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What if I used a tablet to write down some sentences? Does that make sense?

Interesting content, thank you. An unsolicited tip: with a dynamic microphone like the nice one you have, it needs to be much closer to you to get better quality sound.

but I have arthritis... when I write for more than ten minutes my writing hand cramps so badly that I have to stop :(

would it be possible to add timestamps/bookmarks? ty

Very happy to have discovered your channel. Subbed.

Cool beard bro 👍

Thank you for a grand video, I only wish you would compare pen and paper with a computer, are there any cognitive differences, or any other differences at all?

I write my entire book by hand, by chapters. Glue pieces of paper all over with additional notes and references 😂 I love writing ideas in pencil, and all my research too. Not clutch pencils, but good old fashioned wood. But black pen when I start the first draft. I then type out the novel, which becomes the second draft. No idea why I do this, it just feels right for the first draft to be hand written. I mean a book is never the first draft and the first chapter always changes 😂

Before deciding to use your services it would be helpful to have a general idea of your upfront costs. Pls advise how to proceed.

top advice,,thankyou and well done !re: Orwell’s opening line however, that was plain and uninteresting and doesn’t catch my interest whatsoever lol but that’s just me

Amazing video, please put chapters in the video based on the advices, so audience can quickly browse the video and understand its quality! Wish you the best with this new adventure of yours!

Such good advice. Thank you! Apart from the marathon middle, getting started on a new book is always the most difficult part. Too much looking up at the mountain! I feel like the hobbit who would rather stay in his comfy little house

Great advice! Marathon in the middle is the worst! Starting projects always has that same dopamine hit but once the newness wears off, you gotta keep at it. I like Stephen King’s analogy of “shoveling sh*t from a sitting position”. It really puts it in perspective. For me, I know that if I don’t keep showing up to the page, I might walk away and never finish it.

But Arnold Samuelson doesn't even have a wiki page. There is one about Hemingway's boat.

so what about clever Dyslexics?

You made my day with this music video. Your followers have made the Face(book) hashtag #africanliteraturerevolution so successful. Continue encouraging my new hero, Donald Besong, to assist financially by reading his masterpiece, the fifteen-page "Bleeding Stubs." There is no better era loan Africa is financial efficacy through literature.

Writing can be so much more than just putting words on paper! This exercise really helped me unlock clarity and focus, thanks to Habit10x boosting my confidence in my own skills.

I’ve found this to be true, too. Sometimes you just gotta put words on the page, then scrap it later. Even the most out there ideas. When I was writing poetry, some of my best poems were about not having something to write about.

I write by hand then type it up.

I started writing fanfiction back when I was about 8-9 years old by hand in notebooks. This expanded to various crazy longer novels that were a combination of my ideas and borrowed stuff (still probably today what gets posted as fanfic) but it would take up multiple 5 subject notebooks and I continued writing hours a day like that all the way through high school In my American History class in high school, the teacher liked to include essays on tests where students could score as many points as possible with how much they could write. But it couldn't just be listing facts. It needed to be an essay. On my final exam for that history class, I scored 250 points on the exam (100 was an A+). My ability to just quickly write was insane compared to anyone else in the class. My teacher was blown away how anyone could write that fast in an organized way. But I had been doing it for years.

I wrote a novel by hand this year and found it easy. I had found that keying a draft into a computer didn't work at all for me. I have a typewriter and wonder if typing (typewriter) comes closer to handwriting than keying (computer). I will test this for novel number two.

I have always found journaling helpful for solidifying ideas and have seen the effect writing things by hand has had on people around me. My stepdad was a respiratory therapist, and he said he struggled in medical school. In order to retain things he learned in class, he said he not only wrote his notes, but copied them AGAIN to reemphasize to his brain it was important. My daughter also has ADHD, and can never remember anything she reads. But lately, she started writing notes in a journal as she was reading, and I’ve seen her comprehension increase! Maybe she’s not remembering it all, but at least she has a copy to go back and look at in her own words! Great video!

I am disabled, with hand-eye coordination problems. I always use a computer to write or print anything, because writing it out by hand first, then rewriting it on a computer just seems like a colossal waste of time. Also, writing by hand is terribly quaint these days...Sadly, I only have over thirty years of writing experience...what do I know? You're good at making RUclips videos, though.

As a published author who is a pretty good typist, I still write books in notebooks and I love it. I have the exact pens I love to use (and I go through a ton) and the exact notebooks. It's become something of an obsession at this point.

