Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Bringing in and Bringing Out the Emotions Even When It Hurts
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: Bringing in and Bringing Out the Emotions Even When It Hurts
Overview
“ In this lesson, I will discuss the challenges of writing from your own perspective and how to write with feeling and emotion.”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: Bringing in and Bringing Out the Emotions Even When It Hurts, 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
“ Bringing in and Bringing out the Emotions Even When It Hurts In this lesson, we're going to look at how to use emotions in life writing and how to harness your feelings in order to achieve this. One way of talking about writing is to describe the difference sometimes between fiction and nonfiction. Sometimes when people write fiction, that may be based on real events, but then the writer is using their imagination and creativity to create something else. Whereas with nonfiction, it's sort of the opposite. Rather than saying it in negative terms, I think it's better to turn it around and 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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