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....
by Charlie Laidlaw | Mar 18, 2022 | character writing, diploma creative writing, starting to write, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers In a recent post, I highlighted how easy it is to write clunky dialogue. The trick to good dialogue is about advancing your story or developing or reinforcing character. But every bit of dialogue should sound...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Dec 6, 2021 | Creative writing courses, diploma writing, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers I like first lines, although I probably take them more seriously than many. Because, for me, the first line is the one sentence in any book that its author has agonised over the most. If that first line jars,...
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...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Nov 24, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Defining an audience, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Readers engage with books because we’re enthralled with the plot or the characters. We want to keep turning pages because we want to know what happens next. We like the story and the characters that populate...
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...
