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Lmao mainstream publishing is a cancerous nightmare if you're right of Karl Marx. SP is freedom. Go look at all the drama the past 12 years and ask yourself if SP is bad outside of the fact most writers doing it suck.

Bank level security?! When military grade security is freely available? Oh no!

Be ADD, write all the good parts in a glorified outline, put it away, and tell everyone you wrote a novel once. What a great plan.

Carson, good to see this podcast - a longer form of discussion. Hope it does well.

I really appreciate this video.The more I learn from other people, the less I feel like an outlier. Other writers do things similar to things I’ve always done, branded by teachers and professors as wrong. You now have a new sub!

I thought this was supposed to be about writing killers. I'm disappointed.

This is great writing advice, but I might mention that it's advice, not absolute laws. Different things work for different people. Personally, I couldn't write a proto-draft. I can't write anything until I work out the full story, with beat sheets, character profiles and scene charts. In a sense, my notes become the first draft. When I start writing the initial words I'm writing an already edited version of the story. From the initial concept it may take a couple of months to a couple of years before I start actually writing, but when I do the finished draft is already fairly readable. Then I can go back and deal with things that develop while I was writing; a character that shows up to challenge the MC might need to be introduced earlier, or a critical geological feature may need to be shown in the first chapter so it's not a surprise when my hero arrives at the final battle.

Great video and great collaboration! That IS a very serious standing desk 🤔!

Great insights from two of the best on UA-cam.

omg my two favorite writetubers or else, together!

Love this video and the collab of two of my favorite channels. This video also gave me a big idea for my WIP so thanks for that!❤

Two of my favorite writing channels collaborating, I can’t wait to see more!

I watched this with intention and intentionally hit the like button

Intention you say? Great video! So cool to have a familiar face join the channel for a video

5:11 The love story that drives Princess Bride is not Wesley and Buttercup: it's the love the Grampa has for his grandson.

My head does that, so i get up and hammer it out. Then i can sleep. Or my characters tell me to go this way or gife m ecan idea to fix something, fortunately they wait for me to wake and then remind me.

Thank you for giving a shout out to Senlin Ascends! The Books of Babel is one of my favorite series of all time and while I was endeared to Tom from the beginning his journey and growth throughout the series has been so satisfying to read.

Another great video mate. :)

So what about the final conflict man vs author? I'm thinking Daffy duck in the short where it turns out that Bug's was not only his antagonist but also the animator, or perhaps the less slapstick takes of Dante's inferno or Paradise lost of 'man' vs god. Heck the very premise of Evongelion was that the Kiju are biblical angels, because like in the flood as it turns out god hates us. How would you go about crafting a story by say giving every aspect of an obnoxiously written Mary Sue or a Shonen protagonist to the villain?

oh, yeah, back in the 80s we all got a good laugh out of humperdinct

writing routines of the rich and famous? you're calling it that? and it's not ironic or anything? gross!ima robin leech in my pants

The book about writing romance is just what I needed right now.

"Murder your darlings" has a much better ring to it IMO.

*watches this video to motivate me to finish short story challenge😭💀* Seriously tho this was very helpful 🙏

It boils down to emotional connection -- love them or hate them, characters that are well done make you feel *something*.

YES! I'm so happy to see Senlin Ascends get some love. The Books of Babel series is one of my favorites. The theme of going from feckless to triumphant goes right through to the end of the series.

Great video! It definitely makes me think more about what traits are strongest in each of my characters. 👍

How we feel about Bella or Katniss one I want to bite the other I want to shoot just saying Katniss was so freaking annoying. LOL

I didn't like Ghost Story my first readthrough. I have since loved it on all my rereads.

I usually develop the character's personality and/or hobbies/story a bit before naming them. The one character i have that i know breaks this convention is named Vex- he used to be an edgy oc with the name vortex and then I shortened it when i changed his character. I like my names to have meanings related to their character, like a kind character being named grace, but usually a bit less heavy handed than that example. Also yes the translation thing!!

I really liked On Writing, more as a book than writing advice, but I'll definitely have to check out Bird by Bird. On a side note, I've lived in SoCal my whole life and bundle up when it dips to 60 degrees, I think if I even step foot into -5 weather I would immediately die.

I would add K.M. Weiland's series of books on various aspects of writing (many of which also have accompanying workbooks)

John Yorke's Into the Woods: a Five Act Journey Into Story and Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics are two books in my writing library I couldn't do without

I can't tell what the difference is between a rough draft and this protodraft concept. Are these words describing the same concept?

I was not expecting to see our demon prince pal Be’lakor mentioned in this video

Summation on King's advice: xxIT Happens.; or it doesn't.

Chuck Wendig's Damn Fine Story is a damn fine book on writing. As are his others, Gentle Writing Advice and Kick Ass Writer, but Damn Fine Story is my favorite.

I bought Romancing The Beat when my first book demanded to be a trilogy, and the second book was going to be a double romance. Not just a modern love story, but a classic Ivanhoe style romance with swashbuckling adventure and political intrigue. The third book will be a hearty adventure where the hero takes her army to war. I need a book on that, too. I also have "Writing Magic" by Gail Carsoon Levine. It's mostly a book for kids just starting, but with some useful ideas that are worth looking at. A tidy 167 pages, including the index at the back.

You Can Write A Novel - the 1st edition - by James V. Smith jr This has been an invaluable resource for me with my writing. He wrote a second edition which I got, but was not impressed with. His 1st edition I highly recommend you check out.

1:45 I would argue Stephen King's On Writing is popular neither because of A) His name or B) it being a helpful writing book, but rather option C) because it's a GOOD BOOK, meaning it's fun to read. And this is exactly my criticism of it and why I don't think it's a good book on writing: Stephen King has been writing for SO LONG--and he's a "gardener" or "pantser," so genius just kind of flows out of him (and he works really hard). But he can't put it in words imo and is actually pretty negative about the whole craft, like, "You either got it or you don't." Get out of here with that crap. Yes there is talent, like in anything, but a newbie can learn to do anything better IF they have a good coach or manual. I recommend this book but not to be taken as a guide.

8:33 - 8:42 / What about representation? Like race and skin color, disabilities, facial differences, and body types? Like, I'm not against leaving people to interpret certain details, but if you're writing minority characters, especially if they're the main characters, then you have to own that you're writing minority characters, even when them being a minority doesn't play a significant role in the story. And even then, if you write those descriptions, you should do that for your white, abled bodied, etc characters too because otherwise you'd end up othering your minority characters and implying that white/abled bodied/etc people are the default, so they don't need a description.

Jeff Vandermeer's Wonderbook was good.

I'm not sure if I suggested this one but Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite books on writing. I also wanna add Secrets of Story by Matt Bird, and The Idea by Erik/Eric Bork.

I have read Stephen King’s On Writing, and I will definitely try to pick up some of these other ones

This is the most contradicting video on names I've seen. Basically saying that bad names should be avoided but then giving examples of bad names as good names too 😂

"Never start two names with the same letter." Unless you're writing for Inu Yasha, then every major character name starts with "K". Kagome, Kaede, Kikyo, Kagura, Koga, Kohaku, Kanna, Kuzu... and like a dozen more.

i just found out i accidentally called one of my characters (someone who is partially DRYAD) a form of the greek word for bloom! perfection. (cloe)

to be fair the two women that are close to him are in love with him, then men like butters and Michael have there own stuff, and his brother not human, so yea it does make sence.

Where is the spreadsheeeet? :(