Language's Magic

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Language's Magic

FromWriting Challenges

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Aug 7, 2012

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Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive.

Released:

Aug 7, 2012

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (19)

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

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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. by Writing Challenges
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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. by Writing Challenges
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Character is Story: Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live. by Writing Challenges
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Fieldwork for Writers: Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork. by Writing Challenges
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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. by Writing Challenges
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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. by Writing Challenges
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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. by Writing Challenges
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The Painless Headache: The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process. by Writing Challenges
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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? by Writing Challenges
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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. by Writing Challenges
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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. by Writing Challenges
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Adventures in reading: The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity. by Writing Challenges
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Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking: Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it. by Writing Challenges
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