Author Archives: Tessa Conte
This drabble is part of one of my longest-going WIPs, the story of Camille and Merle (a merle is a blackbird). You can see the picture that inspired it here… Queen Maud, who’d once been the girl Camille, tapped her finger against the chair. The bird didn’t move a feather, just watched her with [...]
Research is important for all writers out there, never mind the genre you’re writing in, but the closer to reality you get, the more time you will need for research. As a reader, there’s very little I hate more than a badly researched book. Let me give you an example – I’ve recently put [...]
Love is many things, has many shapes, forms and disguises. Love is fragile and strong, beautiful and dangerous, invisible and yet all-encompassing. Love is, and we’d do well to remember that. There is nothing more important than love. Love is selfless and selfish, helpless and life-saving. Love is…. (insert your own interpretation in comments, [...]
Have you ever played truth or dare? Go on, be honest…. I, for one, have played many different versions over the years, from the sleepover to the student extreme version. But that’s not what I want to talk about. Have you ever played truth or dare with your characters? I love characterisation exercises, and [...]
He comes in every day and I watch. Weeks have gone by with few words and many smiles. How do I make him notice me? How do I tell him? His smile, the crinkle of his eyes, his blush when his friends tease him. It’s all perfect and him. Today, he’s in without his trail of buddies [...]
Welcome to our blog, dear A-Zers! This here is the blog of The Book Bunnies – Kerry, Kimberley, Bella, Becca, Sasha and me, Tessa. We’ll be taking turns posting and hopefully, by the end of the month, we’ll have made it through the alphabet! Because there’s six of us, we won’t have an overall [...]
“We’ll always have Paris.” The glass shattered into thousands of tiny, wet diamonds that spread across the kitchen floor like a miniature army bent on conquering the world. “We’ll always have Paris?” I tried not to let my voice deteriorate into a screech but it was really hard. “You have got to be kidding me, [...]
Time flies when you’re having fun, so don’t waste it with regret. You should believe that – I never did, and look where it got me. I wish I could tell you. I whisper it in your ear, along with those three little words you liked so much although you never did learn to [...]
Here’s my drabble for this week, my dearies! It, like my bunny sisters’, was inspired by a song – Adele’s Set Fire to the Rain. Hours of looking for her, checking every nook and cranny in this monstrosity of a house, and all I needed to do was look out the bloody window. She was [...]
This week’s Drabble @ The Book Bunnies starts with a random word… mine was sociopath… The parents have left it in its little crib again while they stand by the window, touching lips and hands and cheeks to each other in that strange way grown-ups have of showing they’re partial to someone. Boring. I [...]
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