starting a new story! // RANDOM WRITING VLOG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2019
- IT'S HAPPENING! I've started a new story where I have a really cool premise but still need to discover the plot. Let's start with Chapter 1, shall we?!
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Do y'all get ideas for stories by thinking of one thing that leads you to another thing which makes you think of ANOTHER thing, etc. etc.? Like 1 + 1 + 1 = 1,000,000?
When writing the first draft, do y'all ever skip parts within the same scene? Like thinking of a really cool sentence even though you're not "there" yet, so you just jot it down and then write up to that point? Am I alone in this!?
PLEASE tell me about a time when you sat down with the intention to write one thing and something completely different came out!!!
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Not sure how true it is, but I read the reason people's middle names are still pretty private now is because in the middle ages they believed you needed a full name to curse somebody, so to get around this they added a second, secret name to keep you safe. Could be a total urban myth but I liked it, and it (possibly) shows how deep-seated some of the superstitions go, and how far people would go to circumvent things (like your village). Your story sounds awesome btw
YESYESYES okay I'm definitely going to google more about this! Something about what you said is tickling in the back of my brain and I'm wondering if it's something I've read before too, so I'll have to do some research! I'd love to hear some basis in history for it! THANK YOU! :)
I’ve heard the middle name thing too. Your story sounds very cool!
This makes me think of people basically sending off the name to the God of Death for them to kill, but they never knew the person's middle name (keeping it a secret, or their parents never told them their middle name to keep them safe?) so it ends up killing the wrong person with the same name sans their middle name.
“I don’t have to name anyone.”
I laughed so hard that I choked on my tongue. Thanks Kate 😂
BAHAHA I'm so glad. I was so excited when I realized (and then am now recognizing maybe that's not quite as exciting news after all haha).
have u seen the Death Note Anime it kinda has your premise and its such a good anime I feel like you would be really inspired by it.
GOT IT ON MY LIST! I'll definitely be watching it soon. :)
Lol once she started talking about the premise it automatically reminded me of death note.
"There's going to be another death. Oh, I'm so pumped for that." 😂😂😂
Only writers can get away with that kind of talk/excitement, I swear hahaha.
This story idea is so interesting! And honestly, Death personified is my shit! But seriously, I love your vlogs and they always get me into a writing mood
I LOVE DEATH PERSONIFIED SO MUCH YESSSSSS. I feel like I'm constantly wanting more of those books. And awww, thank you so much, I'm so glad!! :)
Hi Kate! First all..... what an incredible premise!!!
I have a suggestion for keeping track of all those unnamed characters, if you want. Nicknames. Either a physical description of the character, like Big Nose or Freckles or Blue Eyes. Or the main character could think of the people she knows as numbers (i.e. parents are One and Two, best friend is Three, villain is Thirteen). Just a thought...
That's what I've done for other stories when the main character doesn't know their name! That's definitely something to consider and may help me/the reader haha. I'm so curious how I can work the number thing into the story so I'll play around with it, thanks! :)
I totally skip parts of a scene when writing! It makes editing more exciting, doesn't it?😅
Bahaha sooooo much more exciting! That's definitely the reason we do it. Just to spice it up for our future selves. 😂
For Dialogue Tags, instead of names or a long description of the person, you could assign them to an object that they always carry with them or maybe something about them like a favorite color or song or maybe a type of plant, material, measurement, or place. It would make the identity of the person easier for you to describe and could be kind of interesting.
Oooh I like the idea of using the objects people are carrying as a descriptor. It could even lead to a funny moment if they don't have the object. :) THANK YOU! :)
I love that you've built a nameless society! In my setting, everyone is telepathic so noone has names either- they just go by reference terms (how other people could identify them- by physical trait, or personality, or job). I have tons of problems with referring to people in descriptions and to each other- i rely heavily on titles (the ancient shopkeeper, greenstriped toddler) So exciting to watch you start something new- i get joy in your joy!
YAAAAASSSSSSSSSSS okay so excited someone else is going through it too. ("Going through it" as if we didn't create this mess ourselves bahaha.) I think I'm going to alternate between loving and hating this idea.
