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Your videos are so methodical, thank you for this!

Great video, very clean and clear!

As someone who is new to the author tube community this is a super interesting video and definitely making me think about my own views - thanks!

~04:33 My MC disagrees -- definitely a guideline!

That's a very well-thought perspective. I have been on a similar situation lately, thinking about building an audience. I will slow down and focus more on my actual writing goals. Thank you so much for sharing this!

great advice, but dude you are definitely overthinking things and shouldn’t really give af about certain aspects, write edit publish repeat and keep a normal job until with luck one of those works might find traction otherwise who cares, you got a job anyways 😂❤ and if this should be too much, there is always traditional, even small publishers are much easier than big ones, since we really only need fix costs a month with bit of savings, nothing more than that, since thats just greed keep going but never give up your own integrity and gut feelings

please do this to more books!

Wait. Its been three years. How do you have just 6K subs???

This is greatttt 🎉

Nicely put. I had a channel for a while years ago and had some fun with it, but also a lot of frustrations. These are good questions for anyone to ask of themselves for any pursuit. Thanks for sharing.

I just discovered your channel. Very helpful! I loved hearing your take on this productivity book as a writer. I’ve never really tracked my word count or progress (outside of NaNo), but I’ve been thinking lately it might be helpful. One hurdle I run into is, I get tracking word count, but how does one track the less tangible aspects of writing, like research, revision, and editing? Thanks for the great videos!

just watched this, October 2024, and is still is so relevant. Thank you for your help!

Wow that was seriously helpful. I recently had to write a strongly worded letter to fix some real life problems and it inspired me to delve back into some creative writing. It's been a while. Thank you.

Thanks, you’re the only video I could find that gives a refresher on just chapter 1.

9:24 cracked me up with those bullet points.

The first sentence of this book grabbed me immediately.

U wot, mate? 😅 Pantser here, and I've done some wild daily word counts, but I think the top was probably 6k or so, and such days are infrequent.

Pausing to go plot *The Eye-Snatchers* 😂😂😂 jkjk. I've found several critique partners online who have been very helpful. It usually starts with one chapter, then if you vibe with each other's stories, you swap more. I would suggest waiting to solicit feedback until your novel is outlined so that you aren't unduly influenced on how the story should go; I've heard horror stories of people changing things so much that they swerve away from their original goal and vision.

Last Christmas Eve morning, I woke up from a dream that I was going to write a Twilight-esque novel about a girl who falls in love with a vampire guy who turns out to be toxic and controlling. I spent several hours outlining before remembering that I had presents to finish making and set it aside. I did a bit of outlining but mostly went with my usual method of pantsing, although this time, I allowed myself to skip forward and write scenes I knew I wanted but hadn't connected yet. Then I decided I didn't want to do vampires and removed them from the script, going for straight historical romance/drama. I've been working on that version of the story for ten months now, and the plot isn't coming together in a satisfying way, although I've done more outlining. Tonight while watching this video, I decided to stick the vampires back in and I've already thought of an awesome climactic scene where the girl mercs her evil vamp ex before dealing with the cognitive dissonance of having violated the Hippocratic Oath (oh, yeah, she's training to be a surgeon in 1701 England, but also VAMPIRES lmao). All that to say, thank you for this video! You've given me a whole new perspective on this project and serious hope that I'll actually finish it instead of leaving it to simmer on the back burner. Once I'm finished, I'm definitely going to try this method on other recalcitrant unfinished manuscripts! (I can't wait to run my chaotic space boyfriends through it lol; that one's lightly Beauty-and-the-Beast-flavored.) Cheers, mate! You've earned my sub :)

it may be because of my age (not in the tiktok generation) I agree with you. YT is forcing creative and inspired people to "go through the system" producing cooking cutter results. Gone is the creative / passion of uploading a vid; This makes me :( I hope you are still writing :)

Hi, me from the future. Still human; hey for your first upload you did well. :)

You need to know when to end a story. But noooh.; you kept squeezing one topic over and over and over until you kill any brain cell and every desire to continue reading your books!!!

I’m literally writing a story where the sun gets “turned off”. Technically it just gets covered via magic it feels like it gets turned off. I’m currently 9 months into the project and it wont be released for two or three years. But hey if ya wanna read it it’s gonna be called Auvis.

Wonderful, rewarding and informative video. Maybe you should write my bookwink.

This is a super helpful overview, but it's important to remember this book isn't a be all end all. Add it to your toolkit, but don't take it as gospel.

I actually will be writing a book where the sun has turned off. It has to do with an event in a different book where the stars fall from the sky.

I'd rather outline using my own method, a method that I have crafted over 30 years as a writer, but, yeah, emulate another person if you wish.

so underated

Can three characters represent the B character, with one of them receiving most of the spotlight?

Thank you bro, this makes writing feel so much more straightforward and it’s a lot shorter than Brandon’s lecture videos. I like how I can easily come back to it as I go through each step to anchor myself and determine a concrete objective.

This just might be the outlining method that helps me finally finish my WIP...The structure of it all!

