by lauralizbuckley | 14 Dec, 2019 | Book Reviews
A mysterious book, discovered in the depths of the university library, sets Zachary Rawlins on a bewildering adventure. Swept up by forces beyond his understanding, he finds himself in an underground labyrinth filled with stories, inhabited by only the taciturn...
by lauralizbuckley | 10 Dec, 2019 | Writing
It isn’t always easy to draw a clear line between your main characters and your supporting characters or, at the other end of the character importance spectrum, between your supporting characters and your background characters. And that isn’t a problem most of the...
by lauralizbuckley | 7 Dec, 2019 | Book Reviews
Amber—24 years old, tech support worker, gay and staunchly feminist—is not impressed when she starts seeing adverts for a new drug which lets you move fat around your body to wherever you’d like it to be. Marketed exclusively at women, of course, it’s just been...
by lauralizbuckley | 3 Dec, 2019 | Writing
Imagine the scene: you’ve sat down to write, you’re trundling along through your scene, happy as a clam, when you run into a stumbling block. There’s something you realise you haven’t explained—about the world your story is set in, or your character’s backstory, or...
