Haruki Murakami's Three Tips For Writing an Original Novel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- How did Haruki Murakami invent a unique style? In today's video, we will hear three different writing tips from Murakami on how to stand out from other writers.
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Concerning style, I have learned that I was / am somewhat blind to my own style, kinda like how we can’t smell our own breath. Or like when we go camping, we can’t smell how bad we stink until we walk into a gas station and compare ourselves to people who didn’t just walk out of the wilderness. But, when I complained to a very good writer that I didn’t have a style, he was kinda shocked and said, “you have a style.” Which was me then learning, oh, who am I like so i can read them and see who I look like stylistically, and so I’ve been compared to Raymond Carver. Which after reading him, I learned was a great compliment.
How am I just now discovering this channel? One of your videos literally helped articulate what I’ve felt about the world in the last few years or so. I’m astounded that I found this channel just a few days ago.
Ian's getting momentum!
And which video was that?
Algorithm keeps down most conservative related content. Most of Ian’s content revolves around Cormac McCarthy.
@@pseudoplotinus You know how he says a lot of information in his videos. That’s why I have to watch his videos multiple times.
That being said, I think it was the one on why incel’s love Cormac. I’m pretty sure that was the one but I could be wrong.
@@MonosProsMonos That makes sense.
Love your vids man, keep em coming 🔥
In a society where everyone is a genius celebrity who's opinion matters more than everyone else, we need someone to put things into proper perspective and compare the different materials that are produced nowadays.
The two most important skills for kids to learn are expressing themselves and analyzing themselves.
I feel like it’s mostly very young writers with very little life experience who can be “weird” lol. In my experience it’s impossible not to gain more self-awareness as you improve as a writer, because it’s a constant tension between figuring out pieces of the world and how you relate to them that naturally lends itself to having greater perspective on self and life
Just finished Kafka on the Shore. It was a trip in a mostly good way, very much dripping with style. I think being a lifelong anime and manga fan gave me a basis of cultural knowledge that I would have been a bit lost without
Hand copy shorter works by a large variety of authors, that way you get intimately familiar with many different styles.
I think one interesting technique for becoming a decent writer is to rewrite great writers in your own voice.
If you find Shakespeare boring, rewrite each scene in a way you find compelling.
After a while, you'll realize how the original is actually better, and then you can rewrite yourself, rewriting Shakespeare. 😂🎉❤
This!
Ok, nice video, thaks :)
I just started reading A Wild Sheep Chase again. It is better than his first two short novels that are loosely tied to it. I think Murakami made a commitment to writing even though his first couple of books were not as rich and interesting. I am glad he kept at it, building up those hours of effort - 1000 hrs, 5000 hrs, etc. Cause then you get Hard Boiled Wonderland and later on, Wind up Bird Chronicles.
Check out his memoir on running. He explain his process and history of how he kind of became a writer by accident. He talks about motivation and the process of writing. It's sprinkled in there here and there, between his experiences of being a runner too.
"None of them have been weird."
Allow me to introduce myself...
Legacy can be a very narcissistic concept, not only in the arts. Creativity and the beauty, or the energies that spring from it, they nourish the world there and then. What remains is jot up to us, and we shouldn’t concern ourselves with it too much. Your style is just a by product of you doing over and over again what you love, and someone else likes to recognise it or define it, end of the story. But it doesn’t reslly matter. The moment you frame it, you try to fix it, start defining it you’ll start puttinf off your creative flame, it becomes a brand, it becomes something else, it kills everything. An artist, once you’ve learned the basis of your art, should be concerned more and more with the world, with humanity and mystery of it all, and less and less with his/her own oeuvre, techniques and all that… those are all preoccupations that comes from insecutiry, from being to harsh on ourselves, a strong super ego, judging onself harshly.
Also success to be healthy must be a by-product. If it happens well, if it doesn’t you’ll continue play music, write poetry or whatever, enjoying it exactly the same way nonetheless. Everything else is ego driven, vain and narcissistic desires which will only bring sore disappointments
8:14 what's the band of your friend?
I’m trying to write a dialogue type book but as a novice reader I don’t read books like that (Stella Maris being the only one). Are there any recommendations from you guys in the comments?
Gaddis. Philip Roth’s Deception.
Stephen king. Bret easton ellis. Elmore leonard. Dr seuss
Nice shirt man! I am currently on the final 170 pages of Suttree. I appreciate your advice on reading great literature; I'd rather attempt to pick clean the bones of bottomless, labyrinthine 'great' literature than to read anything 'new' that comes out and is raved about by the masses.
Theres a spider in your bookshelf
thankyoumaskman
You state @ 1:19 that you have worked with or taught "thousands of writers"?
Eight years in academia, taught over 1500 students as a high school English teacher, been a part of countless writing groups, and helped a ton of people on here over the last six years.
@@WriteConscious "Thousands of writers" does not mean 1500 high schoolers.
@@captainnolan5062you have a pretty sad view of what a "writer" is
@@mikescott4195 No, I just value honesty in video presentations. To have taught thousands of people, you have to have taught at least 2,000 people (hence the 's' at the end of thousands. Secondly, writer means: "A person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or regular occupation" (from the internet Oxford Definitions). It is true that everyone in high school has to write something. That does not make them 'writers'. If everyone is a 'writer' by that definition, then the word has no meaning. (Apparently I went to high school with about 1,500 writers!). Are we all doctors because we bandaged our own wounds at some point in the past?
@captainnolan5062 you seem to value being a pedantic logic bro looking to impress the ether with drivel. I find it very revealing to your character that you only chose the definition that fits your narrative and capitalistic worldview.
I suppose "painters", if we can even call them that being they sold not a single work while alive like Francisco Goya and Katsushika Hokusai should've just called themselves "doodlers"
Personally as a someone who has 2 published works, I prefer the term "Author" who happens to occasionally "Write"
Make a video about murakami on poop, ie poop storage
Idk, writing thousands of words about breasts is kind of boring.
Absurd writing advice. No one needs a unique style to write a novel.
Perhaps I don’t understand your point, but I don’t think he ever explicitly said that. His claim is that unique style is required for “quality” literature. Do you enjoy reading novels that lack unique style?
In a society where everyone is a genius celebrity who's opinion matters more than everyone else, we need someone to put things into proper perspective and compare the different materials that are produced nowadays.
Okay jeff
@@granthollingsworth Here's Murakami's first point: "The artist must possess a clearly unique and individual style..." Well, that's not true at all for any type of novel, regardless of the author's literary aspirations. For instance, take Paul Auster's City of Glass, his first novel in The New York Trilogy, a distinct work of literature that could have earned him a Nobel Prize since it's better than anything Patrick Modiano wrote. It borrows the style of a straightforward detective novel. It's not unique or even innovative, and it doesn't try to be. But Auster's obsessions (e.g., alienation, identity, and madness) make him rise above the detective novel genre; that is, they make him "literary."
@@jeffpowanda8821what he means by unique style is having you're own voice . Explaining or structuring something in a way that will make someone think of you when they read your work. Even if you do the same genres as other writers, if you can communicate it to the reader in your voice, that's style and that's what he wants a writer to do. That's how you'll be able to develop an audience who will continue to read your next work and so on.