Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
Leverage Content and Capture Impressions
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: Leverage Content and Capture Impressions
Overview
“What makes your lyrics unique? How can you write something that matters to you and others and is worth reading? In this lesson we will find out together!”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: Leverage Content and Capture Impressions, 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
“Exploit reservoirs and capture impressions In the last lesson you learned how you can learn from others through imitation or how you set your own rules and your writing a framework. In this lesson you will learn how to add your own how to track down material and hold onto it. What's your own to add? What else should you put aside from all these books? I always asked myself that question when I went through libraries. Every story seemed already written. But what's really new and unique what I can contribute is my view of the world, my perception my unique combination of memories, Experiences...”
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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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