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You are helping sm with my book❤

Heyooo!! I've been putting a half thing of hot chocolate powder in my coffee ever since i ran out of sugar like 2 years ago. 😅🎉

When u publish it on amazon r u on google

This was an amazing video and straight to the point. Which is exaclty what I needed. Thank you.

Thanks for this awesome guide. I was getting ready to write my own novel in a more organized way and your video finally helped me. Instant sub!

How do you get the book ready for publishing? I have a book I want to publishing but it's in my Google docs, and I am not sure if I have to do something so I can put it as a actually book. Also, I want to put some things I want the readers to know about, but I don't want any page number on it, so how do I do it?

My cognitive struggles are so tough that I celebrate if I manage to write at least a few sentences that I am satisfied with. Thanks for you videos they do help in gathering motivation to keep fighting through.

I will try this too! I've been procrastinating a lot with my writing lately and it might be because I need to investigate a bit before jumping to those waters. I also need to stop putting a negative feeling towards the act of writing itself. Definitely need to do a small change... after I finish my finals (:

This is my first video of yours and I love it! Thanks so much for sharing, and I'm def gonna try the routine thing 👀

Sometimes I feel these gurus want people to write all the same, so when they come up with their own thing, they'll stand up more.

Yay you did it! Also, the pebble thing… were you talking about a snowball effect?

i wrote 20000 words this month, my goal was supposed to be 30000 but it's still a huge progress to me! and i reached 50000 word count on my project.

I'm a new writer ; it's the first ever project I manage to write on every day. I'm quite slow because I'm really unexperienced - I've never written as consistently before. 🥹 This summer I had a full time job that was "worse" than school for my writing schedule, and I barely wrote during this time. When september came, I forgot what it was to write every day, and I wrote only a few K. This november I finally managed to keep on a small goal (8k) and not to miss an entire week... 🫣 I'm just happy that I succeeded to write as much as before summer. I also thought 8k would be enough to finish the story, but it wasn't and I might need another month of 8-10k 😅. NaNo will never be one of my goal. I don't like putting too much pressure on a hobby that is a life-time passion!! 🙏

I'm not doing Nanowrimo, but I managed to write 14000 words after months of writer's block :D

I write short stories, not novels, and so I'm rewriting two stories this month.

Subbed! Happy I found you! I completely agree! I work full time and am trying to write, but also feel the pressure to post on YT annnnnnddddd do all of the things 😅

Me to me: "get your sh*t together bitch" Also me to me: *just slapped what I was working on out of my own hands* The third Me is crying. lol

Thanks for the video. It really lifted me up. I used November for revisions. I cut out 54,000 words, and rewrote Act 1 and Act 2 Part 1. Unfortunately I couldn't hit my target of revising the entire draft. I was really feeling bad. Which is insane cuz I wrote over 100k words this year😂😂 Thank you for the inspiring words🙏

this was so helpful! thank you. I also really love all your writing craft videos. so glad i stumbled across your channel <3

I did find myself guilting myself the other day over not getting a chapter uploaded that day. … as if my brain wanted to entirely ignore the fact that I spent literal hours of very enjoyable creative time: building a poem in a different story… and completed a chapter in it… and edited my recent chapter upload… and had a genuinely good day. Once I recognised that I was feeling bad for silly reasons, I did my best to kick that part of my brain to the curb and instead of staying up late: I got some excellent sleep.

It's so much more important to learn how you work in general and move with the flow of your regular life than to "Write. Every. Day." I spent a few weeks earlier this year paying attention to things like how I organize my fridge, how I grocery shop, how I rest. And then I built writing habits with that knowledge. It's garnered a lot more success for me than just forcing myself to sit in front of a computer every day!

I agree with this!!

I've discovered on my phone certain settings for limiting app use, such as 'Focus Mode', which allows me to set a daily time period wherein the notifications of a selection of apps is hidden, and I've also applied a time limit to all my social media apps (Facebook 10 minutes, Insta and Twitter 30 minutes). I refuse to join any new social media and I just don't want to be on anything anymore, I hate how much of ky time is leeched by these apps/sites! The measures I've implemented have really helped to wean me off , especially the time limit. Hope this helps someone out there.

Thanks for the interesting and helpful video :D I loved the bits of humour btw - 'and sipping TËÄ :O' and the YT vids you watch 😂😂😂

edit: Wait, oh, my gosh, you also watch AMVs? :D The social media side of things is the main factor of me giving up my dream of ever being a writer. I'm a full time teacher, have ADHD and anxiety so this feels impossible. I am just gonna write my book at a snail's pace (really, 10 chapters and 18+ additional text files for 3 years, while the idea is minimum 70 chapters according to my outline) and share it with friends along the way for feedback aaaand be proud of my project.

