Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
Structuring and Shaping Your Narrative
A course by Tom Bromley , Author, Editor, and Ghost Writer
About the video: Structuring and Shaping Your Narrative
Overview
“Now you’ve got your draft and fleshed out with research; you can start the process of tightening and editing the piece. In this lesson, you will look at doing so from a narrative perspective. ”
In this video lesson Tom Bromley addresses the topic: Structuring and Shaping Your Narrative, 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
“ Structuring and Shaping Your Narrative In this lesson, we can start structuring and shaping our narrative. What you should have by now is a fully fleshed-out first draft. You've done your initial writing, where you capture your feelings and emotions. Then, in your bit of research, you've been adding more details. Now we'll look at the process of tightening. How can we edit it? We'll begin that process in the bigger-picture stuff by thinking about how we can structure and shape the material. When I edit my own writing, I always do so in a two-stage process. The first is to look at big-pict...”
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Course summary for: Life Writing for Beginners: Telling Your Own Story
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Areas
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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