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Creative Writing: Track 1

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10 Nov
2008


The tracks on this album offer an invaluable insight into a wide range of techniques and practices surrounding Creative Writing. Writers as diverse as Alan Ayckbourn, Ian McMillan and Tanika Gupta talk openly about their approaches and attitudes to all aspects of writing from original concept to final drafts and productions. Writing for stage, print, television and radio is discussed in engaging and articulate detail. This material forms part of The Open University course A363 Advanced creative writing.

Track 1: Tanika Gupta on Voice

Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing.


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Tracks in this podcast:

Track  TitleDescription
1Tanika Gupta on Voice  Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing. Read more Tanika Gupta on Voice
2Helen Blakeman and Setting  Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of factors such as structure and voice. Read more Helen Blakeman and Setting
3Developing the Idea  Playwriting master Alan Ayckbourn reveals how he develops and connects ideas for his plays, and the meticulous process of structuring and ‘building’ a script. Read more Developing the Idea
4Alan Ayckbourn on Redrafting  Ayckbourn's approach to redrafting and rewriting scripts, and how dramatic ideas and twists emerge. Read more Alan Ayckbourn on Redrafting
5Alan Ayckbourn as Director  Alan Ayckbourn's work as a director, and how this informs his writing. The economy of playwriting, and the writer’s awareness of the limitations of the stage. Read more Alan Ayckbourn as Director
6Alan Ayckbourn and Staging  Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the theatre, Alan Ayckbourn offers an insight into the varius methods of staging, drawing a link between his own work and theatre in the round. Read more Alan Ayckbourn and Staging
7Adaptation and Breakdowns  Renowned writer David Edgar discusses his ideas on Aristotle’s unities, linking this to ways of adapting existing works. Read more Adaptation and Breakdowns
8Jane Rogers on Adapting for Television  Novelist and playwright Jane Rogers talks about the transition of one of her novels, Mr. Wroe’s Virgins, into a four part television series. Read more Jane Rogers on Adapting for Television
9Jane Rogers as Novelist  Jane Rogers talks about her work as a novelist, and the methods of storytelling and voice she employs. She brings together various forms and approaches, such as the use of cinematic editing techniques, in her novels Read more Jane Rogers as Novelist
10Approaches to Contemporary Fiction  Jane Rogers talks about her work in terms of viewing herself as a contemporary novelist. She draws links to literary greats, and techniques like 'the unreliable narrator'. Read more Approaches to Contemporary Fiction
11The Mass Observation Archive  Dorothy Sheridan, director of the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex, talks about the archive in terms of a research tool and a repository of unique material. Read more The Mass Observation Archive
12Liz Jensen, Development and Decisions  Author Liz Jensen talks about her novels and how they develop in terms of storyline, plot, character and voice, How she often rejects planning in favour of a more organic approach to her work. Read more Liz Jensen, Development and Decisions
13Structure, Revision and Theme  Novelist Liz Jensen talks about narrative viewpoints, and their benefits and shortcomings in terms of storytelling. Read more Structure, Revision and Theme
14Ian McMillan and Repetition  Poet and presenter Ian McMillan takes a light-hearted look at the use of repetition in his poems. Read more Ian McMillan and Repetition
15Poetry and Surrealism  Ian McMillan talks about the importance and use of surrealism in his poetry. Read more Poetry and Surrealism
16Hilary Mantel on Film and Drama  Hilary Mantel talks about the importance and influence television and film have had on her development as a writer. The paragraph as the basic building block of fiction, and how this can generate a successful narrative. Read more Hilary Mantel on Film and Drama
17Rhetoric and Rhythm  Hilary Mantel uses examples and a reading from her own novel Vacant Possession, to examine the use of rhetoric and rhythm, and how they can seed ideas in a reader and build up the relationship between reader and text. Read more Rhetoric and Rhythm


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