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Creative Writing Corner is all about helping YOU become a better word-slinger and storyteller. CWC host Luke J. Morris is a published author and full-time English and Creative Writing teacher with a Master's degree in Creative Writing, and on this channel he shares what he's learned over 30+ years of writing and study. Enjoy and engage!
If you'd like to support the channel (and see if the host walks his talk), you can pick up a copy of Luke's short story collection 'Bad Art' here:
www.amazon.com/Bad-Art-Gallery-Twisted-Tales-ebook/dp/B088F6LWTR/
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'Til next time,
Good Luck, and Good Writing. Peace!
If you'd like to support the channel (and see if the host walks his talk), you can pick up a copy of Luke's short story collection 'Bad Art' here:
www.amazon.com/Bad-Art-Gallery-Twisted-Tales-ebook/dp/B088F6LWTR/
Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please hit the "Like" and "Subscribe" buttons, and click the little bell icon so you don't miss a future video. And leave your questions, critiques, and suggestions in the Comments below.
'Til next time,
Good Luck, and Good Writing. Peace!
Powerful Punctuation
How important is punctuation, anyway?
Here I discuss legendary sci-fi/fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin's thoughts on the matter, add my two cents, and share a multi-step exercise to add punch to your punctuation.
[Spoiler: Punctuation is part of the heart of EVERYTHING (in writing). It's an essential lifeline for the reader. We lose meaning itself without it.]
Here I discuss legendary sci-fi/fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin's thoughts on the matter, add my two cents, and share a multi-step exercise to add punch to your punctuation.
[Spoiler: Punctuation is part of the heart of EVERYTHING (in writing). It's an essential lifeline for the reader. We lose meaning itself without it.]
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Writing Inspiration from Stephen King
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Stephen King's 'On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft' is one of the best-known books out there on the writing of fiction. Here are a few bits of essential inspiration it's given me. Creative Writing Corner is all about helping YOU become a better word-slinger and storyteller. CWC host Luke J. Morris is a published author and full-time English and Creative Writing teacher with a Master's degree in ...
Poetry for Fiction Writers: A Close Reading of Walt Whitman
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What the Haunting of Hill House Can Teach Writers
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My First "Published" Story and Earliest Writing Influence
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The Causes of (and Cure to) Bad Writing: A Lesson from George Orwell
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How to Make a Living as a Writer and Creator: Interview with Donovan Scherer @studiomoonfall
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A Shortcut to Creating Great Characters
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How TANGLED Saves the Cat: A Lesson in Story Structure
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How TANGLED Saves the Cat: A Lesson in Story Structure
The Save the Cat! Beat Sheet Story Structure
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5 Short Short Stories Every Writer Should Read
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5 Short Short Stories Every Writer Should Read
The 3 Types of Communication: A Writing Lesson from Chuck Palahniuk
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The 3 Types of Communication: A Writing Lesson from Chuck Palahniuk
Write the Right Words: The Philosophy of Style
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Write the Right Words: The Philosophy of Style
George Lucas' Original Treatment for The Star Wars
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George Lucas' Original Treatment for The Star Wars
Story of an hour is really good
wow this is aweosme mr morris
Hi Mr, it’s me Ryan, you have a pretty neat UA-cam Chanell right here
Crossing the threshold... Did the warden pick you up when he set you up in his office to make this video, or was it bubba that carried you in his jail cell. Satire!
Bubba's had a stomach ache from some bad metal lately. The warden and I have an understanding.
@@creativewritingcorner 😆It's probably good for bubba as well that he shares you with the warden.
I’ll do anything you say, teach
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When I heard the learned astronomer, alas, Twas Neil Degrasse Tyson. To become relevant again, he beganst to become woke, and spout about some agenda and DEI gender nonsense. Thusly, me decided to not listeneth to him, and Pluto became a planet again. Satire!
I have seen some examples of classic authors, such as James Baldwin, use unnecessary commas to pause their prose pretentiously.
The Poe Book Cover is printed "Tale-Tell Heart"
@josephcoleman3635 Yep! My students pointed that out to me years ago, but I found it so funny that I, the English teacher, hadn't initially noticed the switch, that I committed to using that version in presentations from then on.
Thanks for this
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Most of Roald Dahls short stories holds a special place in my heart! A master of suspense.
@@FilipM1 Absolutely! "Lamb to the Slaughter" is one of my all-time favorites.
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies is lovely. As is Vikram Chandra's Love and Longing in Bombay
Didn't know Luke was a woman.
