Book Progress Update ✍️ & New Writing Techniques I'm Using
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- Link to Lauren Kay’s Critique Partner database:
Sign up to find critique partners to read your book!
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Story Grid’s Five Commandments of Storytelling:
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These are the commandments at a story-wide level, but the idea is that this structure can be applied to every level of story-telling: entire book, each act, a sequence of scenes, and especially - each scene.
My Fiverr for developmental critiques and book coaching:
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Lovely to have an update! Critique partners are awesome!
They really are! It's so good to have another pair of eyes calling out things I just can't see.
Sounds like your process is going well and love your enthusiasm for your book it is very encouraging 🙂 thanks for sharing the website for critique partners I'm going to give it another try. I haven't had much luck in finding a good match but I'll try again. And The StoryGrid sounds like a good resource I'll check it out.
I understand not finding the right critique partner. I feel like you do really need a specific person who understands what you're going for and loves the genre. With this website, since there's so much included in the profile, I feel like matching with others who were the right fit was easy. And they found me actually! Both of them have been incredible. I hope you'll have some more luck finding a good critique partner. And story grid is a good resource, but it makes some things over-complicated. So, I try not to stress about things that seem too rigid in their method and attempt to learn from the principles that seem beneficial to me.
@@createwithmer Thanks for the tip on The StoryGrid. 🙂 Now I'm in my trail and error phase.
Thank you for the update. It sounds like you are making good progress and I can learn a lot from your process. The one thing that I am not sure I agree on is that every scene needs to be exciting. For me when I am reading it is not only about excitement but also a lot about atmosphere. Like when I read Harry Potter for example I love reading about the lessons even though this is not all exciting and important, it pulls me into this world going through normal days with Harry. Scenes with slow pace also allow the character to reflect and become aware of consequences.
Of course, I am aware that the market has changed and people love fast paced books, and I also enjoyed Fourth Wing, which I think is a great example for this, but while I enjoyed that book in the moment, it did not really stay in my thoughts afterwards, I was somehow missing depth. But this could be very personal as I love philosophy and discussing meaning when other people maybe prefer to have this shown by actions without putting it into words.
Just something to think about. But I am sure your book will come out great and I hope I can read it one day. I just started writing a very first draft of a story and I have so much to learn to make this an enjoyable read.
I think you're completely right! Exciting was not the best word for what I was trying to describe. I was searching for a word to mean the opposite of "boring," but some better candidates would have been: hooking, interesting, engaging, gripping, intriguing. Basically, the idea of pulling the reader in rather than letter them lose interest. Excitement does go along with the idea of action and a fast pace, and that's not always good (though there is a trend toward having that ALL the time - like Fourth Wing). I have a ton of philosophical and conversational scenes, so mine are definitely not all exciting, but my hope is that they will all be gripping. Thanks for discussing!!
@@createwithmer I understand. It is also quite interesting to think about how the reader perceives the book as opposed to how as a writer we feel about it. Of course, they should not be bored. I am very intrigued about the philosophical scenes. I hope I get to read your story one day :)
Love the updates! Joining a Bardsy critique group was definitely the BEST thing for my story. Its so amazing to have feedback :)
I remember you mentioning your Bardsy critique group a while back! Reflecting on it now, I think it was one of the things that motivated me to look for critique partners, so thank you for the inspiration :) It's sooo good for the story to get more eyes on it, even if it's not perfect.