by lauralizbuckley | 13 Aug, 2019 | Guest Posts
This week I’m delighted to be publishing a guest blog post written by the utterly fantastic Meg Trast, owner and editor at Overhaul My Novel, LLC and author of “Write That Book You Keep Talking About”. Meg here shares some of her hard-won wisdom on...
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 | 4 Jun, 2019 | Blog Posts
The main character of a story can make or break its appeal to a reader. How many books have you read that you couldn’t fully get into because the main character was irritating or poorly developed? When you’re reading a book you experience the world, to at least some...
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...
