"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." - Neil Gaiman
My favorite quote about writing, but not from a writer, from a filmmaker: “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to." [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]” ― Jim Jarmusch
'Write the book you want to read'. Yes! That's exactly why I started writing. And I totally agree with you about discovering the story as you go. When the characters take on their own life and do things you didn't expect, that's amazing but absolutely right. Thanks for these videos. They're very helpful.
With the "Write without knowing the end" depends on if you're a architect or gardener. I need to know the ending as the climax motivates me to write. I also need to know the end to be able to foreshadow effectively.
"Write what you know." I never did like this one. I prefer another phrase, can't remember who said it but it makes far more sense, "Write what you wanna know."
Hey! I'm 12, I finished my first ever short story. Iv been with reedsy since 9 years old. You guys have been a MASSIVE help. I cant thank you enough Hah I remember when you had long hair😂
I wrote my first short story when I was 12. I am 46 now, close to 47 and I still have my first short story. I have written hundreds of them since plus many much longer stories. So keep writing, who knows what you will have written by the time you are 47.
I love when a poem wants to be a short story, and a short story wants to be more. I assume an end can be reached, but I really really love finding it. A story without an end will feed every tangent.
" And by the way, everything in the life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Sylvia Plath
I liked the quote about not knowing how your book will end. Sometimes I surprise myself when writing. The characters say and do things that I didn’t intend initially. You can’t fully plan for that.
I really relate to what you said about not wanting to write what you know because it's not interesting to you. I think it's the same reason why I don't outline--if you already know how it goes, the joy of discovery is gone. However, I can see why people write what they know because it's so easy to create a realistic and compelling setting/character/incident/culture if you're drawing on your own experience. Of course, if you don't, it means you have to do a *lot* of research--which is time you're not writing! And no amount of research is going to really tell you what it's like to live in a certain time, country, culture or even city, versus someone who has actually lived there. And one of my biggest fears is that someone who *has* personally experienced what I'm writing about will read it and find it doesn't ring true, or that I've got something glaringly wrong. So it's a bit of a dilemma for me. I guess that's why I lean so much toward specfic--but then you've got the issue of worldbuilding, which is a whole other timesink...
Write what you know is how you break into freelance nonfiction, or write a nonfiction book. But writing what you want to know allows you to share the excitement of discovery
I love that in his little quote Chekhov shows how to "show not tell" as opposed to telling how to "show not tell". Recursion, hehe. The man practiced what he preached :)
There are so many wonderful quotes by famous people, this is from the infamous me, just made up for you 😊 ‘There are no rules to express your deep emotions through words’ -Sujaya Narula
I love listening to you simply because you are so young and whatever you say is so true to your heart, resonates with me 😊I am into quotes and Poems, I started off writing recently all so unplanned, I didn’t know if I was writing a song or a poetry because I wasn’t following any rules. It was pure thoughts expressed as organic as I could get...writing bug has caught on for now😄 Thank you, you are so lovely to share your experiences 👏🏼
Reading can give you the courage to resist all of the pressures that our culture exerts in you to write in a certain way, or to follow a prescribed form. --Francine Prose
J. K. Rowling- "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest times, if one only remembers to turn on the light" _From harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban!
A powerful moment usually has its greatest impact when it is silent of surrounding commentary, and all the force goes squarely into the reader’s mind. As someone once described this error of the novice author, “The character cries so that the reader doesn’t have to.” --Eliezer Yudkowsky
i’m not sure how to get in the mood... but ive found that ambient noise keeps me in the mood. ik im not rly answering your question but i do my best work if im playing lyricless music with a lot of coffee-house-type chatter in the background
As Stephen King says, there's never a mood for writing. It's always a pain to start. Almost always. Just imagine you're peering at your scene while looking through a one inch hole, and write what immediately comes to mind. And the next and the next. Over some minutes, for me it's usually around 30 or 40 minutes in, I get a "writers high" and I hit a stride. So, you'll never be in the mood to write. It's always awful when starting.
I watched this video where Brandon Sanderson said you have to prime your mind. Take a few minutes before you write to hype yourself up by imagining the scene you'll be writing. Try thinking about your characters and how they deserve to be written.
@@dukeofdenver what rlly? I always get in the mood to write (not flexing). It's usually when I hear my characters having a conversation in my head. It usually makes me want to write it down and keep going. I think it's just different for everyone.
