by lauralizbuckley | 21 Oct, 2020 | Writing
Every story takes place somewhere, so some element of worldbuilding will need to go into your book! As with my other NaNoWriMo preparation posts, the focus of this is not to get you a fully developed world. My aim here is to help you pick out some worldbuilding...
by lauralizbuckley | 13 Oct, 2020 | Writing
Part of the process of preparing for NaNoWriMo involves working out your characters for what you want to write. I’ve talked about character development before on here, and if you’re interested in character development in general, I’d recommend this post on getting to...
by lauralizbuckley | 1 Sep, 2020 | Writing
Writing compelling character descriptions can be tough. There’s a lot of pressure on the first description of a character! Here in the real world people often say that you don’t get a second chance at a first impression, and that’s true. However, you do get to keep...
by lauralizbuckley | 7 Jul, 2020 | Writing
“What does your character want?” Have you ever come up against that question and felt stumped? I have. I can have a good sense of a character, and their story, and still find it hard to articulate what it is that they ‘want’. Do your characters need to have clearly...
by lauralizbuckley | 19 May, 2020 | Writing
Okay, you might be wondering, “Why do I want to know how to write an unlikeable character?” Surely the point of developing and writing characters is to get the reader to like them? To root for them? To suffer with their failures and celebrate their successes? Well...