I was in the dentist chair yesterday for about two and a half hours so I had plenty of time to daydream. One of the really scummy antagonists from my next story came to me and I was able to plot out the whole critical scene he’s in! It was pretty awesome.
That's awesome! With my fear/dislike of the dentist, I appreciate that you came up with a scummy antagonist in their chair haha. Totally makes sense to me why that would happen bahaha.
I might be too late but I think a good title would be “Death as You Speak It” it sounds like a really good idea and i’d do anything to read it! Also what software do you use to write your stories? Keep up the good work xx
4 years too late, but Kate uses Scrivener
Wow, this sounds so amazing, I cannot wait for your books to be finally published, I love all of them!!! I NEED YOUR BOOKS!!! Have a blessed day, Kate!
AWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH TIMI! :) I can't wait either. SOMEDAY!
Title suggestion: Unnamed.
I don't usually jump around within scenes quite like that. I do sometimes jump around from scene to scene in a completely nonlinear fashion. So I'll have a scene over here, and a scene over there, and no idea what all has to happen to connect them.
I definitely have ideas that have spun off into a direction I never intended. For example, "this character is secretly Thor" is definitely not what I was thinking when I started one of last year's novelettes, but that's where it ended up.
Hopin g to join you and Becca tomorrow!
So glad you were able to join us! Also I'm dying at a secret Thor. He kept it hidden from you too until he was ready hahah! :)
Love the new story idea! It’s so intriguing!!
Also it made me think of a Regina Spektor lyric:
“If you never say your name out loud to anyone
They can never ever call you by it,”
For some reason when I thought of call me by your name even though that is already a book with a completely different premise.
The premise of this story is FANTASTIC and definitely sounds like trad pub gold. Either way, I’m so excited to follow your journey!
O. M. G. This premise sounds AWESOME. I can’t wait to read it someday!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! :)
My first thought when you mentioned your main character killing someone without dying is that she is the God of Death, but has forgotten and lost most of her powers, so there aren't any consequences to killing. And every time she kills it's because she's compelled by people naming names close to her. Now people have stopped dying around most of the world, and there are consequences. Commence the questioning of their entire reality and a quest to reclaim her powers.
I guess that's probably a completely different story, though, but was a fun idea I had.
Looking forward to seeing more about your process with this story! :)
Hank Green writes like that! He skips around and writes whatever part he has in his head/wants to write! I do it a bit, too, I think it really helps to keep yourself moving forward with the plot!
Oooooooooh book name idea!!!!!!
"What is in a name?"
OMG this is a legit question worth answering haha. I might work that into some dialogue in the story, thank you! :)
@@KateCavanaugh it would work as a teaser and maybe even the first line of your blurb!
What's in a Name? (..Potential title). It's neat to look back on this video to see where the project started. I feel I can relate because at the beginning, the project is just a jumble of exciting ideas. Also, irrelevant idea I suspect, but at some point I feel like a fake name kind defines the person more than their given name. So I wonder if that happened if the fake name/nickname might hold more intent than the given name.
I also wonder how names are given in this world. It's a lot of power to give the parents (Kids must behave really well here lol).. maybe only one parent would name, would have to be a unique name too. Don't pray to kill Mary Smith because so many might die.
Also, hi Kate! I've said it before, you're such an inspiration. Thank you for your videos.
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Ahhh thank you! :)
I just came back to this after seeing you talk about Project Death in so many other vlogs and I find it endlessly fascinating to watch you flesh out your ideas! I love it!
Your enthusiasm is so contagious! ☺️ And I like this story idea
It's good to get the ending out if you have it already. Even if it changes, you still have the ending, or an idea of where you want to go. A lot of the time I've seen writers have problems ending a story.
And always get another cup of coffee haha. It's in our veins.
Great energetic video!
WCM
Your idea sounds so cool! I can't wait for it to be published so I can read it. Also, yes! I write like 5 lines that I need to connect somehow, and I'm left like, "What... do I... do... now???"
