Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Filling In the Gaps (Going Back to the Beginning)
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Filling In the Gaps (Going Back to the Beginning)
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to listen to what the writing is telling you about layers of drama you can add to your story.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Filling In the Gaps (Going Back to the Beginning), 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
“Filling in the Gaps (Going Back to the Beginning) In this lesson we'll look at filling in the gaps. What I mean by "gaps" is going back to the beginning of the story and noticing what's there and what we can add to and also noticing what the writing itself is offering us and suggesting to us. For me, one of the things that came up towards the end was this moment where he takes his cake and tea to the living room and mentioning that sitting on the floor was the coolest part of the house on these summer days, and in the beginning, when I started writing, I didn't think about when the story's ...”
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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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