This is an awesome teaching video, summarizing your recent other videos and helping aspiring writers. I applaud your generosity and admire your intelligence and creative expressiveness.
Since the key message is often how to write a scene, I am hoping that the continuation of the series begins with beats and builds up a scene - recommending the same scene, preferably a print version, rather than screenplay, although I recognize the benefits of both - that allows the listener to follow along.
So many of my favorite books have such rushed endings with so many questions left unanswered and they are stand alone books, no follow up in a series. I hope to avoid that. It's annoying as a reader.
Awesome video. Clear and helpful as always. You especially helped clarify that you can have a prescriptive story where things go wrong--this applies to my story. My MC is to be executed at the end of the book, but he knows he did the right thing--for more than himself, for the rest of his people. He'll die (he doesn't really b/c it's a series) so that others can live etc. Thanks!
But how do you end book one of a 3 book series? Nobody has covered this within any YT clip that I have managed to find. Each book follows a 3 act structure and each *could be read as a stand alone. But only the main questions are answered by the end of book 1 but the protagonist's choice hits the fan at the climax. How to deal with cliffhangers?
Thank you from Egypt
Love this series! So keen to see you break this structure down on a micro level
This is an awesome teaching video, summarizing your recent other videos and helping aspiring writers. I applaud your generosity and admire your intelligence and creative expressiveness.
Fantastic content! Thank you!
Since the key message is often how to write a scene, I am hoping that the continuation of the series begins with beats and builds up a scene - recommending the same scene, preferably a print version, rather than screenplay, although I recognize the benefits of both - that allows the listener to follow along.
So many of my favorite books have such rushed endings with so many questions left unanswered and they are stand alone books, no follow up in a series.
I hope to avoid that. It's annoying as a reader.
Awesome video. Clear and helpful as always.
You especially helped clarify that you can have a prescriptive story where things go wrong--this applies to my story. My MC is to be executed at the end of the book, but he knows he did the right thing--for more than himself, for the rest of his people. He'll die (he doesn't really b/c it's a series) so that others can live etc.
Thanks!
But how do you end book one of a 3 book series? Nobody has covered this within any YT clip that I have managed to find. Each book follows a 3 act structure and each *could be read as a stand alone. But only the main questions are answered by the end of book 1 but the protagonist's choice hits the fan at the climax. How to deal with cliffhangers?
Hmmm... I think my resolution needs tweaking, but it's basically there.
Are you sure the moral of the boy who cried wolf is not to tell lies? I'm pretty sure it's not to yell the same lie twice