That's interesting, I actually like this. Brava, wonderful story idea. I hope this book gets published. It's getting good!
Very excited for your new project, sounds awesome :D
Omgosh!! I love the new idea! I want all your books now. Or yesterday.
I've fast drafted a novel in 24 days(77k) and now I'm on to fast drafting my next one. These people/characters wont leave me alone! Lol !
Just grazing the comments but holy smokes Peggy! 77k in 24 days is incredible! Give yourself a pat on the back!
I have! It was amazing! Thank you
Awww thanks Peggy! 💜
ALSO HOLY CRAP that's incredible! That's so exciting and definitely a great time to flow with it. EEEEE can't wait to hear how it goes. :)
Thank you!!! It was incredible! I could get used to fast drafting...I really could. Lol
Ooooooooo!! I LOVE this new idea!!! So cool! So much power in a name. I think there's some Bible story about if you know a demon's true name it gives you power over it? or something like that lol! But death? That's such a cool world! I was totally set to work on my new project, then I started reading some of what I wrote for NaNoWriMo of my fantasy and now I'm torn! I'll have to flip a coin for tomorrow's write-in hahaha!
I adore this premise! It's so cool!
i'm so glad i've found someone else who writes different parts of scene and then going back to fill them in! i thought that was just really weird thing i did!
also, i'm so intrigued by the story premise!
Whenever I'm notified that you have uploaded a video, it brings a smile to my face. I really do enjoy your videos. :)
Awww thank you so much! I'm so glad! :)
I'm only 11 and whenever I write I watch your videos! I love your writing vlogs and this idea sounds sooooo interesting!
I started off going backward watching you camp nano stuff then going back to your oldest stuff and I finally found your video starting project death! And Omg I really want to read this!! I honestly am super stoked for you to finish it. I really have a weird niche interest in things in YA novels involving Death, ghost, grim reapers, or hades so this is legit right up my alley. I can't wait to buy your book whenever you get published! Also love you channel!
Great idea. :) cant wait to read it.
Have been binging your I tried writing like series and vlogs since I found your channel a few months ago and I absolutely love them! Now TH-cam recommended me this random video and I have the biggest smile because this is how Project Death has started? Incredible to watch this knowing how far this story has come!
Ooooohhh LOVE the premise. I need to read this book, like, yesterday! But also that new story feeling in general is so exciting :D Hope I can catch your write-in.
THANK YOU PHOEBE! :) Yes, it's legit so exciting. There's nothing like a new story to serve as a great distraction haha. So glad you were able to attend and you CRUSHED the word counts!
You're idea sounds incredible - I can see why you call it Project Death :p
Sounds like a fantastic idea! Have you ever seen the anime Death Note? Would make a great source for this tale :)
I've heard so much about it but have never actually watched it myself. I think I even have it added to my Netflix queue already so I'll move it up the list! Thanks for the rec! :)
I sometimes to the thing where I skip a line and write what I need to so I don't forget. You're not alone. Awesome idea too, by the way!
I love the idea of names having power. Reminds me of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series and how people have usenames and truenames.
I hope to hold this book in my hands soon 😉 it sounds amazing!
This is an amazing premise and I totally think you should go for traditional publishing if you want to. 😊❤
Ooh love the new idea! It will definitely be fun to work with but it will also be very time consuming with all the research that has to be done, hoping you the best though!!
Thanks so much! Yeah, so more research/world-building than I usually do to create a whole mythos but I'm excited for the challenge! :)
I definitely write the way you described, so I don't forget things. :p I call myself a "puzzler," because it's like I'm making all the pieces and then I have to put them together.
I think a story about the babies that were taken would also be cool x'D
It's so interesting to me that you seem to always know you're beginnings so well. I guess I like to start in the middle, and then get to the end, then I go back to start on the beginning and I'm on the struggle bus the whole dang time. The first sentences in particular cause me so much stress and anxiety.
I will definitely read this book!
