I really like the way you point us toward other writing books. Your video is well structured and well articulated. It's obvious you've had experience organizing and presenting your thoughts. Much food for thought. Keep up the excellent work.
Great video, thought I've read a lot of excellent fantasy books where scenes don't have a specific 'worse thing' at the end. Specially long series where the characters have resolved an arc and then have a chapter or two of 'down time' where they can do slice of life fun things before the story picks up again in earnest.
Techniques of the Selling Writer and Scene and Structure are two of the best writing books. Nuts and bolts way to get it done. Plus I hate beats; tell me that movies have gotten better since Save the Cat has become the film writers bible and I will cal you a fool.
For the last 2 months, I practised with this exercise: I took any story, and I reduced it to its core. It's most basic plot structure, and I found out something interesting. The best novels and movies may have a surprisingly simple and unoriginal plot. I think plotting is highly overestimated. Humanity is a self-centred creature. If you think about it, while half of human knowledge is natural science, the whole other half is humanities. We care about human situations, relationships, and interactions. I think the scene is way more relevant than the plot, and you can develop a story scene after scene, with little or no plotting. Btw, I'm not a native English speaker. I hope I explained myself properly.
Yes, many stories really do have fairly simplistic plots. The interest comes from the twists and turns, both emotionally and via the plot, that readers care bout.
I really like the way you point us toward other writing books. Your video is well structured and well articulated. It's obvious you've had experience organizing and presenting your thoughts. Much food for thought. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you for the kind words. I do like sharing books and other resources because it's impossible to cover these complex topics in 45 min to an hour.
First time here. Awesome content. Subbed.
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Great lessons! Subbed.
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Great show, really appreciate your info.Thank you!
I hope it proves useful!
First comment and hopefully view. I'm listening to this at work. Great videos
Glad you're enjoying them!
Great video, thought I've read a lot of excellent fantasy books where scenes don't have a specific 'worse thing' at the end.
Specially long series where the characters have resolved an arc and then have a chapter or two of 'down time' where they can do slice of life fun things before the story picks up again in earnest.
I really appreciate this channel. Only just found it but, it's been so helpful already. Thank you.
So glad to hear it!
Awesome person and amazing writer
You're too kind. Thank you so much!
Techniques of the Selling Writer and Scene and Structure are two of the best writing books. Nuts and bolts way to get it done. Plus I hate beats; tell me that movies have gotten better since Save the Cat has become the film writers bible and I will cal you a fool.
I have Save the Cat and started reading it but it didn't really resonate with me. I'll finish it one day if only to see what it's all about.
For the last 2 months, I practised with this exercise:
I took any story, and I reduced it to its core. It's most basic plot structure, and I found out something interesting. The best novels and movies may have a surprisingly simple and unoriginal plot.
I think plotting is highly overestimated. Humanity is a self-centred creature. If you think about it, while half of human knowledge is natural science, the whole other half is humanities. We care about human situations, relationships, and interactions. I think the scene is way more relevant than the plot, and you can develop a story scene after scene, with little or no plotting.
Btw, I'm not a native English speaker. I hope I explained myself properly.
Yes, many stories really do have fairly simplistic plots. The interest comes from the twists and turns, both emotionally and via the plot, that readers care bout.