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...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Nov 14, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Some authors will say that the names of their characters matter. Others will say that it doesn’t matter. Nevertheless, most authors spend a great deal of time thinking up names for their characters. It’s a...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Nov 6, 2021 | getting started on writing, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers To succeed as a writer your book must have a structure that works, and it must be told in a way that is engaging for the reader. A simple structure might be: you set the scene, and stuff happens that...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 28, 2021 | Writing, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers A trick you have to master, based on the books you enjoy, the genres you read, your creative ideas, and the X-Factor of inspiration, is to find your “voice.” In a literary context, “voice” seems an...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 18, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Every book has a beginning, middle, and an end. Put simply, a book is a series of events that move the story from A to Z. The journey from A to Z resolves the conflict that is at the heart of the story. Each...
