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 16, 2021 | character writing, Creative writing courses, Writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Your only task as an author is to write stories that people will want to read. To keep them turning pages to find out what happens next. But we mostly engage with books because we engage with their...
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 12, 2021 | book editing, Creative writing courses, getting started on writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers A great many new authors worry endlessly about what they’re writing. Often, they worry so much about what they’re writing that they give up. But take the advice of American speculative novelist, CJ Cherryh....
by Charlie Laidlaw | Nov 11, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing, writing inspiration
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and course tutor at Creating Writers According to surveys, most people would like to write a book. The trouble is that while many people have a vague idea for that book, it often remains just that. A vague idea. The fact is that...
