Writing is NOT Agony When You Do it Right
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Your channel has inspired me to make writing fun again. Big thanks for sharing your love and wisdom with us.
I’ve shed my fair share of blood sweat and tears on building sites over the last 20 odd years, now I write because writing makes me happy and site work doesn’t. Thanks for the video bud.
I think the biggest problem with writing today is that people want to be "a writer" when the joy is in the writing itself. When your concern is always anything other than THE STORY you are not going to feel good about writing. It's as simple as that.
So much easier to write today on a computer where you can edit and rewrite over and over.
This was the best speech on writing I've ever heard. Subscribed, liked, and now addicted. Thank you.
I promise myself each time, I will outline, I always fall into the the same trap as I discover myself lost and start the process of mapping because I can go no further until I do. I think next time I will start my outline before I even write a single word of my next novel. Nice vid as usual.
Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU! I've heard so many of these "torture of writing" quotes and used them as an excuse to avoid it entirely. Recently, I did sit down and start writing, and to my surprise, enjoyed it. Still, I've been dreading the editing which I've heard even more daunting comments about. You have freed me up from that fear, and your video has been a great gift! I'll keep writing and keep returning to your videos as they are helping me immensely. THANK YOU!
I'm glad I was an encouragement you. Thanks for encouraging me in return.
Where have you been all my life? Thanks! :)
Thank you for all your positive comments. They fuel my writing soul.
You know, I have spent way too much time plotting out stories in my own mind before I ever try to write them out. My logical mind always would argue myself out of a particular part of the story and I would think "that story would make no sense" and then never even attempt to begin the first sentence of it. After I thought more about the idea of writing a 1st draft without self-editing, I come to the idea know that I can pass over that snag entirely, just ignore it altogether until I finish that 1st draft, just get words on the page!! More likely that snag will resolve itself later as I write the later parts of the story or I can go resolve it with what I call "convenient writing" (creatively invent your own solutions, especially with fiction) when I go start my 2nd draft and revisions!!
I've heard you say a number of time that writers shouldn't edit as we write. I trust you. However, sometimes after I finish a sentence, I immediately see how to make it better, or I think of a preferable word. I go back and make th change immediately because I'm afraid I'll forget otherwise. I'd love to hear your take on that. Thank you for these videos.
Yes, I do say that a lot, don't I? And I'm not wrong. 😎 Runners don't win races by constantly stopping to tie their shoe laces.
My take is that ideas cascade in a writer's mind and continually going back kills the creative flow. They are never able to get in the groove for long and that ultimately taints their entire writing project.
My take is that revising as you write a first draft is is symptom of perfectionism, a writer's greatest curse. Be perfectionistic in your second draft if you must, but never in your first draft. If you forget to make a change in your second draft, it must not have been important, right?
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Thank you Mr, Hughes, I enjoyed listening to you.
This is insanely helpful, thanks so much. I'm going to write about why I think I am a writer. Lately I have been fantasizing about writing more often than doing it.
This was very uplifting, thank you!
Thank you so much. You've been super helpful. I'll definitely watch all your videos!
Thanks for this channel. You really help.
Wow! This is very helpful for me as I wasn't that confident of my writing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing important guidelines for writing.
Your making me a better writer!
Wow! Thanks so much for this video. This really helped me get my mind focused on writing again.
I'm so glad! It is my intent to help writers focus and get the job done. Best wishes to you.
That was great. Informative & balanced .....
Thank you for the important information!
Glad it was helpful!
I stand corrected. ✨🩸✨ Wow…
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Great stuff, but I was distracted by the bat in the cave.
Oh how I'd wish I could just live in a village , have some money and write novels, plays , stories that'll actually be good and when I publish the books they'll sell. But I need memory that's above the average, and other stuff. Just like a chess player. Not everyone can be a great chess player, mathematician and cetera. I'm doomed to have only this burning desire.
If I understand you correctly, Kristijan, you are sad because you have a burning desire to write but lack the skills and resources to do it? Is that correct? If so, let me say that the ability to write is NOT like chess or mathematical genius. It is a craft, like making fine furniture, and anyone can learn the craft over time. You start as an apprentice and grow in your craft as you gain experience. Please see my video about what motivates a person to write. ruclips.net/video/WxTTh-NRAnw/видео.html
@@VelocityWriting I hope you're right. And i'd like to be someone's writing apprentice. It's a craft I hope . But then I think about Dostoyevsky who wrote his first novel at 26 years old , Kafka his first novel at 29. And finally Ana Franc. She was a child In a terrible conditions and again she wrote something beautiful. Where did this people learned the craft?
Where did they learn? By living life (personal experiences, reading, listening, viewing) and putting their perceptions on the page. There are no "abstract" stories. They all emerge from our consciousness.
Then, after that, it is dependent upon you to be a good story-teller. Maybe you should verbally tell stories to children, and learn to capture and maintain their attention before you start writing the deep things in your mind. The same principle applies to both verbal and written story-telling. You gain story-telling skills by telling stories. It is as simple as that.
Let me kindly add one other thing. Stop thinking about Dostoyevsky, Kafka, and Anne Frank. It is a pointless waste of time to do that. Live your own life. Write your own stories. Start now. Nothing else matters.
I read your long comment but did not post it for obvious reasons. You said, "To tell a story out loud and maintain the children's attention is a good idea. I can't find children tho."
I wish I could give you an award for the most bizzare excuse I ever heard in three decades for a person not writing. About 33% of the 7.8 billion world's population is age 1-18 at any given time, so they are around if you exert any effort at all.
The bit about the squirrel was not a story. It was a short conversation. Almost all children's stories start with, "Once upon a time..." and end "They lived happily ever after." In between there are three parts: A beginning, middle and end. They involve interesting characters who are engaged in some kind of adventure that involves conflicts they overcome.
I'm sorry I can't help you anymore. I don't have time for serial excuse-makers. Even when the excuses are so far-out there that they make me laugh out loud. My final suggestion is that you read more. Start with "The Chronicles of Narnia" by CS Lewis. Dissect each book in order and see how he puts stories together. Be Lewis' apprentice and learn by carefully studying his work.
If you can't find the Narnia book series (100 million copies in 47 languages), then you'll have to wait until you become a more resourceful person before you try to become a writer. In the meantime, stop making excuses. It is a horrible habit. Otherwise, best wishes to you!
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Thanks a lot. I will do what you've said. In the meantime I'll check your new videos but I won't comment until I finish the task with "The Chronicles of Narnia".
Thanks for disenterring my bullshit.
But I am a suffering genius, trying to give birth to a 20 pound child in a 4 pound womb!!!
Ouch!
Someone might have mistaken bleeding while writing (wrongly attributed to Ernest Hemingway) with writing w i t h blood.
"Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood and you will understand that blood is spirit."- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
If a writer is experiencing anguish and all that garbage...then this means they have nothing to say. A writer should surrender to the process of writing about the things that are truly important to them. If a writer can make sense of their reasons keep going.