Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
Gather Your Resources: The Map of Your Book
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Gather Your Resources: The Map of Your Book
Overview
“The aim of this lesson will be to create a map of where your book takes place. We'll look at how that map can help you explore ways of telling your story.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Gather Your Resources: The Map of Your Book, 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
“In this lesson we're going to draw a map of your book. and where it takes place. Hopefully, up until this point, you've been taking notes and been thinking about the book that you're writing or the book that you want to write. And I think in a way, even just the seed of an idea, is enough to start writing a book. that A lot of the questions that are kind of at the heart of any book project that we take on are What is the story? How am I going to tell it? Who are the characters in my book? Where does the book take place? What's the settings of my book? Oh, questions that in a way I would ima...”
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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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