by lauralizbuckley | 18 Feb, 2020 | Blog Posts
The question comes up once in a while, on Twitter or Reddit, do authors need editors? As both a writer and editor myself, I have some thoughts on the topic. This isn’t an uncommon overlap; while not every writer enjoys editing, or vice versa, there are a lot of people...
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 | 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...
