This work sets out to challenge students with an interactive strategy for successful textual intervention. The subjects considered are: re-centring and re-genreing; the generation of parallel; alternative and counter-texts; exercises in imitation; and parody and adaption. Pope uses analyses of advertising, news reporting and poetry to introduce the principles of choice and combination, creativity and constraint, difference and preference. The main body of the text considers topics such as: drama and dialogue; narrative and narration; auto/biography, hi/story and faction; selves and others.