Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Employing Music as a Trigger
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: Employing Music as a Trigger
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about how music can transport you back to different events and moments in your life. ”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: Employing Music as a Trigger, 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
“ Employing Music as a Trigger We talked about how we could use the senses to take us back to the past and trigger memories to give us information to do our life writing. In this lesson, we're going to focus in on one of those specifically: sound, and in particular, music and how this can be used to trigger those memories and to help us capture a particular moment in time. Music combines using one of the different senses, sound, but adds in as well this cultural element. What that piece of music can do is it takes you back to a particular moment when the song was first heard and remembered,...”
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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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