by lauralizbuckley | 29 Feb, 2020 | Writing
Not sure what a Writing Coach is? You’re not alone. You might want to involve one at the first draft stage, or even before. Or you might look for a Coach when your first draft is done, but you’re feeling stuck with it. To get a better idea of what they do,...
by lauralizbuckley | 25 Feb, 2020 | Writing
First drafts are always bad. Right? Well, maybe, maybe not. This oft-repeated bit of writing wisdom gets very mixed responses, including people being offended that aspersions are being cast on their hard work, people feeling discouraged at the prospect of putting a...
by lauralizbuckley | 11 Feb, 2020 | Writing
I wrote a post recently on punctuating dialogue in which I referenced dialogue tags, and I wanted to take some time to explore these in a bit more depth. Let’s kick off with a basic dialogue tags definition. These tags are used to provide a reader with...
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 | 7 Jan, 2020 | Writing
It can be tough, managing a large cast of characters, working out how to give them all the right amount of page time, deciding who needs developing and who doesn’t. One way to look at this is to know how you’re categorising your different characters. There are a bunch...
by lauralizbuckley | 17 Dec, 2019 | Writing
It’s hard to make time for writing, even when our days are just their usual level of jam-packed. Introduce a holiday and it becomes virtually impossible, or at least it feels that way, to get any work done on a writing project. I’ve already talked about some of the...
