Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
About Me
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I will tell you a bit about myself and my writing background in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story. Discover the writing techniques to research, draft, and edit a narrative piece based on your memories and experiences that engages readers until the final sentence.
Partial transcription of the video
“ About Me In this lesson, I'll talk a bit about myself and my writing background. A very warm welcome, and thank you for taking the course. My name is Tom. Growing up, I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be a rock star as I used to play the bass guitar. I played in various bands as a teenager and when I went to university. I think my hope was that I would become famous and successful doing that. The bands I was in, we got quite close, getting to the stage with record companies there and it almost happened, but never quite. But with the other people in the band when we were rehearsing...”
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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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