Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
About Me
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about what has made me a short story writer, even while doing other jobs. I'll speak about how sharing and being a witness drives me to write short stories, and how the writer is both an outsider and a participant in the world around them.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience . Learn how to write stories that captivate readers by building a narrative with elements of fiction.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, I'm Shaun Levin and welcome to this Domestika course. It's good to be back. For those who did the first course, nice to see you again, and to everyone else, welcome to this course. I've been a short story writer for 30 years and I've been publishing short stories for about 30 years. In anthologies and literary journals, I have some short story collections of my own. My short stories have been published in general fiction collections and collections of essays, as well as in collections of stories about London, queer stories, stories by Jewish writers, and stories about bad jobs....”
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Course summary for: Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
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Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, 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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