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Traci Skuce
Добавлен 15 апр 2011
You're NOT Doing It Wrong
Register here for the FREE 90-minute You're Not Doing it Wrong Workshop: www.traciskuce.com/youre-not-doing-it-wrong/
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I’ve teamed up with my friend Caroline Donahue to offer this FREE 90-minute workshop that debunks the myth of the so-called “real” writer.
Because all the stuckness and insecurity that you experience as you wonder whether you're a "real" writer is actually part of the writing journey!
On Friday, September 13th, we’re going to take all those crippling doubts and beliefs about who is a writer and who isn’t, and turn them on their heads.
The You're Not Doing it Wrong workshop will invite you to recentre yourself back into your writing life.
It will remind you that writing...
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I’ve teamed up with my friend Caroline Donahue to offer this FREE 90-minute workshop that debunks the myth of the so-called “real” writer.
Because all the stuckness and insecurity that you experience as you wonder whether you're a "real" writer is actually part of the writing journey!
On Friday, September 13th, we’re going to take all those crippling doubts and beliefs about who is a writer and who isn’t, and turn them on their heads.
The You're Not Doing it Wrong workshop will invite you to recentre yourself back into your writing life.
It will remind you that writing...
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Exploring Your Character's Struggles
Просмотров 22День назад
I received an email the other day from someone who didn't want to put their characters in harms way. Didn't want to be mean to them. In this video, I talk about the difference between what happens to our characters externally, and what happens to them internally. The good news is: you don't have to hold a knife to your character's throat to keep your story moving forward. I'm Traci Skuce, found...
Compassion for Your Characters
Просмотров 4514 дней назад
Watch this video to find out more about softening your heart and finding a sense of compassion that will help your story hold the complexity of the human experience. I'm Traci Skuce, founder of The Writing Journey, an online creative writing school for fiction and memoir writers. I am committed to the craft of writing and creating a safe space for writers to explore the depths of their beings, ...
Where to Find the Gold in Your Writing
Просмотров 4721 день назад
The more people we try to please with our writing, the less we find our footing as writers. Let your weird come out! It's where you'll find the gold in your writing. I'm Traci Skuce, founder of The Writing Journey, an online creative writing school for fiction and memoir writers. I am committed to the craft of writing and creating a safe space for writers to explore the depths of their beings, ...
Stop trying story formulas--Go for clarity!
Просмотров 79Месяц назад
Register here for the 5-DAY STORY CLARITY CHALLENGE: www.traciskuce.com/story-clarity-challenge/ Maybe you’ve written countless words towards your novel, but the story still isn’t ‘coming together’. Maybe you’ve got a memoir that keeps stalling out and you have no idea why. Maybe you write shorter pieces-stories and essays-and for some reason, even though they’re short, they feel impossible to ...
Word Count or Consistency?
Просмотров 453 месяца назад
Have you heard this? "Write 1000 words a day-and you can have the draft of a novel or memoir in under two months!" I’m tired of this blanket advice. The one-size fits all approach to writing. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with having word count goals. It can be motivating. But writing fiction or nonfiction, long or short form, requires more than productivity. Runs deeper than industriousn...
5 Ways Reading Short Stories Will Help Your Writing
Просмотров 633 месяца назад
Happy Short Story Month! Why read short stories as a writer?? Watch this video to find out. There are many, many amazing short story collections out there. Here are some of my favourites: "Bobcat" by Rebecca Lee "Memory Wall" by Anthony Doerr "Don't Cry" by Mary Gaitskill "The World a Few Minutes Ago" by Jack Driscoll "The End of Me" by John Gould (flash fiction) "The Pull of the Moon" by Julie...
Write What You Know?!
Просмотров 914 месяца назад
The adage "write what you know" can be confusing. Whether you're writing fiction or memoir, there should be things about your story you DON'T know. Check out this video to dive deeper into this question. You can sign up for my weekly newsletter for writers here: eepurl.com/g8Ihn9 Enjoy what you're watching? Subscribe to this channel! #WritingCommunity #FictionWriter #MemoirWriting
Defamiliarizing What?!
