Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper
How and Why to Start Writing Your Next Book
A course by Shaun Levin , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: How and Why to Start Writing Your Next Book
Overview
“To conclude, I'll explain the importance of starting a new book while looking for an agent and finding a home for the book you’ve just written. Let's keep the momentum going! ”
In this video lesson Shaun Levin addresses the topic: How and Why to Start Writing Your Next 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
“How and Why to Start Writing Your Next Book In this lesson, we'll look at how and why to start writing your next book. In the last few lessons, we were talking about finding an agent, a publisher, looking after your work, doing all the necessary admin to look after your book in the world. I don't like doing that and I don't know any writer who enjoys doing it, but it's a necessary part of looking after your work in the world because you've spent a lot of time, you've given time to create this work, a lot of thought, imagination, and a lot of your emotional and creative energy so it's import...”
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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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