Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Course final project
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the final project for: Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
“Congrats on reaching the end of the course! I hope you feel inspired and ready to work on your Life Writing piece. Before saying goodbye, I'd like to offer some final advice to note on your way to your final project. • Decide on the episode or incident you want to write your final piece about. This may be from one of the earlier tasks you wish to develop further. • Use the different task exercises to brainstorm details, e.g. on the other senses. Then write your first draft. • Once you have written this listen, turn to the research stage: what details can you add to flesh out your piece? • Next, edit your piece. Begin by thinking structurally, then tighten the text line by line. • Finally, proofread your finished piece before posting it up in the forum for review and feedback from your fellow students. For your Final Piece, you should be aiming for a text of 500-1000 words. Lastly, I want to encourage you to participate in the forum, commenting on your peers work and asking for feedback. Let's make the best out of this worldwide writing community. Also, I'll be popping in and out to guide you as much as possible. See you soon!”
Partial transcription of the video
“ Tom Bromley Thanks for taking the course. I hope you enjoyed the last few lessons and you found some of the tips and techniques useful. I'm looking forward to reading what you come up with. For your final writing project, we'd like you to write a slightly longer piece of life writing. A piece of between 500 and 1,000 words based on a particular incident or episode from your life. We'd like you to build on the different tips and techniques we looked at during the course. We began this course by looking a little bit at what life writing is. We then went on to consider different triggers to ...”
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Course summary for: Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
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Areas
Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Writing
Tom Bromley
A course by Tom Bromley
Tom Bromley is a published author, editor, creative writing tutor, and ghostwriter. He has written twelve works of both fiction and non-fiction, including We Could Have Been the Wombles and Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and other novels, novellas, short stories, and memoirs. He has also ghostwritten fifteen titles, including UK and international bestsellers, and prizewinners.
For the past decade, he has written and taught numerous online writing courses for organizations including the Faber Academy and the Professional Writing Academy, and a number of his students have gone on to become published authors. He has also spoken and taught at a number of literary festivals in the UK and Ireland, and runs an annual writing retreat in the Spanish mountains. He also currently works as an editorial consultant and mentor for a number of publishers, literary agencies, and organizations.
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