Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
Revise, Shape and Condense Texts
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: Revise, Shape and Condense Texts
Overview
“At this point you will learn how to form and revise your texts in order to specify their content structure, to develop their characters and moods and to condense them linguistically.”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: Revise, Shape and Condense Texts, 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
“Revise, shape and condense texts In the last lesson I showed you some techniques with which you can design your texts vividly and dynamically. Now you will see how to work on your lyrics, you can shape and condense. When I revise my lyrics, I try to distance myself a little. A time gap helps me with this. Everything I wrote I leave it for at least one, preferably several days. The distance in time helps me to develop a critical view. If a text becomes strange to me again, I can become a foreign reader myself. That's exactly the position I'm taking. I try to be my first critical reader like ...”
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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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