by lauralizbuckley | 10 Dec, 2019 | Writing
It isn’t always easy to draw a clear line between your main characters and your supporting characters or, at the other end of the character importance spectrum, between your supporting characters and your background characters. And that isn’t a problem most of the...
by lauralizbuckley | 3 Dec, 2019 | Writing
Imagine the scene: you’ve sat down to write, you’re trundling along through your scene, happy as a clam, when you run into a stumbling block. There’s something you realise you haven’t explained—about the world your story is set in, or your character’s backstory, or...
by lauralizbuckley | 26 Nov, 2019 | Writing
We live in a world of seemingly endless distractions, and it can be fantastic—whether you want to check out what your childhood best friend is up to on Instagram, look up some Pin-spiration for what to cook of an evening or catch up on the latest Twitter controversy,...
by lauralizbuckley | 5 Nov, 2019 | Writing
Industry professionals give them some major side-eye, readers confess to skipping them, but what if you feel like you need one? How do you know if a prologue is the right fit for your story? First, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page (pun totally intended)...
by lauralizbuckley | 29 Oct, 2019 | Writing
For some people, outlining is the best stage of writing a story—so much possibility! For others, outlining is more like getting dental work, ranging from uncomfortable to downright painful. Some writers prefer not to outline at all. Some like to go all-in with a...
by lauralizbuckley | 22 Oct, 2019 | Writing
November is approaching fast, and while this month means many things to many people, to a certain section of the writing community it means it’s time to sharpen our pencils and charge our laptops for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Over the course of 30...
