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This free course was written by Zoe Walkington, Graham Pike and Siobhan Campbell.

The authors would like to thank the Open Psychology Research Centre for supporting the development of this course, Hannah Parish for her expertise and kind help, Andrew Rix for his filming expertise, and Lin Anderson, Gordon Brown, Val McDermid, Sir Ian Rankin and Craig Robertson for their time and insights into the creative process.

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