Thank you so much. I don’t comment much on your channel, but your content has truly made me a better writer among my peers. Also, thank you for teaching me poetry.
For everyone looking for a miracle pill out there, skip this video. The only thing I can do now except actual writing is looking forward to your other videos in the series. Style, again like flow, is pretty much a subjective thing, and that's why I love exploring other people's so much. Greetings from Ukraine. Keep up the amazing work, Andrew!
I hope you continue and further develop this series. For a while now, I have been hoping you see you explore some topics in a bit more detail. I enjoy the bitesized videos on random topics, but I would also like to see a more structured and more detailed deep-dive into one subject and then explore it in more depth. The topic of style comes up quite a bit on your forum so I think it would be an excellent starting place for a new video series. You should number the videos so it's more like a real learning class. This sort of thing could also give your forum a bit of a boost. Do a video series on writing poetry (those videos seem to get a ton of hits). You could do a full series where you start from the very beginning and then maybe have 10 to 15 videos - on each video you could have "homework" which the viewer would post to your forum, this could then be marked and "judged" by you. Your series could take the viewer from a complete novice to a competent writer over the course of the series. You could start off small with describing syllables and meter, and then have videos on senses, metaphors, symbolism and so on. After each video, have the viewer post their homework and you can mark it. From reading the posts on your videos and checking out the forum, it seems a lot of people are desperate to have an expert look at their work and just point them in the right direction. I don't even think it's about rating the work, and it seems most people just don't know where they are or where they are going. Just to have someone of your expertise examine their work and point their ship in the right direction will be worth more than gold to some people.
Yes to this! I would like to see longer, more expansive videos, please. Plus Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Rhetoric. To anyone interested in Rhetoric, I would suggest the channel Moviewise. He is focused on cinema/TV criticism, but his dialog analysis is top shelf.
Different medium, but what i tell my film directing students that style is, is a mix of your cosmovision, your knowledge and technique, and the limitations and setbacks you run into while making your art. You will develop conscious and unconscious ways of getting your thoughts on screen, and some will become part of your toolbox for the rest of your life or a very long time.
Quick thought, at the end of this episode you tell us to start with the grammar series. How about putting a link to said series in the notes, so we can easily find it? Love your work, thank you!
Ah, but then I would have had to have remembered to do that when I posted the video 😅! I will make a note to update it, but you can also find it on the playlist tab of the channel
Great video! At the end you recommend watching your grammar series from a few years ago. Is that the "grammar bites" playlist on your channel? Keep up the good work :)
What different writing forms would you recommend practicing? I can use my imagination, but would be interested in your suggestions. For example, you used poetry and academic writing as two formats, are there others you recommend trying our hand at? Such as speech writing or how-to pamphlets, etc? Thank you for your great content!
Sure thing--and any and all of the above would work. Think about the different contexts, audiences, or situations you might be writing in or for to see how your style can adapt
7:25 Style indeed. I suppose that the greatest language professors are experts in these five elements, but aren't the best poetics and novelists as one might think they should be. Great poetics and novelists may not be the greatest academic, or scientific writers either. I guess its back to WHO is your audience that will dictate in large degree a style that must be customized to successfully match. Enjoyed the video as usual.
Thanks--yeah, different techniques serve different purposes (and we wouldn't have to look far to find luminaries in one genre falling flat in another!)
Just write as you do normally and aim to sound like yourself. Work on your story-creating techniques and try to create something different. Good luck with that.
I like my writing style: It's deliberately immersive. I just failed at immersing readers to a level below the surface which they tend to find likeable... apparently
Thank you so much. I don’t comment much on your channel, but your content has truly made me a better writer among my peers. Also, thank you for teaching me poetry.
Thanks, I'm happy to hear it!
For everyone looking for a miracle pill out there, skip this video.
The only thing I can do now except actual writing is looking forward to your other videos in the series. Style, again like flow, is pretty much a subjective thing, and that's why I love exploring other people's so much.
Greetings from Ukraine.
Keep up the amazing work, Andrew!
Very helpful, thank you Andrew!
I hope you continue and further develop this series. For a while now, I have been hoping you see you explore some topics in a bit more detail. I enjoy the bitesized videos on random topics, but I would also like to see a more structured and more detailed deep-dive into one subject and then explore it in more depth. The topic of style comes up quite a bit on your forum so I think it would be an excellent starting place for a new video series. You should number the videos so it's more like a real learning class.
This sort of thing could also give your forum a bit of a boost. Do a video series on writing poetry (those videos seem to get a ton of hits). You could do a full series where you start from the very beginning and then maybe have 10 to 15 videos - on each video you could have "homework" which the viewer would post to your forum, this could then be marked and "judged" by you. Your series could take the viewer from a complete novice to a competent writer over the course of the series. You could start off small with describing syllables and meter, and then have videos on senses, metaphors, symbolism and so on. After each video, have the viewer post their homework and you can mark it.
From reading the posts on your videos and checking out the forum, it seems a lot of people are desperate to have an expert look at their work and just point them in the right direction. I don't even think it's about rating the work, and it seems most people just don't know where they are or where they are going. Just to have someone of your expertise examine their work and point their ship in the right direction will be worth more than gold to some people.
Yes to this! I would like to see longer, more expansive videos, please. Plus Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Rhetoric. To anyone interested in Rhetoric, I would suggest the channel Moviewise. He is focused on cinema/TV criticism, but his dialog analysis is top shelf.
Thanks--I've had similar thoughts, so I'll keep this in mind. It sounds like a good summer project 😅
Different medium, but what i tell my film directing students that style is, is a mix of your cosmovision, your knowledge and technique, and the limitations and setbacks you run into while making your art. You will develop conscious and unconscious ways of getting your thoughts on screen, and some will become part of your toolbox for the rest of your life or a very long time.
Cool--I'm always interested in perspectives from other arts!
Whoo best writing RUclipsr made a video again!!
The purpose of this comment is to compliment this video: great video!
Quick thought, at the end of this episode you tell us to start with the grammar series. How about putting a link to said series in the notes, so we can easily find it?
Love your work, thank you!
Ah, but then I would have had to have remembered to do that when I posted the video 😅! I will make a note to update it, but you can also find it on the playlist tab of the channel
Great video! At the end you recommend watching your grammar series from a few years ago. Is that the "grammar bites" playlist on your channel? Keep up the good work :)
It sure it--thanks!
What different writing forms would you recommend practicing? I can use my imagination, but would be interested in your suggestions.
For example, you used poetry and academic writing as two formats, are there others you recommend trying our hand at? Such as speech writing or how-to pamphlets, etc?
Thank you for your great content!
Sure thing--and any and all of the above would work. Think about the different contexts, audiences, or situations you might be writing in or for to see how your style can adapt
I love your content!
Thanks!
7:25 Style indeed. I suppose that the greatest language professors are experts in these five elements, but aren't the best poetics and novelists as one might think they should be. Great poetics and novelists may not be the greatest academic, or scientific writers either. I guess its back to WHO is your audience that will dictate in large degree a style that must be customized to successfully match. Enjoyed the video as usual.
Thanks--yeah, different techniques serve different purposes (and we wouldn't have to look far to find luminaries in one genre falling flat in another!)
Link the grammar series.
7:20
Just write as you do normally and aim to sound like yourself. Work on your story-creating techniques and try to create something different. Good luck with that.
You did not show the difference in styles
I like my writing style: It's deliberately immersive. I just failed at immersing readers to a level below the surface which they tend to find likeable... apparently
Liking it is the important first step! Better than those who dislike like but also can't say why
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good video but weird angle, please focus the camera on you