Просмотров 274 месяца назад
You don't have to write poetry to read poetry. And you don't have to write poetry for poetry to work on your writing! Watch this video to find out more. Here's a link to Ada Limón's "Dead Stars": poets.org/poem/dead-stars Enjoy what you're watching? Please subscribe to this channel. Are you wanting to welcome in your story? Download my Welcoming Your Story Meditation by clicking here: www.traci...
Simple Ways to Juice Up Your Writing
Просмотров 435 месяцев назад
Writing by hand can seem archaic, but it has it's advantages! Watch this video to find out more. Enjoy what you're watching? Please subscribe to this channel. Stuck writing your story? Try this free resource: www.traciskuce.com/unstick-your-story-workbook/ #FictionWriter #MemoirWriting #Writers #WritingCommunity
Want to Write Better Stories?
Просмотров 275 месяцев назад
Happy Women's History Month! Now what does Women's History Month have to do with story writing? Everything! In this video, Traci looks to three women writers and how writers can learn to keep their characters from falling into stereotypical thinking. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth2024 #ReadMoreBooks #Writers #FictionWriter #MemoirWriting Enjoy what you're watching? Please subscribe to ...
Are You Lost in Your Fiction or Memoir? Follow THIS to Get Your Story Back on Track
Просмотров 919 месяцев назад
Sometimes writers get all caught up in the things they THINK they should do. But I’m here to encourage you to follow curiosity in your story instead. Because if you are driven by your curiosity, your story is more likely to open up for you. Are you curious about your characters emotions? Find support in my FREE Feel’d Guide Workbook: traciskuce.com/emotion-feeld-guide-exercises-for-writers Happ...
Writing Fiction or Memoir? Sharpen THIS Skill to Uplevel Your Story
Просмотров 909 месяцев назад
Writers are noticers! The landscape of our characters and stories are made up of many details, and the more specific we are, the more alive and real the story feels. Watch this video for inspiration to begin a noticing practice, and if you’re looking for more support, join us in The Writers Journey Facebook group by clicking here: groups/shapingyourstory Enjoy what you’re watching?...
A Radical Writing Strategy to Deal With Self Doubt
Просмотров 789 месяцев назад
There’s all sorts of advice out there about how to deal with self-doubt when it comes to writing. But what if self-doubt wasn’t a problem to get over? What if you could use your self-doubt in the writing itself? Watch this video to learn more. Enjoy what you’re watching? Please subscribe to this channel. Looking to get in touch with self-doubt and other emotions you are experiencing? Download t...
What Your Story Needs to Survive the Slush Pile
Просмотров 3510 месяцев назад
Watch this video to hear about my personal experience being in the top 5 finalists of the 2015 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. In this video I discuss the key to good story writing. And it can take time. But you know what? It’s already in you. Waiting to be discovered. If you’re ready to discover your writing voice, click here: www.traciskuce.com/embodied-story-intensive/ I look forward to speak...
Reframe Your Relationship to Time--and Write More!
Просмотров 7010 месяцев назад
Reframe Your Relationship to Time and Write More!
What Conventional Writing Advice DOESN'T Tell You
Просмотров 15311 месяцев назад
What Conventional Writing Advice DOESN'T Tell You
Stop Trying to Surprise Your Reader
Просмотров 13011 месяцев назад
Stop Trying to Surprise Your Reader
Three Prompts to Fire Up Your Writing Muscles
Просмотров 8011 месяцев назад
Three Prompts to Fire Up Your Writing Muscles
Artificial Intelligence??! What's a Writer to Do?
Просмотров 8811 месяцев назад
Artificial Intelligence??! What's a Writer to Do?
Tap into the source of your creativity!
Просмотров 147Год назад
Tap into the source of your creativity!
finding the mot juste--and why it matters!
Просмотров 129Год назад
finding the mot juste and why it matters!
Improve your writing with these 4 tips!
Просмотров 143Год назад
Improve your writing with these 4 tips!
The BIGGEST Mistake Writers Make (so you don't have to)
Просмотров 149Год назад
The BIGGEST Mistake Writers Make (so you don't have to)
Let your characters FEEL! Bring more emotion to the page.
