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Thanks for this. Always looking for more craft books to read. Two books (I also cheated) I highly recommend. 1. 'Mastering the Craft of Compelling Storytelling' by Ray Rhamey - best overall book on writing better fiction by far imho. 2. 'Writing 21st Century Fiction' or 'The Emotional Craft of Fiction' by Donald Maass, in fact anything by him. All his books are gold dust, but... require a lot of work to implement.

Deadass, I thought a shmurp was a kangaroo till he said rabbit..

Thank you for sharing what you know. Could you share a link? I found Reese's book club when I googled Reese's book editor.

Great review. I agree not having ability to put in more comprehensive notes right after a page in a book, is a major dropped ball.

I'd say the middle is the most important. That's where most of the content should be, your meat and potatoes. The beginning nowadays is relatively easy to get right, at least specifically when it comes to hooking your reader. The analogy I'd use is all this dating advice on picking up a woman. Everyone had one liners and jokes and how to stand out from others, but that's not nearly as important as the actual dating part lol.

Thank you so much. Your videos are excellent.

Great review but not sure how good it is at converting handwriting to text and how you do that.

I got 19 but I have two bonus questions i would be in Gryffindor and Voldemorts(tom riddle) is yew and Phoenix core

Notes on the history of your word do have some additional uses. You can include it as an annex in your book for those readers who love the detail or you can use it as a 'freebe' download on your website if the reader wants to sign up to your mailing list.

I think mistake number 2 only applies if I want to create high fantasy world🤔

Split screen for note taking sounds like functionality that Amazon will, very much not added, since they even do not provide a option to move the writing tool bar😢and boox provide all functionality you need actually lol

The content that I was looking for is here, thanks pal

For number 1, the Conlang in my world will change the name of almost EVERYTHING. Mainly, things like dragons will be changed to something translated to flying lozardmor sum.

Copy Pasta is a mistake that I was unaware of. Thank you for pointing it out to me.

Thank you for talking about palm irritation when writing! That’s why I don’t want to use an iPad the feeling ok the hand is horrible.

I started with Reedsy but images can only fit the page since this program is designed for a small sized novel not a full 8x10 sheet. I want a small image wtih text next to it but that cannot be done - hence looking for a new program. Additionally it seems most of the programs are for novels - not a textbook size page and footnotes are barely mentioned.

Sorry too much waffle, not for me

Tried Scrivener and there's just way too much going on. I prefer a clean modern aesthetic and that's not Scrivener.

One thing that I often struggle with in my writing is learning to leave room for imagination. You should describe the imagery, but you have to let the reader fill in the rest, because it shouldn't be about the author imagining it, it should be about the reader imagining what you are describing. This pulls your reader in more because of their imaginative investment

"depressing sex and death fantasy" I love it lol

Thank you for this video, worth every minute spent watching it. 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

I am so glad I found this video! I'm trying to create a magic system for my book and I’m trying everything I can to make my magic system make sense. I do need some help though. Can I contact you to talk more about magic systems or how my magic system works in this world I'm creating? Thank you for reading!

I have very fond memories of barnes and noble and books a million! I also have fond memories of the library. I love being able to touch and hold the books rather than read ebooks. I hate ebooks. I can't be the only one who feels this way.

As a lefty I would like the option for the space on the left side to change it to the right side.

I think you need to read the manga Naruto, it disproves your number… it starts off 10 years before the main characters story starts. Now it is also brief, but it usually defines main aspects the MC.

I was planning on starting a fantasy novel at the very beginning of it's recorded time from barbarian tribe to colonial era with each novel about the progression of the empire.

Sir, im 32. Ive been a writer since i could write. I never completed a book but since i was little year after year id have that as my one wish to complete. Now i have four kiddos and when i thought id never actually go for it, i began this year. I stopped writing three chapters and giving up to completing an entire manuscript. Now for months i write sometimes between 2-5 hours trying to perfect and fix and change it up. Ive been redoing my chapters over and over and its tough. I found your channel and your way of communicating is so kind and helpful. Im exhausted mentally but i dont want to give up. I am so glad to have your help in all the areas ive been scratching my head about. Thank you sir, for helping us newbies 🙏

This was sooooo helpful! Thinking about it this way has really Jumpstarted my imagination!

The ONLY reason that subscription software makes sense is if your employer pays for it. $120 a year for software? It better come with AI that writes the book for me! 😝

Just discovered your channel and feels like I found hidden treasure. I watch a lot of these videos that gives writing advice, and yours are one of the bests. I can tell these are all well thought out and you give the impression that you really know your stuff. Also you even give examples so it is easier to understand for a non English native speaker like me I hope you stay motivated doing this and gain more subs! This quality deserves at least 100k+

Web based is a pro, but also a con. The company can disappear, and with them, also your manuscript.

