The Building Blocks of Creative Writing are many and familiar – dialogue, structure, etc. But these Building Blocks need a foundation. This foundation is not often spoken about in magazine columns or books of this nature. It is this foundation that I would like to address before we get into the particulars of the Building Blocks themselves
Now, in this column I might enter into a bit of what might seem absolute nonsense. All I ask you to do is humour me a bit, stay with me till you reach the end of each article then take what makes sense to you and happily disregard what doesn’t. I won’t mind. Honest. This, my dear readers, may well be one of those times. Anyway, here goes . . . Let’s get straight to it – the foundation is you. The stories come from you, the characters come from you, the words come from you. It is YOU who is the foundation upon which the Building Blocks of your writing will sit.
So whoAnd what has the of – the of what makes up the and what has that to do with what you write?
