Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
Out of the Drawer
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: Out of the Drawer
Overview
“If you want to find readers, you shouldn’t hide your texts in a drawer. Here you can find out what opportunities there are to draw attention to you and your work - if possible even before you contact a publisher for the first time.”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: Out of the Drawer , 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
“Get out of the drawer The last lesson was about how to find allies, to keep your writing motivation awake, to keep at it, to exchange not to write alone and how you interact with certain websites, to find appointments. I will now show you how to use these websites, when it comes to getting your lyrics out of the drawer, Find contacts where to post Or are you looking for an audience? Get out of the drawer. It is very important if you want to publish texts that you become visible, look for an audience, don't collect your texts, leave them in the drawer or maybe show your best friend one day b...”
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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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