Writing Challenges

By University of Warwick

What's Writing Challenges about?

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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Writing Challenges episodes:

08.07.2012
Play, Pleasure and Games
Introducing the Writing Challenges podcast and setting challenge number 1 - The Word Hoard. My Odeo Channel (odeo/47a3e11b60d61c7b) Podshow PDN {podshow-77fc408d91196dd73cc96103e5c946f6}
08.07.2012
Adventures in reading
The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity.
08.07.2012
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.
08.07.2012
A Mental Switch
How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?
08.07.2012
The Painless Headache
The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process.
08.07.2012
Fieldwork for Writers
Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork.
08.07.2012
Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking
Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it.
08.07.2012
The Campaign for Real Language
Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.
08.07.2012
Shakespeare's Field Trip
When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order.
08.07.2012
Language's Magic
Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive.
08.07.2012
The House of Fiction
Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster?
08.07.2012
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.
08.07.2012
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.
08.07.2012
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.
08.07.2012
Character is Story
Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live.
08.07.2012
Points of view in fiction
Where do you, the writer, stand in relation to your characters and readers?
08.07.2012
Beginning at the Beginning
How do I begin?
08.07.2012
Conflict and Crisis
When reading novels as a writer, you will immediately notice the importance of conflict as the engine of fiction.
08.07.2012
Murdering your darlings
All writing is rewriting. With fiction the best test is to read your story aloud, and read it to somebody.

What's Writing Challenges about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Writing Challenges episodes:

Play, Pleasure and Games

Adventures in reading

The Character Called the Writer

A Mental Switch

The Painless Headache

Fieldwork for Writers

Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking

The Campaign for Real Language

Shakespeare's Field Trip

Language's Magic

The House of Fiction

The Truth About Pride and Prejudice

The Palettes for Fiction

Dreaming a Fictional Continuum

Character is Story

Points of view in fiction

Beginning at the Beginning

Conflict and Crisis

Murdering your darlings