Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
The Thread of the Story: What's Holding It Together?
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: The Thread of the Story: What's Holding It Together?
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about locating the chain of events that are holding the story together. We'll also look closely at a short story by Kafka to see the importance of having stories within your story. I'll also talk about ending it at a point that will ripple out in the reader's mind.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: The Thread of the Story: What's Holding It Together? , 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
“The Thread of the Story: What's Holding It Together? In this lesson we'll find the thread of your story and what's holding it together. When we're writing a story we always have choices, what to include and what to exclude. And the thing is we can never really include everything. The important thing about finding the thread of the story is that as soon as we know what holds the story together and what is this journey that we are in the story, it becomes clearer to us what works with the thread of the story and what our focus is. And really the thread of the story is about finding the focal ...”
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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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