Outlining, for me, depends on the story I'm telling. If there is a mystery, then 100% you need a good outline because you really have to hit certain plot points for it to be a satisfying mystery. If I am telling a plot driven story I like a basic outline, a handful of things I know need to happen in order to make the plot flow. But I mostly write character driven stories where I am more open to where the story goes, so long as the character stays "in character". It is like writing someone's biography as they are telling it to you. I pour most of my planning stage work into creating my characters, understanding who they are and what they want, then I make them a world that suits them. Then I throw them into that world and see what happens with just some basic ideas of what I want to happen. I used to try to do an outline because that's what I was told writers do, but more often than not that goes out the window when my character decides to do something that wasn't in the outline and takes the story in a different direction, usually for the better, though sometimes completely off the rails.

a good point! i keep forgetting that my readers dont have to know EVERYTHING going on in my character’s head 😸 i think thats bcos of the writing style i use (limited third person in each character’s pov)

I love these videos so much! they help me get in the writing mode❤. I’m working on a sci-fi apocalyptic world where humans cause their own downfall messing with animal and human dna and then the mutated animals slowly creating their own society after.

The thing with Omniscient POV and headhopping is sadly not as easy. First of all, we (as humans) are really used to that POV as a storyteller, because almost all stories we encounter on a day to day basis are told in hindsight, which normally makes the storyteller wiser about it. Also for several hundret years this was the go-to POV, before a trend with First-Person started. Limited Third is a pretty new type of POV, at least in popular fiction. And, as with First-Person it is VERY HARD to pull off right. You need a strong conscious about what your character actually knows and feels as well as a tight plot. Also head.hopping can happen in these POVs too. Instead of telling your clients to stick to another POV you should lead them to think about the purpose and if a character actually KNOWS what their telling in that specific moment. There are some nice exercises about writing and rewriting a scene from diffrent perspectives to get a feel of these things.

I wholeheartedly agree with this video. I am not a big fan of these outline philosophies. I'm sure they may work for some people, but for many new writers I think they glom onto these methods because they want a scientific approach to writing. They believe that if they don't follow a certain beat of arc, they will fail in their attempt to write a novel. This is not true. As you hone your craft, you will discover that you have an innate ability to write a novel, provided you are willing to put the effort in. You develop a sense for a literary arc. It's a feeling on when to upshift and downshift and find the glide path to the end. In my opinion, discovery writing allows for more innovation on the fly. If something isn't working, you don't have to throw away the outline because there is no outline. Now sometimes, his can mean you go off the rails. But if you do, there are ways to reset. Who knows, the new direction may be even better. An outline, at least for me, is too constraining, too formulaic.

OMG I needed to hear this so much, you don't even know thank you sooo much for this vid.

Hiii um.. can you give the margin sizes for each side please 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Listened to this on spotify, loved it!

It is also easy to fall into the trap of planning to the point of procrastination or planning so much and refusing to break from that plan when your story demands it.

My brain does NOT like outlines. When I've tried outlining scene-by-scene, I've used up my creative energy there. I tend to spend my prep time on character work, the broad strokes of worldbuilding (the stuff I have to know to start writing). Maybe I'll know some of the big scenes or moments, a lot of times I have some idea of the ending. Story structure is useful to me during the first draft because if I don't know what happens next, I can look to see what kind of thing should happen, and brainstorm from there.

Impersonally I think both creative freedom and abbie Emmon's three act story structure makes writing fun. I have a friend who is a panster, she just listens to herself. She thinks internal conflict is the bomb and am finding her creative thinking freeing. I'm Writing paragraphs that are very immersive right now.

