Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Go One Step beyond the Ending
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Go One Step beyond the Ending
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll demonstrate how to find the more dramatic ending after you think you've finished the story. I'll show you the importance of finding an ending that ripples out beyond the story.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Go One Step beyond the Ending, 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
“Go One Step Beyond the Ending Today we'll look at "Going Beyond the Ending". In a way I've stuck to the plan and did what I set out to do. It's a story about someone not feeling so much like a victim at the end, taking back the power, finding a voice, finding a way to shut the dogs up. Also the story of all the other things that I talked about, the story of how crazy situations need crazy solutions and how the silly can make us do crazy things, my issues with noise or what it's like to live in Madrid, all those things, it feels like everything is there. In a way, for me, that feels too neat...”
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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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