This album provides the budding author with everything they need to know about approaching the art of fiction writing. Each track contains discussions and interviews with best-selling novelists from a variety of backgrounds including Alex Garland, Louis de Bernières, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Monique Roffey. This enlightening and engaging series tackles the practicalities and pitfalls of writing fiction. It contains invaluable advice on the creation of characters, the structure of narratives and how to turn an idea into the book you’ve always wanted to write. This material forms part of The Open University course A174 Start writing fiction. (New and updated content added July 2009)

Latest episodes of the podcast Start writing fiction - Audio

• Start writing fiction
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• Starting the writing process
• Transcript -- Starting the writing process
• Researching and influencing your fiction
• Transcript -- Researching and influencing your fiction
• Characters and genre
• Transcript -- Characters and genre
• Narrative and structural techniques
• Transcript -- Narrative and structural techniques
• Redrafting and editing
• Transcript -- Redrafting and editing
• How to keep going
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