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.
11:06, Mon 3 Dec 2007
Introducing the Writing Challenges podcast and setting challenge number 1 - The Word Hoard.
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11:06, Mon 3 Dec 2007
The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity.
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11:06, Mon 3 Dec 2007
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.
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11:07, Mon 3 Dec 2007
How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?
(MP3 format, 6:34, 6.0 MB)
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11:07, Mon 3 Dec 2007
The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process.
(MP3 format, 10:00, 9.2 MB)
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11:07, Mon 3 Dec 2007
Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork.
(MP3 format, 9:08, 8.4 MB)
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11:07, Mon 3 Dec 2007
Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it.
(MP3 format, 7:31, 6.9 MB)
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11:08, Mon 3 Dec 2007
Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.
(MP3 format, 5:49, 5.3 MB)
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11:08, Mon 3 Dec 2007
When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order.
(MP3 format, 6:13, 5.7 MB)
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11:08, Mon 3 Dec 2007
Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive.
(MP3 format, 6:55, 6.3 MB)
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13:20, Mon 28 Jan 2008
Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster?
(MP3 format, 8:13, 7.5 MB)
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11:31, Wed 6 Feb 2008
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.
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12:17, Wed 20 Feb 2008
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.
(MP3 format, 6:08, 5.6 MB)
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10:16, Tue 26 Feb 2008
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.
(MP3 format, 8:18, 7.6 MB)
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11:32, Mon 10 Mar 2008
Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live.
(MP3 format, 8:08, 7.5 MB)
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10:05, Thu 24 Apr 2008
Where do you, the writer, stand in relation to your characters and readers?
(MP3 format, 7:16, 6.7 MB)
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10:06, Thu 24 Apr 2008
How do I begin?
(MP3 format, 6:39, 6.1 MB)
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10:07, Thu 24 Apr 2008
When reading novels as a writer, you will immediately notice the importance of conflict as the engine of fiction.
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10:08, Thu 24 Apr 2008
All writing is rewriting. With fiction the best test is to read your story aloud, and read it to somebody.
(MP3 format, 6:49, 6.3 MB)
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