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Health, Sports & Psychology
Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
For Graham Pike, writing psychology courses is part of the job. But what happened when he found himself having to create a crime drama?
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History & The Arts
Star Wars: The use of myth
How does a science fiction franchise have any resonance for audiences nowadays? The use of myth helps with familiarity...
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History & The Arts
Quiz: Which Brontë sister wrote it?
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë had very different writing styles but can you tell their writing apart from the other? Try our interactive quiz to find out.
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History & The Arts
Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
Is there a magic ingredient to writing good sex scenes? This article explores...
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History & The Arts
Race and place
How does your background and childhood experiences impact on your sense of identity? Poet Jackie Kay explores through poetry.
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History & The Arts
Ten top tips for writing a novel
Got a novel bursting to get out? These tips from novelist and lecturer Sally O'Reilly may surprise you...
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History & The Arts
So you've written your novel, what now?
Literary agent Joanna Swainson shares her top five tips for hooking an agent.
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History & The Arts
Creative writing and critical reading
This free course, Creative writing and critical reading, explores the importance of reading as part of a creative writer’s development at the postgraduate level. You will gain inspiration and ideas from examining other writers’ methods, as well as enhancing your critical reading skills. Examples will cover the genres of fiction, creative ...
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History & The Arts
Writing what you know
Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? This free course, Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their work.
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History & The Arts
How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’
Evidence from a poem and sonnett suggest that William Shakespeare drew at least some of his inspiration from cannabis.
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History & The Arts
From old English to modern English
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings - how did they impact the English language? Marisa Lohr traces the origins and development of the English language, from its early beginnings around 450 AD to the modern global language we use today.
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Science, Maths & Technology
If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Bill Sullivan imagines the feedback facing The Avengers, if Hollywood worked the way scientific journals work. WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.