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*ChatGPT's output is bland and generic **_by design._* Don't be bland or generic in your fiction writing. Bland and generic are the very opposites of interesting. ChatGPT is just very fancy software that works hard to find the most likely words and phrases that might come next, based on the input plus the massive sets of language examples that have been stuffed into its memory. The result is a story that tends to head in the most predictable direction. Boring! Nobody will be bothered reading a ChatGPT story. Instead, think of surprising events. Think of surprising conflicts. Keep using your imagination to keep the reader guessing and interested with every paragraph. Don't use ChatGPT to write a novel.

This is all terrific advice, but you've edited it like machine-gun. It stressed me out.

About subtext there is another part of "The Godfather" (or was it "The Sicilian", I'm not sure) where one of the characters basically said "Only the weak need to threaten someone outright", which highlights the subtle threats in almost every line of dialogue in those stories. It's also a motto to live by, at least in their world (and I tend to enjoy Gangster stories living by this matter far more than those with outright violence throughout the whole story. Glancing at you, stupid Yakuza series). Also probably the worst advice I've ever heard about dialogue is: "Let your characters only speak if it forwards the plot." No. If this would be the rule than there would be no dilaogue in books at all. Let them speak to show who they are, what they want and how they try to accomplish it. Use dialogue to forward the story, sure. Use it to reveal information you can't reveal otherwise. But first and foremost: Let dialogue do the heavy lifting in characterization.

I once had to read a 500 pages book for school. It was horrible : - Too much description - Filled with emotionless info - I don't remember any description that was not focused on sight - It started with a ton of description (and it stayed like that until I gave up) I can't remember anything about the plot or the characters except what I read on the internet after I gave up reading it. Information was so scattered and filled with useless stuff that I basically missed it entirely. It was always a detailed painting that the author described in the smallest details.

I know authors who use subtext and they're all COWARDS!

If you're that far into the Dune books, chances are you're in it for the political/philosophical diatribes.

3:24 An anecdote about this topic I had was that I had an idea for two of my characters dealing with a teen pregnancy, but I couldn't conceptualize dialog for it since it's something I've never experienced or witnessed firsthand or secondhand. But then I thought about it. This character had other kids, and I planned for one of them to take the POV in parts of the story. Then I realized it makes perfect sense, and it's absolutely something I would know how to write about because my dad had me at like 49, nearly 50, but he had his oldest at 17, and my half brother's mom was even younger than him. Without even realizing it, I basically wrote a situation that's almost a 1:1 comparison to my experience. Then I realized that not being able to truly understand the experience of parenting in that situation could be projected onto the younger son character in an authentic way.

I see the point that having characters do unthinkable or contradictory things, like laughing in the face of a cannibal, can make a story intriguing. But without understanding the character's depth, their core beliefs and inner motivations, these quirks become superficial checklist behaviors. Skilled writers show these traits by understanding the “why” behind human behavior. Actions should naturally result from a character’s inner feelings and sense of self, not the other way around. Without that grounding, It might make the story fun, but it risks feeling superficial or creating characters that are inconsistent and unbelievable. True intrigue comes from actions rooted in who the characters ‘are’, not just what they ‘do’

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So... I have an amazing beginning hahaha. My beginning has 0/11

What's the style where you used words with the same first letter as much as possible, including character names? This technique I experienced in middle school English class. I've been itching to write a chapter or short story like this again for a long time. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

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More authors should learn about storytelling. It won't make you unoriginal; in order to be different, you only need to stand out an eighth of an inch.

4/5 of the trending topics he brought up are political and 3/5 of them are identity politics. This should be a redpill for all of you. I'm not even dissing him, he's right. This is evidence of unfair systemic advantages the groups he listed has, and this expands far beyond the writing industry.

09:27 I also see the parallel with these three worlds and the ancient Greek three-act structure with Thesis (the "human" world as it is at present for the protagonist when he's still the average Joe), Antithesis (the "demonic" world that is the opposite of it once the protagonist is thrown into his journey, full of dangers, obstacles and dark moments), and Synthesis (the "divine" part in which he realizes himself as a hero and saves the world, restores the order, the new status quo, where everything is good again, but better). I'm not sure if these worlds were also in the same order in Natya Shastra. If they rather were in the specific order that you mentioned in the video (human, divine, demonic), then it might also be seen as the progression of the story: first the "mundane" world of the protagonist in his ordinary day, then the "divine" might be all the "awesome" parts of his adventure in which he thinks he's gonna make it because he's special, then the "demonic" part when the bad guys are closing in and he realizes that he might not be able to make it, culminating in the Dark Night of the Soul / the "All is Lost" moment in which the bad guys seem to be winning and the chances for the main protagonist starts looking bleak. But in that case, there would be the entire part missing in which he actually wins :q So I'm not sure if the analogy is compete here.

"Transpire" really isn't that fancy of a word.

1:20 Laughing after the danger has passed is the natural human response. That's the point of it: the ending of a defense response.

I think there was a writer's strike in the middle of LOST, which sent it into the pits

Reading a novel that doesn't just have Chekov's gun, not just Chekov's armory, but Chekov's national stockpile

There is only one rule you need to TAKE SERIOUSLY. DON'T WRITE SOMETHING YOU CAN'T MAKE INTERESTING.

