by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 14, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Two main elements in a book are plot and character. Both are vitally important.. Your book must be populated by characters that seem real. Okay, they may be ghosts, zombies or aliens, but they have to be...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 12, 2021 | getting started on writing, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers A good book should be as long as it needs to be, and no longer. For debut authors, alas, that doesn’t really work now. Most publishers now want books with minimum word counts. It’s part of their policy...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 11, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Writing your book, even if it’s a short one, is going to be a marathon. That can be daunting, knowing the hours of work you’ll have to devote to it. But just accept that it will take a long time to write. In...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 3, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers As I wrote in a recent blog the four elements that go together to form a novel are context, plot, characterisation, and conflict resolution. All play a part in every novel ever written. Get the balance right,...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 1, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers The four elements to every story are: context, plot, characterisation, and conflict resolution. In some degree, all play a part in every novel ever written. Over the next few blogs we’ll take a closer look at...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Sep 28, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and course tutor at Creating Writers. A big mistake for budding authors is to assume that their story has got to be utterly original. But the reality is different. Everything has already been written about. Whether it’s love, death, war,...
