Writing Challenges
David Morley, Director of the Warwick Writing Programme, leads you through a series of creative writing challenges designed to help you develop your creativity and talent as a writer and reader.
Murdering your darlings
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
All writing is rewriting. With fiction the best test is to read your story aloud, and read it to somebody.
DownloadConflict and Crisis
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
When reading novels as a writer, you will immediately notice the importance of conflict as the engine of fiction.
DownloadPoints of view in fiction
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Where do you, the writer, stand in relation to your characters and readers?
DownloadCharacter is Story
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live.
DownloadDreaming a Fictional Continuum
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
So, after all, it was a dream... A fiction writer depends on the dream or fantasy of scenes that are true to life or, at least, carry verisimilitude however fantastic the setting or story.
DownloadThe Palettes for Fiction
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Although the marketplace for short stories is difficult, many new writers choose to begin with writing them, almost as a right of passage, a place for honing language, testing their narrative nerve over a shortish distance, and organising a palette.
DownloadThe Truth About Pride and Prejudice
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Form in fiction is a specific and conscious decision, but your final decision may take several drafts and unsuccessful trials before you find that which suits the material best.
DownloadThe House of Fiction
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster?
DownloadLanguage's Magic
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive.
DownloadShakespeare's Field Trip
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order.
DownloadThe Campaign for Real Language
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.
DownloadMusic, Movement and Brain-Blocking
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it.
DownloadFieldwork for Writers
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork.
DownloadThe Painless Headache
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process.
DownloadA Mental Switch
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?
DownloadThe Character Called the Writer
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Finding your voice will stimulate your progress as a writer. This week's challenge focusses on your self and selves, helping you to get to know the dimensions of your voice.
DownloadAdventures in reading
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity.
DownloadPlay, Pleasure and Games
12:25 Mon 05 Jan 2009
Introducing the Writing Challenges podcast and setting challenge number 1 - The Word Hoard.
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