Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Brainstorming: the Quest for Stories
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Brainstorming: the Quest for Stories
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about the two different ways of finding stories. One way is to write a story that we know beforehand, and the other is to create a story out of a seed of an idea. I'll show you how to brainstorm around a subject that interests you – in my case, it'll be the theme of animals and pets – and to come up with a variety of possible stories to work on.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Brainstorming: the Quest for Stories, 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
“Brainstorming: the Quest for Stories In this lesson we'll brainstorm and look for stories. I'm a short-story writer and I need stories. I know that sounds obvious, but I think it's not always obvious that we carry all the stories inside us, so, when I started out as a writer, I had the sense that stories existed out there and you had go out and find these stories, and think about them, and plan them, and find the structure to them. I think it took me about 10 years of writing to understand that all the stories that we need, we carry inside us, but it's working out how to find those stories,...”
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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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