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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...
Purple prose

Purple prose

by Charlie Laidlaw | Dec 29, 2021 | Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing, getting started on writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers It’s the writer’s job to paint pictures in a reader’s mind, and the temptation is to describe things in minute detail.  Wrong. The reader wants to be told some detail, but not everything.  After all, your...
Third-person voice

Third-person voice

by Charlie Laidlaw | Dec 3, 2021 | diploma creative writing, diploma writing, getting started on writing, Writing courses

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers As a writer you have to find your voice.  A way of writing that is yours.  It’s all about the stories you write and the way you tell them. Finding that voice can be easy or hard; we instinctively understand...
Do your research

Do your research

by Charlie Laidlaw | Nov 29, 2021 | Book research, Creative writing courses, getting started on writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers To be credible, a novel must be authentic.  It must have authentic characters, good or bad.  The story, narrative and dialogue must unfold in places that feel real. Those places and those characters may be...
Making things interesting

Making things interesting

by Charlie Laidlaw | Nov 21, 2021 | character writing, getting started on writing, Writing courses

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Most of us live fairly humdrum lives, but that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t make good novels. We fall in love, we grow older, we fall out of love.  We make friends, we lose friends.  Our lives are all about...
Edit, edit, edit

Edit, edit, edit

by Charlie Laidlaw | Nov 12, 2021 | book editing, Creative writing courses, getting started on writing

Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers A great many new authors worry endlessly about what they’re writing. Often, they worry so much about what they’re writing that they give up. But take the advice of American speculative novelist, CJ Cherryh....
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