Observation and discovery / Edmund Cusick -- Keeping a writer's journal / Jenny Newman -- The workshop / Edmund Cusick -- Reading as a writer / James Friel -- Working with myth / Edmund Cusick -- Short story writing / Jenny Newman -- Writing for screen and television / Dave Jackson -- Writing poetry / Gladys Mary Coles -- Writing for stage / Dymphna Callery -- Writing for radio / Aileen La Tourette -- Writing a novel / James Friel -- Song lyric writing / Dave Jackson -- Travel writing / Aileen La Tourette -- Writing on the web / James Friel -- Writing from research / Dymphna Callery --Redrafting and editing / Jenny Newman -- Getting published, produced or performed / Jenny Newman, Edmund Cusick and Aileen La Tourette.