CHARACTER ARCHETYPES & REDRAFTING THE FIRST CHAPTER | HOW TO BUILD A BOOK EPISODE 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- welcome to a new episode of BUILD A BOOK! today i'm discussing character archetypes and when to scrap & rewrite a chapter. fun times!
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"serve tables in your 20s and you can serve tables in your nightmares. forever" so real...
oh we’re so back
Teaching us about including a mini-mystery to tease the readers in Act 1 while simultaneously teasing us with that same mystery? Kat, you’re a mastermind 😆
GIRL, YOU ARE FEEDING US! WE ARE FEASTING! ALL THESE VIDEOS. WE ARE NOT WORTHY. (sorry for the capslocks, but you're gone two years and suddenly back to back to baaaaaaaaaaaaaack videos????) *bows down* Thank you, Ms. Katytastic for coming back and sharing your writing journey with. Literally THE best content on youtube. 🥰🥰🥰 [PS: Currently in Draft 2 of my own first-ever WIP and your 27 chapter outline revisited video already helped me so much yesterday.]
thank you! good luck working on draft 2!!
It’s WILD to see how much this story has changed over the past years. The percolating it did in your head, and the writing you’ve practiced in the meantime, serve it so well!!
thank you!! i like to think so too, but i'm so close to story it's hard to tell XD good to hear from an outside perspective!
I already love Charlie and I can't wait to learn more about her. I also can't wait to see how she interacts with Penny as a ghost. I would love to read this book
I loved the concept of this story from the og outline, but this new iteration of it is way more interesting. Switching which one is silly/serious makes them feel much more real, and making Charlie a genius with a decent job puts the sisters on a more even playing field. I feel like also highlights that her main problem is a social/emotional one (loneliness) which I find more interesting/solvable? than money issues (we're looking for a little escapism here lol). Anyway, these videos are super helpful and interesting thank you for making them!
It's not even Christmas, I'M CRYING!!!!! What's going on. You have no idea how many time I've watched your older videos. These is so helpful, yesterday I started to outline an older story, I'll try to finish today, and I want to 0 draf thanks to you. Thank you!!! I love so much that you are back!!!
I've always lowkey hoped you would return to this story and this series is coming out at the perfect time!! Taking serious notes from you before going back for almost a complete rewrite for my wip's draft 2 👀
kat, for real: HOW DID YOU KNOW WE NEEDED THIS RIGHT NOW????????
my psychic powers have reached new strengths!!!!
Oh I love this, the old version was fun but this one already has way more zing ✨️
Leslie Knope vs. April Ludgate. Perfect! XD
kat comeback is everything i wanted and more !!
I am SO excited to see your writing videos back. I literally yelped and explained how amazing you are to my boyfriend and got him into your writing videos too!!
I would love to read this book. It sounds hilarious and exciting.
This soon??? KAT! You’re spoiling us now ❤❤
10:07 NOODLE INCIDENT TROPE ❤
IS THAT WHAT IT'S CALLED?? i love that XD
I love you're writing videos, you're doing them so well!! 😍😍
Kat, THANK YOU so much for this series and for always allowing us into your creative process. Your honesty and explanations are so refreshing and helpful for all us jumping back into writing wagon. Again, much much appreciation. ❤
I watched the first and this part three times while working on my uni assignments. It's so inspiring to see you work on the project. Thank you for sharing these videos. I'm excited about the next part.
Episode 2 so soon Kat you are fantastic! I needed thisnso bad I am guilty of trying to get things down perfectly first try and it really doesnt work.. zero drafting here we gooo
This was so helpful!! Thank you 💜💜
Yes! This series is so helpful and exactly what I need right now. Thank you!
aahhh! i sooo love charlie (and penny for sure)! i love her personality (as a fellow scorpio 😆🤭); i also love the way your voice changes when you get into “penny” mode.
agh, so fun! i would love to have this book! so excited to wait for the next episode! as a fellow behind the scenes girlie, this whole “spoiler” bts is such a ✨✨✨, it’s fun to see other storyteller’s ways and processes. thank you! ✨
Katt I’m sooo happy to see you back ❤❤❤❤
One day I'd love to see one of your book in a book store.