Просмотров 141Год назад
Let your characters FEEL! Bring more emotion to the page.
What Does Your Character Want...really?
Просмотров 56Год назад
What Does Your Character Want...really?
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Thank you,
Pema has been a major influence for me, too! So glad you’re sharing this!
That's exactly what I've been trying to do...write it the way I like it. Don't worry about what's popular or considered on the best writers list. Write MY story, use my voice and if it doesn't sell, that's okay. Write it for my vision. Thanks for confirming that.
Thank you so much, I need these words.
Thank you, Traci for lifting the guilt from my shoulders. Some days it takes me an hour (or more) to write a paragraph - a paragraph, that is, that's satisfactory, that delves into emotion, engages the senses and creates a deep scene. I feel liberated.
Yay for liberation! I'm so glad to hear this xo
Birds appear in my novel, in actuality and as a motif! I'm off to play! :)
"Stepping Stone Intentions" I intend to write stepping stone intentions to help me [main intention] finish this draft of my novel.
Nicely said
I do think these things.
Awesome
Intresting, I'm not an writer but it's interesting!
Traci - Wow, just wow. Attacking my self doubt with this new approach starting right now. I said out loud as I listened "this is radical" and it is. I am so willing to try.
Yay Nancy ❤Please try. Over and over and over.
Love this suggestion Traci.
Many thanks, Traci - excellent.
Like your video
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Thank you for this. When I first started sharing the story I’m writing with others, one of the first questions someone asked was always, “Who’s telling the story?” I thought I knew, then I learned I didn’t have a clue about how to present the POV. 😂 I’m still working on my first draft, and I’m still trying to get it right.😊
POV takes time to understand, but it is definitely learnable :) Read lots and start to notice how other writers are working with it!
I loved this story Traci - the language is beautiful and the scene so evocative. Wonderful writing.
Good
so cool, thanks a lot!
Best explanation ever of how your writing voice develops! Thanks, Traci!
Thanks Traci. Love it! And it’s new material every day!
Traci is an AMAZING writing teacher! Currently taking one of her courses...Before her course, I wrote narratives that were stiff and boring. Now writing is more effortless and my prose emotionally involves a reader. I still have a long way to go....
Thanks so much, Michelle :)
I love this! Thank you !!
Thankyou. I really wan't to continue mine, I am about halfway through and have not wrote since a year ago but I have it all in my head because it is all true.
Very interesting, Traci. This one will stick with me.
Yesterday, he woke up knowing he was going to have a long day of work teaching. Tuesdays sucked because they were the days that sucked the life out of him. Intermittent fasting be damned. He had a croissant and a hot latte on the train to work while dreading the day of work ahead. The morning went unexpectedly well with the creation and mounting of eighteen gingerbread men on the wall outside his classroom. Lunch was delicious. The other teachers made him laugh with their banter. Perhaps the day wasn't going to go to hell in a handbasket as usual. The extra classes he taught on Tuesday evening went well, too. He napped on the train home while listening to overly dramatic double speed text stories on RUclips. They lulled him into a storyteller's sense of security with the voices babbling intimate nonsense in his ear. As he exited the train he thanked the crisp winter night air for a day that had gone better than expected. After dinner and a shower, he was more than ready for bed. He curled up under the duvet and dreamed about taking a bath in hot blue water, the same shade of blue his daughter's fish swam around in when they injured a scale or a fin. He wasn't hurt, but accepted the medicinal comfort of a long deep sleep.
“babbling intimate nonsense in his ear.” ❤ That’s beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Glad you opened yourself to the possibility of a different kind of Tuesday and found it gratifying.
Thanks for sharing--I loved particularly the dramatic double speed text stories ;)
Would love examples of character relating to “greater consciousness” and great point about simile and metaphor being within the voice and range of the character. Thanks.
Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse!!!
Nice!! I am here in Kensington now, JHB...mmm
“You have to be [both] disciplined and flexible, that’s the first thing about writing.” ❤ I have to watch this again, mine it for more goodies. Send a word to a friend!
