Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
The Characters in Your Book
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: The Characters in Your Book
Overview
“Now, let's explore the importance of names, and what they can tell us about a character and the themes of your book. We'll also look at possibilities for side projects while writing your book.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: The Characters in 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
“The Characters in Your Book In this lesson, we'll look at the characters in your book and their names. Following from the previous lesson where I explored the birth of the character of David Bomberg, the artist, I'll play with his name and see if there's something I can get from his name and to see what might emerge from the writing, if there's some information I can get from writing about the character, the book as a whole, some of the themes in the book. I suggest we do a free-write around the name and see what emerges. I suggest you to pause the video when I write so we can write togethe...”
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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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