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 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 20, 2021 | Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and creative writing tutor at Creating Writers A dictum commonly attributed to Mark Twain had three rules for writing. The first was “Write,” the second was “Write” and the third was “Write.” Another dictum involving a rule of three is...
by Charlie Laidlaw | Sep 16, 2021 | Creative writing courses, Writing courses
Charlie Laidlaw is an author and tutor at Creating Writers There are lots of creative writing courses out there. Some are good, bad and ugly. Our Diploma course is, we believe, a little bit different. For a start, if you successfully complete the course, you get an...