I seriously doubt I will ever be as fluidly funny as Roddy Doyle. Lord knows I’d love to be able to give life to my younger self the way he does Henry Smart in his, A Star Called Henry (historical fiction about the Easter Uprising and the unimaginable poverty of 20th century Dublin slums). That’s OK. I’ll find my own way and still love him.
'an ancient nothingness' - I love that phrase and concept
Good advice Traci, I've never heard of this approach. There are so many writers that have influenced me, I never thought of researching who has influenced them. Thank you!
I'm glad I could offer you something new :)
Very nice 👍...are you in South Africa btw?
I am on Vancouver Island
I too am feeling like a lonely mama with Emmett about to move to UBC. I have so many stories in my head but not enough time. But then when I find some free time I usually spend it reading or in nature watching the moon rise or other such wonders. Thanks for being committed to encouraging us to write Traci!
Did you watch my video about procrastination? I talk about chunking up your stories. Just one paragraph per day can add up... And yea, from my tender mama heart to yours!
I'm not in that "in-between" place, but I really appreciate this lesson that I'll keep in my "back pocket", for when I am. Beautiful lesson Traci, I love how you took your time explaining it.
Yes--you don't have to be in the in-between zone to work this way ;) Thanks for tuning in :)
I always write by hand and it's feel like I'm free whatever I want, but when I write it again in my computer it's turn me into an éditer if that's make sense 😅.. but in the end I always love writing by hand
That totally makes sense! I love writing by hand too--obviously :)
Agree with the suggestion to dig deeper in a section that stands out when handwritten. I took piano lessons and if a section of the piece was awkward or difficult the teacher had me just focus on that one part and play it over and over. This helped me with working through sections of my writing.
I love this comparison, Steph! Thank you for sharing :)
Raw and burnt. Let's make a cooking show called Raw and Burnt
Nice! But that leaves me questioning. Do you mean we need to hint at what's gonna happen, as in "foreshadowing"? I usually write from the protaginist's POV and what's s/he's thinking and experiencing at that particular time. How does knowing what's going to happen to them in a few months or a few years going to affect the narration?
No--I'm talking about when the narrator is recounting the story events from. If you think about Harry Potter, the narration is happening as the events happen. That gives one kind of narrative 'flavour'. If you think about something like 100 Years of Solitude, the narrative distance feels more reflective--looking back.
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oh yeah I do the same thing. Yes, people should definitely think about nothing that is related to whatever it is that you're creating. It just comes to you. I take a 45 mins walk on the roof of my apartment and just keep looking at the night sky with 3-4 stars or kids playing and then I talk to myself, about things - future, work, what I wanna do at the present, etc.
beautiful... I love the 3-4 stars ;)
Love the timing of this post, as just today I was thinking of your comment (in an interview, I believe) about writers needing time to just stare out the window. And then I read from my list of writer's quotes (I'm sure you know it): "It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing." But most importantly, you're absolutely right that writing comes out of nothingness. Thanks for your message, and for sharing about the nourishing retreat you've just enjoyed! Sounds lovely! Gertrude Stein
You're so welcome :) I'm glad it resonated with you. And I didn't know about the genius quote, so thanks for sharing it!
@@TheWritingJourney You're welcome, and thank YOU for sharing!
Great reminder Traci. The art of "nothing," so important, easy to forget. Valuable Lesson, Thank you
You're so welcome! I'd love to know if you got up to Nothing today :)
@@TheWritingJourney I did on Saturday, went for a hike somewhere new with no one in sight, took my time walking, watching the geese, the wind pushing waves in the lake. Today, was a full rare day off (I have a full-time day job), I'm working on my memoir, but took a few breaks and kept it simple; made popcorn, took time to read (greatest pleasure). Writing can be a "release of emotions", or full of tension. I think learning to do "nothing" helps to keep it in perspective - a healthy balance. I have your other tip on my bulletin board: "Scattered mind takes you to crazy places", and will add "Words & stories come from nothing, they are born from nothing, so do nothing and meet them there". Beautiful Traci. Thank you. This was helpful.
@@brendafinne3491 That sounds like a wonderful day. And an inspiring bulletin board ;)
Great work Traci. I look forward to your next collection.