Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
Influences
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here I’ll talk about the writers who have influenced through the books they’ve written and the way they live their lives. Every book and every writer we love, teaches us something about the kind of writer we can be.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life. Learn how to sketch with words and use the details of your imagination to write a memorable story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I'm going to talk about some of the influences on my own work as a writer. There are three different types of influences that we can have as writers. For me, there's the influence of a single book, and there's also the influence of a writer's whole body of work, and also their life, everything around them, and a writer's work, but not necessarily their life. So, the influence is really their work. The single book that has had the most impact on me, particularly starting out as a writer, was Jack Kerouac's "On the Road". And for me, what was the surprise when I star...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
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Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Shaun Levin
A course by Shaun Levin
Shaun Levin is a writer and creative writing teacher from South Africa who is based in Madrid. He also lived and wrote for many years in Tel Aviv and London. His writing has always been prompted by reading and closely examining the books he loves. He went on to study literature at university and soon started to get his stories published in magazines and anthologies. His passion for books has led him to a parallel career in bookbinding and producing handmade books.
Shaun has over twenty years of experience teaching creative writing in colleges, schools, art galleries, and other settings. He has published several novels and short story collections, including Alone with a Man in a Room, Seven Sweet Things, and Snapshots of The Boy, as well as three guides for writers taking on book-length projects, The Writing Notebooks. Today, Shaun continues to teach creative writing and work on his next novel and collection of short stories.
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