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Get Creative: On becoming an actor - being a self-starter

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'Treat people well.' Daniel O'Donnell on living creatively

TELLURIDE, COLORADO - AUGUST 31: Kenneth Lonergan attends the 2024 Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2024 in Telluride, Colorado. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

5 minutes with... filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan

You're never too old to be a debut author

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Laureate na nÓg Patricia Forde's advice for young storytellers

Behind the screams - what I learned making a horror short film

Fionn Ó Loingsigh and Kate Stanley Brennan in Mark O'Halloran's Conversations After Sex, a THISISPOPBABY production (Pics: Ros Kavanagh)

How to write a play - tips and tricks for the budding playwright

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Becoming an actor

Get Creative: On becoming an actor - being a self-starter

Get Creative: On becoming an actor - getting started

Get Creative: On becoming an actor - doing auditions

Get Creative: On becoming an actor - the rehearsal process

Sophie Lenglinger, Kate Stanley Brennan and Ebby O'Toole-Acheampong in Afterwards (Pic: Patricio Cassinoni)

What happens afterwards - Janet Moran on her new play

(L-R) Alison McKenna, Ruairi Heading, Ronan Leahy, Karen Ardiff, Elaine O Dwyer and John Olohan in Quake

Janet Moran: 'We try and we sometimes fail because we are human'.

Writing a TV show

Get Creative: On writing a TV show - writing the entire series

Siobhan Cullen (L) and Máiréad Tyers (R) star in Obituary

Get Creative: On writing a TV show - where do ideas come from?

Get Creative: On writing a TV show - breaking story

Get Creative: On writing a TV show - turning an idea into a story

Get Creative: On writing a TV show - notes and rewrites

Get Creative: On writing a TV show: the collaborations that count

Writing a novel

Kenny's legendary bookshop and art gallery in Galway

Get Creative: On writing a novel - getting your work out there

Get Creative: On writing a novel - a great place to start

Banshee is one of the many journals in the busy Irish literary scene

Get Creative: On writing a novel - go find your tribe

Get Creative: On writing a novel – notes on editing your book

Get Creative: On writing a novel - planning, plotting & scheming

Get Creative: On writing a novel - carving out time to write

Making a movie

Want to learn about screenwriting? Begin by watching The Godfather...

Get Creative: How to write a movie, part one

Raiders Of The Lost Ark - plot is necessary, but character is everything.

Get Creative: How to write a movie, part two

Want to know how to create a 'lean forward' in your script? Watch a Paul Thomas Anderson movie...

Get Creative: How to write a movie, part three

Paul Duane's movie All You Need Is Death won rave reviews upon release

Get Creative: Making a movie - how to manage your production

Best Picture winner Anora was shot in 40 days, with 10 days alone going on the infamous mansion scene

Get Creative: Making a movie - how to manage your crew

Want to see a well-edited movie? Watch the Oscar-winning Get Out

Get Creative: Making a movie - the editing process

Writing non-fiction

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – writing audio essays

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – on self-editing

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – on self-editing

The first sentence of Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat: "This is a female text."

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – writing first sentences

Cristín Leach is the author of the acclaimed memoir Negative Space

Get Creative: The craft of non-fiction – writing personal essays

Cristín Leach's portrait of the RHA in twelve stories, extracted

Cristín Leach's portrait of the RHA in twelve stories, extracted

Negative Space by Cristín Leach - read an extract

Negative Space by Cristín Leach - read an extract

Writing a poem

'In Ireland we tend to read poetry in liturgical tones. It's one of those unusual occasions where we can blame something on both W.B. Yeats, and the Catholic Church'

Get Creative: On writing poetry - who are you talking to?

Filmmaker Robert Eggers describes the world of his films (including The Lighthouse) as his 'dollhouse'

Get Creative: On writing poetry – building the dollhouse

'If editing a poem is your to do list, or even part of your to do list, it's worth aiming for the small wins.'

Get Creative: On writing poetry – writing is rewriting

'Ted Hughes had his thought fox, I have my frog poems.'

Get Creative: On writing poetry - pinning the poem to the page

Franz Kafka, author of The Metamorphosis (Pic: Getty)

Get Creative: On writing poetry - beetles and bad dreams

Poet Jessica Traynor: 'I'm telling you to take a nap.'

Get Creative: On writing poetry - questions and dreams

Playing with poems - writing poetry for children

Playing with poems - writing poetry for children