Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
Materials
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Materials
Overview
“Choosing a certain pen, pencil and notebook can influence when you write and what you write about. In this lesson, I’ll talk about the writer’s tools and how experimenting with a variety of notebooks, pens, and pencils can increase the types of stories you write.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Materials, 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
“Materials In this lesson, we'll look at some of the options and the choices you have when you sit down to write with a notebook and a pen or a pencil. So, my invitation to you is to slow down and to see some of the magical things that you can do with just a notebook and a pen and your imagination. So, no laptop, no notifications, no work, no deadlines, no pressure. The choices that you make, make a difference to where you write and what you write about. So, I'm just going to talk a little bit about the different tools you use and the different choices in terms of your writing instrument, an...”
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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
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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