Writing creatively: fiction
by The Open University
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Get encouragement and support from the authors of international bestsellers, including Alex Garland (‘The Beach’), Hilary Mantel (‘Wolf Hall’), Michèle Roberts (‘The Looking Glass’ and ‘Daughters of the House’), and Louis de Bernières (‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’). All these authors are featured in this pathway.
Writers use their own work to explain how to develop your own style and skills. Author Jane Rogers uses her book, ‘Mr Wroe’s Virgins’, to explain about voice and character.
Learn about structures, genres and narrative techniques. Find out about the editing and re-writing process. Finally, take inspiration from an unusual source – business executives demonstrate how to lose your inhibitions and start telling stories.
|1||Writing creatively: fiction - video introduction||--||1:57||Free||View In iTunes|
||Start writing fiction||An introduction to this album.||0:54||Free||View In iTunes|
||Starting the writing process||Here, the novelists on the panel discuss what first attracted them to writing prose and what writing means to them.||10:07||Free||View In iTunes|
||Researching and influencing your fiction||In order to write, every novelist must read. The importance of reading and how this can influence your own style.||7:25||Free||View In iTunes|
||Characters and genre||How do you create a believable character, and how can genre hinder or help a writer?||10:37||Free||View In iTunes|
||Jane 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||15:32||Free||View In iTunes|
||Narrative and structural techniques||Technical methods of storytelling and how to structure a book.||11:01||Free||View In iTunes|
|8||Start writing fiction||Have you always wanted to write, but never quite had the courage to start? This unit will give you an insight into how authors create their characters and the settings for their work. You will also be able to look at the different genres for fiction. This||--||Free||View In iTunes|
||Liz 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.||8:11||Free||View In iTunes|
||Structure, Revision and Theme||Novelist Liz Jensen talks about narrative viewpoints, and their benefits and shortcomings in terms of storytelling.||10:41||Free||View In iTunes|
||Hilary 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.||7:29||Free||View In iTunes|
||Redrafting and editing||Good writing isn’t really about writing – it’s about rewriting. The crucial aspects to consider in the editing process, including the pace and precision of your prose.||6:12||Free||View In iTunes|
||How to keep going||Examining the importance of a writer’s own experience and how this feeds into prose. The value of self-criticism and how to keep writing when the going gets tough.||7:26||Free||View In iTunes|
|14||Storytelling warm-up||Techniques for a group to make up a story together, a powerful technique for working on problematic issues.||7:40||Free||View In iTunes|
||Imagery and metaphor||An introduction to this album.||1:06||Free||View In iTunes|
I went down the list downloading all 15 things then went to my iTunes U tab to find multiple "collections" added, most containing 1 file, the biggest contained 4. Makes it imposible to guess which order they were in and had to return to the store page and write it down for future reference. fix this please iTunes.
Yes!God!please fix the disorganized confused and annoying iTunes program!clearly iTunes knows what I have already downloaded but does not keep track. This means one has to remember the last episode downloaded. That glitch makes iTunes cumbersome and annoying.oh and not to mention most podcasts are are ordered last to first again...annoying when it is a series of lectures or something else you want to listen to in it's natural order and entirety. options!?please!
The download order is dissapointing
As the previous reviewer mentioned, once you go down the list to download all the files, it groups them in a way that is redundant, fix this please. 1 star until fixed.