Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
What Is Life Writing?
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: What Is Life Writing?
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll discuss what life writing is and show some examples of excellent prose in the subject. ”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: What Is Life Writing?, 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
“ What Is Life Writing? In this lesson, I'll talk a little bit about life writing and what it actually is. What is life writing? At its simplest, I would say life writing is writing about life, and I think it can be a slightly amorphous phrase. I think a good comparison is to think of life drawing. If you're doing life drawing, it's about trying to draw and capture how a live model looks. I think in a way, life writing is similar, but you're trying to capture different, more internal things. Emotions and feelings and memories is the best way to describe it. Rather than being a live model, t...”
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Course summary for: Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
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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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