by lauralizbuckley | 15 Oct, 2019 | Writing
How to write descriptions your readers won’t want to skim… We know it when we see it. A character enters a room and spends paragraphs noting the location of each piece of furniture. Pages devoted only to describing every dish at a feast. The dreaded purple...
by lauralizbuckley | 24 Sep, 2019 | Writing
A little while ago I wrote about the dangers of head-hopping in writing, and mentioned that it’s a technique (or, depending on how you look at it, a mistake) often confused with use of a third-person omniscient narrator. Which kind of begs the question: what is the...
by lauralizbuckley | 10 Sep, 2019 | Writing
Head Hopping (verb) – The practice of moving from one character’s perspective to another in the middle of a chapter or scene. Widely considered to be poor writing practice, although it does have some staunch defenders out there as well. If you’re thinking that it...
by lauralizbuckley | 9 Jul, 2019 | Writing
We’re all busy, it’s pretty much a fact of life. Our to-do lists expand to fill the available time, and no matter how many jobs we tick off there are always tasks jostling to take their place. I feel like I never have enough time for everything I want to do, and I’ve...
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 | 28 May, 2019 | Writing
The main character. The centre of your story (probably), your favourite character (maybe) and the person your readers will almost certainly spend the most time with. You’ve worked out what it is that they want to achieve or obtain by the end of your story, and you’re...
