Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
About Me
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson you will get to know me and learn how my path to becoming a writer went. I'll tell you about the difficulties I had with writing in the beginning and how I overcame them. I'll also introduce you to my work and some of the challenges you face if you want to write something worth reading.”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author. Get a practical and theoretical introduction of literary writing to discover your voice and share your perspective with the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“About me Hello, I'm Isabelle Lehn and I'm happy that you have registered for this course. I am a writer and live in Leipzig, where I mainly write prose, novels, short stories, essays, sometimes also scientific or journalistic texts, but mostly fictional. From time to time I teach writing workshops at different institutions and here too we will write together and work on our lyrics. I come from a relatively small village near Bonn, where I grew up and always felt quite out of place. Like my grandmother said, I wasn't a kid for the outdoors, but a child for the dark room, for stories, for the...”
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Course summary for: Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
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Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Writing
Isabelle Lehn
A course by Isabelle Lehn
Isabelle Lehn is a freelance writer based in Leipzig, Germany. After earning a degree in literary writing and receiving her doctorate in rhetoric from the German Institute for Literature, Leipzig, she also went on to work there as a teacher and assistant while carrying out her research. Her work can be classified as a combination of fiction, essay, and realism. Each of her texts is an exploratory journey—at the beginning, the end is unknown, and as it progresses, she as the narrator learns more and more about her surroundings, her timeline, and also about herself.
In 2016, she published her first novel Binde zwei Vögel zusammen, which has won several awards, and in 2019, her autofiction book Frühlingserwachen was shortlisted for the Text und Sprache literary award. She has also received various grants and her essay Weibliches Schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, about specific gender roles within the literary world, was highly acclaimed and won the Dietrich Oppenberg Media award. She regularly writes essays and radio-show columns, hosts literary events and podcasts, and teaches classes, conferences, and workshops.
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