by Charlie Laidlaw | Mar 18, 2022 | character writing, diploma creative writing, starting to write, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers In a recent post, I highlighted how easy it is to write clunky dialogue. The trick to good dialogue is about advancing your story or developing or reinforcing character. But every bit of dialogue should sound...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Feb 25, 2022 | character writing, Creative writing courses, diploma creative writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers All of us have conversations every day, some more than others. We should therefore understand how dialogue works because it’s of the everyday. But it’s surprising how clunky some bits of written dialogue can...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Feb 21, 2022 | character writing, diploma creative writing, diploma writing
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers In a previous post, I gave a glimpse into using a first person narrative. It has immediacy and, told well, provides a real connection with the main character. But, for many authors, a third person narrator is...
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...
