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,...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Sep 26, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and course tutor at Creating Writers. “I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.” Erica Jong In her case, the judgement was favourable. She became the...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Sep 25, 2021 | getting started on writing, Writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers Many of us want to write a book but don’t know where to start. We’re not sure how to write characterisation or how to move the story forward in a way that will engage with readers. We also know that there will...
