This is actually very informative, and easy to digest, mostly because you place them on tiers thus making it easy to prioritize which one I should pay attention to
One of these days when I'm pumped enough and maybe a little tipsy, I'm going to produce a book titled "tell tell tell" which'll advise (challenge really) writers to create a complete work of fiction that just has a lot of narrative telling and very little showing.
Disagree with some of these. Like fun and games is essential, though I refer to it as promise of the premise. It's that part of your book where you absolutely have to deliver on the expectations your reader has for the book, which is in Act 2 (usually more toward Act 2-A) without this, I can't imagine any novel being enjoyable and every good novel has the premise of the premise met.
With all due respect, I think your recommendations here are most applicable to the writing of a modern Hollywood-type film or a novel that reads like the novelization of a modern Hollywood-type film. Sure, these are all interesting potential elements of a good story, including a story in a novel, but for my taste it's way too reductive. People used to be taught the unities of time, place and character, or the six elements of Aristotelian storytelling (plot, character, thought, diction, music, and spectacle), that "tragedies" always had a sad ending and every protagonist had to have a fatal flaw. Dramatic stories required a Prologue, Parodos, Episodes with Stasimons, and Exodos. Now it's "save the cat", "midpoint", and "all is lost", which the Ancient Greeks called the "peripeteia". Yes, you can use any of these ideas to write a novel, but in my opinion it is the author's choice of story structure and aesthetic criteria which determines whether the story is one most fit for the next Netflix action-adventure of the week or something entirely different. Unless you're writing to sell your story to a "Hollywoo" agent, take all these ideas as a "try this, or not" suggestion. Literally anyone can now write a novel and sell it around the world digitally - I think that gives us a chance to see more original ideas and original forms of storytelling. Go out on a limb and write something, and maybe these suggestions will spark some ideas, but no one should feel like your "S" items are all essential elements.
Hi Jason! ☕ We got your NEW book announcement last night and I'm about to get the kindle version today! 10:50 AM - I just got the book and transferred to my new kindle. Thanks for making it and looking forward applying what I learn to see if I can finish this short story sci fi anthology I've been working on since last year. I'll start text-to-speech reading it after I finish the book I started today, Alejo Carpentier's novel The Age of Enlightenment (El Siglo de Las Luces)
Love The Nerdy Novelist. An internet influencer who actually delivers the goods not click bait. On the plot element: Character Wound - The story telling community today is chock full of writers who, IMO (yes, just an opinion here not billing this comment as fact), are just simply awful at this. I would even say lazy. Nothing in a novel brings me to full stop, casting aside that read and looking for something new, more firmly than lazily composed character wounds. Specifically, I am referencing MCs who are whiny, angst ridden, hand wringers who live for the next thing to go wrong so they can claim it all as their fault. It is for me one of the most cringe worthy, overworked and played out devices that writers inflict on their readers. The MC is in Omaha, Nebraska and a poor, innocent field mouse gets stepped on, injured or killed, on the other side of the world in a French farmer's field and it is ALL THEIR FAULT!!! The MC's assuming the guilt for the incident is massively absurd. We the readers are then bludgeoned relentlessly with the MC trudging through multiple sefl-flagellation sessions. Never mind that there is no way in any extant cosmos you could name that they caused this harm. Ignore completely the fact that whoever actually did the unfortunate act needs to be the one who shoulders the responsibility. How do you spell, "Immersion Killer?" This is NOT the picture of a MC that I'm interested in investing in. Calling on all fiction writers to cast aside this hackneyed path to character development. Put in the work to present us with an original and actually compelling character wound. Please!
Hey jason 👋 can you pls make a video how to write whole novel with the help of Claude , and fix problem like claude forget all data and pls tell me what command should we use to make novel better.
I don't get why you put Save The Cat in S tier, that is not even close to be universal, that is still a very rare phenomenon and I would say many narratives, especially for tragic figures that the audience is not supposed to sympathise with it would even be completely counter productive to have such nonsense as plot beat.
Love you, man. I just wake up and your teaching video was the first thing I saw. Thank you.
Great video, thanks Jason. Btw, love the addition of the outakes. Adds uniqueness to your videos :)
This is actually very informative, and easy to digest, mostly because you place them on tiers thus making it easy to prioritize which one I should pay attention to
One of these days when I'm pumped enough and maybe a little tipsy,
I'm going to produce a book titled "tell tell tell"
which'll advise (challenge really) writers to create a complete work of fiction that just has a lot of narrative telling and very little showing.
At this point I’m just going to keep a notion template with only notes from your videos. This was so helpful!
This is a fantastic and really useful video!
