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The zipper exercise: "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" Ralph was holding the glass of wine with two hands, his head leaning down just enough that he could take a sniff of the red liquid. Just a sniff, then he pulled back and sighed. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." His gaze met with the one of his reflection's in an infinate staring competition. He bended over the glass, kissed it and tilted it. The wine slid down his throath. He inhaled the aroma of his breath. Hot. Staggered. A slight smile. A fazed gaze. A dazed gaze. A dead gaze. "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines..." A candle flame was only lit. Illuminated the livingroom. Illuminated all the dark-glassed bottles laying on the floor and on the table, dried up. Illuminated the bills for them. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Ralph was asleep.

Money and the fame would be a bonus. I want to write and publish because...well...i want to. Simple as that. Nine People's Favorite Thing from [title of show] really sums it up for me. I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing then 100 people's ninth favorite thing. This gives me encouragement that i am moving in the right direction, and good advice to take with me as i continue to move forward.

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what do you think about the opening sequence of Kung Fu Panda?

Crap, red flag. Writing friends? I don't even have reading friends. Would love a mentor a fellow Perthling would be best. Another problem, I struggle to find the time daily to write but I am working regularly every other day, writing, plotting, editing.

Thank You. You just gave me an idea. 😏🤔

While I appreciate your videos, it would be nice to see these tips applied to books instead of movies! I get the reason on one hand for using movies. But I think a big issue with writers tends to be that they think they can write stories when really they spend their time watching movies. And these are two totally different types of story telling.

Counterphobic? Does thinking up a horrific execution method count? Gaslighting. I thin a great example of this is the Illuminatus Trilogy by Shea and Wilson.

I enjoy your content but for the love of gawd.... learn how to pronounce Machiavellian.... it's not MOCK..... had to skip it. All else.... great points. Thank you .

My current project is based on the unreliable narrator...three unreliable narrators who are actually one who is unable to process trauma without splitting her perspective into three. This gives me hope that if I wrap up the threads tightly, it won't be contrived.

I don't understand why people hate head hopping. I suspect this rule will age poorly. I don't see any objective reason why it would be a bad thing (unless we don't know what head we're in).

I don't believe in character change. Unless the change is from alive -> dead. 😈

you are amazing!

Actually, this was really helpful. I hate it when everyone the main character hates is always evil. And I always wanted to do the unreliable narrator trope but didn't know how. Great job.

Would love to hear anyone’s opinion, im writing a sci fi novel that begins an hour before a catastrophe, the calm before the storm in a sense, should i use obvious foreshadowing? The catastrophe wouldn’t begin until maybe 8 pages in

Quietly takes Wetland out on Libby...

Thanks very much.

This is phenomenal. I love how dedicated you are to your content. It must not be easy. Many thanks!

You're like Mad-Eye Moody teaching me the forbidden curses in class. And I'm secretly loving it.

I appreciate you referencing books instead of movies

This is basically just a checklist of what I wrote yesterday. 😅

Some honesty here: 1. I don't care if my book was the last book your mom read, and whether she enjoyed it or not. Couldn't care less. 2. If you think my book's going to sell between 200 and 2000 copies, you tell me, so I ditch it and go back to car selling. 3. Yeah, writers are wonderful. Thanks for your love, but if you want me to pay you for editting my novels, first give me the titles of the novels YOU wrote, so I can see if you really know what you're talking about.

Hmm, matches the top eight reasons I've tossed a book aside.

I'm a self confessed hack. I self published a book on Amazon, even though I hate kindle. Still wildly anxious about people hating it.

3:00 RIGHT!!! The reason why I cannot eatch this again. I ran out of excuses to justify all the things Walt did

Your wife came, I didn't leave. How about one and six together. This tree lives, I will not.

so much for writing a sci-fi story

A little late but, question: What if it is said at the beginning to be a dream (or in this case dreams/hallucinations), but it turns out to be real?

Oh you should watch fightclub again & try to figure out how many characters are truly misrepresented by the protagonist. for example keep actively in mind that tyler said "Self-improvement is masturbation." and look when the protagonist is doing self-improvement like reading. Fight club is a film which had a story so deep and a plot-twist so big and a narrator so unreliable that even today most people only get a small fragment of the twist. Great content like always man!

I *loved* Laurus so much - one of my absolutely favorite narrations.

I found the book 'The silent patient' uses some of these techniques very well. I dont want to spoil the book, but i immediately yhought of it as soon as i saw #7 and #8

Shoutout from that one person who genuinely enjoyed reading The Unconsoled. I guess it was the aesthetic excitement of seeing a writer succeed at such a drawn-out surreal experiment.

I'm a meteorologist in Brazil, writing my first novel, a fiction to teens. I never thought of using my climate knowledge in the world building, that is a really good tip! Normally I just pay attention to the weather conditions in the scenes I'm writing and how characters react to them. Do you think Brazil is foreign enough for a US audience? I'm thinking if this can help when translation my book to english... Of course I have to finish and publish it first haha Your videos are great, I discovered this channel a few days ago and already learned a lot. Thanks a bunch, please continue with the good work!

Plot coin techniques now explains the success behind the ONE PIECE.

For 2 nightcrawler is a good example. well at least for me

I add a lot of farts. Does that count?

Not sure if I'm there yet. I mean cash wise, it's crossed my mind. I want to invent great prose and nobody will see that on screen. I mean as well as a great story.

6 word exercise: They can't tell I'm secretly edging.

there's a literary term that reminds me of the second one: DRAMATIC IRONY

Adam awoke to the sound of an alarm clock, blasting away a mere six inches from his head. This was particularly strange as Adam didn't believe in the usefulness of alarm clocks, and had steadfastly refused to own one throughout his entire life.

I know these r just suggestions & not hard rules, but GOT & Stormlight Archive (my 2 fav fantasy stories, which r both wild successes) begin with non main characters…just saying

Whiplash!!! Ticking clock!

1. Yes. I would feel super wild regret. 2. Yes, I’d want to write 7 books. 3. Yes. I would write if I had money. Having money would mean I wouldn’t have to go to that horrible C-word Demon court place called work that burns all of my time.

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Yes, knowing where you're going makes you go faster. I think, do that for every chapter or scene. There should be a poignant phrase for someone to say in every scene, and if you're working towards it then you're more likely to get there sooner. Well, I think. What about editing? How much should you edit in a day? Maybe you should work on two books. Write one in the morning and edit in the arvo. Easy😃

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A good scene that demonstrates two of these techniches of doing two things and showing how your characters reaction differs is in rdr2 when dutch kills angelo bronte, it both shows how dutch has changed to prioritise revenge and brutalitay aswell as showing arthur and johns reaction and there doubt in dutch rising

I'm writing a animal fantasy book where the princess sisters are at the castle as kittens, but the prologue shows how they were there cause they weren't biologically born in the castle but in a different part of the map 👀

Flawsss: - cannot fight, feels intensely guilty - cannot advocate for themselves - cannot convey their emotions or ideas properly - intense people pleaser Idk..

Love this list! So good.