Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life
Final Tips (Future Projects)
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Final Tips (Future Projects)
Overview
“Write about what you want to write. In this lesson, we’ll consider how your final project could be part of a much bigger body of work you can create. I’ll also talk about staying true to your vision and writing the kinds of stories you enjoy writing. ”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Final Tips (Future Projects), 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
“Final Tips In this lesson, we'll look at some final tips and things to do with your work. The moral of the story. I think the moral of the story and the moral of this course is really to do whatever you want, to follow what you enjoy doing, to follow what you feel passionate about, to make that the core of your work. As long as you're passionate about the work, people will feel passionate about reading. The other thing to think about is to think big and to think deep and to think wide. To start thinking about how it might fit into a bigger project. If I'm thinking, for example, about my fin...”
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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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