Louise’s Comments (group member since Nov 07, 2013)

Louise’s comments from the Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! group.

I keep a couple of my favourite birthday cards to use as book marks - they're quite irreverent ones from my BFF and I don't want to throw them away!
I forgot to take anything with me on my recent holiday so ended up using a Hellenic Seaways ferry ticket as a bookmark. I finished the book but kept the ticket.

*hugs*
Thanks guys, I've needed that all day :-)

Louise Scoular
Romance / Chick-Lit

Hi Bisky Hi April, great to meet you too :-)


1987? *sighs* feeling nostalgic. Also feeling ancient :-/

Who doesn't like a free sample?
I'll read an excerpt from the next in the series if that's the case, or if it's from another book by the same author. I don't have a problem with reading it again if I buy the book - it's the same as downloading a sample on kindle and then buying it; you can skip the bit you'd read.

I put an excerpt in my book - it's the prologue to the second book - but I don't know if I'll necessarily do it again.

I agree - nothing should be off-limits if it's pertinent to the plot. However, I think it does depend on the genre/audience for which you're writing. You wouldn't expect a high level of violence in a love story or a fast-paced thriller to hang around while 2 of the characters suddenly fall in love.

I read lots of advice on writing sex scenes before I went ahead and did the deed. Personally, on a scale of Hemingway ('they made love') to Sylvia Day/E L James etc, I'm firmly with Hemingway as I have a good enough imagination to fill in the blanks. However, I realised that if I'm writing romance/chick lit a little more is expected these days, even though I find it incredibly hard. There's nothing worse than a badly written sex scene.

I decided that I'd aim to write something that I'd be happy for both my mother and teenage daughter to read. Thankfully I can touch type, so I wrote the 2 scenes something like this: Closes eyes. Types. Opens eyes to read screen. Winces. Hits delete. Closes eyes. And repeat...

Hi G.G., and thanks :-)
It's always great to make new friends.

Hi, thanks for the invite!
I'm Louise and I should've introduced myself earlier but I'm still bumbling around Goodreads and trying to get familiar with it.
I discovered Goodreads by accident when I found that my book 'How We Remember' (Romance/chick-lit, self-pub a year ago) had a couple of reviews on here.
As I mentioned in the 'Worst book' thread, I'm an avid and eclectic reader, and I've been known to read cereal boxes when desperate. I think I've read books in pretty much every genre. I personally don't have a preference - if it's well-written I'll read it!
I've always written since I was a child but kept it a secret (my uncle was dean of English at Edinburgh Uni - Ian Rankin was one of his students.)until I decided life was too short. What the heck, self-publish and be damned!
I've never joined any kind of book club, forum or literary group before so not sure what's expected...

I'm an avid and eclectic reader (will read cereal boxes & yesterday's news if desperate), and it's rare that I pick up a book that's so bad I can't finish it.

The worst book I've read has to be 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous' by Dawn French. It wasn't remotely marvellous. In fact, I can't believe that I bought a book solely on the basis that I like the author, and didn't read some of her writing first.

It was so bad that I gave up after the first couple of pages: I didn't like the characters, I didn't like the quantity of bad language that you're hit with from the start, and I didn't like Dawn French's writing style.

Never again!