Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Using Senses to Bring Emotions to Life
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: Using Senses to Bring Emotions to Life
Overview
“Here you'll look at the first of three ways to trigger memories and help bring life writing to life. ”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: Using Senses to Bring Emotions to Life, 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
“ Using Senses to Bring Emotions to Life In this lesson, I'll show you how we could use the different senses to help you trigger that trawl of memories needed needed to bring your life writing to life. One of the secrets of good writing, whether you're writing, nonfiction, fiction, life writing, or make-believe, is to make use of all the different senses. I sometimes find with beginner writers that they quite often focus when writing a description in terms of how somewhere looks, but actually good writers will make use of all the different senses. Not just how things appear visually, but al...”
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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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