by lauralizbuckley | 18 Aug, 2020 | Writing
How to Master Tenses in your Writing As an editor, one thing that I find trips up a lot of writers is tense consistency. They’ll switch from past to present, or vice versa. It’s an easy mistake to make, and when you look at the way we talk it’s not surprising. If I’m...
by lauralizbuckley | 15 Aug, 2020 | Book Reviews
Lucy’s Last Chance Plot Summary Lucy was a high-powered attorney who had a nervous breakdown after her husband left her. Broken, she came to the town of Moonshire Bay to start over as a yoga instructor; determined to find inner peace in all things this time around....
by lauralizbuckley | 11 Aug, 2020 | Writing
As a writer, it’s a question that comes up occasionally – should you be writing every day? It’s a practice recommended by many, including respected writers such as Stephen King and Anne Lamott. It’s repeated all the time as advice for refining...
by lauralizbuckley | 8 Aug, 2020 | Book Reviews
Plot Summary Connell and Marianne come from different worlds. They overlap only occasionally at school and when Connell picks his mum up from her job cleaning Marianne’s house. But despite the social distance between them, something draws these two together, not just...
by lauralizbuckley | 5 Aug, 2020 | Writing
How can you get writing done when you’re really not feeling it? If you want to write every day, being able to push through resistance is going to be an important skill. Some of these techniques are going to be useful for other things than writing, some are more...
