Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
Gather Your Resources: What's Your Plan A?
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Gather Your Resources: What's Your Plan A?
Overview
“Now, I’ll demonstrate how to come up with a rough plan and talk about the importance of writing regularly. I’ll also illustrate how the writing itself can show you what your book is really about.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Gather Your Resources: What's Your Plan A?, 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
“Gather Your Resources: What’s Your Plan A? In this lesson, we'll talk a bit about doing the Plan A of your book. The map has given us a sense of the terrain and the world of the book where the story that you're creating will exist. What Plan A is is how do you divide up your time. What are the parameters of your project and how do you divide that in terms of sitting down and doing? as I mentioned before, for me writing the park book was having the 80 days writing for an hour every day about the park and trusting the project wherever it went. I don't know how it'll be a book, I don't know ho...”
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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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