Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
Techniques to Approach a Single Subject
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Techniques to Approach a Single Subject
Overview
“There are many ways to tell the same story, but only one that will be engaging and challenging to you. Here we’ll look at some of the techniques and choices you have as a writer when approaching a story, and I’ll show you a few techniques to help you experiment and find the best way to tell your story. Using the few pieces of writing from Lesson 2, you’ll try out different techniques to tell a story.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Techniques to Approach a Single Subject, 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
“Techniques to Approach a Single Subject In this lesson, we'll look at some techniques to find the best way to tell your story. Basically, what we'll look at is writing something in the first person, which is I, or writing it in the second person, which is you, or writing in the third person, which is he or she. The thing about the first person, that's the voice, the perspective, or the point of view that comes most naturally to us, because it's the most intimate, the one we're most familiar with, and it's the one that we usually, especially if we're writing a notebook, is the one that we us...”
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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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