I started writing my first book four years ago and only just now did I realize that I was writing the second book first. Now, I've set it aside and have started writing the actual first book and already everything makes way more sense. I've got three or four books on my list of to dos and I seem to jump between them quite a bit. Thankfully though, I've begun to set everything up so that is way more organized than it was. I used to write by hand all the time but my parents got me a computer for university and it's been a huge help and I've only been writing things down on paper when I don't have my computer with me or if it's a side idea or story that is completely unrelated to what I'm working on at the moment. I don't even know how many journals I've got now. My older sister sends me a new one every time she goes somewhere and I've got four in the past 2 and 1/2 years. If she keeps it up, I'll have an entire shelf of journals from her by the time I get my first Bachelors!
This sounds AWESOME!!!! I'm so excited to hear more!!!! YAY!
THANK YOU SUMMER! :)
Ohhh that’s such an interesting concept! I can’t wait to see where it goes 😄
THANK YOU! Me too bahaha. :)
Hey Kate! I know this video was a while ago, but if you're still looking for ways to "name" people in a world without names, you might consider the naming system used in Bali. In Bali, there are only FOUR names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut. They translate to: First, Second, Third, and Fourth, respectively. Parents name their first child Wayan, second child Made, and so on. If they have more than four children, they simply start over with Wayan/First! If people are allowed to share their LAST names or a family name in your world, something like this could work. Their "public" name could be "First Cavanaugh" (or make up a word that means "First" in your characters' language, and their true name could be kept secret. Just an idea I wanted to share because I think that's a really interesting real-life naming system! Love your premise and your videos so much!
Hey Kate! You've got a bangin' idea in this new project! Loving hearing about your process. Also, CONGRATS on submitting The Meridian Maps! Sending you all the good vibes for getting that novel represented 😁
THANKYOUTHANKYOU! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It took me longer to work up actually hitting Send than I ever thought it would! That might be another video for another time haha.
And thank you so much! Listening to everyone's writing process is one of my favorite things. :)
Amanda R what do you mean she submitted it?
@@scottanderson8167 Hi Scott, I just meant submitting a query/queries to agents, as she said in the video 🙂 Have a wonderful day.
Amanda R thank you for clarifying that!
Go for it! You got this.
Dudeeee, I love that idea!! You go gurrrll. And with the name thing - double dudeeeee! I hate naming people. I'm 64k words into my first draft and I still don't like my main character's name haha. I'd love to see a vlog of outlining, yes yes yesss :)
SERIOUSLY why is naming so hard? That not liking the main character's name is something I'm struggling with in Project Purple still bahaha. Maybe we need someone else to just come in and give us like 10 options and we'll choose one haha. AND YAY OKAY! :)
This sounds Soooo good!🔥🙂🙂😃
Love this premise!! ♥️ Can't wait to read it 😊
Thanks so much Diane, I'm excited to write it and figure it out! :)
I'm going to watch a bit of your videos and some other Authortube videos to get more excited for starting Camp Nano at midnight tonight 3/31/2020!!! :)
This is so exciting! I've actually thought of a new story as well, so your excitement is definitely me right now too. Your new project sounds so good! ❤
YAYAYAY! I think the Idea Fairy must be going around, we're all coming up with some awesome things! :) What's your new story about??
@@KateCavanaugh It's a fantasy that has more magic and races that I've ever written lol. So, there's goblin and human sides, and though it's told through 1 character, each of the 3 main side characters is a combination of some races (or is the leader of that race). Like you, I only have the first chapter figured out, but I have a bunch of world building done. (WHICH IS SO OUT OF CHARACTER FOR ME!)
I'm loving the characters, magic system, and world so much! But as I said, this project is so different for me because I don't usually write HEAVY magic in my fantasies.
Lol this was super long, but I loved talking about it vaguely!
OOOOH A HUGE WORLD YES. That's so fun! Congrats on the out-of-character world-building bahaha. That's always so fun, when a story just comes in and treats you differently than any other story before hahaha.
