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 9, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers EM Forster wrote that a story ‘can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. ‘A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality – “The king died and...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Oct 7, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers. Here he takes a look at finding inspiration. It’s sometimes said that most books fall into two categories. Someone ordinary finding themselves in an extraordinary situation. Or somebody more unusual or...
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,...
