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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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All writing is rewriting. With fiction the best test is to read your story aloud, and read it to somebody.
When reading novels as a writer, you will immediately notice the importance of conflict as the engine of fiction.
How do I begin?
Where do you, the writer, stand in relation to your characters and readers?
Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live.
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.
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.
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.
Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster?
Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive.
When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order.
Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.
Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it.
Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork.
The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process.
How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?
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.
The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity.
Introducing the Writing Challenges podcast and setting challenge number 1 - The Word Hoard.
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