William Faulkner on How to Start Writing Your Novel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- How should you start writing your novel? Today, we will hear from William Faulkner on what you should focus on before starting your book. Faulkner throws his hat into the ring in these three debates.
1. Character VS Plot
2. Imagination VS Experience VS Imitation
3. Starting Immediately VS Waiting
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Faulkner was probably the greatest writer of the 20th century. I’m certainly trying to create a literary renaissance. I published my 7th novel a couple of weeks ago. It was also my longest. I’ll be turning 30 in a few months. How many people can say that they wrote 7 books by 30?
Where can I find them?
Props dude, that’s impressive
Karl Popper is the greatest writer of 20th century.
Agreed, about Faulkner. And maybe all the literary renaissance needs is you.
So what's your name or pen name, batman5224?
I wrote one at 36, beat that. Psycho City Blues by Jack Karden.
Your strong point is to bring this enthusiasm, without the elitism nor being your English teacher. I can tell you, I started pumping out writings, and I found a small audience.
I just write about daily life, with all its doubts and bad people. Just as life is. And no fairy tales.
Think Bukowski without the booze.
So thanx my man!
Never underestimate a good high school English teacher.
So glad to see material on Faulkner. He’s one of the GOATs.
I read some place that Henrik Ibsen would imagine meeting his characters on a long train journey and he'd write down the conversation he had with his characters, and he would not start writing the play until he felt the people were totally real to him.
He's underrated funnily enough. Back in the 2000s, he was the unquestioned master of literary achievement. People just gloss over him these days, barely mentioned.
I’m trying to read him but I just can’t get into any aspect of it. I’m trudging tho
@@maxwindom1200 Try Light In August
Ian I’d love to hear your thoughts on this; I feel in recent decades there’s been a massive shift in emphasis from substance to style. And while I work to be a stylist and understand the necessity, I fear we may stray too far from the base humanistic role of stories, sitting around the campfire, expressing feeling and observation and life. It’s almost art for the sake of art rather than art for the human, on par with walking out of a movie like “wow, what great cinematography” where the story should take precedence. If the viewer is concerned with style and behind the scenes, I feel like the artist has failed. All of these tools should be in service of the reader experience rather than the author’s signifier of his own wit. The greatest (imo Hitchcock, Steinbeck, etc) use these tools to immerse their audience where on second viewing you can see how the Magic’s made. All hat and no cattle. Do you see that happening as well?
Just thought of a possible answer… Simulacra (learned that shit from you lol) has taken over, modern art is imitation of previous art rather than the artist’s human experience. The farther we get away from base experience, the more inauthentic and stale it feels.
Man, you are such a big inspiration. Million thanks for your hard work.
I love listening to you. Faulkner? Haven’t really read him. I abandoned one of his books out of boredom and frustration with the dialect. You, however, are easy on the eye and ear.
Great video. could you make a dedicated video on each book you recommend for learning writing? I know you've mentioned some in the past. covering everything from grammar to plot and theme. Thanks!
I think that’s what he said his Skool course is going to cover!
@@Angelicamuscaria will check it out, thanks
I enjoy your videos, buddy. Thanks for sharing.
I watched the Movie "Perfect Days" last night and the protagonist was reading "The Wild Palms" by Faulkner. Good movie.
Same; watched it because of a recent Thomas Flight video and was thoroughly impressed by the film. I also paused the movie to see what he was reading, lol.
I ain’t part of ur substack or anything but write conscious is still my favorite YT channel
I'm really looking forward to your writing school, Ian. Good stuff, as usual.
What did I accomplish at university? I read The Sound and the Fury, and that was enough.
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
Do you read ebooks at all. Or just physical?
I am in Odessa, Ukraine. Can I write and create a renaissance now?
Never ask permission. Take it.
"It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them." - Gore Vidal
@@toddjacksonpoetry I wish I knew it earlier
Faulkner is so overrated 🙄🙄🙄 Hemingway's far much better
Faulkner literally ejaculates all over hemingways minimalist face
I disagree, except when it comes to the single sentence.
@@toddjacksonpoetry pretentious prose
@@wannaknowmewhy I get it. I think it fits Mississippi. It captures its overgrowth, its Bible, its humidity. Also Faulkner is always remembering when he's writing. Hemingway is always right here right now.
I haven’t read any Hemingway yet, and I’ve only read one Faulkner novel, but “Light in August” has stuck with me long after reading it, on a level only comparable to something like Blood Meridian.