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Loved this one! It's reassuring to know others are struggling with keeping up with certain goals, definitely feeling this writing my zero draft!

Congratulations, Brielle!! I am soo proud of you! 🤩✨

All the best for draft 2

i loved the little outdoor date section (^: writing somewhere other than my house is on my author to-do list lol

scrivener has a feature to focus dialogue. in edit, then writing tool. dialogue feature. it blurs everything that's not in " ".

I like your videos, I feel that you explain very well and you are very simple, you have a very beautiful smile, I transmit it every time I see your videos.

i’m so excited to read this book <3

Endings are the first thing that come to mind for me, its the middle that I struggle with so much! And because of the fact that I seem to fail to think of a middle I continually fail to write a book. I've written 2 books in my like, book 1 was 25k 😅 and book 2 was a cowriting project. So to me, I feel like I've never written a "real" novel on my own.

I watch a lot of these videos, I tend very opinionated, half the time I don't even agree with advice given by professionals so I'm especially leary of "newcomers." Having said that I especially like what you had to say about your protagonist's subjective view on attractiveness, and how it's tied into her emotional state, in addition to your assertion that characters should be more complex than a handful of character traits in a word document. It shows you're not just playing lip-service to complexity and appreciate it for its own sake. Sidenote: did you know at least one study showed we find people more physically attractive the more time we spend with them. I don't know for sure your characters spend a TON of time together, since they're enemies, but it makes sense that she would find him more attractive over time. Even in the most basic sense. Some things I would keep in mind: I don't think a character flaw needs to be a "flaw." As in something that potentially ethically undermines your character. It just needs to create tension for them. So it can be something that's completely acceptable to your audience, but not to the characters' culture. Or their strengths and weakeness (being assertive, for example) can be the exact same thing. Some people will argue that this isn't enough, in my experience, as an observer, it's all you need. Because this is all relative anyway. As long as it incites tension it's enough. If your character seems "too perfect" it's because you haven't thought enough about what obstacles they would come up against realistically. People will say "clumsiness" is not a flaw. It absolutely is if it makes you look incompetent. If it strains public perception in a fragile political environment, or costs you a minimum wage job. It's a formative issue for Powder early in the Arcane series. When you take a loose cord out of a bag the wire is always tangled. Characters that are "too perfect" are immune to that kind of entropy regardless of how much pampering they get from the other characters. It's why the villains plans always work. Character traits are inherently conditional. The more conditions you seek out the better defined your character will be. You can have a character who would do absolutely anything for their mother, but draws the line at putting a close friend in the ground. Any reason they give will flesh out the character. Maybe they value friendships more than they thought; perhaps they don't have many friends, and that could even be her fault. Maybe they made that friend a promise. Maybe they made their mother a promise, that they wouldn't let her cross a certain line. Maybe they're just tired of doing things for her, or tired of people getting hurt. Maybe it's all of those reasons, or none of them. Which leads me to two more points. The more reasons you character has for doing something the more complex they'll seem (as long as they have viable alternatives) this is because the audience will miss things, if any of them are reinforced then they might be surprised to learn that the reason they understood was not the only reason. I'm not saying it's necessary to find the maximum number of justifications for a given action. It simply helps to have a few, and let the audience decide which was the most instrumental if any. Instead of always focusing on your characters' changes, maybe consider instances where the audience is likely operating under a misconception about the character based on "standard operating procedure" - and disabusing them of that.

i loved being apart of your stream ❤️ and always love the videos, Brielle!

i also love to be in the authortube community as a writer! This videos are always so fun and inspiring!

I love your bulbasaur in the background. I love the craft book recommendations! I’ll have to take a look at them.

EEE loved this and so excited to see you jump fully into draft two in the next one !!!!!!!

you: spoilers incoming don't look too closely me: 👁👄👁 girl i'm already so obsessed with the book and i can't wait to read it!!

The more you talk about your world, the more I wanna read your book❤ I hope the draft 2 vlogs come quickly so I can see more of your writing process while I wait for the book to come out!

Um, I know this off topic but if that’s your natural hair at the end of the video (the NJ part) ITS BEAUTIFUL!!🤩 Wishing you the best of luck as your prepare to start draft two! It’s a tiresome feat, but you seem so driven and passionate about your project, so I’m sure you will be successful!😁

Good luck with draft two! Edit: I had to finish watching the video today. The Emotion Thesaurus looks so helpful! I'm glad to see that you're catching so much that needs to be done for draft 2. I agree that everything you've mentioned will most definitely make draft 2 longer than draft 1, and it sounds like you've taken a lot of time to really examine what draft 2 needs. I can tell how passionate you are about this project with how thoughtful you've been, and it makes me even more excited to read the book when you publish. 😀

Good luck with draft two!

I have to say I agree with @bluehbookstuff, I'm obsessed with your channel too! I'm writing a trilogy (series). I just wrote my first book, editing at the moment, but this is another set of book completely different. I write romantic thriller, but your channel has been so helpful in how I approach my writing and developing my characters. you are awesome!!!

Watching this was the kick in the ass I needed to work on my timeline 😅 I'm also dealing with a 'new government' but I have no clue how long ago they showed up, fml 😭 Your productivity with this WIP is insane, I'm stoked that you're making so much progress! 🩷

IM FREAKING OBSESSED WITH YOUR CHANNEL!!💌 I love your style and personality and you give me SO much motivation to write and finish my novel! Almost 13k words in and you keep me INSPIIIRED. LITERALLY YES TO YOUR VIBE AND VLOGS💮 KEEP GOING GIRLYPOP and OH MY GOD GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR REVISIONS???✍✍📝

Ooouh goodluck with draft two!! Go go go! 📣📣

so excited for draft two, sounds like you have such a solid revision plan 😍also, that creature design book!!!

Welcome to the Draft Two stage of the journey!!! I’m 12/43 chapters into mine and so far you are absolutely right. It’s been just as, if not more work than the first draft, BUT about 10x more rewarding to see come together!

Draft two sounds so exciting! I can't wait for your video on it!

DRAFT TWO here we comeee

Loved this.

I feel you on the visualisation aspect; houses that are significantly bigger than anything I, or the character, have ever been in - houses that used to be priories/ monasteries - castle-like homes - a 17th century ship: how do you move about on one? How do you move _between_ levels/ decks? A 16th/ 17th century kitchen is *_vastly_* different to any kitchen I've ever been in- so the parts that make it up can be challenging to adjust to/ give the character understanding of. I can absolutely understand the warning of not getting bogged down in research before getting the first draft done- *but* there are some aspects where I feel I can't move the story or characters forward, if I can't figure out *_how_* they move about in the spaces they spend their time in...

This was insightful! Since the main character in this project i just started is more or less a child, he is malleable enough to be shaped by the events that happen to him and around him. This is easier to start out with in my opinion, especially since I'm a "gardener" according to GRRM's classification. He leaves his childhood home (which he doesn't know is a religious cult) with nothing but a congenital sense of morality!

Hola guapa, que cosa cambiaria en la vida

Hola como la ustaria que fuera la vida

Great video!!! So many useful tips! ❤

This motivated and reminded me to work on the background details of my fantasy novel that the readers probably won't ever see. I feel like, as writers, we sometimes forget about those aspects of storytelling! Great video btw!!!