Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
Learning to See: Tracking Down Stories
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: Learning to See: Tracking Down Stories
Overview
“Where can you find stories? What arouses our interest and our curiosity to get to the bottom of something? In this lesson you will learn to develop a view of which of your observations and ideas contain the heart of a story.”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: Learning to See: Tracking Down Stories, 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
“Learning to see, tracking down stories The last lesson was about looking inward, on memories, experiences, the unconsciously stored as literary material and how you record it in notebooks. Now it's about how to find stories in the outside world and what it takes to track them down. "Learn to see..." That's what the young writer takes in Rainer Maria Rilke's diary novel "The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge". Malte, an alter ego of Rilke, walks through Paris with open eyes and resolves to absorb everything everything he sees, hears and perceives. He wants to gain experience. A very similar prog...”
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Course summary for: Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
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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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