Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
The Big Issues of Your Book
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: The Big Issues of Your Book
Overview
“In this lesson, you’ll learn how to become aware of some of the social and political issues in your work, and how to give them greater prominence.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: The Big Issues 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
“The Big Issues of Your Book In this lesson, we'll look at the big issues in your book. The thing with including big issues in our work, when I say big issues, I mean big political or social issues, that happen by themselves anyway. Since we are a product of our times, whatever we produce is a product of our time. Those issues are there anyway, whether we are aware of them or not. It's also interesting when you take on a big project to think about what today's big issues you want to bring into your work. Even if I'm working on a novel that's set in the 1950s, what are today's big issues I ca...”
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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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