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More showing and telling

More showing and telling

by Charlie Laidlaw | Apr 12, 2022 | Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing, show and tell, Writing courses

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers In my last post I wrote about “show” and “tell.” Books need both to make narrative sparkle.  That requires balance and clear purpose to your writing.  So let’s look at that balance in a little more detail....
Show and tell

Show and tell

by Charlie Laidlaw | Apr 6, 2022 | Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing, show and tell, Writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers A novel is a work of dramatic art, just like a play, film or TV drama.  To convey mood or tension, a film has dialogue, gesture and music. But a novel has to conjure mood and tension from words alone.  It’s in...
Dialogue tags and other stuff

Dialogue tags and other stuff

by Charlie Laidlaw | Mar 21, 2022 | Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing, diploma writing, getting started on writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers In previous posts, I’ve looked at different aspects of writing dialogue. It’s an important part of the writer’s skillset, because dialogue develops both plot and character. If your dialogue doesn’t sound...
Writing dialogue

Writing dialogue

by Charlie Laidlaw | Feb 25, 2022 | character writing, Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers All of us have conversations every day, some more than others.  We should therefore understand how dialogue works because it’s of the everyday. But it’s surprising how clunky some bits of written dialogue can...
The weight of words

The weight of words

by Charlie Laidlaw | Jan 19, 2022 | book editing, Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers You’re writing a book, and one of the first things to learn is that every word carries weight. Some will have more weight than others, and you have to decide whether a particular word is necessary or not. As a...
Past tense

Past tense

by Charlie Laidlaw | Jan 10, 2022 | Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing, diploma writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Writing in the past tense is the construct used in most novels by most novelists.  We expect it; it doesn’t jar with us and, frankly, it’s easier. It allows you, the writer, to manipulate time – to move...
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