English is my 3rd language and my main problem is tense change. And also that pesky 's' for he/she/it. I've had that problem since my teens and have yet to shake it off. lol I'm currently taking a break but I already started editing my raw draft. Though it's more of a rewrite than an edit, at this point. Still these videos have helped me tremendously so thank you.
I came across a piece of nonfiction I'd written and read through it. It has potential, but I have some questions about it BEFORE I put a lot of work into it, so I posted a request for feedback. I now have two volunteers. When I send the rough draft, I will include a short list of questions for them to focus on. It is a diary/journal I kept when I was breaking up with my fiance' after discovering he was an alcoholic. My main question is, would other people find the story interesting? I wrote it with as much honesty as possible and included flashbacks as well as the thought processes and mental gymnastics I went through as I tried to choose which path to take--make the relationship work or walk away. I'm looking forward to hearing what my two readers have to say. I would like to find more readers and if the consensus is mediocre or negative, I will have saved myself a lot of work.
Same here, I've been writing my first epic fantasy this year. It is a wonderful and tough journey. I am planning to create a RUclips channel next year for sharing my problems, experiences and struggles when I'm writing as a non-native English speaker with people who also have similar problems as I do. I believe that there are many people like us nowadays who really want to share our stories with the world but have language difficulties.
Writing nerds! My people! Lol. Maybe one of you can help me. I can't find anyone who knows the answer and it's very difficult to Google because of it being so specific. Does anyone know what it's called when you have a line break to sort of... have one word, or phrase in the narrative from the character's POV be separated for emphasis and you almost pop directly into that characters thoughts, or subconscious without actually breaking up the narrative except on the page? Is any of this making any sense? Lol. So it would be like: Larry planned to kill his best friend that evening. He was sure he could get away with the crime. He only hoped he'd also have the _balls_ courage to go through with it. He needed to make sure his plan was a success. Otherwise, the alternate timeline he'd been shown--the whole _What Might Happen_ business--would become his own timeline; his reality. If that happened, he'd never see his family again. Not to mention, the president would be assassinated. All things considered, his friend's death was a small price to pay in order to avoid such a tragedy. Of course, knowing this in his head didn't make putting the idea into practice any easier. Why the hell did he have to go ordering things off the darkweb? If not for his own _stupidity_ curiosity, carelessness, he would've never known about any of this alternate reality madness. Damn darkweb. Damn curiosity. Damn it all. Damn, damn, damn... (So the italicized part. Courage is the word actually used in the narration but then it has that quick cut away).
This works better for SOME of what you are doing: He only hoped he'd also have the -balls- courage to go through with it. If not for his own -stupidity- curiosity, and carelessness, he would've never known about any of this alternate reality madness. Otherwise, the alternate timeline he'd been shown where the simulator had procedurally generated an alternate history that the scientists were convinced could replace this reality if only they were to use quantum entanglement to change the state of a single transistor. _Otherwise, the alternate time she'd been shown where the simulator had procedurally generated an alternate history that the scientists were convinced could replace this reality if only they were to use quantum entanglement to change the state of a single transistor._ The question was, which transistor? _The question was, could they risk changing the transistor in the Dominion voting machine in Florida and would that get rid of The World Emperor?_ What single semiconductor could be flipped to swap this dystopian authoritarian regime where everyone was forced to wear masks, including the children, even though they were not at risk from the virus? _Did they have the right to change the result of that past Florida election where the outcome of the Presidency had been on a knife edge, and ensure that World Emperor Al Gore and his crackpot conspiracies of Climate Change, that had banned all cars and made everyone ride around on bicycles and eat avocados, would not be his vision for a benign Utopia that everyone openly smiled about secretly hated_ If only Trump hadn't won in the Republican Primaries, it wouldn't matter if Ted Cruz had been up against Hillary Clinton, as most of the Independents and disaffected voters would have stayed home, rather than endorse either one of those swamp creatures. Either that, or you could separate the _italicised Utopia_ from the "plaintext Dystopia" in separate paragraphs, or use coloured text like _The Neverending Story._ Crossing out the -wrong- imperfect word would probably suit you best, and allows you to use foreign expressions like _deja vu_ and _laissez faire_ with the correct styling. I wouldn't recommend underlining anything as it can make blocks of text very hard to read and how it looks on a computer screen with your fonts could be very different with the publisher's fonts. The use of *bold* and *_bolditalic_* are okay, but another method entirely is to not use Fully Justified but use Left Aligned for Dystopia and Right Aligned for Utopia. i.e. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Harris..... ...........................Gore, Sanders, Clinton, Obama, Cortez
Sometimes, self editing is rhe best choice. All one needs to do is know the basic rules of editing, handing ones work to editors do not work out very well, editiors hace been known to help a novel fail.
@@imeldaiwuagwu There've been novels where a certain reference of an imminent event in the storyline that is tied deeply into the context of the story is skipped or never told of in the later parts of the book where the said event would have occurred---all because an editor thought some parts of the story does not matter much and so deletes it, and with it goes the wholesomeness of the story. Self editing is far better if one posseses just enough knowledge of how to edit a book.
Are yall watching me?? These videos are ALWAYS so perfectly times with what I need.
This is honestly such good advice! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video.
The part about minor, minor changes is like hitting the finish line but not knowing it and still running.
I’m so grateful you mentioned this.
