Writing Challenges

University of Warwick

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.

  • 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}
    7 August 2012, 1:01 pm
  • Adventures in reading
    The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity.
    7 August 2012, 1:01 pm
  • 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.
    7 August 2012, 1:01 pm
  • A Mental Switch
    How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?
    7 August 2012, 1:00 pm
  • The Painless Headache
    The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process.
    7 August 2012, 1:00 pm
  • Fieldwork for Writers
    Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork.
    7 August 2012, 1:00 pm
  • Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking
    Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it.
    7 August 2012, 12:59 pm
  • The Campaign for Real Language
    Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool.
    7 August 2012, 12:59 pm
  • Shakespeare's Field Trip
    When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order.
    7 August 2012, 12:59 pm
  • Language's Magic
    Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive.
    7 August 2012, 12:58 pm
  • The House of Fiction
    Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster?
    7 August 2012, 12:58 pm
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