YOU BETTER BE PUBLISHING THIS SOON BECAUSE IM SO READY TO READ IT
Omg starting a new project how fun and exciting! I was just thinking about starting a new story too. Also I always have a million ideas that spark more ideas and tbh its a problem lol
YESSSS! Do it, do it, do it. And right? It's the best-worst kind of problem. How are we supposed to focus when there are so many fun new ideas that spark EVEN MORE fun new ideas?!
PLEASE tell me more about your Rumpelstiltskin-esque character pleeeease! :)
@@KateCavanaugh The town has a legend about a witch that curses people that cross her. Most people claim not to believe it but the fear is strong enough that the town is willing to put people to death for "being witches". The MC is kind of a dick and steals from someone. This un-named person just so happens to be the witch previously mentioned. She curses him and now he is kind of screwed unless you can figure out how to undo the curse before he loses his sanity for good. (It's more Beauty and the Beast) but there are some Rumpelstiltskin-ques character traits thrown in there as well. Just realized how hard it is to spell his name jeez.
YESSSSS witches and Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin, OMG this sounds amazing. (Also I've definitely misspelled his name every time I've written it hahaha.)
Congrats :)
oh this is such a good idea!! ofc the first things that came to mind was “the book thief” and “death note” but i think this plot offers a really good twist! idk if you’re up to taking advice from random people in the internet lol, but instead of using descriptors, you should give them all nicknames (which relates back to the story with your dad’s friend). as a reader, i personally don’t like it when authors use descriptors over and over again (ie, the boy with the red hair; the woman with blue eyes, etc). it could keep it fresh if you gave people certain nicknames that would help identify people without knowing their true birth name!
This idea sounds pretty cool. Can't wait to see how it turns out.
Thanks Stephanie!! :)
I'd be so interested to read this omg
I need to know what type of window blinds you have its for a book and my brain isnt working!!
Ooo, this new story idea sounds SUPER intriguing! I’m curious how you’ll make the dialogue tags work for yoy
THANK YOU! And me too bahaha. I think it will be a trial and error process. :)
can't wait to read this book holy hecc
12:40 yes!! I’m writing a story where I started literally 11 chapters because I had all these different parts of dialogues and exact descriptions in my head I didn’t want to forget, while I’m actually only at the 3d chapter but I got all these other half chapters and- uGHHHHH I know how you feel lol 💕
Love the cup!
Will write more when back from skiing
OMG have fun skiing! Are you on a trip or do you live somewhere that you can skI? I've never been skiing before!
@@KateCavanaugh Thank you. Dad and I drove from Aix to Grenoble to ski in Aix
You may find Neil Gaiman talk about confluence - two ideas coming together to form a narrative. Also, you mention death as a character, have you read any Terry Pratchett? Death features in most of his novels.
I am not rewatching old videos as I run away from this month's camp NaNo at all...
I am taking inspiration :) yes that I am 😂
You. Are. My. Hero. You're creating a world with new gods and mythos? *unstoppable clapping* "My name is . . ." sooooo you have to name her? hahahaha
If you need someone to bounce ideas off of, hit me up. New project shall be named Project Tangerine because it's a color and a food lololol
AHHHH THANK YOU! (And no....no I don't have her name bahaha. OF COURSE YOU'D CALL ME OUT ON IT.) And trololol yes, thank you! I'll take you up on it and Project Tangerine sounds great haha.
Awesome story idea!
Thank you Lakota!! :)
Plot twist: the reason the god of death won't kill your main character is because he's secretly a member of her family.
I LOVE your plot idea!! (PS the same thing happened to me where I said I really wanted to see in concert and two weeks later he died. He was in Russia at the time and I was in America. Not guilty.) MJ Double PS why don’t you just hire someone to name and title your books? That way you don’t have to!
This is quite an old video so you probably won't get this comment, but a really cool twist might be that if someone is dying, and you know their name, you can make a request to the god of death to save them, so a reverse of the first rule. This would give people a motivation to share their name with their closest and most trusted, and it might show character development and the building or breaking of trust depending on how you use it.
Hey, Kate! Great premise! In Romanian old believes we have something similar related to names.
I'm not sure if it's something across Europe but it'd be worth doing the research.
