Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
The First Draft: Finding a Shape
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: The First Draft: Finding a Shape
Overview
“To know what form text can take, you need to figure out why you want to write it. Here you will learn how to start writing, draft a first draft and get involved in the momentum of the writing process to let your text find its form. ”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: The First Draft: Finding a Shape, 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
“The first draft Find a form Last time we talked about how to track down stories you find in the everyday. In this lesson I'll show you how I go about writing a first draft and what matters to me. when i start to write I usually have three initial questions. you have already learned that you can start from the how of the text, of the form of a structural specification, that you might draw yourself. a frame around your writing, to get from the form to the content, which may appear of their own accord. But it can also be the other way around, that at the beginning there is an idea, maybe an in...”
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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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