Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
Seek Allies
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: Seek Allies
Overview
“Find out who can help you develop your writing and motivate you to keep writing. I will also show you how to find other authors to exchange ideas with them and build valuable networks.”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: Seek Allies, 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
“seek allies In the last lesson we revised texts, shaped and condensed. In this lesson we will look at how to find allies to keep writing and keep at it. Writing can be a very lonely business at times. Writers spend a lot of time alone with their laptops and books. Sometimes it can be quite frustrating not getting any further. You experience setbacks, maybe even writing crises, longer dry spells. It can be extremely helpful to know that you are not alone that there are many people who write and have very similar problems as you. Therefore, one of my most important tips for you is: If you wan...”
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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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