Great tips, especially on trimming down bloat and telling your story more efficiently/strategically. Congrats on the baby! Wishing you a safe pregnancy and delivery ❤
Wow, as you were explaining story efficiency, I immediately thought of Attack on Titan, the first episode. They build up the world, the stakes, the characters, their motivations, their relationships, their goals, the inciting incident, etc... in 20 minutes.
Congratulations Ellen and to the future dad too!! there's nothing more special in this world than maternity, that child will bring happiness to your life. Hope you the best! ❤❤
Congratulations 🎉 Thanks for sharing the solutions on the first draft mistakes. Now I know why several of my first drafts didn't work out. I was nodding my head with a few things you've mentioned. This was very helpful.
Thank you, Ellen! Great explanation, as always, and great timing. You just gave me an idea on how to proceed with the second quarter, I do need those stakes demonstrated more clearly. And, of course, congratulations on the baby! I'm so happy for you and your family, wishing you all the best
Dear Ellen! Thank you very much for this, by me, needed tutorial. You look stunning. I hope you feel good and that everything goes well for you. Good luck!
Congratulations! and thank you so much for your videos they’re always super helpful. A topic I’d be interested in seeing discussed is how to get unstuck during the writing process of a first draft. I’m mostly a discovery writer so I’ll very often get stuck partway through a story, and sometimes the solution comes easily but other times I can spend months ruminating on the chapter I’m stuck on and I don’t know how to identify the problem seeing as I often don’t even know where the story is going anyway. I’m not big on outlines because they make me feel as if i ve already told the story and I lose all passion for the project. Just curious if there are any techniques or methods to move forward in these moments.
Stakes may be weak because it's not a conflict-driven novel. The roots of conflict narrative is 1921 with Percy Lubbock. And Raise the stakes as a critical idea in stories only dates from the 1980's. The origin of the Raise the stakes idea comes from about the 1960's, from what I can find, though I'm not quite sure of the originator, but using JSTOR, I found someone referring to the idea. This also means there are people alive now that don't see "raising the stakes" as a critical idea. This means stories older the 1960's and outside of the white sphere and usually white male sphere had no concept of raising the stakes, so it *can* be accidentally racist to demand there are stakes involved in the story if they are not using the warped version of what Freytag invented, though Freytag as a figure himself is rather problematic. I know someone is going to come in with but Shakespeare, who wrote no treaties on how story should be written (But from historians the story driver in Shakespeare's time is likely to be morality), and probably do a trip into Aristotle, but Aristotle did not argue for conflict. Aristotle argued for morality through negative reinforcement. Because I actually did the reading associated. Conflict, therefore is a 20th century idea, with the Conflict Theory stemming from the 19th century, but not arriving into novels until the 20th. I read Aristotle, Aelius Donatus (I took pains to type out all of the Latin I could find around anything about plot structure), Freytag (and cross referenced parts of the translation with the German version to double check), scholarship around Shakespeare, Percy Lubbock, Virginia Woolf, etc. So my confidence in this is fairly high since I did the study and the histiography over time. The question, is then, how much you want to gate keep to an idea that was invented by mostly men that was used to hate mostly on women. And if you don't think they used it to hate on women, Oh, I got quotes. They hated on Gertrude Stein the most to the point it's like a drinking game, but dunking on women from the early 20th century forward is a huge part of the Structuralist past time. TT The flip wasn't true of women, because women were forced to think they wouldn't be believed, so are more than likely to at least give the author and quote involved. BTW, you can tell the difference, but you need to be keen enough to spot it and get past the myth.
Congratulations!!! Seriously, who is going to get mad at you for being a bit short of breath?! "I was gonna give that video a like, but she was kinda tired from being pregnant... So, screw that!"
Zack used to be able to stop time and break the fourth wall, then in later seasons they stopped doing that. It made me sad because it was the best part of the show. Solution? If characters can stop time and break the fourth wall - Keep doing it!
Congratulations, Ellen! 🎉❤
Congratulations on your family!
Oh! I just noticed it's a recent video and our congratulations are timed properly. Nice.
Congratulations for the baby! And thank you so much for this very useful video, it came in so handy.
3:15 The problem with increasing the stakes this way for a Mystery is that it changes genre and becomes a Thriller. Congrats on the baby.
Congratulations! Explains why you looked even more bright than usual!
Great tips, especially on trimming down bloat and telling your story more efficiently/strategically. Congrats on the baby! Wishing you a safe pregnancy and delivery ❤
Wow, as you were explaining story efficiency, I immediately thought of Attack on Titan, the first episode.
They build up the world, the stakes, the characters, their motivations, their relationships, their goals, the inciting incident, etc... in 20 minutes.
"Hey guys, it's Ellen Brock, novel editor. Today..."
Wait, don't you hope we're all doing really really well? 🤔
Dang! I said it in the first take but the lighting was too bright! Ha ha.
Congratulations Ellen! You've been a favorite resource for years now, and you've always been bright and engaging. Happy for you.
Congratulations on your growing family! And thanks as always for the helpful information.
Congratulations! Is she your first draft?
