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

• Introduction
• Triggers: Senses and Specifics
• Making History Personal
• Fleshing Out and Focusing In
• Doing More with Your Work
• Final project

Life writing is an exploratory process, which involves unlocking memories, both the cherished and the difficult, and translating them into a coherent, narrative structure. For author and editor Tom Bromley, it is like portraiture: trying to depict someone as they truly are—a complete picture, but with words rather than colors.

In this course, Tom takes you through the fundamentals of life writing, from the research, first draft, to the final edit. Discover the techniques to retell experiences in vivid detail and build a seamless narrative piece that captivates readers.