Writing Challenges
by University of Warwick
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Description
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.
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Murdering your darlings | All writing is rewriting. With fiction the best test is to read your story aloud, and read it to somebody. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conflict and Crisis | When reading novels as a writer, you will immediately notice the importance of conflict as the engine of fiction. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beginning at the Beginning | How do I begin? | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Points of view in fiction | Where do you, the writer, stand in relation to your characters and readers? | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Character is Story | Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dreaming a Fictional Continuum | 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. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Palettes for Fiction | 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. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Truth About Pride and Prejudice | 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. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The House of Fiction | Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster? | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Language's Magic | Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shakespeare's Field Trip | When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Campaign for Real Language | Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking | Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fieldwork for Writers | Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Painless Headache | The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Mental Switch | How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write? | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Character Called the Writer | 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. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adventures in reading | The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Play, Pleasure and Games | Introducing the Writing Challenges podcast and setting challenge number 1 - The Word Hoard. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 19 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Extremely Interesting
I love this series. It is extremely well-written, narrated, and poses interesting questions in every episode. It probes more deeply the craft of fiction. I find it helps me to become a better reader as much as I learn the craft of writing.
Helpful- well-stated & well-spoken
Thanks to the teachers and iTunes. This podcast has solid advice for beginning writers and exceptional delivery. You can get similar content elsewhere, but I feel that this delivery is more intelligent. So many writing podcasts are bogged down by banter and/ or whining by the podcasters. Sometimes, you want to learn rather than just listen, and you want real facts rather than rambling. This is a great place to learn about writing. Plus, I'm not sure why I love podcasters with accents, but they definitely hold my attention better.
