Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
What We Will Do in the Course?
A course by Shaun Levin , Author and Creative Writing Teacher
Learn how to sketch with words and use the details of your imagination to write a memorable story
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About the video: What We Will Do in the Course?
Overview
“The focus of the course is to write intensely and passionately about things you care about. In this lesson, I’ll talk about your final project and how to choose a subject you’ll be excited to write about. ”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: What We Will Do in the Course?, 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
“What Will We Do On This Course In this lesson I'll talk a little bit about what we're going to be working on throughout the course and what your final project will be. We'll write about something that you're passionate about. I'll write about my love for running. I'm using this opportunity to kind of start exploring my relationship to running, and what I hope you will see as I share my process with you is that journey of going from the blank page and not knowing where to start and where you're going up until a point we have a complete story. The question is why does writing matter? Why do w...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
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Areas
Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
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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