Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
From the Toolbox: Storytelling Techniques
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: From the Toolbox: Storytelling Techniques
Overview
“Here you will learn some manual storytelling techniques to make your texts lively and dynamic and to make it easier for your readers to immerse themselves in the narrated world.”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: From the Toolbox: Storytelling Techniques, 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
“From the Storytelling Techniques Toolbox In the last lesson you learned what is important, when you write a first draft. I showed you how to do it. now you will see how to make the collected material literary. You have already collected some sensual impressions in the last lesson, to make your scene pictorial, three-dimensional, experienceable with all senses. If you now design your material linguistically, you will see that it is also a question of language, the terms you use, the description or summary. These are two of your most important means when it comes to how close your readers get...”
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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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