What SERIOUS Writers Do (That Amateurs Don't)

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @tamjg
    @tamjg Месяц назад +55

    Amateur: no cat. Serious: cat.

    • @grafinlady6524
      @grafinlady6524 Месяц назад +6

      I knew it. All i need is a cat

    • @PaulRWorthington
      @PaulRWorthington Месяц назад +8

      I have two cats. That's because I mean business.

    • @NaDa-kw2fu
      @NaDa-kw2fu Месяц назад +7

      Puts a different spin on 'save the cat'.

    • @starklingspars8956
      @starklingspars8956 Месяц назад +4

      I agree 😂

    • @starklingspars8956
      @starklingspars8956 Месяц назад

      ​@@PaulRWorthingtonMy cat is worth two. She's a dark Tortie...she's both sweet and placid and defiant a rebel.

  • @imaginepageant
    @imaginepageant Месяц назад +17

    I usually watch videos while cooking so most of the time I’m only listening and not actually watching, so when I look up and see big giant cat butt in the middle of the shot, it gives me such a laugh. 😂

  • @BooksForever
    @BooksForever Месяц назад +7

    This was likely my favorite lesson from you so far. And as good luck would have it, it was also the best one in terms of cat antics. Two thumbs up!

  • @starklingspars8956
    @starklingspars8956 Месяц назад +5

    Lots of good points. I think AI won't be able to grasp all the nuances that make a story enjoyable.
    Note to self : Put writing first on writing days.
    ( Not every day is a writing day. With this book I need time off , sometimes a month or two, to let the draft brew in my subconscious. Forcing it leaves me with a chapter I am not proud of ...and editing will help it but I just create extra work for myself, so I'd rather get the skeletal draft out in good enough form to not have to re-write later.)
    I love how you said seasoned writers (or however you put it. ) know how to WAIT
    Hi my favourite You Tube kitty. You can sit wherever you like 😅 ❤

  • @Barklord
    @Barklord Месяц назад +4

    You have real charm and humor, Carl. Very few channels have the amount of engagement in terms of likes-and-comments-to-subscribers ratio as do you. I think that means you have a strong core of viewers. I still expect your channel to snowball. You have good, clear audio, and the low-budget production makes you more relatable. Cheers, dude.

  • @staceybate3493
    @staceybate3493 Месяц назад +3

    Thank you for this, really needed!

  • @richardblackmore9351
    @richardblackmore9351 Месяц назад +3

    Dude seriously just began the video with, "you probably won't get paid."

  • @sethkeown5965
    @sethkeown5965 Месяц назад +2

    Havent finished the video yet, but a quick thank you. Since august ive been in college full time on top of a full time career. I had to seriously chop wrotong out of my day to day to focus on school. Now that its over, slipping back into writing feels like hopping back on a bike.

  • @OnTheMatWithYvette
    @OnTheMatWithYvette Месяц назад +3

    I came for the cat. I stayed for the concert. I hope the cat is in every video!

  • @letswritetonight
    @letswritetonight Месяц назад +4

    Your channel and delivery are exactly what I need as I work on my first novel. Thank you for keeping it real and meaningful.

  • @anthonyphan702
    @anthonyphan702 Месяц назад +1

    There is a qualitative aspect to time management that is often overlooked: allotting the correct amount of time in the wrong way or for the wrong reasons will not yield optimal results. This is like budgeting an hour at the gym, but only exerting yourself at 30% of what you are able to do. What I have observed a lot of writer friends do is consume a lot of literature or movies and think that it equates to actually living. Not that anyone asks for suffering, but I am a firm proponent in acts of self-sacrifice even on a small level, such as volunteering at a shelter or doing hard manual labor on a volunteer basis: there is no other shortcut to get the sort of visceral resources to draw on in writing than purposefully subjecting your ego to something greater than yourself. TL;DR a minute of service is worth an hour of consuming others' observations of life.

  • @purplecelery7380
    @purplecelery7380 Месяц назад +2

    Very insightful video (and I love your cat!).

  • @patrickmcdonald8513
    @patrickmcdonald8513 Месяц назад +1

    This is actually really encouraging, and I seriously thank you.

