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I agree with what you say , and its very good advice you are giving i'm only a new author myself i started writing because of a traumatic event happened to me , and to get the anger and hurt i was feeling , my therapist suggested writting and it helped me a lot so my books reflect love and loss i write mainly romance novels and ive had a good response so far but its hard work my book covers on tik tok get around 40,000 to 60,000 views , my current book on tik tok has 24,000 views in 4 days

Thank you so, SO much Lauren! You're a complete life savior ! Kudos to you

Thank you so much for sharing this story!! I am on my second book now and the first was definitely just a very drawn-out learning experience. I literally cried when you talked about writing your second book so quickly and getting such an amazing book deal! Congrats!! I'm going to read your book now haha

All very sound advice in this video. I look forward to applying it for the story I'm writing ☺️

Awesome video and advice. Thank you so much for this candid video because we all need to know that rejection is part of the process, but we only fail as authors when we stop writing. Fun Fact: Even world renowned author John Grisham didn't initially get a deal on his first book either 😮. It was his second book, The Firm, that launched him to success, then he eventually got a deal on his first book, A Time to Kill, after his subsequent books. All of this is to say, your video is on point and please keep making them! Liked and subscribed 😉👍

You say you are jealous. REALLY? Envy is when you want what someone else has, but jealousy is when you're worried someone's trying to take what you have. YOU ARE CONFUSED. I DO WISH people who spend their time writing would learn the language they write in. Grrrr But thanks for the main purpose of this video.

Thank you so much! Your video was very helpful. Grateful!

£17.33 for a hardcover version of your first novel. Kudos.

Omg thank you for providing these tips so openly

Keep writing, pretty soon you'll be a bestseller. I'm rubbish at writing. I can't even put a coherent sentence together, I'm too rubbish to sell my books.

Thank you it was very helpful, maybe I can start my fantasy writing now more easily while doing my phd :)

Young Adult...... ah, so basically your book was absolute dog shit, that purely got chosen coz we live in a time that mental retardation is celebrated and even pushed. Particularly in the YA novel genre, that typically involves authors that have no clue what storytelling is and don't even know how to structure one.

Thank you for the section on compile. It is always easier to understand something when someone shows you the ropes, rather than reading the same instructions from the manual. I absolutely love Scrivener. Whenever I tried to write in Word, my mind would explode in trying to keep all the various elements, the half-written & re-written bits, organised. I particularly like the Key Word function. I can add key words detailing not just the point of view, forex, but also the various narrative threads (I have too many of them; they need to be thinned out) & input a key word as search criteria to bring up those scenes. You do have to be disciplined about ensuring you add them, but it is a very useful tool.

You are a generous beautiful person to share your valuable experience ma'am. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this. I'm brand new to the world of writing and just finished my first manuscript. Coming across your channel I had no idea how the process of getting a book deal worked at all. Now I have a pretty solid understanding though, so thank you for that. Best of luck in your future endevours!

Such a valuable perspective for those interested in querying! ❤

Binge watching your videos! While ive got some really great feedback from agented beta readers and a former agent, im still having a tough time getting up the nerve to take the plunge and query (i think its a combination of worrying about the actual query letter + worrying that my 95k lgbtq+ YA urban fantasy novel isnt 'trendy' enough). Slowly bolstering my confidence w/ these vids!

Not to be mean or anything. But doesn’t your throat hurt speaking like that? Couldn’t hear all the way through, sorry ! Just constructive feedback.

What if I don't want the book to be a commercial success? What if I'm not planning on a career as a writer? I have one book in me, at least for the time being. I want it to reach an audience, and be significant to people, but I don't care about publishing deals (indy is fine), and don't plan on making any money on it anyway (if it somehow still sells well, there's a charity I want all the proceeds to go to). What I do want and care about is making the most of the book's potential as a literary work, to get the closest to making it a literary masterpiece as I possibly can. Old school, I know. Are there editors out there who care about these things, and can really help with achieving this goal?

Is the “pitching a series” issue different for fantasy novels?

Hi Lauren! New anticipated author here. Would you recommend copyrighting your work before sending it to a beta reader or critique partner? Or do you have them sign an NDA? Thanks in advance! Francesca

Found you through this video. Read first few pages of We Ship It. You're awesome and I don't even like teen comedy. I will buy it asap.

Uhhhg! I know your video is amazing but I’m lacking so much in tech skills that I still need more help. At the part at 5:20 or so you refer to the ‘About me’ section. Are the pages you’re referring to somewhere else and you attach or is it created within this program?

