by lauralizbuckley | 28 Jan, 2020 | Writing
Dialogue, speech, chat; writing it is one thing, but what about punctuating dialogue? If you’re writing a story, chances are dialogue makes up a decent chunk of your word count. Of course, whether your characters talk all the time or almost never, you want to make...
by lauralizbuckley | 25 Jan, 2020 | Book Reviews
Isabella is a cartographer, taught by her father to navigate and plot a course by the stars and recreate the complexities of the world around her in ink. She and her Da live on Joya, an island which nobody is permitted to leave, ruled by the cold-hearted Governor....
by lauralizbuckley | 21 Jan, 2020 | Blog Posts
I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for a whole year now. I probably wouldn’t believe it, if not for WordPress sending me a rather sweet little anniversary message the other day. If I’m honest, I still feel like an absolute novice! But over the course of the last...
by lauralizbuckley | 18 Jan, 2020 | Book Reviews
If you missed my review of book one of this trilogy, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, you should probably go check that out before reading this one. This’ll be nice and spoiler-free for Days of Blood and Starlight, but there are spoilers for its prequel. Once upon a time,...
by lauralizbuckley | 14 Jan, 2020 | Blog Posts
Recently, a friend of mine uploaded a video talking about some of the common misconceptions around fanfiction, and mounting a comprehensive rebuttal of those. It made me think about my own history with fanfiction, and I wanted to contribute my own defence of a...
