Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
Our Final Story
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Our Final Story
Overview
“Now that we have a first draft of the final project, we’ll explore ways to shape a story into its final form. We’ll look at the importance of a dynamic beginning, and I’ll talk about how to connect the start and end of a story. ”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Our Final Story, 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
“Our Final Story In this lesson what we’re going to do is look at ways to work with your first draft. The main thing is you want to start strong and you want to keep that level of intensity going for as long as you can, hopefully right until the end of the piece. And sometimes you have to do quite a bit of writing in order to get to what that strong bet is that you want to start with. If you remember, I wrote about different memories of running in different surfaces, and sometimes you have to write other stuff in order to get to the strong stuff. The main thing to do when you start thinking ...”
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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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