Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Trust the Exploration: Stories Have a Life of Their Own
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Trust the Exploration: Stories Have a Life of Their Own
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about the positive side of getting distracted, and how those distractions in a story are part of the journey. I'll also show you how to build the world of your story by describing the space it happens in.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Trust the Exploration: Stories Have a Life of Their Own, 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
“Trust the Exploration: Stories Have a Life of Their Own In this lesson we'll see what do we do when stories have a life of their own, and how to deal with distractions. What happened with the story up until now is that we had a plan, or I had a plan, and something completely different happened. And what I've learned over the years of writing stories is really that's a good sign. That something organic is happening, that the story is a kind of organism, and it wants to go in a certain direction. And in a way it's up to me to follow that direction and see where it wants to take me. And the st...”
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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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