by lauralizbuckley | 8 Dec, 2020 | Writing
It’s one of the first things you decide when you start writing: past or present tense? You may not even have been aware of the decision! But the minute you started writing your story, even just a tiny piece of it, you made the choice. Sometimes I work with writers who...
by lauralizbuckley | 5 Dec, 2020 | Book Reviews
Twenty Years a Stranger blurb Is it possible for anyone to really know another person? That is the question Grace King must ask herself when she receives an email informing her that the man she has been married to for the last twenty years is an accomplished con-man,...
by lauralizbuckley | 1 Dec, 2020 | Writing
What were the lessons learned from NaNoWriMo this year? Before I go into that, just a little context: I wrote most of this post in the morning on Saturday 28th November. At that point, I was at just over 35,000 words, more than 11,000 words short of where I was meant...