I am writing from 2047, using a VPN to make it appear I'm writing in 2024. I am a Walmart greeter with three best sellers... in my backpack ready to take home. - seriously, thanks for the provocation of thought.
Watching a different video on what makes a book go viral, I came up with a list of what I like to read, and also what I like to include in my writing: 1. The heroic moment(s) that put characters in positions of endorphin kicking emotion (love, outrage, and “holy shit that didn’t just happen” did it? Damn!). 2. New and interesting twists to tropes (since it is rare for someone to invent a new and cool trope). 3. Lovable and hatable complex characters that you can live vicariously through (I think the morally grey character is pretty good, but these days those characters are become more and more, not black, but … its hard to explain … really, almost totally and irredeemably flawed, but they want to be good). 4. World building that enthralls, that invites the reader into it with that feeling of comfort, that feeling of place, that feeling of being there. 5. Great prose that doesn’t leave the reader stumbling over strange words or names, poorly constructed sentences, paragraphs and chapters, that flows and also encourages emotion and that sense of place. 6. Tension, but the right kind (cannot stand a character doing stupid shit, unless the payoff is great). 7. Opaque foreshadowing, those Easter eggs that inspire fan theories. 8. Less-is-more, in playing with the anticipation of something great about to happen, and then not quite delivering, playing with the audience. 9. Cliff hangers, which I hate if you’ve done all the above great (since I’ll read your damned story already, I don’t what to sit and wait for chapters for when you finally return to them!), but I do use them in my writing. 10. The payoff is great. At the end of the book, and all throughout the book as a whole. Every chapter with stakes and payoffs/cliffhangers. 11. A mystery worth solving, bringing justice to a wrong. Stakes that matter.
"You'll want to end up in at least 3 torrid relationships, and be part of at least 3 love triangles-" Me, an asexual: *o h n o* Seriously that's the second hardest part of this guide!
Yes but what if the psychiatrist don't give me access to the whole library of Alexandria and a metric ton of paper per day during my mental health asylum chased by a clown trip? What if the more you tell them you have to write 5000 words a day to live up to your dreams the more they increase your medicine? asking for a friend. Please answer with haste, the clown is about to catch him.
Instructions unclear, forgot to divorce/become widow. Now in reverse harem.
I am writing from 2047, using a VPN to make it appear I'm writing in 2024. I am a Walmart greeter with three best sellers... in my backpack ready to take home. - seriously, thanks for the provocation of thought.
Best of luck!
Watching a different video on what makes a book go viral, I came up with a list of what I like to read, and also what I like to include in my writing:
1. The heroic moment(s) that put characters in positions of endorphin kicking emotion (love, outrage, and “holy shit that didn’t just happen” did it? Damn!).
2. New and interesting twists to tropes (since it is rare for someone to invent a new and cool trope).
3. Lovable and hatable complex characters that you can live vicariously through (I think the morally grey character is pretty good, but these days those characters are become more and more, not black, but … its hard to explain … really, almost totally and irredeemably flawed, but they want to be good).
4. World building that enthralls, that invites the reader into it with that feeling of comfort, that feeling of place, that feeling of being there.
5. Great prose that doesn’t leave the reader stumbling over strange words or names, poorly constructed sentences, paragraphs and chapters, that flows and also encourages emotion and that sense of place.
6. Tension, but the right kind (cannot stand a character doing stupid shit, unless the payoff is great).
7. Opaque foreshadowing, those Easter eggs that inspire fan theories.
8. Less-is-more, in playing with the anticipation of something great about to happen, and then not quite delivering, playing with the audience.
9. Cliff hangers, which I hate if you’ve done all the above great (since I’ll read your damned story already, I don’t what to sit and wait for chapters for when you finally return to them!), but I do use them in my writing.
10. The payoff is great. At the end of the book, and all throughout the book as a whole. Every chapter with stakes and payoffs/cliffhangers.
11. A mystery worth solving, bringing justice to a wrong. Stakes that matter.
"You'll want to end up in at least 3 torrid relationships, and be part of at least 3 love triangles-"
Me, an asexual: *o h n o*
Seriously that's the second hardest part of this guide!
Mind energy vs finger: at 100 wpm, and when the fingers don’t keep up, it’s arguable which gets tired quicker.
“Nearly optimal human being” 😂
This is great entertainment.
“Practice?” I was hoping for a quick fix like a 💊
Great advice. I just need to live to 160 and I will be great 😂 see you in 30
Thanks!
Hey, with the way science is going lately, that may actually be an option. (If you’re not too old already xd)
Bro really told us all to touch some grass 💀
I knew there was a reason that I had this heroin addiction!
Yes but what if the psychiatrist don't give me access to the whole library of Alexandria and a metric ton of paper per day during my mental health asylum chased by a clown trip? What if the more you tell them you have to write 5000 words a day to live up to your dreams the more they increase your medicine? asking for a friend. Please answer with haste, the clown is about to catch him.
This is a perfect description of my future
I will definitely come back in the future
Thanks!
Gotta invent time travel first, it seems (yes, another reason to procrastinate🎉)
You’re a little too serious about this to know if your joking about this😂. Yes I know this is satire.
i am confused as to the genre of this video