I know that having a farmboy going on an adventure and becoming the hero is a boring and far too often used trope. But the story I’m currently working on is set in northern Germany (Germania) during the 2nd century a.d. and the biggest villages were rarely over 300 people. More like 200. So starting anywhere not remote and farmboy-like is literally not possible. Does that still count into the farmboy cliche or not?

For me the best way to share my world building work was to make my pov character a freaking teacher and they only talked about it when they are doing class.

fantastic review, I've watched so many now and this one is the best. Most importantly though, what sweater are you wearing because I must get it for my husband.

Also, there was a autor (french i think) that is know for his long description (sometimes about a door, like a whole paragraphe describing a door) and it was successuful, so why can't we describe a lot if it works in the past ? genuine question ^^"

I would love you to give some kind of exemple sometimes. :)

But there's a lot of real good books begining with a past event description. It never bothered me, cause it was good. So is it always a mistake ?

I would disagree about number 2. Even Tolkien used the same days and months of the year in his works (though him being him he also created in-universe name for them as well) and it never took me out of the book when Gandalf says "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth".

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Call me old-school or paranoid, but ever couple of months i make copies of all my writing between Google Docs, OneDrive, my PC, and even a thumbdrive. I got burned in college 1 too many times.

12:01 I’m going to call this “time warp” thing Author’s Blindspot until something better comes along. The concept is you the author know what something is supposed to look and sound like so your brain fills in the gaps. It’s pretty much the same thing programmers go through when they can’t find a bug in their own code and it ends up just being a simple missing punctuation mark, looking at you semicolon. The only cure is to have multiple people read your finished work specifically to find grammar problems. Our brains are extremely good at filling in the gaps and turning patterns into sensible constructs. Pareidolia doesn’t just affect ghost hunters and Bigfoot researchers.

Your first point is a falsw dichotomy you state two things one to do instead yet both are normaly done together in basicly every fantasy novel thats ever suceeded

I read this in a comment on another worldbuilding video and it really lines up with the 5th mistake "When I'm enjoying a great story, I don't need to know everything. But I need to **feel** like the author knows everything"

I was reading a book that was supposed to be a medieval fantasy, but it distracted me with modernity in 2 ways- -The modern usage of the word “Black” in reference to humans. The word black was definitely used in reference to humans in medieval times, but it meant any person with dark coloration. It wasn’t used to point out a specific “Race”. Likewise, they used the word “White” basically meant “Not tanned.” But in the book characters where described as black in a very modern way. It was t odd because people with Asian features where described using in-universe cultural descriptions, so I don’t know why black people didn’t get the same treatment. -Their is a museum in a king’s palace that has dinosaur fossils on display. But they describe them about the same way someone in the 1920’s would. I expected that in a world with dragons and bird men, dinosaurs would be thought of as something even greater and very mysterious. But no. They have the same scientific names for them and everything.

Hey, I've just discovered your channel, and it really resonated with me. I'm just finished with the 3rd draft of my book and feel that the start is much weaker than the end. Right time, right place, I guess.

Great video; decided to sub.

I’m want it but the problem is can I seriously justify an extra 220 dollars over the Kindle Paperwhite? I’m also an author and my notes app on my phone is so messy because I always have so many random ideas and notes for books as I’m walking. I don’t carry around notebooks so I have to type on my phone which I HATE. I either type keyboard, or I hand write. I want a scribe. But my E-reader will primarily be my E-reader. In that case, is it really useful? I want a device that I’ll take everywhere with me to READ. I go everywhere with my physical reading book like you go everywhere with your notebook. I can be carrying around five different books at the same time. That problem is solved by any kindle. So is the convenience of writing on my scribe rather than just pulling out my phone and jotting it on my notes app, which I keep open while I’m writing the actual book on my computer, really worth 220? I’m getting it for my birthday on September 29. Is it worth it? Another small note, how would you compare it in size to a book? Will I be able to just take it in my hand everywhere or is it a big IPad type device. I know the Paperwhite is tiny and i can take that everywhere in my hand. What do y’all think? Is the extra money worth it?

Okay, but what about alien planet settings, where the beasts there are sort of convergent with Earth animals? It’d make no sense to call a huge, cetacean-like animal that lives in the clouds a whale, since the alien race would have absolutely no concept of an Earth whale. It may superficially resemble one, but again. Alien planet. Plus, it lives in a vastly different habitat. Can’t avoid Shmerping there, or it kills immersion.

So glad I found your channel! It feels like there’s a ton of ways to mess up telling a great story. I’m definitely going to rifle through all your videos!