Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Honesty Is the Best Policy: There's No End to Stories
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Honesty Is the Best Policy: There's No End to Stories
Overview
“In this lesson I'll talk briefly about staying open and honest in your writing, and how it is impossible to run out of stories to write.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Honesty Is the Best Policy: There's No End to 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
“Honesty Is the Best Policy: There's No End to Stories In this lesson I'll talk about how honesty is the best policy and how there is no end to stories. I think especially short stories are conversations with the world and conversations with ourselves and the journeys of discovery, of going into something to explore and creating a space in which we can explore a memory or an idea or an experience. So telling a simple story is really the important thing and all the other big issues will happen on their own. Think on the story of the two birds. It's just the story of these two birds and all th...”
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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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