Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Rewriting Historical Events from Your Own Perspective
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: Rewriting Historical Events from Your Own Perspective
Overview
“To begin with, I'll encourage you to think about putting yourself in the picture, starting with reframing famous events from your own perspective.”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: Rewriting Historical Events from Your Own Perspective, 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
“ Rewriting Historical Events from Your Own Perspective One of the secrets of life writing is learning to put yourself in the picture. That's not always easy and sometimes it can feel uncomfortable. In this lesson, we'll look at some different ways to help you think and feel about this and how to look at historical events from your own perspective. For most of us, our role in actual history is fairly peripheral, but our own experiences still have their own validity as part of the shared collective moment. For example, there can be major cultural events that you've shared in terms of watchin...”
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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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