Content by D Kai Wilson-Viola
I started out writing as a fanfiction writer. For the longest time, though I had original characters, I would stick them in my favorite places and write with characters I knew about, to understand them more. I think a lot of writers start that way. But I also write fiction to understand people. Weird? Maybe.My […]
I’ve been musical for as long as I can remember – always loved music. Mum says I was into classical music and rock as a small baby, and there’s NOTHING better than War of the Worlds, during a thunderstorm (though, I prefer the original musical, narrated by Richard Burton to the newer one with Liam Neeson). […]
I know that a lot of you won’t like this post. I know that for those of you that are used to the neutral(ish) tone I’ve been told I sometimes employ, this will be hard to read. And I know if you know me personally, this might just expose a few things that you didn’t […]
I made the mistake this morning of going into my spam comments and discovered a missive from someone else, who says he is dying. Checking back onto his site, I see he just entered hospice care. The day after the comment he left.He will probably will never see this post. His comment was very much ‘oh, […]
M is for Meditation I’ve always found that meditation is something that comes sorta easily to me. Well, kinda. My brain still does the whole ‘chasing ideas into the flow of information thing’ instead of letting them go sometimes, and sometimes, I’m really bad at objectively labelling thinking and feeling thoughts, but, I’ve found, overall, […]
Anyone that knows me will know that American Gods is one of the pieces that I absolutely adore. And Neil Gaiman, in introducing the re-edited version talks about the book, and everything in it, and ends by saying ‘only the gods are real’. It’s something that’s changed my perspective on the world a couple of […]
I’ve begun a Paranormal romance story in the last year, set in my home town of Edinburgh. I’d always vowed I wouldn’t write romance, but here I am, writing it and enjoying it, if I’m honest.The ebook for Cry Havoc is available now, and I’ll be releasing the HellHounds and Hexes trilogy in Paperback from […]
While I talk about Darkness being the main universe I write in, and how I’ve recently discovered that all of them link up, kinda (it’s a long story, it’s not a spoiler exactly, but I’m trying to think of how to explain that, but as I’m covering everything about my books in a bit of […]