Your writing videos have always been so helpful, especially now as I'm rewriting my first completed draft.
i'm glad to hear that! good luck w the rewrite :)
im loving this. its reshaping how is view my own planning. i struggle to outline, and tend to lean waay more into discovery writing. (aka pantsing)
I am new to your channel and am SO engaged in this! I LOVE Charlie and am so excited to follow her as I watch someone else structure a novel irl. Please feel free to take this idea:
My instant thought when you brought up the noodle incident is that one of Penny's mad scientist friends was a customer involved in the noodle incident and almost refuses to get invovled with anything to do with it as a result. The first meeting is just the scientist and Charlie pointing at one another going "YOU." And neither will explain to anyone else what happened.
lol i'm not sure if that will work with what i have planned, but that is a hilarious idea XD
I honestly can't wait to read your work!
So excited for thisss!!!! Can't wait to read your book!!
I like this, and I'm going to try this over the next couple of months or so with my second WIP (though I do have a whole first WIP to finish writing!) I did enjoy your walkthrough of the 27 chapter outline and I did that as soon as I found the video for that second WIP (will be trying it with my first WIP next just bc I want to see if I'm covering everything that I want to in it) though I'm calling it a 27 beat outline since some of them can work well in a chapter together!
Is it bad that I almost didn't believe that you were going to post again? But, you did! You're really back, yay!
lmao. we're so triggered. is this reality? feels like a dream. 😜
i mean, i hardly believed me and i'm the one making the videos so XD
Charlie gives April luggage vibes!
Kat, I missed you and I missed these writing videos SO MUCH. I devoured the last two videos! Thank you for coming back!
Zero draft outline is so smart. My outlines are always so vague or I try to write the chapter and get stuck trying to find the perfect words and then give up 😂
it seems like you came back exactly when we all started working on our own stories, how did you know? 😂❤
We are very happy to see you again 😊. Thank you 😊
ANOTHER VIDEO? What did we do to deserve this? 🤩 Thank you Kat, this was very informative 😊
Oof. Foodservice stress dreams are relatable. I worked at a summer camp kitchen and I get them on occasion too.
SO glad you're back, and I'm loving this series!!!!
This is amazing!! Loving this series. ❤❤❤
I just watched your previous video and when I realised you had another one up I SCREAMED 😭💜
ohh so we are BACK BACK!!! 🎉🎉 do you have an idea of who could play the twins in a movie adaptation?
oh jeeze, i have no idea! if it was my choice, the adaptation would probably be animated XD
Can I just say how happy I am to be getting these types of videos again 😭💕
This is so so helpful to aspiring writers like me. Gold dust. And I genuinely want to read this book so badly
Aaa already!! How often will vids in this series be released? I’m so excited!!
yay! and i'm aiming for at least once a week, but more often when i can manage!
@ absolutely brilliant! I’m plotting my novel at the moment with your method so this is massively helpful! Came across it the day before this series started so the timing is amazing x keep up the amazing work!
There were so many places I wanted to thumbs up this video, but you can only do that once. Great video, thank you!
I'm pretty excited for this rewrite example.
Thank you for the insight!
we are so blessed by ALL the videos
That character swap makes so much sense! It FEEL right. Like you said.
Time to catch up, Katytastic binge 😀
KAT IM SO HAPPY YOU ARE BACK
I love this daily upload
I didn't realise how much I had missed @Katytastic until she came back!!
Oh damn, I’ve missed you! Love this series so far!
I was going to go back and watch your old book outline videos, these are coming at the perfect time for me 😂
I'm so invested now 🤯
I love this. Very helpful
These videos are so fun! They def make want to grab my laptop and write… after I procrastinate for however long they are lol
We're so back babyyyy
If I could like this video twice I would!
After watching this yesterday, I sat down today and wrote 5000 words in outline/draft zero! I did a romance outline for my story (3,000 words) and got about halfway through the main plot outline for the other 2,000! When I finish the other half, plus my B plot outline my draft zero might be like 10,000 words long lol. My story has never been clearer though! Thanks Kat!
*correction went back and worked on it more after my kids went to bed and wrote 6,600 word outline/zero draft in total in ONE DAY WHAT? who am i?
that's awesome GOOD WORK!!
What app are you using to write this? Is it pages? So excited you’re back!!!!
scrivener! it's my fave writing software!
Uh oh. I might have found my new favorite TH-camr and author. ❤❤❤
This story is unserious in the best way. You have no idea how inspiring these videos are.
PS The Applebee's trauma ™️ is too real. Time really can't heal all wounds.
