The life-changing writing tip I got from a stranger in a police cell.

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 19

  • @awildbecoming
    @awildbecoming 5 месяцев назад +3

    5:22 that caught off guard “when you’re famous you can write shit” 😅

  • @RJO71169
    @RJO71169 Год назад +5

    The Jehovah's witness comparison is absolute gold

  • @donnaharper4621
    @donnaharper4621 2 года назад +5

    I loved this anecdote, Malcolm. I’ll open all my stories with similar Sultan’s offering human eyes. Great example.

    • @TheOxfordWriter
      @TheOxfordWriter  2 года назад +1

      Thanks! Richard Ford's novel Canada starts with a similar technique, although no sheep's eyes!

  • @johndavenport8843
    @johndavenport8843 Год назад +1

    I think that advice is spot on, and not just for novels but most content today.

  • @j.munday7913
    @j.munday7913 3 месяца назад

    I like your videos because they're instructive and have a cozy feel to them. The scenery is a bonus. :)

  • @__-xt3et
    @__-xt3et Месяц назад

    Great, was intrigued as well🎉

  • @dietmarkrah5319
    @dietmarkrah5319 4 месяца назад

    Great rendition of Robinson Crusoe.

  • @tedgreene4248
    @tedgreene4248 4 месяца назад

    Scottsmen, drunk or sober, are all quite bores. Now, if you'd been locked up with a drunk Irishman, then, you'd really learn to write. Love the videos.

  • @godblessamerica99
    @godblessamerica99 Год назад +3

    I'm here to tell you that drunk Scotsman (redundant?) was dead wrong. I like you.
    The magistrate on the other hand...

  • @mariangriffin5197
    @mariangriffin5197 Год назад

    I can do you and Brideshead Revisited all in one. I spent a whole day, the last day of high school, drinking cheap wine. When my friend pulled the car over, I got out and threw up on a policeman's shoes. Not being too far out of high school himself, the policeman let the driver go with a warning and a pat on the back for not drinking while driving. I wonder if he knew there was a drunken Scotsman waiting for me in the cell?

    • @TheOxfordWriter
      @TheOxfordWriter  Год назад +1

      Ah those were the days when you could throw up on a cop's shoes and he let you off! You had a lucky escape.

  • @kkay3784
    @kkay3784 2 месяца назад

    This American viewer is tickled pink.

  • @kenward1310
    @kenward1310 Год назад +4

    Great advice. All of your videos are helpful. Your subscribership is too low.

  • @MorganFrancophile
    @MorganFrancophile Год назад

    Was the drunken Scotsman a hook or red herring?😂

  • @captainnolan5062
    @captainnolan5062 Год назад

    What were you arrested for and charged with (the story made it sound like you just had beer breath...was there other behavior omitted from the story)?

    • @TheOxfordWriter
      @TheOxfordWriter  Год назад +3

      Being drunk in a public place. The usual is 'drunk and disorderly'. The fact that they didn't charge me with that shows how amenable I was being. I was about as disorderly as a church mouse.

    • @captainnolan5062
      @captainnolan5062 Год назад

      @@TheOxfordWriter Seems like if people go to a pub, at some point after they leave the pub, everyone is drunk in a public space (at least for a little while). Without the disorderly behavior they should have had no case (it is, after all, drunk AND disorderly).