Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
A Book Is Not a Short Story
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: A Book Is Not a Short Story
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll look at some of the differences between a short story and a book-length project.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: A Book Is Not a Short Story, 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
“A Book Is Not a Short Story In this lesson, we'll look at the difference between a book and a short story. One of the things to remember when you're about to immerse yourself in a book project is that it takes a long time. Your curiosity and interest is important to the project. Finding ways to play and make it interesting for yourself is an important part because we start a lot of short stories, some we finish, some we don't, but short stories are easier to fit into our life. When you take on a book project, you have to adjust your life a bit to give yourself that time and space to write t...”
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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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