Me? Or Skywalker? I'm confused.
השתקפויות. השתקפויות שלי שלך בי. השתקפויות במראה כמייצגת מופע מציאות. כפי שהינו במופע כעת. מופע פנטזיה מהשתקפויות שלנו בי. ממה מורכבים פנטזיות?! בלו היה לי! הלוואי! האצבע החומדת. את זה! מהו הזה החמקמק הנכסף?! הכיוון אליו האצבעות הולכות?! מגמות חישקוק מגמות חישקוק בנובריש בגן הנעלם גינה ונוף ומפל ואבטיח?! פראש! נערה הבלתי מרוצה ממופע עצמה... מראיינת מולטי מיליונר צעיר ואנגמטי... סלע יצוק/איתן נפילה על ארבע בגלומאניות בפתח שיח פנימי תת קרקעי אידיוטי מלא בזרע איכותי😂😂😂 מאוד מושך! עיניים אפורות. שיער אפור. עניבה שחורה. היכן קולי?! כמה יותר מטומטמת מתבלבלת פראש יש לי מושג מוצק!😂😂😂 תחושה בערפולי אהבה ליבי הולם בפראות אולי יפסיק לעשות ככה... זה עושה- לי - את - זההה מתבלבלת מה אתה עושה לצינון אוירה??? חריזה אידיוטית פלירטוט אידיוטי?! עיניו סקרניות לעזזל לאן הולכות??? אין לי תוכניות...אני חשה שאתה... חודרני??? מחשבות אז איך זה נקרא מלא??? אני אדם פיקח הקריאה המפוקחת אידיוטית לייייי
I'm sure Google Translate is doing a horrible job translating your poetry, but it's still very fun to read. Thank you for sharing!
The Lottery!!!
@@AScreenwritersJourney Absolutely! I teach that one every year. Brilliant example of setup and payoff.
holy shit it's that book I used for that one thing that one time in that one class!
Another vote for Jack London's 'To Build A Fire". I lived many years in Alaska so it is special to me.
@willykanos1044 Great story. Amazing use of characterization and viewpoint, setup--> rising suspense--> payoff structure, setting descriptions for mood and atmosphere, etc.
Yessir. Anything you say, sir.
@@SteveJubs 😁👍
Thanks for the visit!
@@studiomoonfall Always a pleasure!
Laughs in Jose Saramago 😂
Dostoevskys White Nights is wonderful
Yes! Dostoevsky is one of my favorite authors, EVER. His characters, settings, and themes wrap me up in his story worlds and refuse to let me go. If I could write with a fraction of Dostoevsky's charm, pathos, or insight into the human condition, I'd be quite pleased with my work.
How are you doing mr Luke . Happy Independence Day in advance. Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American UA-cam channels. I have great news I want to share with all channels Iam subscriber to . Iam going to be English teacher in academy improving plan for weak students , I passed written exam , but remains for me only oral interview to be officially employed. This achievement due to your efforts, you encourage me to read and learn . Since Christmas 2019 when I began to subscribe to British and American UA-cam channels, I learned so many things and , Iam still learning. Yes I found out that punctuation is very important in writing because, fills our writing with slient into nation . We pause stop , emphasize, or question using comma , period , exclamation point or question mark . Correct punctuation adds clarity and precision to writing, allows writer to stop , pause , or give emphasis to certain part of sentences. There are great channel called Oregon state university school of writing, literature, film . Content of channel grammar rules and literary guide . I learned which called Oxford comma, or serial comma , Harvard comma is final comma in list of things . Most powerful punctuation is full stop is strongest punctuation mark , making definite pause ( in reading aloud or silently) when used at end of sentence. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
holy shit my favorite writing channel is back this is a topic I end up coming across a LOT while interacting with people online or just in workshops. it's incredibly important that a story reads like you want it to be read, and a lot of people miss that when they're sounding everything out in their heads, but not really going back to re-read what they just wrote to see how it sounds.
@@SOOH27 Yessir! 😄 Absolutely, the sound of your writing has a huge impact on how it's received by your reader, and punctuation plays a big role in building that musicality.
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A few comments have mentioned the need to not just provide a list of names...yet still people are providing just a list of names. If I was to list the names people have written there would be too many to possibly even think about venturing into WITHOUT EXPLAINING WHY THEY ARE MUST READS!! the MORE names Listed the HARder it BeComes! LIST WHY!!! how else can it be said? put more effort into it please !!!
