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Next Steps? Will Worthington conquers the world! (You have to dream, right?)

Rachel Brooker September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 Journal, My Novel, Writing #middlegrade, #pineapples, author, dreams, HarryPotter, HegglepipPublishing, quotes, WillWorthingtonandTheBlackRainbow, writing0 Comment

A lot of inspiration for Will originated from the Potter books. There's no magic, but that was a conscious decision on my part, as I feel I couldn't have brought an original twist on magic, so there's inventions and gadgets instead. The villains are key. There's a lot of darkness, and I like to think the humour matches the sparring dialogue between Ron and Hermione!

The Writer I Came to Be: A Journey Through It All by R.E. Brooker (‘Will Worthington and The Black Rainbow’)

Rachel Brooker February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 Journal, My Novel, Writing anxiety, blog, blogging, depression, grief, write, writers, writing0 Comment

Introduction:I had always written from a very early age. It was in my blood. It was what enchanted the little girl who used to sit and scribble for hours and hours, pouring ideas and thoughts into the pages I had before me….. At the time, I didn’t know what I was doing, but this essay […]

The Questions of Rejections, Reflections, and Returning to Will Worthington in 2023

Rachel Brooker December 12, 2022December 12, 2022 Journal, My Novel, Uncategorized, Writing1 Comment

Over the last two years, there came many times when I thought to myself….. ‘Am I actually going to finish the first book?’ Why? I was so intent on getting it right. There is so much competition in this industry that I knew that this really was the last ‘Will Worthington and The Black Rainbow’ […]

What Is Going On With Me? It’s Not Suite

Rachel Brooker September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 Drama and Music, Journal, My Novel, Writing2 Comments

I know. It’s such a stupid title, 🙁 yet, I am feeling a little emotional right now, and I need to do what I love the most in order to feel myself again. Also, please don’t judge my writing on this post. It’s taking me so much restraint not to edit as I go here, […]

My Guide for Literary Agent submission by R.E. Brooker

Rachel Brooker September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 Journal, My Novel, Writing0 Comment

Introduction: Before I begin this blog post, I want to make something clear to everyone: I am not an expert when it comes to literary agents. I am new to this terrifying, exciting (and hopefully life-changing) world; a world that is fraught with overspilling questions, like ‘Who do I send my book to?’ ‘What’s the […]

You

Rachel Brooker September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Journal, Writing0 Comment

How do I describe you? You You are many things You’re the beefy-shouldered bully that follows you home, whispering hot and cold threats right outside your door You’re the nosy neighbour who hates your family name the snotty, spotty kid who graffitis over window panes You’re the incessant banging from the dingy basement that you […]

More Writing Tips : My Top Ten

Rachel Brooker August 4, 2022August 4, 2022 Journal, My Novel, Writing2 Comments

If something isn’t fitting, it’s not meant to be in the book, and trying for hours is not going to make it fit… There is always a reason that it doesn’t – and whether that’s character, plot, or narrative, it will make sense in due course. (E.g. If your characters aren’t acting like themselves temporarily, […]

A Writer’s Life by R.E. Brooker

Rachel Brooker July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 Journal, My Novel, Uncategorized, Writing2 Comments

I’m on a magical ferris-wheel. I never want to get off. The views here are breath-taking, enchanting Imagination’s brush painting new landscapes over hills and seas, chapters flooded in darkness, sprinkles of tinkling laughter, and far-away places – not for you, or me The light bends, rainbow chinks A prism of my own making ————- […]

Why Do I Like Cleaning? The Mysteries of a Mess-Hating Mind!

Rachel Brooker June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Journal, My Novel, Writing1 Comment

I wasn’t always like this…… When I was younger, I would often leave my bedroom in a complete mess, and somehow just be able to live like that! I would – (and I remember this so vividly) step over the clothes or toys that lined the floor, they were fine there….. and then, one day, […]

My Magnified Study of My Favourite Villains…. And Their Most Villainous Ways

Rachel Brooker April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Journal, Writing2 Comments

By. R.E. Brooker Warning: Contains mild spoilers from the following book series – Lord of The Flies, Othello, Gormenghast, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Mysterious Benedict Society series, Darren Shan series, Harry Potter, and the Itch series Introduction Villlains. Don’t you just love them? From the snarling school bully, to the machievolan […]

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