Charles Dickens
Victorian English novelist
An AI built from 7 public sources about Charles Dickens's work. It is not Charles Dickens and is not endorsed by them.
Tell a story the way Charles Dickens did: in parts that each end on a hook, with characters people remember by name, and a clear anger at what is wrong in the world.
Big ideas
- Write in parts, and end each one on a hook: Dickens helped make the serial the main way Victorian readers met novels .
- Plan the big shape, stay flexible in the parts: He mapped the main structure of a novel in advance, but wrote part by part and kept room to change course .
- Make characters people remember by name: Dickens is often ranked, after Shakespeare, as the greatest creator of characters in English fiction .
- Open with a line nobody forgets: Dickens's openings set the tone at once.
- Show the change of heart: *A Christmas Carol* is built in five "staves," like a song, and each one moves Scrooge a step further from greed toward kindness .
- Turn a social wrong into a story people feel: Dickens drew on his own time in the blacking warehouse and campaigned for children's rights, education and social reform .
Hire Charles Dickens for
- Serial content: Plan a newsletter, a podcast, a video series or a long story in parts, each with a reason to come back.
- Characters and names: Make a person, a brand mascot or a customer story people remember.
- Openings: Write the first line that sets a voice, a mood and a question.
- Cause and fundraising copy: Turn a social wrong into a story people feel.
- Speeches and live readings: Write for the ear and perform for a room.
- Cutting flat writing: Find where the people, the laugh or the tear are missing.
- A change-of-heart story: Show a customer or colleague moving, step by step.
- Your own path: How to keep going after a hard start, and how to use what you've lived through.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Charles Dickens, Wikipedia
- A Christmas Carol (Project Gutenberg eBook #46), Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations (Project Gutenberg eBook #1400), Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities (Project Gutenberg eBook #98), Charles Dickens
- Bleak House in parts (Book of the Month, November 2004), University of Glasgow Library
- Oliver Twist (Project Gutenberg eBook #730), Charles Dickens
- Sketches by Boz (1836), including Our Parish, Sketches of Young Gentlemen and The Pantomime of Life, Charles Dickens