Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Where Do Stories Come From?
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Where Do Stories Come From?
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about how to find, through brainstorming, a short story to focus on. I'll talk about the short story as a journey of discovery and the importance of choosing a story that has some sense of mystery for you as the writer.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Where Do Stories Come From?, 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
“Where Do Stories Come From? In this lesson I'm gonna talk about where stories come from and how to find them. What we'll talk about during our course is really where stories come from and how we can create stories out of a seed of an idea or an experience or something that we've witnessed. What we'll do is start off with brainstorming. And what I will do is brainstorming around pets and animals. Looking at pets in the family or pets that are owned by other people, different animals that I've worked with on farms that I've worked on, different animals that I've eaten, animals that I don't ea...”
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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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