All could be use if done right and doesn't throw away any investment. Matrix is a dream but a dream everyone is in making it reality.
@@micheallove8177 True! There are no "rules" in writing, and every writing guideline has its exceptions.
@creativewritingcorner Admittedly, this is hard (for me) to do that without copying and pasting ideas, but if done is VERY rewarding
This is great. I love it, even though I’ve read this material before.
Thank you!
The best way out of writer's block is...write about it. Works every time for me. Just keep pushing through until you're back in rhythm.
OH MY GOD THANK YOUUUU!!! All the other videos are too long and have unnecessary details but you got straight to the point, thank you!!!
So often - even in the comments here - one sees lists and recommendations. 'Every writer should read". But when presented as nothing but a list, the info is meaningless. Your video - addressing *why* they should read, *what is special about the piece that they can learn/learn from - is genuinely *useful. Thank you! (And: immediately shared with my writing group) I've read the Twain piece a hundred times - and will read it totally differently next time. Being told "this is a special and unique piece that everyone should know" is unhelpful. Being told *why it is special and unique fosters learning - about that piece and beyond. Your students are lucky to have you!
Thank you! I'm so happy to hear that. 😁 And thanks for watching!
Women are the best muses a poet can have....I have written thousands of poems because of women and will continue to do so.....
Cannot argue with that, brother. Neither could Shakespeare.
@@creativewritingcorner I don't know if i'll ever be as good as Shakespeare, but at least I'll have fun trying 🙂
All of Anton Chekov 😊
For sure!
To many words.better fast going to the point
For great short stories I recommend Alice Munro and Louis Auchincloss and Joyce Carol Oates.
Ah, yes, reading like a writer😅 About nine months ago, when I had just graduated Grade 8, I started writing... stuff. Ideas. And in the midst of a few ideas, I informed myself that I could never write sci-fi, because I don’t have the brains. Lol, I immediately started working on a sci-fi story, universe, and so on. Within two months ish, I had seven WIP, none of which were the same genre. I have some minor form of DID. Those seven WIP are now nine, but I have managed to make myself work on only one at a time, so I've recently made a lot of progress with a romance novel - that is, that particular WIP contains 30,000 more words than any of the others,and I'm kind of proud of myself. Back to my original point... reading like a writer: I am mildly ashamed to admit that I haven't read ANYTHING in months... maybe even a year. I used to read everything, but now I pretty much only read my own writing (editing, blahhhh) and... that's probably not improving me as a writer. There. That's my two cents. This podcast is amazing! Honestly, it's the first writing podcast I've ever watched (was listening to it while I wrote last week) and I've never learned so much! So thank you, obviously😊
You're welcome! I'm so glad to hear about your progress. I go through phases of reading and writing, myself. Sometimes, when I'm in "reading mode", I'll devour half a dozen books while barely writing a word. Then I'll dive in on a new writing project (or get lost in the weeds of multiple WIPs - a bad habit I can't seem to break), and I might not pick up a book (outside the ones required to teach my classes) for months. If you're actively writing, I wouldn't worry too much about reading. Do it when the itch strikes, when the inspiration well starts to run dry, or when it's time to learn something new. When you're already in the writing habit, you're doing the most important part of the job. Reading, though crucial, is only there to support that main function. Thanks for watching/listening, and keep up the great work!
get rid of repetition words such as (and, i, it, but, or, as) if there are more add them below another tip avert(avert defined: try not to use) from using complex words, you want a reader to be digesting the scene as it develops if the reader needs to google a word because of its complex definition then you will surely lose the readers attention span and or mental image music does so well because it avoids using complex words as well as avoiding a lot of the (if, and, or, buts) as well as (i, it, because...etc) don't mind the punctuation or grammar errors. fix them if you must, find your sense of coherency in the incoherent.
While thwtvis all fictional. I dont want to write anything I have not experienced.
Creative nonfiction is a great genre. Short stories, despite being fiction, can still help with nonfiction writing - particularly narrative nonfiction, like a memoir or personal essay. Many of the same techniques apply to both fiction and nonfiction narrative writing.
