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Introduction
No full textThis is the substantive introduction to 'Writing Talk: interviews with writers about the creative process'. It investigates the role of writer-interview in further examining aspects of the writing process. It including the following sections: 'On these writers'; 'The virtue of interview'; 'On the creative process'; 'Uncertainty and the necessity of not knowing'; 'Image before word'; 'The author is dead, but what of the writer?' This introduction is written by the book's editor and interviewer. The interviewed writers are: Alan Ayckbourn, Iain Banks, Helen Blakeman, Louis de Bernières, Sarah Butler, Andrew Cowan, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, David Edgar, Tanika Gupta, Richard Holmes, Hanif Kureishi, Bryony Lavery, Toby Litt, Kareem Mortimer, Michèle Roberts, Jane Rogers, Willy Russell and Sally Wainwright
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Revealing secrets
No full textSecond of three chapters on writing drama for the stage including activities and readings, and sections on - pace and rhythm; telling stories; making scenes; exposition; subtext; monologues; status; dramatic irony
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Voices in fiction
No full textSecond of two chapters on how film and drama can influence the writing of fiction, including activities and readings, and sections on - dramatic monologues; narrative voice; voices produced by occupation; stylised voices; phonetics; fictional communities; voice registers; unreliable narrators
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Writing stage plays
No full textOne of three chapters on writing drama for the stage including activities and readings, and sections on - script layout; dialogue voices and character; idiom, dialect and idiolect; overheard phrases; overwriting; contrast and conflict; adaptations for the stage
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Writing radio drama
No full textA practice-based chapter on writing radio drama, including activities and readings and sections on - script layout; radio adaptations; radio scenes; creating pictures with sound;variation in voices; radio monologues; strong language; poetic drama
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Staging stories
No full textThird of three chapters on writing drama for the stage including activities and readings, and sections on - creating sets; different types of staging and stages; physical action; using time; dramatic action; scenarios
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Writing films
No full textFirst of two chapters on writing film scripts with activities and readings, and sections on - script layout; creating stories with pictures; camera shots and cuts; film scenes; visual contrasts; montage; montage sequences; film adaptations
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Splicing the strands
No full textOne of two chapters on how film and drama can influence the writing of fiction, including activities and readings, and sections on - converging characters; montage in fiction and crosscutting longer narratives; genre; time in relation to length of narrative; meetings; controlling tension; linking narratives; poetic cutting; different types of streams of consciousness
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Film structure
No full textSecond of two chapters on writing film scripts with activities and readings, and sections on - film structure; scenes and inciting incidents; step outlines; dramatic adaptations; plot; subplots; cutting between strands; creating links; leitmotifs; voice-over; flashback
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Playing with genre
No full textA chapter concerning how fiction writers might be aware of genre and use it as a narrative tool, and specifically how dramatic methods might be helpful. It includes activities and readings
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