Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Get Outside Help: Art and a Walk
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Get Outside Help: Art and a Walk
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about using art and other activities to go deeper into your story. I'll show how working with a painting can trigger memories and offer surprises to include in your story.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Get Outside Help: Art and a Walk, 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
“Get Outside Help: Art and a Walk In this lesson we're gonna look at getting outside help from art and from going for a walk. Just to go back to something that I said before, that really our job as writers is to build the world of our stories and to be as detailed and specific as possible and to really slow down. Because I think what happens if you kind of skip the details and you skip the specifics and taking time, the story becomes hazy and the writer doesn't know what the world of the story looks like. And if you're not quite clear about what the world of your story looks like on the page...”
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Course summary for: Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
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Areas
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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