Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
Doing Whatever It Takes
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Doing Whatever It Takes
Overview
“Finally, we’ll look at the book as a doable project and how to keep going until you’re done.”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: Doing Whatever It Takes, 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
“Doing Whatever It Takes In this lesson, we'll look at doing whatever it takes to finish your book. We're coming towards the end of the course. What I want to say is that what I've tried to show you is how to grapple with your book in terms of what it might feel like to live within the space you're creating. Going back to the truths I was saying at the beginning of the course, I don't think that anyone can teach you how to write a book because that's a part of writing a book, learning how you write your book. What I've tried to do over the course is to invite you to explore the breadth and 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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