English is my 3rd language and my main problem is tense change. And also that pesky 's' for he/she/it. I've had that problem since my teens and have yet to shake it off. lol
I'm currently taking a break but I already started editing my raw draft. Though it's more of a rewrite than an edit, at this point. Still these videos have helped me tremendously so thank you.
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so helpful. thank you
I came across a piece of nonfiction I'd written and read through it. It has potential, but I have some questions about it BEFORE I put a lot of work into it, so I posted a request for feedback. I now have two volunteers. When I send the rough draft, I will include a short list of questions for them to focus on. It is a diary/journal I kept when I was breaking up with my fiance' after discovering he was an alcoholic. My main question is, would other people find the story interesting? I wrote it with as much honesty as possible and included flashbacks as well as the thought processes and mental gymnastics I went through as I tried to choose which path to take--make the relationship work or walk away. I'm looking forward to hearing what my two readers have to say. I would like to find more readers and if the consensus is mediocre or negative, I will have saved myself a lot of work.
Can you do a video on the Chicago style format and others?
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I'm a non-native speaker writing in English. I find varying sentence structure very difficult. It feels like there's not a lot of options.
Same here, I've been writing my first epic fantasy this year. It is a wonderful and tough journey. I am planning to create a RUclips channel next year for sharing my problems, experiences and struggles when I'm writing as a non-native English speaker with people who also have similar problems as I do. I believe that there are many people like us nowadays who really want to share our stories with the world but have language difficulties.
Will contact you.
Writing nerds! My people! Lol. Maybe one of you can help me. I can't find anyone who knows the answer and it's very difficult to Google because of it being so specific. Does anyone know what it's called when you have a line break to sort of... have one word, or phrase in the narrative from the character's POV be separated for emphasis and you almost pop directly into that characters thoughts, or subconscious without actually breaking up the narrative except on the page? Is any of this making any sense? Lol. So it would be like:
Larry planned to kill his best friend that evening. He was sure he could get away with the crime. He only hoped he'd also have the
_balls_
courage to go through with it. He needed to make sure his plan was a success. Otherwise, the alternate timeline he'd been shown--the whole _What Might Happen_ business--would become his own timeline; his reality. If that happened, he'd never see his family again. Not to mention, the president would be assassinated. All things considered, his friend's death was a small price to pay in order to avoid such a tragedy. Of course, knowing this in his head didn't make putting the idea into practice any easier.
Why the hell did he have to go ordering things off the darkweb? If not for his own
_stupidity_
curiosity, carelessness, he would've never known about any of this alternate reality madness. Damn darkweb. Damn curiosity. Damn it all.
Damn, damn, damn...
(So the italicized part. Courage is the word actually used in the narration but then it has that quick cut away).
This works better for SOME of what you are doing:
He only hoped he'd also have the -balls- courage to go through with it.
If not for his own -stupidity- curiosity, and carelessness, he would've never known about any of this alternate reality madness.
Otherwise, the alternate timeline he'd been shown where the simulator had procedurally generated an alternate history that the scientists were convinced could replace this reality if only they were to use quantum entanglement to change the state of a single transistor. _Otherwise, the alternate time she'd been shown where the simulator had procedurally generated an alternate history that the scientists were convinced could replace this reality if only they were to use quantum entanglement to change the state of a single transistor._ The question was, which transistor? _The question was, could they risk changing the transistor in the Dominion voting machine in Florida and would that get rid of The World Emperor?_ What single semiconductor could be flipped to swap this dystopian authoritarian regime where everyone was forced to wear masks, including the children, even though they were not at risk from the virus? _Did they have the right to change the result of that past Florida election where the outcome of the Presidency had been on a knife edge, and ensure that World Emperor Al Gore and his crackpot conspiracies of Climate Change, that had banned all cars and made everyone ride around on bicycles and eat avocados, would not be his vision for a benign Utopia that everyone openly smiled about secretly hated_ If only Trump hadn't won in the Republican Primaries, it wouldn't matter if Ted Cruz had been up against Hillary Clinton, as most of the Independents and disaffected voters would have stayed home, rather than endorse either one of those swamp creatures.
Either that, or you could separate the _italicised Utopia_ from the "plaintext Dystopia" in separate paragraphs, or use coloured text like _The Neverending Story._
Crossing out the -wrong- imperfect word would probably suit you best, and allows you to use foreign expressions like _deja vu_ and _laissez faire_ with the correct styling. I wouldn't recommend underlining anything as it can make blocks of text very hard to read and how it looks on a computer screen with your fonts could be very different with the publisher's fonts.
The use of *bold* and *_bolditalic_* are okay, but another method entirely is to not use Fully Justified but use Left Aligned for Dystopia and Right Aligned for Utopia.
i.e.
Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Harris.....
...........................Gore, Sanders, Clinton, Obama, Cortez
Sometimes, self editing is rhe best choice. All one needs to do is know the basic rules of editing, handing ones work to editors do not work out very well, editiors hace been known to help a novel fail.
How have editors made a novel fail?
@@imeldaiwuagwu There've been novels where a certain reference of an imminent event in the storyline that is tied deeply into the context of the story is skipped or never told of in the later parts of the book where the said event would have occurred---all because an editor thought some parts of the story does not matter much and so deletes it, and with it goes the wholesomeness of the story. Self editing is far better if one posseses just enough knowledge of how to edit a book.
@@u_t_d_s_h-1_a oh, I see. I understand now. Thanks for the explanation.
You look so distraught in the thumbnail...