I’m starting to realise as a new writer that all these structures are a guide to ensure pacing is consistent. I think you can write anything providing you work to a series of mini arcs that increase in intensity throughout the story. That will give good pacing and means you are free to be creative and the reader will enjoy whatever you write 😊

As a screenwriter, I've noticed that the structures that were initially designed more for films than for books are now being actively promoted among prose writers. The thing is, cinematography is an industry, it has a limited screening time to tell a story, so we need those structures, or at least we have to know them and study them long enough to the point where we won't actually need them, because we can follow all those story beats without trying. Viewers and readers are two different kinds of audience, and I'd argue that in cinematography story structure matters more, while prose gives you more freedom. Same things that work in a book might not work on screen. But... In terms of my own relationship with story structure, I absolutely love it. It taught me a lot, and most of all systematic thinking that I used to lack. It helps me actually understand the flow of my story and finish my projects. But it really is important not to overdo it, you're absolutely right. Or else you risk writing something cliche, or losing your spark, or simply scaring yourself too much in pursuit of it being 'perfect'. So, it's important to always know when to plan and when to let yourself go. Thanks for reminding myself of that, cause I was tempted to linger on the previous stage of my process to plan more, while really, I could already go onto the next stage :)

4:21 the sad thing is that if you're going with traditional publishing, probably you'll need to follow it, just like Hollywood movies who use the three act structure. Not even for selling, but because they can judge you for not "knowing the basic of structure". However, I'm a huge LitRPG fan, and almost all of them began at RoyalRoad with 100+ chapters. When the authors go publish it in Amazon and divide in books, you can clearly see how it doesn't have a clear beginning, middle and ending, it's just 100+ chapters divided in books. Like, there's more than one arc in each book, and this is really similar with Japanese Light Novels who are published per volumes as well. I love this sort of structure. Don't think the publishing companies will ever take it seriously, but happily nowadays we can self-publish.

Yes! The best thing I have done to improve my writing is dumping the overly complex outline I used to use. Now I don't even write my story in a linear fashion any more. I have a very basic timeline, and just hang scenes on that timeline as I think of them. It's so easy to keep the creativity going when I can just write whatever scene I feel like and not have to worry about what order I happen to think of them in.

Holy.ADS.Batman!

I've been sitting on my detailed outline for so long, and honestly, this video is genuinely helping me let go of the controlling part of my creative process. Thank you!

Good video. A nice companion piece would be "Pantsing Kills Structure! (Dangers of Under-Outlining)". As you say, everyone follows different methods. I would add to that that also every book needs to follow a different method by merit of where you start (and this is e.g. one thing I disagree with you around the 10 min mark) - sometimes you don't discover your theme specifically until you're part-way through the draft; I'd say that books start from different places. You may have a fully-fleshed plot in your mind and then need to search for a suitable character who would struggle particularly with that; or you may just have the character; or, indeed, a theme. Writing is difficult because there is no clear method that works for each book.

As a fairly new writer with only barely a month of writing under her belt, I've realized I'm a plantser. I have a plan inside my head, but when I start writing it completely changes. Right now, I'm in the middle of outlining a longfic for the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba fandom fully knowing the end product is going to be different than the outline.

There's a kind of chicken and egg problem here, and the same is true of writers block. ideas in your brain are like a pipe with too much gunk trying to exit all at once. Outlining frees up the pipe, cuz your brain doesn't have to desperately cling to it mentally anymore. So, would you have come up with the unique twist if you hadn't gotten the primitive version down first? Who knows? It's almost a necessary evil. I agree, the important thing is to recognize it's okay to chase the intuition down. I also see a reverse problem sometimes where i read a work and I get a lingering feeling that "hmm, something is missing". And almost always, what is missing is a plot beat that they'd have included if they'd outlined in detail. Like a Mid-Point Reversal is missing. Or there's no Hook before Inciting Incident. Or there's no All is Lost moment. But I think it's easier to insert that plot beat stuff later in revisions than the spur of the moment sparks of imagination/genius. That stuff is unique to the writer.

Thanks, Char! ❤ See the thing is I always struggle with separating my "voice and thought" from the characters that I'm writing. With this template I'm going to create a whole new different personality for each character and that's hard 🥴 Writing fiction is indeed studying human.

Wow!! It must be so beautiful to study there ❤

I was so deeply into my first draft that I forgot I had this video on and when you coughed I thought there was someone else in the room lol. I'm so glad to have found someone else in the UK who is doing a writing challenge this month, as timezones can make it really tricky to join live streams. I'm attempting my biggest goal ever of writing a first draft in 50K words this month, (using the Rough Draft Challenge run by Heart Breathings) - it's also the first time I've really got involved in the writer community on YT so I'm hoping I can find people to discuss my novel with and support others; I don't really have anyone irl to talk about writing or books with 😢 I'm excited to join you this month!

(Nervous unpublished author here... 👋) Is it true that Editors/Agents will turn down a manuscript just because they find out it has a Flashback in it??

Or in simple words, what is the truth u want to scream from the rooftops via ur book 💛