This was the most honest and helpful information I’ve seen. Thank you for being so transparent! I am supposed to do a live pitch in September and now I’m feeling like I don’t know enough about this world of agenting or publishing. Where did you find the most helpful resources? Did you use Publisher’s Marketplace? I am a debut author and the more I learn it feels like the less I know. 🤷‍♀️

Thank you so much for sharing your story. I'm still working on my first manuscript but hearing the real deal stories from published writers is super motivating. Thank you thank you thank you.

Thank you so much for this video. How many agencies did you submit to before you settled with an agent?

Lauren, I just signed up to be a critique partner! What an amazing way to not only connect authors, but give back to people so they don't have to struggle in the shadows. Thank you so much for providing this free resource, and I look forward to reading, critiquing, and seeing what avenues this can help open up!

I’ve been spending years trying to write a memoir and used scrivener. It wasn’t until I went to a video like this did I realize I was doing scrivener completely wrong. I wasn’t using section types or anything like that. I got confused about the separate folders and just used one text page per chapter. I ended to putting a mountain of notes in the note sections being clueless the bookmarks page can have media dropped into it. Then I realized the best way to write is to write each scene out as a text page and organize it that way. Then you can see the outline, write directly into it. It’s made the process so much clearer. Especially I can use a folder as chapter and look at the entirety of it if I wish.

You hit on something I think critical. Is the you wrote you second book fast. I think the let down is harder when years are spent writing a book, instead of months. Thank you for sharing.

Do you know how to back it up to the cloud?

This was great. I believe in transparency as well - which overall publishing is not known for ;) I respect you for telling your true experience good, bad & ugly. Continued success!

Thank you for your honesty and listening to your gut. You took a risk. I thank you for that. I'm sixty-two years old and am a rookie in this business. And I knew I was facing a monumental challenge. Now I know precisely what challenges I am actually facing. Anyway, you are a fantastic person. Again, I thank you.

Thank you very much, Lauren. Your video was exceptionally helpful. I have one question: Did you have a large following either here or on social media or your authors website, before landing that six-figure contract? Thanks again, Lauren.

Wow, thank you for this amazing tutorial! I found this by googling Scrivener, as there's a character in my game who's title is that, and they do the work of a scribe, so I assumed a scrivener is the same thing, but wanted a definition, and found the app first before scrolling down to a definition. I got curious and checked it out, but was hesitant to get it as I'm at least familiar with my process for the last several years. Then I scrolled a bit and saw your tutorial vid on the results page. I think I'm leaning far more towards trying this program out. So, thanks again. I'm saving this guide for later reference.

Scrivener is a life saver

Thank you so much for sharing your story. Hearing all of the details of your journey is so incredibly helpful as I work through my own process. Amazing video -- love the candor!

Thanks for the peak of rejections we may face before we find an agent to champion our stories.

That was SO helpful, thank you! I'll definitely have to re-watch this several times to absorb all that info, but you've made it way less intimidating, haha!

Very good short tutorial. Only just started to look at using the software. I use an iMac/iPad combo, so I personally save to a folder on iCloud. Then I can open it on my iPad from the same iCloud Drive. A side effect of this is that it renumbers the project name <proj>-1 <proj>-2 which might be good or bad I guess.

Hi, Im a teenage author that hopes to get traditionally published one day, and I've been binge watching your videos, they are so so helpfull! Honestly, what Im really scared about is writing a manuscript that I love and having it rejected. Sometimes it discourages me when I try to finish my book, but Im really hoping I get an agent one day :). Thanks for this! <3

I love scrivener, but when it comes to formating, its not at all easy, especially if the format you want is Chapter > Scene > Part rather than Part > Chapter > Scene. It's easy enough to drag everything into the right place, but then you basically have to change every configuration and do a custom compiler format to get it printed. Compared to Google docs though is awesome. I basically use scrivener to keep everything organized. If you have any advice for where to keep outlines, that would be appreciated.

Thank you so much for this helpful vid! Now I feel like I can go into the program more confidently!

Hi Lauren, Thank you so much for your video. Does this structure of querying work for children picture books?

I can't believe more people don't talk about Story Genius. Great video

This is kind of a random question, but is there a way to have Scrivener put in specific chapter numbers? I'm part of a writing workshop, and so I submit a few chapters at a time, rather than all at once... and I was hoping to have it start the count from 43 to an epilogue, for example. Does anyone know if there's a way to do that?

Got to the part about the bio and my heart sank. I don't have much of anything to put on there that would really be positive in any way, just a life of failure, fear and anxiety.

Why doesn't this have more views and likes? BRILLIANT content and to the point thank you so much!

When you were talking about Bird by Bird I started crying. Gonna read that for sure

I'm writing my first book and appreciate this video. Thanks!