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Home - Tom Bromley. Ghostwriter. Internationally bestselling and prize-winning ghostwriter of fifteen titles, including books and celebrity memoirs on subjects from sport to music, business to politics. Editor. Award-winning editor and former commissioning editor and publisher of over a hundred titles. Creative Writing Tutor and Mentor.
Join Tom Bromley's immersive course on Reedsy Learning. Get 20hrs+ of masterclasses, weekly webinars, and join our writing community.
Ready to write a novel? Join Tom Bromley's immersive course on Reedsy Learning. Get 20hrs+ of masterclasses, weekly webinars, and join our writing community.
Novel Writing 101. Taught by: Tom Bromley. Overview. So, you want to learn some novel writing basics? In this free course, author and ghostwriter Tom Bromley will introduce you to all the essential steps you'll need to take before you start writing your novel's first draft.
- The Pitch. It's sometimes called the elevator pitch — I think that's where the term came from originally. It was an American business book in the early 1970s, and the idea was that if you are in a lift with a potential buyer for your product that you've got your pitch there ready to show and sell.
- The Protagonist. Sometimes students ask me which is more important; which comes first, the plot or the character? This is a slightly false question because in a good novel the relationship is slightly different.
- The Plot. So let's move on to the third P, which is the plot. When you're planning the book, one of the questions is, “how much plotting to do in advance?”.
- The Point of View. So the fourth for me is Point of View. And this is an important thing to think about from a practical point of view. I'm talking here about the point of view, and also the tense that you tell your story from.
Want to get your writing edited by a veteran ghostwriter and editor? In this very special Reedsy Live, our Head of Learning, Tom Bromley, will edit writing submissions of up to 500 words from viewers, providing tips and practical feedback that any writer can learn from.
In this very special Reedsy Live, our Head of Learning, Tom Bromley, will edit writing submissions of up to 500 words from viewers, providing tips and practical feedback that any writer can...
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