@@cadencev5572 That primer, won't always avail itself to you. There will be days where things are chaotic, and the characters just aren't talking, but you need to get your daily writing done. Best thing is to start, in spite of the lack of voices, and as you go on, they will come.
I am someone between planner and paintser. I find it difficult to sit down and just write away what comes to my mind. So I delayed that and spent much time researching. Turns out I'm going to fail my deadline as this approach is making me lazy. Now I take the write-n-edit approach. I also make notes (ideas about what I can include) and do simultaneous research. I believe when I'll be finished with the last page, I would've edited the work a thousand times on-the-go. Therefore this will automatically be the final draft as soon as it's finished. Am I going to fall in a ditch with this method?
Your characters are real, living, breathing people. They have their own free will. If they demand you deviate from your outline, let them surprise you. Let them go the direction they need to go. - not a famous quote. Just mine...
6, write what you want to read. I would add don't follow trends, you will always be one step behind. Rather, set your own new trend that others will want to follow.
I think Chekhov did not say that to give us some advice how to write better in general but how to write as an impresionist. He was writing in that style. The style which wanted to show quick impressions of nature in front of us. To be good impressionist you could not tell that moon is shining. You had to describe it like an impression. I think there is no connection between nowadays advice and his quote. It seems to me that a lot of people are trying to find something hidden in every word anyone said. I was trying to search that piece of information but everything I found was that the rule show do not tell has maybe connection with Chekhov and this quote.
If you don’t write what you know, you’re a fraud lol. I get the “fiction” part of it but we have enough people publishing books about nonsense and without style. If your writing doesn’t have a purpose it’s probably gonna suck
"Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."
- Neil Gaiman
This is a great one!
My favorite quote about writing, but not from a writer, from a filmmaker:
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
So true. Said another way "There's nothing new under the sun"
That's great piece of advice ❤
My famous quote comes from Ernest Hemmingway " Writing is simple, you just sit and bleed.'
'Write the book you want to read'. Yes! That's exactly why I started writing. And I totally agree with you about discovering the story as you go. When the characters take on their own life and do things you didn't expect, that's amazing but absolutely right. Thanks for these videos. They're very helpful.
"Write the best you can, and finish what you start." Ernest Hemingway
Isabelle Allende as well as your own advice was perfect.
"Write what something is as opposed to what it is not....The best writing is positive even when discussing negative things."
-Ernest Hemingway
With the "Write without knowing the end" depends on if you're a architect or gardener. I need to know the ending as the climax motivates me to write. I also need to know the end to be able to foreshadow effectively.
Btw famous quote "it's none of their buisness that you have to learn to write, let them think you were born that way" - ernest Hemingway
"Write what you know." I never did like this one. I prefer another phrase, can't remember who said it but it makes far more sense, "Write what you wanna know."
It's from Dan Brown
I like it.
Hey! I'm 12, I finished my first ever short story. Iv been with reedsy since 9 years old. You guys have been a MASSIVE help. I cant thank you enough
Hah I remember when you had long hair😂
you're off to a GREAT start!
Lol when I was 9 I was still learning how to read time
@@cadencev5572 😂😂. Its fine I still cant add and subtract without using my fingers
@@sumayyahkhan8897 neither can I, a 36 year old man.
I wrote my first short story when I was 12. I am 46 now, close to 47 and I still have my first short story. I have written hundreds of them since plus many much longer stories. So keep writing, who knows what you will have written by the time you are 47.
"A novel is a work of poetry. To write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. --Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ohh this is so good!
I love when a poem wants to be a short story, and a short story wants to be more. I assume an end can be reached, but I really really love finding it. A story without an end will feed every tangent.
No idea where it will go, but I'll love the journey as I write it
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." -Ray Bradbury
" And by the way, everything in the life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Sylvia Plath
I liked the quote about not knowing how your book will end. Sometimes I surprise myself when writing. The characters say and do things that I didn’t intend initially. You can’t fully plan for that.
I really relate to what you said about not wanting to write what you know because it's not interesting to you. I think it's the same reason why I don't outline--if you already know how it goes, the joy of discovery is gone. However, I can see why people write what they know because it's so easy to create a realistic and compelling setting/character/incident/culture if you're drawing on your own experience. Of course, if you don't, it means you have to do a *lot* of research--which is time you're not writing! And no amount of research is going to really tell you what it's like to live in a certain time, country, culture or even city, versus someone who has actually lived there. And one of my biggest fears is that someone who *has* personally experienced what I'm writing about will read it and find it doesn't ring true, or that I've got something glaringly wrong. So it's a bit of a dilemma for me. I guess that's why I lean so much toward specfic--but then you've got the issue of worldbuilding, which is a whole other timesink...
