Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
How to Look at a Strawberry
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: How to Look at a Strawberry
Overview
“This is the lesson that will teach you most of what you need to know as a writer: observe closely, strive to find the precise words for what you see and feel, and take the time to notice small details. Writing is art and art takes time!”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: How to Look at a Strawberry, 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
“How to Look at a Strawberry In this lesson, we'll start working on our final project. First thing we're going to do is learn how to look at a strawberry. What I suggest is you get a strawberry and get someone else to put your strawberry on a piece of paper. Almost everything you need to know about writing is in this exercise. If you don't have a strawberry, get a kiwi fruit, a banana, get a particular piece of fruit that has an interesting texture and that you know maybe is a little bit different on the inside to what it is on the outside. What I'm suggesting to do is to write about what yo...”
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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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