Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
Give Your Story a Title
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Give Your Story a Title
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll demonstrate some of the issues to consider when choosing a title for your story. Does it sum up the story? Does it have some mystery to it?”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Give Your Story a Title, 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
“Give Your Story a Title In this lesson we'll look at giving your story a title. I must say I like the original title of the story, but sometimes it's good to explore alternatives because there might be a better title hiding in there somewhere. So the original title is "The Dogs" and I like the title, but I'm thinking what happens if we call it "The Dog". Gives us a possibility of changing the number of dogs, so maybe it's not about three dogs but it's just one dog, 'cause I'm thinking, "Is it really important that they're three dogs?" I liked the three dogs, again, what I was saying earlier...”
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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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