Lessons in creative writing from a ghostly array of great novelists, poets and playwrights such as Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeats and Allen Ginsberg. Presented by Cathy FitzGerald.
âYouâre in the middle of writing something and your mind goes blank⊠ok, youâre being warned, arenât you?â Discover Ray Bradburyâs simple trick for overcoming writerâs block.
Contemporary novelist Caryl Phillips close reads a dramatic passage from âAnother Countryâ by James Baldwin to see what we can learn from the great American writer.
If youâre going to put your work out in the world, then sooner or later, someoneâs going to take a pop at it. This lesson features tips on handling critics from novelists John Fowles and Graham Greene, plus some unexpected behaviour from Henry James.
âEasy reading is damned hard writing,â says Maya Angelou. Hear the many pains she takes to âsharpen her languageâ in this lesson about revising your work.
Hear how Graham Greene gradually evolves a character â and a novel - on a research trip to a leper colony in the Congo.
Sometimes the world gives writers a location so atmospheric itâs just waiting for a back story. But how do we do it justice? Poet Ted Hughes, diarist Christopher Isherwood and Vladimir Nabokov on capturing the soul of a place in words.
How often do you get the chance to attend a lecture by one of the Beats? An extraordinary opportunity to spend time with poet Allen Ginsberg, as he explains Jack Kerouacâs theory of writing.
If you want to write good dialogue, you need good ears. Listen to all the little idiosyncrasies of an individual voice: the cadences, elisions, flourishes. With an extended reading from short-story writer and poet, Grace Paley.
Waiting for the muse to strike? Give it up and get writing. Here are five creation stories from the archives to inspire you, from novelists Beryl Bainbridge, John Fowles, Daphne du Maurier, Roald Dahl and Ray Bradbury.
In praise of day-dreaming, holidays and playing hookey: this lesson exalts the importance of time off. Go to the pub with W.B. Yeats, flit through the airport with Noel Coward, and wander the streets of Paris with Henry Miller.
The subconscious mind can be the writerâs greatest helper â or nastiest foe. This lesson considers ways to access its mysterious depths, with archive clips of novelists Doris Lessing and Aldous Huxley and a mesmerising reading of âIâve Known Riversâ by poet Langston Hughes.
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