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History & The Arts
Start writing fiction
Have you always wanted to write, but never quite had the courage to start? This free course, Start writing fiction, will give you an insight into how authors create their characters and settings. You will also be able to look at the different genres for fiction.
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History & The Arts
What's creative about creative writing?
Can creativity be taught? How far can you be creative when translating other people's work? Listen to translators, authors and creative writing teachers as they explore these and other questions of creativity.
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History & The Arts
Interviews - Writing For Radio
Get some advice on how to write a radio script from those that work in the industry.
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History & The Arts
We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover
Why has the absence of a Quentin Blake illustration in favour of a more grown up image on a 50th birthday edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory caused outrage?
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History & The Arts
The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
Roald Dahl: the incredible storyteller loved by millions or a belittling bully? Find out what his character was like in this article.
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Languages
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
An introduction to using a corpus to get answers in linguistics.
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History & The Arts
The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
In January 2007, J.K. Rowling finished writing 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' in a room at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. What drives literary tourists to visit the room where she penned the final chapter?
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History & The Arts
Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
As the series 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' turns 20 we look back at how, though she may have been a modern California girl, Buffy's relationships with creatures of the dark is a tale as old as Slayers themselves...
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History & The Arts
Thoughts on creativity
Andrew Cowan shares his perspective on the creativity, his creative process - and beating writer's block.
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History & The Arts
At home with ghosts and werewolves
Toby Litt explains his approach to chronicling his non-realistic worlds.
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History & The Arts
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
Two authors who tell stories about the past come together to compare notes.
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Languages
Keep the quotes straight and the puns sharp: The creativity of translation
Professor Jeremy Munday, and professional translators Jutta Schettler and Jamie Bulloch talk about creativity in translation.