Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
About Me
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll share some of the books I've completed, and demonstrate how these books emerged out of my own personal and political experiences.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper. Expand your written ideas into a doable book project using your curiosity, imagination, and worldview.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi. I'm Shaun Levin. Welcome to this Domestika course on how to write a book. I feel like we started this journey a long time ago. Many of you who have done the first and second course have started joining me on this journey of writing. Starting from seeing how writing evolves out of putting the pen to paper and seeing what happens and following the story, following the ink on the page, and then slowly progressing to focusing on stories. I feel like this is the natural progression of what we've been doing over the past courses. It feels like a nice place to continue this journey of...”
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Course summary for: Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
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Creativity, Narrative, 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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