Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
Influences
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Influences
Overview
“This lesson will explore my inspirations. I’ll share some of the books I love and talk about how they have helped me to write my own books.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“Influences In this lesson, I'll show you some of my influences. In terms of my writing, my influences have changed over the years. Each book we work on has its particular influences. In the first course, I talked a bit about those books or writers that influenced me and made me want to be a writer. In the second course, I talked a bit about some of the stories that influenced me, influenced the way I write and also showed me different ways of writing stories, what can you do when you put the pen on the page and what stories can be read. Questions you often get asked as a writer is who's you...”
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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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