Editing Irvine Welsh (section)

==Style==
Welsh's novels share characters, giving the feel of a "shared universe" within his writing. For example, characters from ''Trainspotting'' make cameo appearances in ''The Acid House'', ''Marabou Stork Nightmares'', ''Ecstasy'', ''Filth'', and slightly larger appearances in ''Glue'', whose characters then appear in ''Porno''.

Welsh is known for writing in his native [[Central Scots|Edinburgh dialect of Scots]]. He generally ignores the traditional conventions of literary Scots, used for example by [[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]], [[Robert Fergusson]], [[Robert Burns]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], and [[James Orr (poet)|James Orr]]. Instead, he transcribes dialects phonetically.

Like [[Alasdair Gray]] before him, Welsh also experiments with [[typography]]. In the novel ''Filth'', the tapeworm's [[internal monologue]] is imposed over the top of the protagonist's own internal monologue (the worm's host), visibly depicting the tapeworm's voracious appetite, much like the "Climax of Voices" in Gray's novel ''[[1982, Janine]]''.