by lauralizbuckley | 20 Jul, 2021 | Writing
Working out where to start and end a scene isn’t always easy. It’s the kind of thing that’s much easier to handle in revisions – but whether you’re working through edits, or trying to get them right on the first try, there are some tips you can make use of to get the...
by lauralizbuckley | 1 Jun, 2021 | Writing
The question, ‘how long should your book be?’ isn’t always easy to answer precisely. Exactly how long your manuscript will be comes down to a few factors. Some of those will be highly specific, but luckily some can be more generalised. The two main things to take into...
by lauralizbuckley | 4 May, 2021 | Writing
Working to tighten up dialogue can feel challenging. When we’re writing dialogue, we typically want our characters to sound real. But real dialogue is a mess! It’s full of fillers, back-tracking and accidental contradictions. It’s meandering and messy, and can take a...
by lauralizbuckley | 27 Apr, 2021 | Writing
What is writer’s block? And how can you get through it? I’ve talked before about overcoming writer’s block, but today I really want to dig into where it comes from. Can you avoid it? And, if you’ve got it, how can you get rid of it? What is writer’s block? Put simply,...
by lauralizbuckley | 8 Apr, 2021 | Writing
If you read my March wrap-up, you’ll have seen that I’m very into Parks and Recreation at the moment. For those who don’t know, this is a mockumentary-style sitcom that follows Leslie Knope, a bureaucrat in the Parks department of Pawnee, Indiana. The show is really...
by lauralizbuckley | 16 Mar, 2021 | Writing
Always in search of good descriptive writing tips, I found myself watching this video the other day. It’s a short video on how to write descriptively. It made some interesting points; some I agreed with, some I didn’t. But I thought it would be interesting to go...
