Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Research
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: Research
Overview
“I'll talk you through the research topic and how to use both to get the details right and add more information into your pieces. ”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: Research, 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
“ Research Once you've got your first draft ready, in this lesson, we'll flesh out some details and see what you can add to your piece with a little bit of research. Now, it might sound counterintuitive to do the writing in the first instance before we get into the research. I think sometimes it can be very easy to get bogged down in the research or just become fascinated by it. You spend so long doing this research and use all this information that you don't get into the piece itself. If you start doing the writing first, then you can go back and research the specific parts that you need 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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