As Romanians are creative in avoiding trouble, our myth related to full name disclosure and consequences also has a way around, involving supposed witchcraft. If the one chased by the god of death starts feeling the symptoms especially if they are children, they are "sold" to another soul mother or family under a new name or nickname which would confound the god.
Very amazing concept! Even if it's something in our mythology i don.t think i.d have thought of using this!
Looking forward to see what you'll do with this!
AHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH! That's awesome. I'll definitely look into more Romanian mythology! I'd love to build in the attempts to trick the God of Death and how they're foiled/work.
@@KateCavanaugh glad i could be of help. We have amazing nuggets of stories and fantastic myths and fairy tales but they're more like food for thought than completely developed.
Now i'm rather curious about what you can come up with because there are so few translations of Romanian works of this type.
Holy shit that's a cool idea 😯
THANKS KELLY! Yay for your new channel, too! :)
@12:30 - that's because.. some say that stories (of other worlds etc) are not really invented but rather discovered by those who are capable to connect to them. Thus, sometimes it flows smoothly, and some other times you only get glimpses of it.. At least that's what some people believe about stories and their writers.
Hello, Kate! I have been following your videos! This is such an interesting idea for a book! I notice that this video has some months now.. have you finished this book already?... if you have, how am i able to read it?.. i would love to read it , or to read anything from you. I'm just very curious on your way of writing! Do you have anything online that is possible for us to read? thank you!
Silly nicknames might help as a place holder for a time or a practical in-world solution.
As a librarian, I am always happy to hear you are going to the library :)
LOOOVE the library. It's where I get most of my books! :)
3:47 Well... There is a manga like that and an anime that's very popular and anyone that watches anime knows it.
Death Note
Also check out Ancient Egypt's (Kemet) naming system. People pretty much only went by public names because witches need your real name to put a curse on you
I wanna read this story so bad 😭
You will probably not see my comment but I think your idea is really original and I've only heard about that kind of thing like once.
Do you publish your books or do you post the on the web? Cuz' I'll would like to read them 😋.
And do you have any advices and tips for writing cuz I started a new project, I wrote the first chapter and, POUF, you're stuck, noob. So yeah 😂. I love your videos, I watched only this one and the Stephen King one and I loved so keep going on, you've a new subscriber.
PS: It's me ☺
Just watching this now, you said something about using people's professions as ways to identify them and I think that was the way most last names were born or it might be a story someone told me that wasn't true lol
If I had that mug it would say Jade Wright Writes. hahahaha I usually hate jumping around with chapters in my novel but I'm doing it a lot with my most recent project!
😂😂 Omg how often do you use that pun though?? And that's so interesting! It's always so crazy how much our processes can change from novel to novel.
Love the new idea! Watch Death Note the anime at least the first 10 episodes. Very different plot but premises are pretty close!
YAY! Okay will do, another person recommended it too and I've been meaning to watch it for a while! :)
What if you're an orphan and you forget your name? 👀👀
Bahaha, I'll have to write in a contingency around that! Hmmm what kind of back story can I make out the time someone forgot their name...🤣
Wait, this was what turned into Project Death? It was inspired by your dad and his friend - wow.
Maybe that's why The Doctor doesn't give his name...
You're goofy... I like that.
Bahah thanks! That's probably the best way to describe it. 😂
Your dad seems hilarious.
It actually reminds me of DeathNote. Which is an amazing show
Yessss, that's what everyone's saying! I'm going to have to watch now> :)
12:30 - "does anyone else write like this?" -- yes!
in fact, i believe it helps terribly with keeping the muse high and managing to bring longer scenes to an end.
those bits in between (especially when they don't have to be connected by a full-described conversation but can be connected by narration) are, for me, the moments where the voice of the narrator comes in to play. which is always nice, right?
How did you become an author tuber and how easy is it to start an authortube channel on TH-cam and how much do you enjoy being an authortuber
I'm just gonna agree with everyone else but I'm in love with this new idea
Aww, thank you! Also I love your current profile pic. 💕