How do you feel... it's BADLY! Adverb much?

i love it when videos like these use gone girl as an example 😊

Making villains sympathetic is an erroneous trope I've seen in recent years, to the point that villains need as much backstory as the hero, so we can "sympathize" with the villain and see how "misunderstood" they were (and frankly it's quite boring to read or watch). Is that what we see in the real world? I don't think so. I see the opposite. Victims are hushed into silence by horrendous monsters who don't think twice about their actions. They do things because they don't care. I like my stories to reflect reality. The only time that was believable was in Frozen, where Elsa's actions are unintentional and the heroine, Anna, helps her sister fix the problem. Joker was NOT the villain in the movie. Society was. In Batman movies, they don't talk about WHY the Joker is the way he is, he is simply the villain and they go straight into the action, no questions asked. We get it. He has a twisted notion of society. No need to know why.

Writing isn’t hard, compromising your style and plot to appease the market is hard

Not a writer but a great outlook on how God thinks and designs our lives.

This video was really helpful for me in fleshing out my protagonist! Personally, I feel that the last suggestion is very good advice for a lot of characters and stories, but your phrasing that you ‘have to’ have those things I would disagree with. Bilbo Baggins doesn’t really have to grapple much with the past, beyond coming to terms with how his life changes throughout his journey. His past life was idyllic and, from his perspective, unremarkable. Not all characters have particularly haunting or remarkable pasts. Similarly, not all characters worry or prepare much for the future. Even if they don’t know what’s going to happen, they might not give much thought to it, and just go with the flow.

EXCELLENT VIDEO! Thank you so much!

3, world building vertigo. The book that I’m writing currently is just surrounding this.

Can the ticking click be mentally ticking down to something bad?

That was the wrong David Mitchell

This dude is so thorough and helpful

Brother. Your dog. What are they doing?

11:14 - 11:26 That description _DID NOT_ produce in me the same emotion that it apparently produced in you. "Dug too deep in the thesaurus" popped into my mind. 13:55 Fight the brain-deadening "speed runs" that is modern life, by slowing things down.

What if you don’t like Hemingway?

Do you want us to write novels for maximum compatibility with Hollywood screenplays?

Sentence length should match the flow too. If I'm describing a beautiful waterfall then sentences should be a little longer. If the waterfall stops flowing and the river ends the sentences should be abrupt and shocking: The water ended. The birds stopped chirping. Silence overtook Waterfall Ridge.

12:37 Isn't Freud passe?

I'd be interested in seeing how these compare to Chinese novels. Which are notorious for complicated plots and a large cast of characters.

A True unsung hero is you dude, Thanks

[11:16] Oof, he butchered the pronunciation. -ule as in mule. Her-kule Pwah-row

here's how I do it. I know the major plot points and character psychology before I begin. I write scenes and save them and often out of order. I'll reopen a scene and add or subtract as details develop. I don't definitively order the scenes and place them into the MS until I've written all the scenes. In this way I can play with the order. I use jump-cuts to show what other players are up too, such as the antag and sub plot people. Once it's whole, I can fine tune, take out or add what's needed.

I really don’t mind my terrible characters. I love them. I love my bad developed character the most. I hate that he exists but I enjoy that he’s given me something for 24 years to talk with. He’s ridiculous. He’s mean. He’s a degenerate. He doesn’t want to be developed he wants to stay as he is since his creation when I was in elementary school. Told me to F off, when I asked him if I could make him a better character and a better person. I talk to my own characters very often. He’s like my imaginary fiend. Instead of an imaginary friend. I don’t control his actions or words. He’s got his own little sick twisted mind and ways of what he wants to do. He glared at me like everyday I’m trying to better myself, he laughs at me for even trying. he’s so mean to me! So my characters. They respond on their own fruition and they always act out angrily towards me, if I want to change something about them. He’s such a jerk sometimes though. Gives me intrusive thoughts and chuckles at me when I’m having anxiety or depression. He says I’m his form of entertainment. Watching me fail over and over in life and struggle with my self esteem. And he’s happy when I’m getting back up only to slip up again. I tell him all the time not to laugh at me! He’s always using his hands as well! He’s a very handsy kind of character. He’s always holding his cigarette or something smallish to play around with. His favorite kind of Cigarette is no longer made so he grumbles at me when I’m not giving him what he wants. He enjoys teasing me and making me shriek too. I love him and hate him. 😂

Subtext is a continuum from anime to David Lynch

I notice that your channel has been around for years, but just recently uploading contents ... I have been writing for 10 years since i was 14, and your video is one of the best writing advice i ever had from UA-cam. If I had accesses to your video back then, my old self will be really happy. I believe this channel will be the main go to channel for writers seeking advice and you will have way more subs than this which you totally deserve, in near future. Please keep uploading! Im ready to note down all of your tips!

I don't recall hearing that dialog should be indented. Or that it counts as a paragraph. So, that was nice to learn. Pretty much the rest of this I already knew. (Oh, and I dislike having the punctuation inside the quotation marks unless it applies to the quote.) This will may always be a quirk of mine as a writer.

"People rarely say what they're thinking" ... Especially Americans. Speach full of euphemisms and circumlocutions.

Exercise seven in sixty seconds: "More shale, gooey ooze, tailings seaborne." It's not really a sentence, more of a haiku. But you could still sell it as the plot for an environmental thriller.

Loved the advice that descriptions that make you feel something. Here's an example from Brontë's Jane Eyre that invokes the senses and includes detail sufficient to transport the reader to the place: "The breeze was from the west: it came over the hills, sweet with scents of heath and rush; the sky was of stainless blue... As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom."

Weird. Why not write for the joy of writing? Why not enjoy living vicariously through your characters, and to for the end? Also, have a list of cool names, so when a pesky new character appears, you’re well armed with names. Have multiple POVs, so when one gets all used up (creatively) jump into the next. I don’t write in chapters, I write in characters, and when I’m done, I stitch them together into their respective chapters. Amazing how well it works.

Terrific!