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Charlie Rasbuary
United Kingdom
Приєднався 13 тра 2014
Writing silly books | Reading witty teen, YA, NA, and contemporary | Creating (hopefully) helpful & heart-warming content
Hey, I'm Charlie and I started this UA-cam channel as an online English teacher back in 2018...
A LOT has changed since then, but one thing remains the same... I love English and teaching!
But now, I channel my love for English specifically into stories.
I'm sharing my journey from world-building, to drafting, to editing, to pitching, to marketing (which is my day job, too!)
This is your invite to come along with me, and leapfrog over my mistakes if you're on the path to becoming a writer too.
Even if you're not, there'll be lots of fun book chat too, so grab your favourite hot beverage, and come join the chat.
Hey, I'm Charlie and I started this UA-cam channel as an online English teacher back in 2018...
A LOT has changed since then, but one thing remains the same... I love English and teaching!
But now, I channel my love for English specifically into stories.
I'm sharing my journey from world-building, to drafting, to editing, to pitching, to marketing (which is my day job, too!)
This is your invite to come along with me, and leapfrog over my mistakes if you're on the path to becoming a writer too.
Even if you're not, there'll be lots of fun book chat too, so grab your favourite hot beverage, and come join the chat.
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Thanks for the short
the truth is about five or six bucks an hour is all you make that is the truth:)
I did this several times a few years ago and it was so good. I might have to do it again.
Amazing, well done for seeing it through! I think we need a month earlier in the year for it too🤗
Try using captions, it could help make the video more engaging.
How do you add captions on UA-cam? It’s never given me the option 🥲
@@charlieraswrites "Capcut" or some editing app is needed. Capcut is fairly good and free.
@@charlieraswrites Any editing software will have the option. Like "capcut".
Love this series, but I just wanted to ask how you would adapt this for a series where there isn’t a happy ending until the end? I have a good idea for a trilogy but I’m not sure if I should make one snowflake for the whole series or a snowflake for each book. I’d be grateful if u made a video abt it
Thank you so much for this question- I’m writing a trilogy myself! 😍 And I’ve gone through the method again for the 2nd book, because the main characters go through a different period of growth in the 2nd. My gut feel is, even if the ending is a cliffhanger, the characters have still evolved and been through a typical story structure in each book. But lots of your locations and their personality traits will remain the same, so it’s easier 2nd time around 😊 thanks for the inspo for the next video 🫶🏻
Three childhood friends, who were separated by different career pursuits, are brought back together after learning their passions are magical. They seem to be making amends, but old wounds don’t heal quickly (yes I know this is 2 sentences)
Loove this, I’m a sucker for a friends reunited story, and intrigued by the magic 😦 thanks for sharing ❤️
You are so organised
😂 I have to be or my head would fall off 😆
Hi Charlie, you are looking gorgeous 😍
i wouldnt care
This is so off- 1 nothing happens without God knowing, 2 every creation that comes is from the Lord, 3 God is the one who commissioned his faithful children before us to write the Bible . And an added 4- it’s not “a lot about you”, EVERY SINGLE WORD IN THE BIBLE IS ABOUT THE LORD. There’s not a single letter in the Bible that doesn’t speak of him. Also as a ps, 5- God says himself he is our FATHER.
I take it you weren’t at the front of the queue when the old sense of humour was being dished out, hey hun? 😬
@@charlieraswritesare you getting mad because they are right and your “sense of humor” was disrespectful to our religion?
