Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
How Different Places Encourage New Perspectives
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: How Different Places Encourage New Perspectives
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll discuss how writing in different places can bring surprises, unexpected scenes, and insights to your book.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: How Different Places Encourage New Perspectives, 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
“How Different Places Encourage New Perspectives In this lesson, we'll see how the way you write can impact what you write and how it can offer surprising perspectives on your story. When you take on a book-length project, a vast project that demands a lot of time or gives or allows you a lot of time, it's important to integrate it into your life to make your life a part of the writing of the book and to make the book part of your life. This thing of finding space in your life for the book and bringing your life into the book. What I love about writing is it's easy to do wherever you are. Of...”
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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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