Game changer! You just don’t know how much you’ve helped me clear up the vision for my story! 😩😭

hi past person

I have an actual new idea for a novel, but am too flowery & verbose... should I try, or get a ghostwriter?

Great video, thanks for the help :D

Getting an overview of the story has always been the most difficult part for me, this method forced me to start with that step and oh god it helped a LOT. Thank you for sharing this and huge thanks to Brandon Sanderson as well!

Just found your channel and binged all your videos even though I've seen BAs lectures a couple of times. They are really well made and interesting to watch. Hope you find time/motivation to do more content

This is such a great video. You had me laughing out loud when you were talking about the speed limit and being happy that people still cared about writing in the "future"!

i spent this entire video self loathing about how lazy of a writer i am because i'm this when i should be writing

Great content and introspective, as well as observant of others critiques. Keep up the informative work, you have a subscribe from me!

Maybe I'm alone in this one, but not only I've tried to read The Final Empire many times and I hate it more each time I try to read it, but also I'm convinced that it makes sense for it to not work, and I don't understand what am I missing, what is it that make this work with so many people when in theory it should not. Ignoring the fact that starting with the pov of a character like Lord Tresting is something most people would advise you against for obvious reasons, I just can't stand how black and white that character and the whole conflict presented in the prologue is. Star Wars told a similar story (not to mention it feels like a rip-off, at least in the beginning) and fixed these issues by making the antagonists charismatic and not focusing unnecessarily on how evil the empire was (as well as hinting at something supernatural being behind the evil empire, which made its evil nature more believable). In The Final Empire, I feel like I'm reading a pamphlet, like if someone's constantly trying to manipulate me into siding with the "good guys", which makes me dislike them already since it feels super narcissistic, like the protagonists are writing the story themselves to make themselves look good (and no, this is not what Disney does, you've never paid attention to a Disney movie if you think this is what they do). Both Kelsier and Vin always give me an awful first impression: they're so perfect that they're annoying (just like the average Mary Sue that readers criticize so much) and they seem exactly like the cliché of the pedantic "charismatic anti-hero" and your typical "strong independent heroine" (which were old even back in 2006). And both Lord Tresting and Vin's boss feel like your typical "bully" cliché character meant only to manipulate you into liking the poor innocent heroes. I don't care if the story becomes more nuance later, if the novel starts over three times, and each time it seems cliché and biased, I don't know how so many people don't find it annoying like I do. PS: I have absolutely nothing against Sanderson though, I'm sure he's a great writer and a great guy. My problem is only with the first chapters of The Final Empire.

Yeah, but you can just tell from the tone of the "broom smacking person" that this person is an older, well-established professional in the field of literature. Either a writer, editor or teacher. The attitude smacks of accomplished writer, or quite possibly teacher who marks written essays and to whom this feels like a cardinal sin because they've been trying to drum into their students' heads for the past 25 years, "Don't try to hide things from your readers!!!" But I

"wore a grave expression" is a valid term, so "wore grave eyes" is not confusing at all, at least to anybody who's ever read, ever. If fact it seems quite clever, especially because it relates so closely to the origional expression, but adds it's own ambiguity. Read some Harry potter, and you'll see that you don't have to be perfect, not even close. You just have to be fun to read. Make up you own words, phrases, be as clever or as silly as you choose. Throw grammar out of the window, even break the 4th wall. " The thought suddenly struck Corben that the expression "wearing eyes" was a confunding one. Imagining a young lad waking up and physically adorning a headdress with brooding eyes dangling from it, he couldn't hold back. The tense expression on the boy's face turned quizzical as Corben burst out laughing. 'Is he mad?' he wondered. Or have I forgotten my pants at home again? Looking down at his own feet, the boy breathed out a huge sigh of relief just as Corben, trying desperately to get his laughter under control gulped huge lungfuls of his own." See?

please come back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait, worlbuilding is his second step after the superficial plot summary? Even before the main character? Perhaps this is why I could never really get into any of Sanderson’s books - they seem to go wide way too early. By “wide”, I mean showing the worldbuilding, whereas by “forward”, I mean the pacing of the plot, and giving the reader an idea early on of what the actual story (including on a thematic level) is going to be about.

This is standard practice in romance novels, too! You want your reader to fall in love with, ideally, both main characters while they are falling in love with each other. So you use each character's perspective to enhance the virtues of the other character for the reader's sake, then you use a character's own perspective to bring them down to earth and keep the character realistic and relatable.

This is a FANTASTIC explanation of Save the Cat. I was already a big fan of the method, but this actually gave me some new impressions of it as it applies to my own story. Thanks!

Nice video bro 🫡

NaNoWriMo and Write or Die (kamikaze mode) taught me that I can produce 1667 words in about an hour. Good words? Maybe not, but words that can be the springboard for better writing later as this content is usually all plot-driven. These days, my daily word count tends to be 3K with some days over 5K. Mostly, these days are after spending some downtime thinking about where I want to go next and how to get there. I do throw a lot of words out when I'm working that fast, but it's easier to toss once you recognize it's just words. It's not your baby you're tossing in the trash.