@@ninawagner6959 never mad, which was kind of my point, I'd never get as rattled as the first commenter by silly little skits on the internet, I'd just scroll on by if it isn't to my taste. There's much worse in the world to channel anger at. I guess British sarcasm maybe does read as mad when you can't hear how I'm talking. If there is some all-knowing creator, would it not be 'he,' who has made me with this sense of humour and so be laughing at it 'him'self? Just a rhetorical question, wishing you a happier day <3
I’m loving these! And so excited to begin writing, just finished my outline, and committing to Kate Cavanaugh’s 100k words in Q4 🥳 Can’t wait for your next video
Thanks so much! Ah, finishing outlining is such a relief, I’m right behind you😅 haven’t heard of that challenge I’ll look it up - all the best with your writing! 🫶🏻🥰
I disagree. I really enjoy some spicy books, but most (like Fifty Shades .. brrrr) I don't. And for me, it's all about liking the MCs. If i dislike the MC or I find them uninteresting/unappealing, I have no interest in what happens to them, therefore any spicy scene will not interest me either. My first ever spicy book that i read was Dark Lover from the Black Dagger Brotherhood series from J.R. Ward. I read that on a flight from Vienna to Toronto. I was so enthralled that I didn't even eat on the flight, just kept reading until i was done - which coincided with our landing. I loved both the MCs and loved reading about their relationship - and yes, also the spicy scenes 😅 Found a few other spicy books since then that i enjoyed, but this one will always have a special place in my heart 😂
I appreciate your opinion and you’ve absolutely sold Dark Lover to my fickle little brain 🤣 perhaps I haven’t gone deep enough into the genre yet - thanks for sharing! 🫶🏻
I love this step! Never thought about doing this! I don't really know how I'd go about this for side characters though but then again I guess that's because my side characters are not really fleshed out yet. I would guess that they would have a shorter synopsis though for most books in comparison to protagonists? 😄 Thnx for the tip! ❤
Hey! Yes they’re shorter, BUT every time I sit down I think the same thing, I don’t know where I’ll go with this, and every time I end up finding loads about them in my brain loving that character ! 😋 you’re welcome 🫶🏻
I don’t write but I was practicing my singing while ovulating and I was slayinggg and then when I practiced yesterday (luteal) I was like “there’s no point it’s all hopeless”. 😂
I hope you know you WERE still slaying and it was just your hormones gaslighting you <3
@@charlieraswrites ❤️❤️❤️
I feel kinda called out. For context: im a trans woman, and i go through all of those moods, for absolutely no reasons in particular regularly. To the point where my girlfriend’s harmless friend has my mood cycles on his fuckin calendar.
Haha, the audacity of him doing that! :D Maybe we are all just skin bags of hormones walking around x
@@charlieraswrites yeah, how dare he know when I get irritable so he knows what days to switch up his bullying (teasing) because he knows I can’t handle it sometimes. Why I outta give him a piece of my mind. XD Fr tho, yeah, our bodies are so different and so similar. Our differences are less than 1% of what we are. 99% we share in common.
arghh so accurate lol
And yet I never learn. Every. Month.
Men don't have menstrual cycles (hmm..why are they called MENstrual cycles?) but we go through emotional phases, too.
Menses means monthly in latin that's why it's called the menstrual cycle. These phases are directly linked to menstrual hormones.
LMFAO
😅 the struggle’s real 🥴
As a dude, this is surprisingly similar to the phases I go through… idk if I’m just weird or if it’s just normal but I completely understand this
That’s so interesting! We all have more in common than sets us apart 🥹
Men actually do go through their own hormone phases, though the most notable are on a weekly cycle and not monthly like ours. (It's been a while since I researched this, weekly could be inaccurate but I do remember that it's significantly shorter of a time than woman's)
@@SadBonessI think it is only one day
You are so nice.
Thank you, I try! :D
I got their TESOL and TEFL certs.
Amazing, how did you find them?
When the world you find yourself in is not your own, what do you do? There is a vast, unknown world to explore, with mysteries at every corner. Though you find yourselves alone, are you really alone? You don't know? So get up, walk, and discover.
Thank you for sharing! Sounds mysterious... I reckon you could make it even shorter, and have just one question in there for greater impact & to add to the intrigue <3
No.1 cause i can Amy Schumer out of that one thing
🤣 fair play 👏🏼
In my fantasy world where I’m a writer I’d choose option two, quiet lil life and don’t get too much attention 😊
Yes, younger me would have gone option one, but now the thought of the wholesome, steady life writing books in a summer house is just 🧑🍳 🤌🏼💋
@@charlieraswrites I chose the chef path 🧑🍳 😂, so it’s cooking in a summer house for my lil dream, ooooo add Italian or south French countryside 🏠
What is a book?
🌝 lots of slices of paper with words printed on, stuck together to tell a story 🫡
i really liked the book called you, when reading it felt better and more exciting just watching the tv show ( never watched the tv show actually ), any more recommendations like that book? something captive when you read the first couple pages you just wanna continue till its 5 am in the morning
I’ve never read the book, but aren’t they always better than the show/movie?😂 I was hooked by the girl on the train, it’s similarly suspenseful with a twist, if you haven’t read it already?
