Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Objects and Small Details
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: Objects and Small Details
Overview
“I'll share with you a third way of kickstarting your ideas, using objects and small details as prompts. ”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: Objects and Small Details, 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
“ Objects and Small Details In this lesson, I'd like to look at another way of kickstarting ideas, which is to hone in on objects and particular small details. If you're like me, then your home is full of objects and mementos you've kept to remind yourself of different events and places that you have been. For example, I've got a drawer at home, which is full of concert tickets, to remind me of different music events I've been to. I've got stones in the kitchen and in the bathroom to remind me of trips to the beach. On the walls, I've got photos from holidays that I've been to. When the nov...”
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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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