Why You Hate Your Writing | THE SECRET ABOUT WRITING ADVICE
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2020
- So much writing advice, so little writing. If writing tips and dos and don'ts make you feel paralyzed about your own words, yet you really love studying the craft, then this video is for you! Because I've got a secret about writing advice - it's actually not what you think!
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Alphasmart Neo2. Highly highly recommend. amzn.to/3cStKui
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Brother laser printer. I won’t lie, this thing is a behemoth. But I’ve had it since 2017 and I think I’ve had maybe one paper jam? It works great, it’s super consistent, A++ for printing manuscripts. amzn.to/3tzIvZE
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COFFEE STUFF
Ninja coffee maker. I freaking love this thing! It has a “speciality” setting that’ll make...not espresso, but pretty dang close. There’s a milk frother attached if you want to get fancy with your drink. amzn.to/31533Nu
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Canon G7X Mark iii camera. The autofocus does tick me off sometimes, but in manual mode it’s perfect, and I love the flip up screen (ie, you can see yourself as you film) and the fact that there’s a mic port. amzn.to/3r9BfCb
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I was going to ask "do you ever hate your writing?" but who am I kidding, we all do at some point 😂
Yes! What’s helped me to really love the process of writing itself is to give in and make the choices I actually want to make with the story, even if I’ve heard somewhere that those choices might not be the “right” ones.
I needed this video so badly. I’ve just been planning, researching, and daydreaming scenes for a fanfic but couldn’t write any of it. I just couldn’t get over the anxiety of writing the first draft. Your idea about writing the layers out first sounds way more attainable. Thank you!
I'm so glad that I found your channel. Most writing tip vidoes are super generic and basic.
YES. It's revising advice! YES!
Hi Michelle!
Wonderful advice..
Thank you for what you said about not letting others pop your balloon. The story I am working on starts off with a dream sequence and then I heard all this obnoxious advice about how starting with a dream was the worst thing you can do with your book. It was angering and frustrating and I did not take the dream out.
This is such good advice, and something I've also only just realised is you're right, its revision advice, not something to think about during drafting. Like they say drafting is telling yourself the story everything else comes next!
Wow! Exactly! Thank you for answering this question. :-) This is exactly what I needed.
"REVISING advice" 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 I needed to hear that.
Ohhh this is such good writing advice to help with anxiety of writing! I love the idea of making it silly, I’m going to try that it!! Writing in layers has never occurred to me but that also sounds like a fabulous idea!!!
This is actually great advice.
"Revising advice"!!!! Brilliant!!! I love your videos. <3
Loved the suggestion to think of it as “revising advice” like that really helps a lot!
Today was one of those days when I found myself drifting into the kitchen again and again in search of something to nibble instead of sticking with writing. I was doing what you did with your first novel, writing a few lines, reading them, erasing them and trying again. Finally, I gave up and turned to RUclips, (emphasis on You, in this case,) in search of a bit of hand-holding. As always, you did not disappoint. I feel ready to try again, and this time I'm going to remember what you said about all the writing advice being revising advice. I have no problem rewriting. Not true. I rewrite too soon! I need to let fly all the scenes clogging up my brain and then set the whole project aside for at least a month before revising it. Did I mention I told my four kids that if I didn't write 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo I would give each of them $500? Deadlines and getting paid for writing, (even if I am paying myself), have always motivated me. Good luck with your NaNoWriMo project and all your other stuff. And thanks again for this super pep talk! I think you just saved me $2000! :D :D
Thanks
I cannot express enough how grateful I am that I have found your channel. Thank you for making this channel. You have had the best "writing" ;) advice I have seen in the 3 years I have been on "authortube." Your advice videos don't make me feel bad about my writing and I can tell that you are a teacher and are actually teaching us. Like you said, too many advice videos are just the same Google results over and over given in an almost patronizing way. And I don't want to compare or tear others down, I do not mean to do that. It's just, you see so many of the "DON'T DO THIS" without giving help to not do the things they talk about. So at that point to me, it's not advice, just pet peeves. So it's extremely refreshing to have/see a teacher again. I miss my college writing classes so much, and finding your videos is just the thing I needed. I have struggled with the seeing it all on your head but just cannot get any words down no matter what. I am absolutely going to implement this practice in my writing. I will be sharing this video with all my writer friends.
Brilliant, as always
I have heard so many times to not write a prologue but there are so many books on my shelves right now that have...you guessed it....prologues