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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play, Pleasure and Games | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Introducing the Writing Challenges podcast and setting challenge number 1 - The Word Hoard.
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| Adventures in reading | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity. | |||
| The House of Fiction | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster? | |||
| The Truth About Pride and Prejudice | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
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. | |||
| The Palettes for Fiction | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
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. | |||
| Dreaming a Fictional Continuum | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
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. | |||
| Character is Story | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live. | |||
| Points of view in fiction | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Where do you, the writer, stand in relation to your characters and readers? | |||
| Beginning at the Beginning | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
How do I begin? | |||
| Conflict and Crisis | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
When reading novels as a writer, you will immediately notice the importance of conflict as the engine of fiction. | |||
| Murdering your darlings | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
All writing is rewriting. With fiction the best test is to read your story aloud, and read it to somebody. | |||
| The Character Called the Writer | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
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. | |||
| A Mental Switch | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write? | |||
| The Painless Headache | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process. | |||
| Fieldwork for Writers | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork. | |||
| Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it. | |||
| The Campaign for Real Language | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool. | |||
| Shakespeare's Field Trip | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order. | |||
| Language's Magic | 07 Aug 2012 | ||
Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive. | |||
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