Loving the TS references ❤
I’m so excited ❤ I remember using your video on the 27 chapter outline to draft my first novel.
yay
At some point during the character brainstorming I started picturing Caryn and Connie as these twins. They’re a duo who does Sims builds here on TH-cam
BLESSED
They live!!!! ❤
I am invested❤
Yes, yes, yes!!! 🥰
Do you have a playlist for the other project you walked us through? I can't find the video but I remember watching it. It might have been a livestream though.
hmm not quite sure what project you're referring to, but i did a previous zero draft example for an older version of this story (linked in description) which might be it? though livestream makes me think of the warlock/gladiator story i did in a liveshow in 2013, so it could also be that?
@@Katytastic Yes! It was probably the warlock/gladiator one. Thank you!
I was about to go to bed. But now there's a new video???????? Decision made: Watching the whole thing first. Sleep can wait.
having a good sleep schedule is overrated anyways XD
@@Katytastic I expected "Go to bed! The video will wait." Instead, I got this. GOLD!🤣🤣🤣
I love how she gets possessed by Charlie and her voice and demeanor change radically. 🤣
and when i channel the manic unhinged sister it's just....... kat as usual XD
You obviously dont have to use this at all, but if youre thinking of foreshadowing Penny's death in the beginning of chapter one, what if Charlie thinks she hears her sister's voice in her half-awake state? I obviously dont know how youre going to write the haunted part of the story, but i feel like it could be a subtle way of foreshadowing it, and maybe transitioning to other info about their current relationship?
Kind of like a "twin telepathy" kind of thing like in the Haunting of Hill house, where Luke felt when Nell died?
that's a good idea! i had something like that in the original draft where charlie thinks she sees penny out of the corner of her eye on her way to work, but i think i like the idea of her waking up to penny's voice better! (also i definitely need to watch haunting of hill house apparently!)
@Katytastic that would also be a really great idea! I just like the concept of her thinking she sees or hears Penny's before we find out that she died!! It might have more of an impact on Charlie when she finds out! (Also, I think you should! It has such a great story line, but I will warn you that it's pretty sad, so keep that in mind before you watch it! I know you mentioned not wanting to read Slow Dance because it might be sad!)
Could you please organize all the videos into a playlist by their publish dates, starting with the oldest first? This would really help new viewers find your content more easily and follow the journey. Thank you!
i'm definitely planning on it! but there's only two episodes so far, so not much of a playlist yet XD
omg i still have stress dreams from when i worked at mac Donalds i thought it was just me i didnt know it was a thing lol
Did you pre-record this entire series? Because that would be genius!
partially? lol the screen recording bits were actually filmed a while ago (if you look at the right side panel in the scrivener doc it says it was created in may 2024) so now i'm just compiling it all and recording intros and voice overs XD
3 videos in a row?? I feel so spoiled omg
Giving April Ludgate vibes for sure!
yessss she's definitely an inspo source for charlie!! (and penny kinda has that manic ambition of leslie knope, though she's not nearly as caring and selfless lol)
Laini Taylor our Mother in the back!! I know that’s right!!!
16:56 dude I'm in data entry and technically at risk of losing my job to over automation lollll
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what is the program you're using?
Scrivener
Save the barista from the Karen!! 🤣🤣
WHAT A HERO
As a twin, stories where one twin dies are HORRIFYING to me and I cannot read them :( I hope penny is secretly alive at the end
...not to be all ADHD hyperfixation on you but Penny is giving Wei Ying and I already love her.
KATTTTTTT
Ex boyfriend got axed before he can get blown up
poor guy was doomed from the start XD
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3:09 These two character archetypes sort of remind me of this old movie called "Reality Bites" with Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder, where Winona Ryder's character is sort of this pixie-ish overachiever (a bit ditzy), and Ethan Hawke's character is a serious, cynical, bookish slacker/hipster.
btw: hit that like button, guys! :)
i haven't seen that movie! i'll have to check it out to see how the archetypes/dynamics are portrayed there!
I ALSO DON’T DRAFT LIKE THAT 😅
Hello, Gorgeous! Love the red lips and green shirt! So cute! 💛
thank you!!
I suddenly want a spin-off story where Charlie and the barista start dating
ngl if i were the barista, someone cursing out a rude customer on my behalf would ABSOLUTELY work on me XD
So Charlie is a Kardashian 😅
.......i don't actually know enough about the kardashians to know if this is a good comparison or not lmao XD
@Katytastic it's the accent not necessarily personality 😅 Charlie kinda talks like kim Kardashian, haha