by Charlie Laidlaw | Dec 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Every book has to start somewhere, but don’t let the start of your book read like a starting gun. Yes, you can be provocative or shocking, but too much action right at the start can be dizzying. We really...
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 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...
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...