  • @markoshea8060
    @markoshea8060 Месяц назад +2

    Gem of a vid... as usual... the focusing on an idea is golden... that's where the magic lies, that's where it's hidden. And i feel it takes the human experience of using imagination to tap into it and make it flow... then grow

  • @rachelthompson9324
    @rachelthompson9324 Месяц назад +1

    I keep my head in the game. When not writing I'm thinking about it. I read a number of craft books every year. I read like a writer when I read for fun which I do constantly. I don't have a cell phone or TV. "Do or do not, there is no try". Yoda's dialogue hits the spot.

  • @billyalarie929
    @billyalarie929 Месяц назад +2

    I’ve never heard someone articulate your first point that way. It’s VERY good advice. I wish i could subscribe twice, just to give you the extra one.

  • @oneofmanyidiots
    @oneofmanyidiots Месяц назад +4

    Too stupid for instruction: spent the whole afternoon writing a oneshot about a goddess presenting early signs of dementia and responding to rage bait. Thank you for your efforts to better the literary community.

  • @arwenanduin
    @arwenanduin Месяц назад +2

    New follower! Nice: I expected the usual bout of cheerleading but you gave me some fresh takes.

  • @Gukworks
    @Gukworks День назад

    Somebody's comming up... somebody serious...

  • @jojogodtier
    @jojogodtier Месяц назад +1

    aww the kitty is so cute

  • @capitalisa
    @capitalisa Месяц назад +2

    You speak much truth!

  • @immortaljanus
    @immortaljanus Месяц назад

    Biggest problem is I write too slow, at least by my own perception. At the same time, I don't have a feeling I'm wasting my time. I'm developing ideas on a stable schedule, I brainstorm regularly, putting down manuscript text, etc. In other words, I don't see how I could do things faster without sacrificing quality of life.

  • @normajdennis
    @normajdennis Месяц назад +1

    Shiny object syndrome will having you looking up in 50 years and you STILL haven't written your book.

  • @lismaestrelo
    @lismaestrelo Месяц назад +3

    Your take on AI was so interesting

    • @billyalarie929
      @billyalarie929 Месяц назад

      It was, and I’ve always had the exact same take.
      AI will never ever, EVER successfully be a replacement. It CAN supplant a person with interesting roads to go down, something you wouldn’t have intuited, whole cloth. But YOU THE PERSON have to get there. AI will only serve up hallucinations after a spell.

  • @Ensignfilms
    @Ensignfilms Месяц назад

    I hope you are right about AI. Its a very good point. Great advice throughout!

  • @rad4924
    @rad4924 Месяц назад

    People know I'm serious because of all the frowning I do when I write. And I don't wear a clown costume very often either.

  • @SeymourGlass544
    @SeymourGlass544 Месяц назад +1

    Do you think serious writers read largely as well? I was always told reading was like studying for the writer. That, how can one become a good writer without learning from the greats before them? Curious on your thoughts about this.

  • @babavee100
    @babavee100 Месяц назад

    i am smiing, Your advice is as always, inspiring. However, it is something we 'porridge dribblers' already know.
    At 78, I tend to think in months, not years. At my age, what started as a novel may well turn into an abridged version without any determination from me.
    My query letter has been altered many times, from seeking representation for a novel, to a novella, and the state I find myself in this morning, it may be abridged to.a short story.
    Time marches on, as does a ten ton lorry that mounts the pavement where you happen to be standing.

    • @sethkeown5965
      @sethkeown5965 Месяц назад

      How do i find your story?

    • @babavee100
      @babavee100 Месяц назад +1

      @@sethkeown5965 How encouraging that you are interested in finding it. As soon as I find a publisher and have finished revising my 300th. draft, I will let you know. Only revised three and a half lines today, as the You Tube experts keep telling me to cut out all the unnecessary verbs, nouns, adjectives etc.. If things carry on like this, It will soon be short enough to write the whole thing on my tombstone.... 'A Wife On the Ocean Waves'.
      Vee x

  • @Gukworks
    @Gukworks День назад

    I went from writing using AI to now having the AI teach me how to write. In the future I hope to only use AI for brainstorming or research.