Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
Techniques for Sketching with Words
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Techniques for Sketching with Words
Overview
“Stories, like any work of art, are made, composed, and created. Here I’ll talk about approaching your story as an artistic creation, and demonstrate how to use great works of literature for “support.” I’ll show you how to look for echoes and repetitions between elements of your story so that it works as a well-constructed piece of writing.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Techniques for Sketching with Words, 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 for Sketching with Words In this lesson, I'm going to show you a few how to sketch with words techniques, how to slow down and how to use other writers to inspire your work and to keep going. The thing with the writing is people talk about writing a story, but it's actually a process of making a story, that each story is made out of a series of images. So, scenes of action, scenes of observation, scenes of contemplation, scenes of feeling, scenes of doing. So, it's really just the series of images joined together. Every story happens within a landscape, even if that landscape is ...”
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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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