Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
Editing and Rewriting
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Editing and Rewriting
Overview
“With writing, as in life, you have choices! Your first draft is the beginning of a journey to finding the final form of your story. Sentences can be reshaped and rewritten. In this lesson, I’ll talk about editing your work.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Editing and Rewriting , 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
“In this lesson, We're going to look at typing up rewriting and 10 different things that you can do with a single sentence. I think the important thing to remember when you're writing. Is that you have choices. that just because you put something on the page in one way, doesn't mean that it has to stay like that you can always edit and you can always rewrite. And I think especially as writers, we have this fear that As soon as I put something down on the page, Everyone can do it. The thing is that writing, is almost the most private creative process Nobody can see what you've written. until ...”
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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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