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Wow that was legitimately the most helpful writing advice I've yet to receive on outlines and plotting. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I really really appreciate it. Also I love those kitty posters, they're super cute.😊 I will be subscribing and checking out your channel now

Loved this video chat. Sorry that I missed it live.

Thank you for your insight, it is very helpful.

Missed the stream, but it looks like you all had a good time.

Hello there from another Italian aspiring writer! The author's newbie tag seems so fun to do 😄

I wish I'd this information years ago!

Love this!

I want to thank you for these videos. I’m also attempting to write something fairly ambitious and I rely on people like you to be my guide. I’m actually terrible at this but hopefully with the tools you are providing I can be a little less so. Also random thought but how would this apply to a multi book series I wonder. I would probably need a cascade of these threads weaving through the books I think. Engineering problem I guess 😂

As a writer myself, and listener /reader of way too many bad internet "horror" stories, I would like to add another major tip for horror.... Tip 4: Don't blow it in the end. A lot of writing is just meh and low stakes from the start; the author just needs more practice to hone their craft, but that's okay, those stories can still pass the time while you do something else. What's truly frustrating is to finally come across what feels like a really good spooky story, with well crafted, original description and premise, with tension being carefully raised over the course of the story, until you're eager for the payoff, only for... the horrific sight we're at last beholding!... BUT!... it is not left to horrifically linger as we fade to black or flee, but instead the author raises that horror up, and blood is coming from the eyes, and suddenly it's got fangs, and it's shrieking a monologue about something like I AM GOD, and it suddenly chases our protagonist, and it's smashing through walls, and just generally doing the cliché, predictable, overdone kinds of things that turn it into an action scene from a monster movie. Or, a simple, creative, creepy premise goes off the rails when way too much is dumped onto us about what is REALLY going on right at the end. Like, we thought it was spoooky ghosts, werewolves or madness, but no it was demons?, but no actually aliens? Indescribable, un-understandable eldritch alien horrors that make it feel like the author couldn't figure it out either and didn't know to just leave it alone and now is just dropping cliche horror tropes and everyone is just confused and unsatisfied, again? Thus turning every story into the same story and usually knocking off the idea of the supernatural or paranormal in favor of "realistic" explanations of "Catholic religion is all real" and "aliens did it". Or, expanding the Horrific Thing's whole timeline across the history of the universe and saddling it with increasingly absurd lore baggage that makes more and more readers drop their suspension of disbelief. The thing is, good horror creeps into you because you left it unresolved and lingering while explaining juuuust enough of our questions that we feel complete; you didn't shine a spotlight on it, you didn't pull a rug, you didn't dissect it right at the end, and roll it in creepypasta glitter. The unexplained should STAY unexplained 99% of the time. A lot of SCP stories, for example, end up overdoing the Lore or underdoing the satisfying answering of our questions in favor of MyStErY or trying to seem more powerful or cool than it has been effectively been shown to be. I think this ruining of ends happens most often when writers try to write like a movie, instead of using and understanding the medium they're working with. I think it comes from a lack of experience in general, and specifically a newbie fear of not pushing the horror far enough or not making it scary enough. I think it often comes from accidently or purposefully crossing over the faint line between horror and gore. I personally believe good horror horrifies, it may shock, but it isn't about being SHOCKING or necessarily action packed. Yes, there might BE action, but that's just a necessity rather than a focus. I think it comes from a lack of creativity, or admiring someone else's writing too much such that you write something derivative. It comes from thinking too far along a premise that entertains you, and adding and adding for drama, creating a premise the writer do not know how to clip at the right spot to make into a good horror story. Either way, I think it's especially important to consider the end of your story and really think it through and consider what you want it to be, and consider whether your ending lets the air out of the balloon you've been blowing up. Because understatement can be REALLY powerful, and because you want the reader to walk away still thinking about it, not done with it, or worse, rolling their eyes. I've found most creepypastas, SCP stories, horror video games (especially mascot horror) and more tend to fall into this pitfall of overdoing it at the end and ruining the whole set-up by ramping up the weird, or the genre-changing twist-out-of-nowhere, or the totally hyperbolic at the end.

First of all thank you for sharing all this information and your valuable explanations, as a natural hermit writer I always avoid to seek for inspiration in other writer's work, when an idea comes to mind I seclute myself immediately to avoid any external influence, trying to avoid writing something similar to other writers, but my biggest problem is that I am not a ploter nor an absolute pantser either, because I feel any outline or structure is restrictive and because nowadays when you sit to watch a movie after 5 minutes you can predict the ending and same when you start reading abook after 5 pages you already knows how will end, mostly because the overuse of the same structures, for that reason in my first draft I just go rampage without thinking in structure, page count or anything I need to make my story fit in, and try to let the story flow naturally, one of my more recognizable treats is that you get interested in the story thinking I started with the MC when you realize it is the antagonist or is a support character and that force me to level up the tension because if a support character can be as interesting the antagonist must be at less the double of interesting and the MC 5 times more interesting, that push me to the limit, my chaotic non linear story get your nerves, because you actually can't predict what will happen, every page turn things and open new possibilities, I build my story like a puzzle, but I would like to know your opinion about a different method that I have in mind but can't describe clearly yet, I would like to write like when you play with lego blocks, in apuzzle pieces only can fit in one place, but with lego blocks you have much more flexibility, I know is a vage description in terms of writing and outlining, but like in the explample you gave us of the outline, how we could altere in right way the sequence of all the elements? do you believe can be possible?

