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Finding Ideas for Fiction with Claire Thomas
Welcome
Introduction
Meet Your Teacher: Claire Thomas (1:37)
Part One: Recognising Ideas
What is an Idea?
Exercise: Things You Know to be True as Ideas
Theme/Concept/Obsession as Idea (2:44)
Exercise: Obsessive Questions
Point of View as Idea
Part Two: Finding Ideas for Fiction
Curiosity and Observation as Idea
Exercise: Get Out There and Observe
Written on the Body (part one) (4:39)
Written on the Body (part two)
Exercise: Written on the Body (part three)
Exercise: ‘I remember’
Brainard’s 'I Remember'
Exercise: The Electric Object
Part Three: Managing Your Ideas
Documenting Ideas
The Writer’s Notebook (3:45)
The Writer’s Notebook, a counter view
The Long Gestation of the Persistent Idea
Exercise: Waiting Rooms
Final Words of Wisdom
Conclusion
Reference List
Goodbye and Thank You (0:36)
Feedback
The Writer’s Notebook
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