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.

Adventures in reading The relationship between reading and writing and how being an 'original' reader can help with creativity. (MP3 format, 6:27, 5.9 MB) Download

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. (MP3 format, 6:41, 6.1 MB) Download

A Mental Switch How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write? (MP3 format, 6:34, 6.0 MB) Download

The Painless Headache The role of consciousness in writing and the creative process. (MP3 format, 10:00, 9.2 MB) Download

Fieldwork for Writers Everything is quarry, everyone is material, and everywhere is fieldwork. (MP3 format, 9:08, 8.4 MB) Download

Music, Movement and Brain-Blocking Mess with your brain to get the best writing out of it. (MP3 format, 7:31, 6.9 MB) Download

The Campaign for Real Language Creative writing's capacity for the creation of illusion-as-truth can make it a dangerous tool. (MP3 format, 5:49, 5.3 MB) Download

Shakespeare's Field Trip When we use words, we have to use the right words and the right words in the best order. (MP3 format, 6:13, 5.7 MB) Download

Language's Magic Natural magic informs every function of our bodies, our life span and the way we perceive. (MP3 format, 6:55, 6.3 MB) Download

The House of Fiction Should you be trying to achieve artistic truth in your fiction or writing the next commercial blockbuster? (MP3 format, 8:13, 7.5 MB) Download

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. (MP3 format, 6:27, 5.9 MB) Download

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. (MP3 format, 6:08, 5.6 MB) Download

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. (MP3 format, 8:18, 7.6 MB) Download

Character is Story Character is the heart and mind of your story - it is what makes it live. (MP3 format, 8:08, 7.5 MB) Download

Points of view in fiction Where do you, the writer, stand in relation to your characters and readers? (MP3 format, 7:16, 6.7 MB) Download

Conflict and Crisis When reading novels as a writer, you will immediately notice the importance of conflict as the engine of fiction. (MP3 format, 4:01, 3.7 MB) Download