Disagree with some of these. Like fun and games is essential, though I refer to it as promise of the premise. It's that part of your book where you absolutely have to deliver on the expectations your reader has for the book, which is in Act 2 (usually more toward Act 2-A) without this, I can't imagine any novel being enjoyable and every good novel has the premise of the premise met.
My OCD is triggered by the "B Story" not being ranked in B tier.
Hahahaha
Funny
With all due respect, I think your recommendations here are most applicable to the writing of a modern Hollywood-type film or a novel that reads like the novelization of a modern Hollywood-type film. Sure, these are all interesting potential elements of a good story, including a story in a novel, but for my taste it's way too reductive. People used to be taught the unities of time, place and character, or the six elements of Aristotelian storytelling (plot, character, thought, diction, music, and spectacle), that "tragedies" always had a sad ending and every protagonist had to have a fatal flaw. Dramatic stories required a Prologue, Parodos, Episodes with Stasimons, and Exodos. Now it's "save the cat", "midpoint", and "all is lost", which the Ancient Greeks called the "peripeteia". Yes, you can use any of these ideas to write a novel, but in my opinion it is the author's choice of story structure and aesthetic criteria which determines whether the story is one most fit for the next Netflix action-adventure of the week or something entirely different. Unless you're writing to sell your story to a "Hollywoo" agent, take all these ideas as a "try this, or not" suggestion. Literally anyone can now write a novel and sell it around the world digitally - I think that gives us a chance to see more original ideas and original forms of storytelling. Go out on a limb and write something, and maybe these suggestions will spark some ideas, but no one should feel like your "S" items are all essential elements.
In the movie business, films open with what's called the "Champagne Shot."
Hi Jason! ☕
We got your NEW book announcement last night and I'm about to get the kindle version today!
10:50 AM - I just got the book and transferred to my new kindle. Thanks for making it and looking forward applying what I learn to see if I can finish this short story sci fi anthology I've been working on since last year. I'll start text-to-speech reading it after I finish the book I started today, Alejo Carpentier's novel The Age of Enlightenment (El Siglo de Las Luces)
What's this? Must have missed it. Anyone got a link?
Love The Nerdy Novelist. An internet influencer who actually delivers the goods not click bait. On the plot element: Character Wound - The story telling community today is chock full of writers who, IMO (yes, just an opinion here not billing this comment as fact), are just simply awful at this. I would even say lazy. Nothing in a novel brings me to full stop, casting aside that read and looking for something new, more firmly than lazily composed character wounds. Specifically, I am referencing MCs who are whiny, angst ridden, hand wringers who live for the next thing to go wrong so they can claim it all as their fault. It is for me one of the most cringe worthy, overworked and played out devices that writers inflict on their readers. The MC is in Omaha, Nebraska and a poor, innocent field mouse gets stepped on, injured or killed, on the other side of the world in a French farmer's field and it is ALL THEIR FAULT!!! The MC's assuming the guilt for the incident is massively absurd. We the readers are then bludgeoned relentlessly with the MC trudging through multiple sefl-flagellation sessions. Never mind that there is no way in any extant cosmos you could name that they caused this harm. Ignore completely the fact that whoever actually did the unfortunate act needs to be the one who shoulders the responsibility. How do you spell, "Immersion Killer?" This is NOT the picture of a MC that I'm interested in investing in. Calling on all fiction writers to cast aside this hackneyed path to character development. Put in the work to present us with an original and actually compelling character wound. Please!
Plot, characters, and relationships are some of the most important elements in any story. If a writer fails those elements, the readers will not care.
You write all things that make a story 😂😂😂
@@Content_Supermarket Filmeto said that in his Acolyte review. Those elements were missing in the show.
Hey jason 👋 can you pls make a video how to write whole novel with the help of Claude , and fix problem like claude forget all data and pls tell me what command should we use to make novel better.
Yes, please!! I thought I was just using it wrong
At least there’s some comfort in knowing other people have the same problem.
@@robleach460 I hope Jason sees this and makes a video on this topic.
Are you asking for paid or free one
I have many videos about writing with Claude. Go through a lot of my old videos and you’ll understand how to improve.
Nice video I have a question what is best to write an horror novel . And if I used ChatGPT how to bypass the restriction ?
Hey Jason did you use new llama 3.1?
Hey ,can you compare Llama 3.1 long form writing to Claude 3.5 .Thanks
Will probably do a live stream on this for Monday.
I don't get why you put Save The Cat in S tier, that is not even close to be universal, that is still a very rare phenomenon and I would say many narratives, especially for tragic figures that the audience is not supposed to sympathise with it would even be completely counter productive to have such nonsense as plot beat.
Doesn’t have to sympathize. But they MUST be compelling otherwise no one cares.
Acrossed is not a word.