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Writing Challenges

Play, Pleasure and Games

The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity.

Adventures in reading

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 Character Called the Writer

How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?

A Mental Switch

The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process.

The Painless Headache

Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork.

Fieldwork for Writers

Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it.

Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking

Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.

The Campaign for Real Language

When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order.

Shakespeare's Field Trip

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

Language's Magic

Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster?

The House of Fiction

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 Truth About Pride and Prejudice

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.

The Palettes for Fiction

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.

Dreaming a Fictional Continuum

Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live.

Character is Story

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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