Great insight! Thank you

Mr Patrick the time is so important I wish my book will be published after completion at the end of this year will be perfect if not possible by start of this year I know its Christmas time for you I can understand however its unique book for my profession ☝️✍😌

I have subscribed. Please help Africans create authors like Western ones, and we shall shower gratitude on you. The future of African literature is bleak. To save the continent from imminent intellectual collapse, please invite friends and colleagues to read the new best African short story "Bleeding Stubs" by Besong.

Very eye-opening. Members of my magazine have read many novels with: "She was emotionally strong. Yes. That strength. That innate strength. It was a toughness she always relied on." I think just one short and solid sentence would be more efficient.

Very useful Thankyou!

So true. Thanks Patrick. You can be more creative after writing rubbish? I can be critical of my character's voice. He wouldn't say that! Would he/she? You need though to keep the flow going. Dialogue, can drive a story forward., although not, at the time, how the character should respond! There is always going to be reflection and re-write. Then, the ineffective/ inappropriate sentences and dialogue can be addressed.

This is the most valuable tutorial on book marketing I've ever heard, thank you!

This video more than helped me. Thanks alot Patrick.

I was one of your clients, in April 2021 you kindly and efficiently published my first memoir 'Private Eye Secret Spy' Sales through Amazon have been steady ever since. However, despite your regular sales videos and emails, you have failed to respond to my many requests for your claimed expertise to get my book into bookshops! Disappointed at the lack of follow-up 🙂

Thank you, Patrick. Helpful comments as always. I have a friend who is a weel known traditionally published author and academic. He complains regularly about his publisher and agent. he makes 7% on each book sold. The publisher has total control over cover design. One cover showed the main character as holding a weapon in his right hand, when it should have been in his left hand! I prefer to have total control over all aspects of my writing adventure.

So much information to digest. ❤

Great video!

Looking forward to this one

Thanks for the tips. My updated paperback thriller A DIve Into Darkness is ready to be shared with the world.

Thanks very much Patrick for this breakdown. I first self-published in 2015. Now, have fourteen self-published books listed. Have been encouraged by good reviews over the years. In 2022, sales improved; an early novel started selling in UK. This novel previously went in USA, in 2017 and 2018. As a new author it's hard to get recognition in UK, without effective marketing and promotion. I do get listed with main retail outlets besides Amazon, but of course lack copy in actual reatail outlets. Main streamers will possibly run off a minimum 100,.000 copies for book shops presence. Glad now that I self-published. There is the copywright issue and with traditional publishing you need to get good sales to cover take - back from publisher, as mentioned. Over the years I submitted to main stream publishers, and have considered handing over copywright to traditional publishers, but have resisted. New authors, I was told, are likely to struggle, without a literary agent, who has a friend on a publishers board selection committee, who will promote his/her novel? I was seventy - years old, when my first novel was self - published. Have enjoyed self-publishing experience and, start a new novel or project well before I self publish a novel, play or anthology. That way, sales if not that good, I'm well into completion of a new nmanuscript ! amazon.com/author/grantsam and for commentary at samgrantpublicationscom.wordpress.com Best wishes, Colin (Sam Grant - author name)

Superb video. Thank you! I’m currently drafting a book about my experience with Psychosis and my recovery but at a bit of a hurdle. Do you have any copyeditors you’d recommend? 😀

This video is very well timed for me, I just finished the way of kings and I was just so excited and yet so frustrated cuz I had no idea how to outline something that complex. I remade my outlining worksheet entirely in excel (seriously). Now I can keep track of all my storylines/information flow (exposition, foreshadowing, red herrings, etc.) and I know exactly what needs to happen in each scene.

Fascinating video. I read, and write, every day. It helps being retired, of course. As a retired English teacher, I witnessed the decline in reading at secondary school level from the 1970s to the mid 2000s. Boys proved to be the most reluctant readers, especially with the advent of gaming stations and the likes of Netflix.

Helpful, interesting and informative, as always. I do love the deliberate spelling mistake at the beginning of the video. Is it becoming a custom now? Thank you for putting this video together, Patrick. Keep 'em coming!

Sent an email to your office weeks ago. A serious inquiry. Zero reply.

Excellent stuff. I write too fast, missing a lot of what H was saying. Merci Beaucoup. ,

Great information. You can lose control over authorship with main stream.

Many thanks for this, Patrick. I'm in the process of publishing my second novel with you (and a third is in the pipeline). I did receive an email from you regarding your book marketing services, went online and filled a form in, but haven't heard anything back. Does it not exist anymore? Received the email in May 2024.

Thank you!😊 helpful information😊