@@charlieraswrites Haven't read that one yet, Will check it out when i got some free time :)!
Totally sold, excited to hear about the other 2 👏
TY & Happy reading, you’ll be GRIPPED😅
You can find the details of a writing method in multiple places online. What you can't find is the honest and genuine nature of the person using it. The first half of this video is worth as much (if not more) than the rest of it. Especially after commenting on my own battle with perfectionism (maybe that's a thing we all share as authors), this video really hit home, so thank you.
Thank you 🥹 I definitely need to update on the rest of the method now I’m writing again 🫶🏻
As someone who has written five novels but still struggles with the overwhelming feeling of a blank page of that next new story (and especially now when that blank page is also the beginning of a new series), this insight into the Snowflake Method (which I've looked at before) feels more motivating with the way you present it. As someone who battles with perfectionism, I'm putting my one-sentence summary out there as a way to get my skin in the game and nudge myself forward... A lighthouse keeper's granddaughter discovers the truth about her love lost at sea.
Thanks so much for your comment - I’m writing a series too which feels so big but I can’t picture my story not playing out as a series😂… let us know how you get on & thanks for sharing your 1 sentence summary - I’m dying to know what the truth is about her love! 🥹🙌🏻
hi what do you use to record your videos? >:)
Hey! 👋🏼 I used to record on a DSLR but I’ve actually done more recent vids like this one on my iPhone… I’m in need of a tech upgrade😆
@@charlieraswrites Thanks. To be honest, even the iphone looks great!
@@kakashi2801 thank you, good to know it's still valuable this way :)
I LOVE the real and rawness of this video… I hope you make more videos soon 🥰
Thank you so much! I definitely want to make more, I really appreciate the encouragement 🥹
Orphan teen leaves the only world she’s ever known to rescue her father from an invisible monster, if he’s not dead already.
Omg it’s giving stranger things vibes and I’m here for it! You’ve got this 🙌🏻😍
This is my favorite snowflake method video- thank you!
Thank you! 🫶🏻
Don't worry about word count. Make the words count
Thank you 🫶🏻 love that quote
Thanks for the cool video! I am considering applying to Cambly, so your video is extremely informative for me.
Glad these videos are still helpful, you’re welcome! ☺️
of course I'd like to read, it sounds interesting
Looking forward to read it, Charlie. Raj from LinkedIn
Thank you! 🙏🏼
@@charlieraswrites it's going to be available digitally?
@@Nature-s7g that would depend on the decision of the publisher ☺️
I would buy that book the second it was published!
Thank you, that means so much! 🥹 I’ve only ever had trolls comment since talking about it on #booktube 😅
It's 1:51 am right not in Israel. It's the middle of the night and I'm going kinda crazy. I recently got back to drinking coffee which makes me energetic and inspired to move but also makes me impatient. I was searching UA-cam for a correction between running and inspiration (I'm a singer songwriter) and what you wrote was my reinforcement I needed. I need to go back to running, to stimulate my blood. I remember how helpful it was in creating new ideas. Its mental impact was way more effective than lifting. Thank you for that.
aw, you look gorgeous too❤❤
Goodluck!
Beautifully said!
Thank you! 🫶🏻
This is just EXCELLENT 😊
Thank you so much! It’s been a while since my teaching days but glad these videos still help people x
'Worlds first virgin sex addict' 😂😂
When i read a book in the morning i think about how it goes further all day long, and i do this till i finish the book
Yes, and I feel incensed by real life like work getting in the way, I want to say, you DO KNOW that [character] is about to [do the thing]!? 😅😂
@@charlieraswritesExactly! Making up all kinds of scenarios😂😂😂
Hi, Charlie. I have been inspired by you but also Coetzee's Diary of a bad year. Have you read it? Anyway, my one line summary is: An aging office worker attempts to (re)gain authority through social media. There is definitely a plot twist 😊
Thanks for sharing! I haven’t read it, looking for it now 🧐. Keen to know what the plot twist is in your book. 😍
👍👍👍
What pointless content.
Thanks for the engagement kiddo, you really helped 🥰
how many jobs a week can you expect a week on the platform as far as the pay whats average weekly pay if your doing a full work load all week
Based off other UA-cam videos, was under the impression that you an upload a minimally edited video. Am I mistaken?