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Writers Workshop
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2014
Author, editor, and publisher Ron Seybold's advice and lessons for writers, from development of a book, to author creativity and editing -- then onward to publishing practices. All from the Writers Workshop, a writing, editing, and coaching practice based in Austin and reaching around the world. Get in touch at workshopwriter.com. We're growing stories every day.
How to apply comments in Word
Here's how to use MS Word's commenting feature. For more advice and training like this, see the Writer's Workshop website www.workshopwriter.com
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Short Cuts: The Joys of Writing Sex
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Writing about sex can be a powerful way to explore your characters. It's not for the faint of heart, but a few tips make it easier. See what to try and what to avoid in this Write Stuff Short Cut. Contact me at ron@workshopwriter.com, or come to workshopwriter.com to read more and sign up for my weekly newsletter for authors.
Story versus writing: 3 things characters need
มุมมอง 2544 ปีที่แล้ว
Good writing isn't at the heart of good books. It's good storytelling that makes books great. Hear about three things every protagonist needs to help us care about them. We have to care about who a character is before we can care what happens to them.
Viral Times Chapter 3 Introduction
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A reading of the Ron Seybold novel Viral Times at Malvern Books in Austin. For more info about the novel see ronseybold.com/books. Get your copy of the book on Rathe, the new read the episode app. Rathe.app
Austin Liti Limits interviews Ron Seybold on Stealing Home
มุมมอง 335 ปีที่แล้ว
A Q&A for the Austin Liti Limits series gave me 11 good minutes to answer questions about my memoir Stealing Home: A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game. Hear what memoirs and novels have in common, what an author coach and editor like me could count upon for support, and what character from a popular book I'd most like to be. Recorded in August, 2019 at the Brewtorium in Austin, Te...
Viral Times Reading at Malvern Books
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Ron Seybold reads from his futuristic thriller Viral Times during Novel Night at Malvern Books in Austin. This segment follows Angie onto the beach at Assateague Island, where her mentor Delta rescues her from the surf and nurses her back to heartfelt health.
How to use the senses to write
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Which senses make the most sense to use in your writing. From the Writers Workshop in Austin (workshopwriter.com) learn about the payoff for choosing smell, touch, and taste in your writing and how to use the senses to write better.
How to Use The Lowly Period
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From the Writers Workshop (workshopwriter.com), a lesson on how to use the full stops and pauses that make up periods and commas in your writing.
What is Creative Non-Fiction?
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From the Writer's Workshop (workshopwriter.com) how to know if what you're writing is creative non-fiction and the tools you get to use in the genre. Learn what it's not, too.
Things to Build A Writing Workshop, Part 2
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From workshopwriter.com, four minutes on the other part of what you need to create the workshopping process to improve your book. It's also about being polite along with being honest.
3 Things to Build A Workshop: Part 1
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From workshopwriter.com, here's advice on creating your own workshopping writer's group. It requires three fundamental practices. You also need to know how to praise writing, as well as criticize it. Here's why.
Making Your Point Of View
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Get tips on how to keep your stories in flow, instead of stop and go. Know the gifts and pitfalls of differing points of view. Read more at the website for the Writer's Workshop
Making Metaphors in 4 minutes or less
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We use metaphor to bring our writing alive, make it lyrical, and better imagine what's in our stories. See a simple and fun exercise that lets you make metaphors. At the Writers Workshop, we're growing stories every day. See more tips at workshopwriter.com/write-stuff-blog
Shorter Lessons, Sure. Try Longer Practices.
มุมมอง 678 ปีที่แล้ว
How long will it take to write your book, then get it published? There's no one answer, but there are two things to measure to learn how. One's the lessons, the other's the practice. Hear why making art is like shooting arrows.
Creating Characters
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Building fascinating characters is easier when you can dream up the answers to three key questions. Learn what they are and how they can help you make heroes and villains that keep readers turning pages. See my blog, The Write Stuff, for more tips like these. Find out more about editing and coaching services at my website, workshopwriter.com
Using Tense, Choosing Person: Understanding Writing Options
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Using Tense, Choosing Person: Understanding Writing Options
I have a metaphor even the smallest writers reach the end of the page if you think you have infinite confidence you still have a braking point
Thanks, this is really helpful before my English language exam!
Way of Comparison in a convo to express something is called analogy...... replacing something with something similar without using like , as ....and leaving others to understand called metaphors... While those both are similar, they both....creates different colours
I made a metaphor once for my poem hehe- as silent as a knife
This is really done at an uber-introductory level --- almost as though it's for people who have zero experience writing, or, who might not even be native writers. If you can do intermediate-level videos on all your topics, I bet there would be great interest in it.
