Short Story Writing: Create Fiction from Personal Experience
How Big Is Your Story?
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: How Big Is Your Story?
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about some ways to think about a collection of short stories. Also, how the stories you've written during the course could fit into a bigger project or even be the beginning of your work on a novel.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: How Big Is 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
“How Big Is Your Story? In this lesson we'll look at how your story might fit into a bigger project. Before I talk about that, I want to mention that in the first Domestika course I talked more about what to do when your story is finished and how to send it out into the world, and there's some links there to possible places to send your story when it's finished. What we'll do here in the additional resources is open up space in the forum for people to share their stories in different languages, to create a space where we can share information, share knowledge and create a resource for writer...”
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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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