Author Buzz | Sarah | Activity https://authorbuzz.co.uk/members/sassyjc/activity/ Activity feed for Sarah. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:18:48 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 f179b42cea273566b899ba9a02edcc77 Sarah replied to the topic Any tips for editing? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/any-tips-for-editing/#post-3822 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:18:33 +0000 Hi Toni, very good question! Sometimes reading the scene/text out loud can help as a starting point.  Always look at what paragraph/chapter/scene comes before and after as well – this is good for making the writing more balanced in terms of what you need to add or take away.  So, for example, if you’re introducing two characters then you need to g…Read more

]]> 0 ae3d23ad946533d57a12943f7df9caf5 Sarah commented on the post, Happy Birthday to me..., on the groupblog Matthew D Brown https://matthewdbrown.authorbuzz.co.uk/lordmatt/reflections-and-thoughts/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-146 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:59:27 +0100 Many happy returns.

]]> 08b49cfdc342e620aeafd17a0bec43bf Sarah replied to the topic Any tips for editing? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/any-tips-for-editing/#post-3655 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:26:47 +0100 @Toni – Replied below!

]]> 0 1240408acbb535a0d8aaa11e70ca3229 Sarah replied to the topic Any tips for editing? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/any-tips-for-editing/#post-3654 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:19:24 +0100 Hi Toni, feel free to ask away! Sorry to take a flipping age to reply to this, would be great to chat about this and all other things writing. And honestly all of these systems only really amount to is a distraction from the task at hand.    I even totted up all the characters mentioned in the book I’m currently working on to see if there were t…Read more

]]> 0 4e925dfadfcf3bff21b905377a7ab162 Sarah replied to the topic Any tips for editing? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/any-tips-for-editing/#post-3611 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:54:31 +0100 Hands up who’s editing at the moment!

I’m very good at finding ‘ways’ and ‘methods’ and ‘systems’.  In fact I’m better at that than the editing itself – no surprises there.  At the moment I’ve got each scene summarised on an index card (current count is 95 cards) which I’m now indexing into a small ringbinder (Filofax for info).  I also have a Nu…Read more

]]> 0 cd94c2818d12853587d3f40d95d22bea Sarah commented on the post, Writers of Thanet, on the groupblog Thanet Creative https://thanetcreative.co.uk/2017/10/writers-of-thanet/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:04:49 +0100 L.P. Hartley who wrote The Go Between went to school in Cliftonville. Hartley uses some of his own childhood memories to describe the train trip that Leo takes along the North Kent coast.
Baroness Orczy who […]

]]> 3714a7c32bbdd9be5d0fc4839ca08d22 Sarah commented on the post, It is time to level up my writing, on the groupblog Matthew D Brown https://matthewdbrown.authorbuzz.co.uk/lordmatt/news-and-updates/it-is-time-to-level-up-my-writing/#comment-142 Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:32:15 +0100 Look forward to hearing how you progress!

]]> d0f426cb302cee7566d820b97cd014f6 Sarah replied to the topic Is the genre you read the same as the one you write? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/is-the-genre-you-read-the-same-as-the-one-you-write/#post-3448 Sat, 21 May 2022 08:12:40 +0100 Mostly, yes.

]]> 0 4f992305c1ab08d5d0ca22b9ed983259 Sarah commented on the post, What aspects of writing do you struggle with?, on the groupblog The Muse of Last Resort https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/questions-for-writers/what-aspects-of-writing-do-you-struggle-with/#comment-66 Sat, 21 May 2022 08:10:32 +0100 Editing. Although when I get into it I don’t mind. Plus dealing with edits and coming up with new ideas that I hadn’t thought of in the planning and what was a 60k word books becomes a trilogy spanning 4 […]

]]> 7cb61a5e685822e81e3546564ed7c423 Sarah replied to the topic How many chapters should a book have? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/how-many-chapters-should-a-book-have/#post-3444 Thu, 19 May 2022 10:02:28 +0100 Hi Burty, I would imagine it’s up to the author and the type of project they’re working on.  I work on a 24 chapter format (historical fiction) for which there are various templates and so on.  There are 27 chapter templates available as well.  I quite like formulaic though as it means I’ve got a rough chance of hitting beats and so on – not fo…Read more

]]> 0 4f2405a594c0614976b2b03bccb2c4ed Sarah commented on the post, The Power of Visual Descriptions, on the groupblog Thanet Creative https://thanetcreative.co.uk/2022/05/the-power-of-visual-descriptions/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Tue, 03 May 2022 10:21:56 +0100 I like what you said about setting becoming a character in its own right. I think this works especially well in Gothic literature. I write historical fiction and so writing description goes hand in hand with this, […]

]]> 062c2eced802f0fe02222e58f84b0c60 Sarah commented on the post, Writers' night is back - now in The Mulberry Tree, on the groupblog Thanet Creative https://thanetcreative.co.uk/2022/04/writers-night-is-back-now-in-the-mulberry-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Tue, 03 May 2022 09:57:44 +0100 Hi, I’m quite interested in attending. Can you tell me what the parking’s like here please? Thanks

]]> 7b54ab16892232763471d68bd231c565 Sarah replied to the topic Can I present a fictional story as a true story? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/can-i-present-a-fictional-story-as-a-true-story/#post-3406 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 13:22:23 +0100 I enjoy the ‘unreliable narrator’ aspect of writing and having ideas and perspectives challenged, so to have a fictionalised biography it gives the opportunity to play about with a period in history or an alternate world that the character inhabits.

]]> 0 10dfc5a19d420b5c528572debeb476c8 Sarah replied to the topic Can I present a fictional story as a true story? in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/can-i-present-a-fictional-story-as-a-true-story/#post-3400 Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:01:53 +0100 Absolutely I’d say.  There are some great books of this sort of ilk – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke has footnotes and references all the way through of magic books from the 17th/18th Centuries, Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders again uses footnotes to include eyewitness accounts and references from other sources and even Dra…Read more

]]> 0 51b41d6c073755efd74f6b6f645c3c42 Sarah replied to the topic Fairy mythology in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/forums/topic/fairy-mythology/#post-3386 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:50:20 +0100 Hi Toni, I’m currently trawling through a whole bunch of editing so this question has, of course, piqued my interest and is a very welcome distraction.  Unfortunately I’m unable to help you and I’m sure you’ve done all the usual googley/wiki things that I’ve just done, but I did think it interesting that fairy mythology is only particular to…Read more

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