I can hear you talk about writing ALL DAY!!!! I used to dump thoughts on my readers without setting up any context and looking back, WTF was I thinking!!! Lmao. GREAT VIDEO ❤
your craft videos are always top-notch!! totally agree with what you said about writers withholding info. feels like you're discovering the character when those bits about them are slowly revealed :) hope your projects are going well
Great vid! Watched this twice now to really try and think about it. I especially like the point about hinting at character flaws very early on, that's insightful!
Doing a modified version of Nano this year - couldn’t have come at a better time. In that Nano-sphere, do you have any tips for building out atmosphere/tension through scene description? I.E. dialogue and flow while keeping that conversation moving and grounded in setting. Curious about your thoughts on balancing the three.
great question! mostly i think this comes down to treating setting as its own character in that it should play an active role in contributing to the scene. specifically for those dialogue heavy scenes, i like to make sure that my characters have something interesting to "interact" with while they're talking and/or put something in the setting that mirrors the emotion of the conversation. it's why romance films often have love confessions outside in a thunderstorm (lol). you can apply the same logic to other emotions too. for example: if two roommates are arguing, is it more interesting to have them arguing just sitting at a table? or arguing while struggling to build IKEA furniture in their new apartment? in the latter, the scene now has a "prop" - a mirroring of the characters' frustration w/ each other. tl;dr - while your characters are talking: 1) give your characters something *to do* and/or 2) give them something interesting *to observe* that's just my general thoughts but maybe i'll expand this out into another video or a newsletter!!
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I can hear you talk about writing ALL DAY!!!! I used to dump thoughts on my readers without setting up any context and looking back, WTF was I thinking!!! Lmao. GREAT VIDEO ❤
your craft videos are always top-notch!! totally agree with what you said about writers withholding info. feels like you're discovering the character when those bits about them are slowly revealed :) hope your projects are going well
Useful analogy (the reader has entered a room and the opposite door is slightly ajar)… end chapters with some kind of lingering question.
I could listen to you talk about writing all day!! You approach each topic so thoughtfully. Great video!!
Really loved the "open ajar door" analogy. Think I'm going to try that out and see what happens.
Great vid! Watched this twice now to really try and think about it. I especially like the point about hinting at character flaws very early on, that's insightful!
This is absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much! It’s so insightful and useful. I always try to put cliffhangers at the end of scenes and chapters.
Great video! Thanks for sharing your insights and happy #NaNoWriMo to you too! Looking forward to your next video!
Beeest kind of vid right here. Thanks Kris 😊😊
Doing a modified version of Nano this year - couldn’t have come at a better time.
In that Nano-sphere, do you have any tips for building out atmosphere/tension through scene description? I.E. dialogue and flow while keeping that conversation moving and grounded in setting. Curious about your thoughts on balancing the three.
great question! mostly i think this comes down to treating setting as its own character in that it should play an active role in contributing to the scene.
specifically for those dialogue heavy scenes, i like to make sure that my characters have something interesting to "interact" with while they're talking and/or put something in the setting that mirrors the emotion of the conversation. it's why romance films often have love confessions outside in a thunderstorm (lol). you can apply the same logic to other emotions too. for example: if two roommates are arguing, is it more interesting to have them arguing just sitting at a table? or arguing while struggling to build IKEA furniture in their new apartment? in the latter, the scene now has a "prop" - a mirroring of the characters' frustration w/ each other.
tl;dr - while your characters are talking:
1) give your characters something *to do* and/or 2) give them something interesting *to observe*
that's just my general thoughts but maybe i'll expand this out into another video or a newsletter!!
@@KrisMF That would be absolutely wonderful. Thank you kindly!
Great info. Thank you for sharing ❤
I completely agree with your advise! I love your character driven approach to writing too. 🤍