This might be off topic, but you’re so pretty, you remind me of a renaissance painting ✨

PRAISE BE TO THE ALGORITHM FOR BRINGING THIS MY WAY.

JORDY you’re so cute ily 😭 the opening was *chefs kiss*

I love what you said about love (lol), that's it's not magic, it's hard work - and I 100% agree and feel like some writers forget about that. Also not only enemies to lovers related but I hate stories where people end up with each other without any problems on their way, or the only problem they encounter is *dududududum* MISUNDERSTANDING. Gosh how I hate it 🙈 learn how to TALK damnit!

It's a fine line between love and hate! Loved this video and the quality is 10/10, chef's kiss!

Interesting take. It is like a trope as way to avoid common pitfalls.

I have dozens of Notion pages, full of all sorts of outlining and plotting methods and wanted to finally put my own together from all these methods. You just did that for me, thank you :) Ah and you get your very own Notion page now, right at the top ;)

Welcome to authortube, now you have friends and writing friends 😊

I know we writers often feel we have no writer friends, so finding them from around the globe online has been amazing for me.

Amaze 🎉 this was such a good update video and so informative. Im very excited for the new essays, book vids, Book Gal, and everything!

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I loved this video! I think it’s rly going to help me. I just want to make sure I understand though: is the method to figure out what midpoint moment you want with the progress, payoffs and promised method? Then use the midpoint method method to help build around it? I’m just a little unclear on the step by step and I think I almost understand it but could you clarify/explain a bit more? Or give an example? It seems so promising and I really want to get it!

incredibly helpful, thanks!

Great video. Well presented. Very interesting combination of methods. Please make the music quieter and a longer loop. It couldn't have been longer than six or seven seconds.

Promise: This video will explain critical plotting methods to me Progress: The video Payoff: You just earned yourself a subscriber

Thank you, I'm coming back to this video to try this method on my current projects! I really love how you describe things and how you incorperate the Misbelief (I call this the Lie) and character arc stuff. The Mirror Moment is new to me and I'm excited to use it! I've never really tried outlining from the middle or any other point than the beginning, and its inspiring me a lot.

WHAT THE HELL??? Thank god youtube recomended this video to me, I can't believe at this visualizations number... Girl... Thank you! What a great approach! You helped me realise that all the seamingly random things I have figured out for my story are actually a great starting point. I should stop forcing myself to figure out everything chronologically. The beginning and ending can both stem from the middle! Also, I loved what you had to say about character development, really helped me structure some ideas that were kinda aimlessly floating around my noggin. Thanks!

Shout out to James Scott Bell! Such a good writing coach.

Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:49 My outlining struggle 3:53 The Midpoint Epiphany 6:28 Brandon Sanderson’s Philosophy on Plot 7:51 Promise, Progress, Payoff 9:51 The Signpost Scenes 15:53 Conclusion

I loved this! I'll have to check out the book!

Super helpful, Jordy!

Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:40 Suspension of disbelief: suck the reader in 4:22 Having restraint: keep the details to yourself 6:20 The opening of two horror novels: why do they work? 13:54 Take it slow: build suspence 15:16 There are three kinds of suspence: choose well

What a gorgeous cafe! Seoul looks lovely.

Fantastic insights on this one. It would be fun if you did a similar video on different genres.

Weather changes is a real struggle for me, it's really hard to create in these days. Comforting myself with little treats or doing some sports really helps. Good luck with writing 🍂💛

It was cool seeing parts of Seoul. Something I wanted to try in the US is finding a nice mountain view, then sit down to write. There's probably some fun scenery of nature out there somewhere as well.

First of all--LOVE the cat artwork 😂 Second, welcome to the authortube community! It's exactly what you said--it tends to be so welcoming and people love to collaborate. I also write in a million different genres, I can't choose just one! 😅

Welcome welcome to the writing family on RUclips 💙💙💙

You are so easy to listen to, even free-of-a script but I know this about you. Thank you for opening up more about your writing 🎉 wishing you much creation in the future, too

Welcome to the Authortube world. I am a fantasy writer who has a youtube channel. Subscribed.

Hi... welcome to AuthorTube

Welcome to the author community ❤ I loveeee your kitty reading pictures behind you!

A huge welcome to the community!❤ Subbed

Really like this format, very conversational and caters the viewer to your personality and content type. Keep it up!

Hi Jordy (: welcome!!

The streams were really good. Will you do them on a schedule or just when you have time?

Sempre molto interessante

Great new location, and you are making sense, even if you are improvising instead of following a script!