I had a lot of fun with this video! Sharing some of my favorite techniques for studying books and story to be a better writer ♥ Don't mind my acne patches 😂 - THANK YOU for watching as always and I can't wait to chat in the comments 🤗
This is so helpful, Mik! I've known about annotating for a while now without actually knowing HOW to annotate :) Loved those colour codes, annotation key, and tab shortcuts! I'm a colour coding girlie myself so I appreciate that I'm not alone :) Can't wait for that Lightlark deep dive video!
This is super helpful! I’ve been consuming books (fully finished the Grishaverse now, read Addie LaRue and felt complicated, moving onto more V E Schwab next) and was wondering how exactly to use the experience to sharpen my skills. I really love the suggestion of re-writing scenes in your own voice- I am a visual arts person, and it reminds me a lot of tracing an image of your favorite character to learn more about their bone structure, skin and hair texture, how their clothes fold, how the light and shadows reflect on them, etc. Really cool idea!
16:30 omg I’ve never tried this method before. I think I’ll give it a try as it can help with finding my writer voice ☺️ tysm for sharing your insights and knowledge! And as an English major myself, I’m also bad with words and meanings and often have to google what a word means lol, but hey we are good at dissecting texts I can tell you that haha. Love it!!
Now this is a fun coincidence: last week I started to read a book with the idea of annotating for the first time ever. Deep reading like that was never done in school, and for the longest time, I viewed the physical object of a book as somewhat sacred. ”Do not draw.” But then I decided it’s just… an object. It’s what I get out of it that matters, and so I decided it was time to learn to annotate. Lacking the skills, I looked up a few videos, but they all seemed to focus on ”reading to write a thorough review”. And now… this. Wonderful timing, excellent advice-thank you!
I totally feel you on the sacred "do not draw" admittedly - there are books where I will just have a notebook next to me and write and I do that more with my "gold standard" book, but still tab everything. Love that this was so on the nose for you!!! ❤ thank you so much for watching!
@@mikwrites Haha, yes, I would NOT annotate my copy of The Lord of the Rings nor Sang (a Finnish dystopian fantasy book which I adore), but everything else is… free game. & yessss the timing makes me super happy haha!
Omg Mik this was amazing!! I took so many valuable notes and takeaways. I saved this video til I had the time and tools to take proper notes on it, which was sadly only now. Your effort and thought that goes into each video is really appreciated, and I always can't wait to click on a video when I see it's yours
thank you for this, professor mik!! when people would say they're annotating their own books when they do revisions, i always wondered what exactly they were looking for. even though this is about studying other authors' stories, i think this is also valuable for pinpointing what needs revision in our own works (^:
Love your videos so much you don’t know how much you motivate me to write and you learned me to read differently thank you so much Plz can you do more of chapter by chapter analysis for famous novels like Harry Potter and hunger games
I had a lot of fun with this video! Sharing some of my favorite techniques for studying books and story to be a better writer ♥ Don't mind my acne patches 😂 - THANK YOU for watching as always and I can't wait to chat in the comments 🤗
This is so valuable!! Taking notes 📝📝 and that lightlark annotation key is so satisfying 😍
Thanks for watching, love!! and I know right? 😍 I love a good infographic
This is so helpful, Mik! I've known about annotating for a while now without actually knowing HOW to annotate :) Loved those colour codes, annotation key, and tab shortcuts! I'm a colour coding girlie myself so I appreciate that I'm not alone :) Can't wait for that Lightlark deep dive video!
Thanks for watching 🤍🤍 and yes color coding is necessary 😂
This is super helpful! I’ve been consuming books (fully finished the Grishaverse now, read Addie LaRue and felt complicated, moving onto more V E Schwab next) and was wondering how exactly to use the experience to sharpen my skills. I really love the suggestion of re-writing scenes in your own voice- I am a visual arts person, and it reminds me a lot of tracing an image of your favorite character to learn more about their bone structure, skin and hair texture, how their clothes fold, how the light and shadows reflect on them, etc. Really cool idea!
So glad this helped!!! the re-writing exercise has helped me so so much and I hope it works for you too - would love to hear an update if you try it 💗
16:30 omg I’ve never tried this method before. I think I’ll give it a try as it can help with finding my writer voice ☺️ tysm for sharing your insights and knowledge! And as an English major myself, I’m also bad with words and meanings and often have to google what a word means lol, but hey we are good at dissecting texts I can tell you that haha. Love it!!
It feels like a common theme with us English majors 😂 and thank you so much for watching!! I’m happy it could help in some way 🫶
Now this is a fun coincidence: last week I started to read a book with the idea of annotating for the first time ever. Deep reading like that was never done in school, and for the longest time, I viewed the physical object of a book as somewhat sacred. ”Do not draw.” But then I decided it’s just… an object. It’s what I get out of it that matters, and so I decided it was time to learn to annotate.
Lacking the skills, I looked up a few videos, but they all seemed to focus on ”reading to write a thorough review”. And now… this. Wonderful timing, excellent advice-thank you!
I totally feel you on the sacred "do not draw" admittedly - there are books where I will just have a notebook next to me and write and I do that more with my "gold standard" book, but still tab everything. Love that this was so on the nose for you!!! ❤ thank you so much for watching!
@@mikwrites Haha, yes, I would NOT annotate my copy of The Lord of the Rings nor Sang (a Finnish dystopian fantasy book which I adore), but everything else is… free game.
& yessss the timing makes me super happy haha!
Omg Mik this was amazing!! I took so many valuable notes and takeaways. I saved this video til I had the time and tools to take proper notes on it, which was sadly only now. Your effort and thought that goes into each video is really appreciated, and I always can't wait to click on a video when I see it's yours
Wow thank you so much 😭😭😭 don't make me cry 💗 thanks for watching!
thank you for this, professor mik!! when people would say they're annotating their own books when they do revisions, i always wondered what exactly they were looking for. even though this is about studying other authors' stories, i think this is also valuable for pinpointing what needs revision in our own works (^:
Professor Mik 😭💖 Yes analyzing other texts can be so helpful when you go to edit your own work!!! thanks for watching!
I would love to see how you annotate to follow a character arc. Well done video and very interesting.
That’s a great idea! I’d love to make a video of that for you all
Love your videos so much you don’t know how much you motivate me to write and you learned me to read differently thank you so much
Plz can you do more of chapter by chapter analysis for famous novels like Harry Potter and hunger games
I’d love to do more chapter by chapter analysis!! And thank you for watching 🤍🤍
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I’m truly obsessed - it’s a problem 😂