Literary Writing for Beginners: How to Become an Author
Discover and Develop Literary Skills
A course by Isabelle Lehn , Freelance Writer
About the video: Discover and Develop Literary Skills
Overview
“What sources of income do you have as a writer? And if you have another job: How is it possible to integrate writing into your everyday life and find time for it regularly? In the last lesson I will deal with these important questions, which concern professional authors as well as novice writers. ”
In this video lesson Isabelle Lehn addresses the topic: Discover and Develop Literary Skills, 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
“Discover and develop literary skills The last lesson was about how to get your texts out of the drawer and can publish. Now I'll tell you how you can also make a living from writing. Or maybe better with it. When I am asked what I do for a living and I say I am a writer then the next question almost always comes up: Can you make a living from it? Yes, I can make a living from it now. But what most may not know how diverse my sources of income are, what I do to make a living from it. I not only live from the sale of my manuscripts to the publisher, I get an advance for this, and not just fro...”
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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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