I strongly favor and likely abuse asyndeta. It's not for intended effect in my case -- although I take the effects into account as a bonus -- so much as a natural habit and reflection of my speech patterns. I've always been an extreme improviser in my speech and likely to a fault. Planning what I want to say in advance often gets me completely tongue-tied if I make any small mistake or if external circumstances deviate from my plans. I'm far more comfortable completely speaking off the cuff, not even anticipating what sentence I'll say next (let alone a complete sentence in many cases as I begin a new one). I tend to stumble a bit due to my lack of planning, but it's easier for me to make a rapid and smooth recovery when I lack any plans to disrupt in the first place. Yet my unrehearsed nature initially had me favoring the child-like polysyndeton with "and, and, and": a barrage of afterthoughts with no anticipation of where my list is supposed to end in advance. So it was through some discipline and slowing myself down that I largely replaced my child-like use of the polysyndeton with the more controlled and rhetorical asyndeton (albeit still often lacking the foresight to see when I've reached the last item in the list to include the preceding conjunction). I tend to favor it most when reflecting in a sentimental fashion: "[...] the silver glow of moonlight, the silver lining in the clouds, the silver streaks in my wife's hair." That was probably really cheesy and cliché (I'm a complete neophyte to creative writing and often feel hopelessly out of my depth when I attempt it). Yet this type of sentimental writing and speech often seems more naturally expressed without the formal syntax of the list, as the less spontaneous nature of the formal list seems to detract from the genuineness and reflective quality of the sentiment from my perspective.
“In dreams begin responsibilities”-Delmore Schwartz
I'm not familiar with that one, but I just looked it up. It's on my soon-to-read list. Thanks!
"The Wall" by Jean Paul Sartre and Hemingway's "The Killers" are great ones.
Excellent picks! I'll be teaching "The Wall" in my Existentialism in Literature and Film capstone course next year. I'll have to reread "The Killers." Can't wait!
Speaking of King, I've read part of "On Writing" but recently, after reading a bit of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel, "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" I realized that Dick relies on things that other writers, like King, as well as some writing channels, say makes a person's writing "weaker." This is stuff like a)using adverbs, of which Dick uses a lot, almost several each paragraph. Ex. He said sharply. b) He also uses words that other authors and writing channels say are distancing language by using words like feeling or realized. Example, “Okay,” he said, feeling bitter and resentful. c) and he tells a lot as well in his writing, as that example of feeling bitter and resentful shows.He tells feelings instead of showing them in scenes, frequently. His novel is so chock-full of this stuff that it's basically his writing style. Yet, while reading it, I still enjoyed it and was immersed in the story. My question is: is the writing advice from others regarding all this stuff just nitpicking? Are these things simply stylistic preferences? I get that showing at the right moments in a story is important, but the rest of it I'm not quite sure. Philip K. Dick is a legendary writer and seeing him employ these things frequently in a novel that was nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula award makes me wonder if what I heard from other writers is really true that writing this way makes one's writing "weaker." For a sort-of-newbie writer like myself, this stuff gets a bit confusing. What's your opinion about this? Cheers. :)
It's absolutely possible for one to make up with imagination and storytelling what one lacks in style or other writing skills, and Philip K. Dick is a prime example. I love his work, and while he's hardly the prose master Ray Bradbury or Harlan Ellison is, he's every bit the visionary.
@@creativewritingcorner His approach breaks some of the popular "no-nos" in modern fiction writing, and he makes it work. On the other hand, I've read books where the writing chops were on point (lots of showing, subtext, hardly any adverbs), yet found the prose tedious. Funny how that works.
@Sky_flying2024 Amen! There are guidelines that GENERALLY apply, but there are too many exceptions to call those guidelines "rules".
Favourite quote of all time from the great King man: “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
So simple, yet so true.
Cool interview: Who is this woman sitting there?
That's Phil's wife.
Thanks Hugely informative
Holy shit was that Hills Like White Elephants short stupid as fuck. So boring and nothing happened and it wasn't thought provoking. Like what even was that.
A loty of snobbery here. Stephen King is a master short story writer, and has many of them.
Big fan of Stephen King. My most recent video is on his writing advice. Thanks for watching!
This is my favorite poem. I screamed when you said the title. Good taste.
Glad to hear it! What's that they say about "great minds"? 😉
“Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff. The ending of the story still haunts me.
sir please upload videos on essay writing. please
I can do that; I teach essay writing all the time in my literature classes. I don't address it here much, though, because this channel is dedicated to creative writing, and essays (in English class, anyway) tend to call on expository, argumentative, or analytical skills, rather than one's creative side. That said, creative nonfiction is a valid (and popular) field of writing, and some of the greatest literary works have taken the essay format (see Montaigne, Swift, Twain, etc.). So it's certainly worth making a video about. I'll start prepping one. Thanks for the suggestion!