I wish Michael Chabon would consider doing at least one rewrite of his works.
The fizzy root beer of your delivery complements the garlic pizza bread of the material!
You have the spirit of this exactly. Your rivets of desire are aligning your practicing girder. Ooops, a little arty there. We've got to watch this sort of thing.
@@WritersWorkshopAustin thanks for the reply and sorry about the garlic. I realise that doesn't culturally translate out of my household very well, but in the estimation of my 9 year old son, it's a high accolade!
My India is great 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thank you so much! 💜
This is amazing!! Thank you
nice
nice
Basketball coach is a whistle blower The rainforest is a dewy waterpark A compass is a roadmap Finger darts The beach is a sand party just practicing..
Nicely done!
Any book recommendation
Very informative
I'm a Oneliner Comedian and this video has assisted me. Thank you.
1:01 into your video and had to pause to say thank you. this is going to be good... back on
Canada geese, not Canadian geese. Canadian geese are geese who live in canada.
Not all geese that live in Canada are Canada geese, it seems. But they are all Canadian geese, as noted above
Thank you, this is gonna help me spit bars like lil Wayne.
What a poet he is! Hope it helps you rap
Amazing! Thank you
Mike Meyers anyone?? Especially in the thumbnail?
This is helpful, going to try the exercise now! Also I’m a musician, and we always say “the re-write is the real write!” Thanks for your help!
That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much!!
I have found my genre! Until today I didn't know creative non fiction existed. I'm a corporate trainer and I have struggled for years to find a structured way to use storytelling in technical training. I believe this is my next step in that process.
I'm glad you've discovered it. The narrative aspect is what makes it a great choice, since it helps preserve the writer's tone. Thanks for the comment!
Eye opening, thank you for this🙏🏽
I love your videos , they are so helpful. I like the way you deliver the lectures.
I find it funny how all the comments are recent lol and thank you for advice
Absolutely mind blowing. You are an awesome teacher.
So informative!! Thank You!!
Great explanation! Thank you!
i bet he give crazy top
What?!
Lol
WOW I've never thought of that. IQ
He's back
Great compilation of How To's and How Not To's!
The Marine's haircut made me click the subscription button.
This video is absolute dynamite for me as a songwriter, Thanks very much!!
@Beckett Pedro you're right, we don't give a damn
No cap gang 💯💯this shit helped alot
Can you give some metaphors of social media?
Social media is a wasteland.
Social media is a gigantic circus where everyone is performing
Teach a man to fish and he says: hey, you might be able to get me some fish!
LOL idk why but the marines hair cut joke really got me
Are these extended metaphors? Please help
Great sir
Thank you
This was very clearly explained. You are a natural teacher!
thank you!
Thank you for creating this - I've always thought of myself as a tough non-fiction (journalism and article writing background) writer and I'd really like to try different things with nanowrimo coming up but I feel like I don't have a clue how to write fiction. Time to try my hand at creative non-fiction I suppose.
Brittney Nicole, thanks. Memoir in particular can be compelling storytelling, but anyone with a sharp eye and passion for prose can bring a book alive. Magazine work is a good start. Lots of books have begun that way. Get in touch if you’d like to learn more. I began as a journalist. It’s all writing.
I would love too!
Brittney I’m at ron@workshopwriter.com. We should talk 🙂
I also got my degree in Journalism with a large focus on article writing. I've always loved books and creative writing, but I also never felt great about my creative stuff. I mostly do it for fun. But I can see myself getting into creative nonfiction. Personal essays are always a joy to read. What a cool genre for peeps like us :)
Your guide is really helpful ^-^! Instead of thinking what this character looks & what this character smells, you create them based on their deepest desire, deepest fear, and deepest secret. I feel like i understand human better now. Thanks!
Very useful, thanks
thank you for this!
I always come away with lots of food for thought after Ron's videos. This time I particularly noted the comment about three sentences in a row sounding like preaching.I always read my dialogue aloud and, boy, that really points out the bumps. I like to read plays - those by Agatha Christie and Noel Coward are my faves - because the narrative is stripped away and only dialogue remains (with the exception of stage directions). because it is a short form, a play can get away with all dialogue. But try to read an Erle Stanley Gardner mystery. It's almost exclusively dialogue - very tiring for the reader. Breaking up the text with a blend of narrative broken up by dialogue breaks the monotony.