by lauralizbuckley | 23 Jul, 2019 | Blog Posts
The lovely Thinking Moon nominated my site for the Real Neat Blog Award! I’m so happy to have been nominated, especially by such a wonderful fellow blogger! Thinking Moon is a home for deep thinking, sustainability tips and appreciation of Buffy the Vampire...
by lauralizbuckley | 16 Jul, 2019 | Blog Posts
I am not a naturally organised person. Ask my family, my friends or my long-suffering partner whether I’m good at keeping things tidy and they’ll all tell you (once they’re done laughing) that no, I am not. My clothes are frequently scattered on my bedroom floor, my...
by lauralizbuckley | 2 Jul, 2019 | Blog Posts
Let’s hear it for friends! What would we do without them? Friendship, being part of a social group, is one of the great motivating factors in our lives, and yet I feel like friendships often take a second place in stories to romantic relationships. Romance is...
by lauralizbuckley | 18 Jun, 2019 | Blog Posts
Almost anybody who’s done a lot of reading can give you an example of an opening that hooked them right away, and we all know how important it is to grab a reader’s attention right off the bat. But what is it that makes a strong opening? In my opinion, a great opening...
by lauralizbuckley | 11 Jun, 2019 | Blog Posts, Writing
The internet is packed full of methods guaranteed to get you an outline of your exciting new story idea, and I reckon I must have tried almost all of them in trying to get my current story up and running. On the spectrum of plotter to pantser I am firmly on the...
by lauralizbuckley | 4 Jun, 2019 | Blog Posts
The main character of a story can make or break its appeal to a reader. How many books have you read that you couldn’t fully get into because the main character was irritating or poorly developed? When you’re reading a book you experience the world, to at least some...
