan-favourites floating around out there that are hard to forget. Then there are some we don’t hear about very often, or don’t even recognise as great until we watch the movie again. I have seen a number of appreciation posts for some of the following characters, which has made my heart sing, but some, I have rarely seen mentioned. Whether underappreciated is true for all or ...