Congratulations Ellen and to the future dad too!! there's nothing more special in this world than maternity, that child will bring happiness to your life. Hope you the best! ❤❤
Congrats!! 🎉 I love your videos so much! I hope to be a novel editor one day, and you're my biggest inspiration! ❤
Ooooh congrats! your videos have always been super helpful. I just finished my first draft a couple of weeks ago so this came at a perfect time.
Congratulations 🎉 Thanks for sharing the solutions on the first draft mistakes. Now I know why several of my first drafts didn't work out. I was nodding my head with a few things you've mentioned. This was very helpful.
Aww, congratulations Ellen!
These are all phenomenally helpful suggestions and points! Thank you and congratulations!
Congratulations!! 🎉
Congratulations. 💚🌱💚
Thank you so much!
@@EllenBrockyou deserve all the happiness in the world. ❤
fantastic, thank you!
Thank you, Ellen! Great explanation, as always, and great timing. You just gave me an idea on how to proceed with the second quarter, I do need those stakes demonstrated more clearly. And, of course, congratulations on the baby! I'm so happy for you and your family, wishing you all the best
Congratulations Ellen. Awesome news.
Congrats!!
Health, joy and blessings to you and your growing family!
Congratulations to your family!!! 🎉
Yes! A new video!! Perfect timing. I'm two chapters into writing a new first draft 😁
And congratulations!!
Congratulations on the incoming baby!
Dear Ellen! Thank you very much for this, by me, needed tutorial. You look stunning. I hope you feel good and that everything goes well for you. Good luck!
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations, and thank you for a great video as always :)
Yeeeaaahhh I indeed have a very bad first draft to edit. Thanks!
And congrats!
Daar Ellen, congrats with your pregnancy!
Congratulations
Good for you Ellen. 😊
CONGRATS!!!!!
Thanks for posting.
Ahhhhhh congrats !!! ❤❤🎉🎉
Congratulations!!
Really helpful... also, great background!
Congratulations with your pregnancy ❤ wish you all the best
Congratulations! and thank you so much for your videos they’re always super helpful. A topic I’d be interested in seeing discussed is how to get unstuck during the writing process of a first draft. I’m mostly a discovery writer so I’ll very often get stuck partway through a story, and sometimes the solution comes easily but other times I can spend months ruminating on the chapter I’m stuck on and I don’t know how to identify the problem seeing as I often don’t even know where the story is going anyway. I’m not big on outlines because they make me feel as if i ve already told the story and I lose all passion for the project. Just curious if there are any techniques or methods to move forward in these moments.
Congratulations!
New subscriber here- Thank you for this helpful video!
congratulations!!! ❤
Thanks for the new in depth video, you should have broken it up into 10 different smaller parts.
congrats!!!!
Stakes may be weak because it's not a conflict-driven novel. The roots of conflict narrative is 1921 with Percy Lubbock. And Raise the stakes as a critical idea in stories only dates from the 1980's. The origin of the Raise the stakes idea comes from about the 1960's, from what I can find, though I'm not quite sure of the originator, but using JSTOR, I found someone referring to the idea. This also means there are people alive now that don't see "raising the stakes" as a critical idea.
This means stories older the 1960's and outside of the white sphere and usually white male sphere had no concept of raising the stakes, so it *can* be accidentally racist to demand there are stakes involved in the story if they are not using the warped version of what Freytag invented, though Freytag as a figure himself is rather problematic.
I know someone is going to come in with but Shakespeare, who wrote no treaties on how story should be written (But from historians the story driver in Shakespeare's time is likely to be morality), and probably do a trip into Aristotle, but Aristotle did not argue for conflict. Aristotle argued for morality through negative reinforcement. Because I actually did the reading associated. Conflict, therefore is a 20th century idea, with the Conflict Theory stemming from the 19th century, but not arriving into novels until the 20th.
I read Aristotle, Aelius Donatus (I took pains to type out all of the Latin I could find around anything about plot structure), Freytag (and cross referenced parts of the translation with the German version to double check), scholarship around Shakespeare, Percy Lubbock, Virginia Woolf, etc. So my confidence in this is fairly high since I did the study and the histiography over time.
The question, is then, how much you want to gate keep to an idea that was invented by mostly men that was used to hate mostly on women. And if you don't think they used it to hate on women, Oh, I got quotes. They hated on Gertrude Stein the most to the point it's like a drinking game, but dunking on women from the early 20th century forward is a huge part of the Structuralist past time. TT The flip wasn't true of women, because women were forced to think they wouldn't be believed, so are more than likely to at least give the author and quote involved.
BTW, you can tell the difference, but you need to be keen enough to spot it and get past the myth.
Congratulations!!!
Seriously, who is going to get mad at you for being a bit short of breath?!
"I was gonna give that video a like, but she was kinda tired from being pregnant... So, screw that!"
YAY BABY!!!! 🎉❤🎀
Sending love to you and your family ❤
Congratulations! If you haven't already, check out the parenting books of Emily Oster.
Congrats
Zack used to be able to stop time and break the fourth wall, then in later seasons they stopped doing that. It made me sad because it was the best part of the show. Solution? If characters can stop time and break the fourth wall - Keep doing it!
Congrats!!! I hope you have an easy pregnancy!
Ellen Brock, Congrats! Will the kid be born with a first draft in her hand for mom to revise?!!