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Great video with invaluable information. I especially appreciated your comments about paragraph breaks. Comparing it to a cinematographer changing angles in a movie helped me to better understand how to get the most impact out of paragraphs and white space. Thank you. Keep up the good work!

Can't wait to check out this channel more!

Really great video! Learnt a lot and just what I needed right now!

Yes! Great info, thanks!

Great interview. I have subscribed and purchased two of his novels :D

This is wonderful thank you so much !!!

Good points - clear, concise and very helpful. Thank you. I particularly appreciated point #3. When writing dialogue, I always try to consider who the characters are and how they would actually react in each situation. My first beta reader told me yesterday the dialogue was her favorite part of my book as it didn't waste time on unimportant details; it simply helped move the plot forward. She could "feel" the characters' emotions and several times even found herself wanting to shake one or the other because they weren't "getting it." Best feedback I could have ever asked for!

When I was younger, I always wrote in purplish prose, sometimes in graphic details. Now picking up writing as a hobby 35 years later, it really is challenging trying to adhere to “modern standards”. I’ve decided that try to incorporate more succinct forms when necessary but narrate in my more natural purplish and lavender voice.

Great video! Very useful.

Thank you so much! I was so blank about how to do the scene, you clear my entire mind!😿

Much appreciated video! Thank you ☺️

I love this video. Great advice. I'm working on my character arc now on my second draft.

Ive been waiting by Jack Lawrence. Best book I read in 2024.

Just to let you know, the 'Resources' tab on your website doesn't seem to be working. I keep getting an error message come up.

Commented before watching full video: Depends on how much you have to say.

Each book I write seems to take a different time. For me it just depends on how passionate I am with that particular story. And.. if my health is cooperating on any given day.

I reckon there is potential for you to find readers in a range of professions and interview them all about the 10 most irritating errors they see about their profession in books, as an aid for writers. Police, nurses, doctors, university professors, IT tech support, computer programmers, paramedics, school teachers, truck drivers, pharmacists, lawyers etc. Could be a good way to help build up your audience and viewing hours with something that I haven't immediately seen elsewhere as a coherent series (but check first, just in case!)

I’ve enjoyed your literature and lectures. Happy New Year! 🎉

Merry Christmas Carly ☺️✨🎄

Merry Christmas, and keep it up, you're doing a great job, and I'm sure success will come. But most of all, keep enjoying the journey as best you can!

Merry Christmas! Thanks for the insight into your financial success. It is encouraging for me just starting out that I can build up to making a profit.

merry christmas

Have a blessed Christmas Carly. Will have a listen when I get near wifi. Signal here is so slow the aroma of coffee wouldn't even make it through.

As I writer I feel I know what I want my voice to be, but sometimes I lack the vacabulary I'd like to use and use a blank space so I can research later in order not to be stuck think😢 about words. Can you make a video on this? Struggling with word choice and limited vocabulary

And if a writer's voice does not comply with the accepted 'rules' and advice from You tube 'experts?' Should they give up? What gems could we readers be missing from a potential 'Unicorn.' I wonder......

I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on narrative voice. I sometimes find it amusing to look at my WIP and compare it to the way I write in my journal. They're so different! I tend to write my stories in first person--or, at least, my current WIP and the one I'm going to be starting next are--so, I do have to consider my character's voice, too, when I'm writing. The MC in my current is naive, has a big imagination, loves legends and has a fear of the dark, plus she lives in Germany in the 1860s, so those things are all things I have to consider with her voice. For my next project, my MC is highly sensitive, so he notices lots of small details and feelings--whether his or others'--are always very big for him, he's an avid reader, and he's a fashion model in the 1980s. So his voice will be pretty different, I think. I am naturally very descriptive, so my POV characters tend to be very descriptive as well, in some form or another.

Good Morning (Evening, Afternoon, or Night). I'm wondering what your thought are on stream-of-consciousness writing? Also, great video, these tips are pretty helpful.

Hello, interesting tips.

the different tone from start of the chapter and end of the chapter is an interesting one. I gotta check how mine are strcutured

Thanks! I plan on writing a novel with a large cast since I'm on my finedeene break, i hope to learn more than I already know with this video :)

Yeah, I'm just not sure that these are "universal." It's an awesome idea though, and so is the concept of "butter."

THIS GUY CAME TO MY SCHOOL AND SAID "Monitize your mental illness" TOO A CLASSROOM OF 7TH GRADERS IT WAS FUNNY AS HELL‼️‼️

this is so helpful! Thank you!

Always super helpful and well presented content! Yourself and a couple of other writing youtubers are my go-to to hone my craft while I am cooking dinner, with the laptop there next to me. Keep up the great work!

One-word chapters need one more round of cuts 😂

Awesome, thank you

Great interview Carly! Delaine you are an amazing communicator.

I absolutely love this series and am so devastated that I missed out on this. Do you know if anyone is selling their copy?

0:23 *tome*

Great to hear. I found having riding lessons with a good instructor for a few months was a great way to get some first-hand "felt" experience -- and was just great fun, too :) Anyway, keep up the great work, Carly.

There's lots of tips in here that I haven't heard much if at all, I'm glad to get some unique tips and thank you for this video!!

Could one just start writing in first person, then switch all the pronouns to third? Would that work?

I think purple prose is personal preference. Some people like it, others don't. Personally, I'm in the latter group, everything what can be said in a flowery language, can be said in simple terms just as [if not more] effectively.

Im glad you mentioned how this was not a YA book due to its explicit scenes. It was in the teen section at my library! I told the librarian i did not think it belonged in the teen section and should be moved to the adult books..

Really good Carly, thank you ☺️

#3: aaah, yess! I've had to learn to restrain myself from being like, "well, you see, X did that because of their deep-seated trust issues, etc. etc...". I've definitely found that that kind of overt character psychoanalysis is more for the reader than the writer. I think I recognized early on that that was my favorite part of consuming fiction, but then I had to realize that as the writer I'M not the one who's supposed to be doing the consuming. A chef doesn't make a cake for someone and eat it for them, right?

nice

How do you write sensations without repeating the same words, like rush, adrenaline, tingling, etc? I'm also trying to avoid using telling words that state emotions, what can I do? Also, I have a relatively long romance novel I'm working on; how do you keep each love scene fresh? Thanks for your video.

The most important thing I learned for McCarthy is: Everyone who say something have to have some kind of motivation, even if that character says only a single line in the entire novel. It doesn't have to be world changing though, it can be as simple as "I'm hungry". Regardless, first you need to figure out what they want, and then comes their personality, because that's what decide how they communicate their want.

Thank you so much for defending purple prose! This video is a revelation! I get so annoyed when readers and critique group members simply shame or dismiss writing as "too purple" without considering its broader purpose and aesthetic effect. As you said, when executed well, it can enhance and accentuate the meaning of a work. Dorian Gray would not be one of the most beloved classics without its beautiful, poetic prose.