Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Doing the Groundwork and Going Deeper Into Your Story
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Doing the Groundwork and Going Deeper Into Your Story
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll demonstrate how to brainstorm the themes of your story. I'll also show you how to go deeper into the stories within your story, and to visualise your story as a series of images.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Doing the Groundwork and Going Deeper Into Your Story, 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
“Doing the Groundwork and Going Deeper into Your Story In this lesson we'll do some groundwork in order to go deeper into the story. Amongst other things, the story is a series of images, a bit like a film. So far, we already have a few images. We have images of Alex the neighbor. Even though our narrator might not have seen Alex playing video games or watching TV, these images are already forming in our minds. We have images of the different noises. The garbage trucks, the recycling bottles, we already have those images, and I've talked about the dogs, so we already have these images of wha...”
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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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