Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
When You Get Stuck
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: When You Get Stuck
Overview
“There’s no such thing as writer’s block. In this lesson, I’ll talk about how to avoid being overly-critical about your writing, use books as loyal companions, and show you ways to go deeper into your writing process. ”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: When You Get Stuck, 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
“When You Get Stuck In this lesson, we're going to look at things you can do when you get stuck. In the previous lesson, one of the things we looked at was how to use other writers to slow down. One of the other ways that we can use other writers and the books that we like is to help us get unstuck. If we open a book just randomly and look at the beginning of a sentence, sometimes those words are all we need to give us the energy to keep going. And I think there's this kind of myth, this kind of organic unfolding of a story that a writer sits down and they start writing a story and the story...”
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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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