Write what you know is how you break into freelance nonfiction, or write a nonfiction book. But writing what you want to know allows you to share the excitement of discovery
I love that in his little quote Chekhov shows how to "show not tell" as opposed to telling how to "show not tell". Recursion, hehe. The man practiced what he preached :)
There are so many wonderful quotes by famous people, this is from the infamous me, just made up for you 😊 ‘There are no rules to express your deep emotions through words’ -Sujaya Narula
Love this one!
I love listening to you simply because you are so young and whatever you say is so true to your heart, resonates with me 😊I am into quotes and Poems, I started off writing recently all so unplanned, I didn’t know if I was writing a song or a poetry because I wasn’t following any rules. It was pure thoughts expressed as organic as I could get...writing bug has caught on for now😄 Thank you, you are so lovely to share your experiences 👏🏼
Reading can give you the courage to resist all of the pressures that our culture exerts in you to write in a certain way, or to follow a prescribed form.
--Francine Prose
One of the best channels out here ! Great upload ⭐
Informative and very helpful. Thanks.
J. K. Rowling- "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest times, if one only remembers to turn on the light" _From harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban!
Love this.
A powerful moment usually has its greatest impact when it is silent of surrounding commentary, and all the force goes squarely into the reader’s mind. As someone once described this error of the novice author, “The character cries so that the reader doesn’t have to.”
--Eliezer Yudkowsky
I was studying. It's 4am
Such a wonderful video!!
4 is flexibility. I plot and plan but I do change it as it develops. You can't limited yourself.
2 is good but also good to develop the ability to write anywhere at anytime as newspaper writers must do
Great people Great saying.
Hey I don’t know if this is the right place but how do you get in the mood of writing, like music, quiet space, etc?
i’m not sure how to get in the mood... but ive found that ambient noise keeps me in the mood. ik im not rly answering your question but i do my best work if im playing lyricless music with a lot of coffee-house-type chatter in the background
As Stephen King says, there's never a mood for writing. It's always a pain to start. Almost always.
Just imagine you're peering at your scene while looking through a one inch hole, and write what immediately comes to mind. And the next and the next.
Over some minutes, for me it's usually around 30 or 40 minutes in, I get a "writers high" and I hit a stride.
So, you'll never be in the mood to write. It's always awful when starting.
I watched this video where Brandon Sanderson said you have to prime your mind. Take a few minutes before you write to hype yourself up by imagining the scene you'll be writing. Try thinking about your characters and how they deserve to be written.
@@dukeofdenver what rlly? I always get in the mood to write (not flexing). It's usually when I hear my characters having a conversation in my head. It usually makes me want to write it down and keep going. I think it's just different for everyone.
@@cadencev5572 That primer, won't always avail itself to you. There will be days where things are chaotic, and the characters just aren't talking, but you need to get your daily writing done. Best thing is to start, in spite of the lack of voices, and as you go on, they will come.
I am someone between planner and paintser. I find it difficult to sit down and just write away what comes to my mind. So I delayed that and spent much time researching. Turns out I'm going to fail my deadline as this approach is making me lazy. Now I take the write-n-edit approach. I also make notes (ideas about what I can include) and do simultaneous research. I believe when I'll be finished with the last page, I would've edited the work a thousand times on-the-go. Therefore this will automatically be the final draft as soon as it's finished. Am I going to fall in a ditch with this method?
Imagination is what you imagine and not what you know. I don't know what it is like to live on a deserted island but I could imagine it.
SIMPLE FORMAT BUT POWERFUL IMPACT IM REFFERING TO YOUR VEDIO
Your characters are real, living, breathing people. They have their own free will. If they demand you deviate from your outline, let them surprise you. Let them go the direction they need to go. - not a famous quote. Just mine...
Originality is rare.
Charles Bukowski (between sips of beer): Your writing has to have juice! Bim, Bim, Bim, Bim!
6, write what you want to read. I would add don't follow trends, you will always be one step behind. Rather, set your own new trend that others will want to follow.
Zadie's advice 🙌
3: writing is work thus one must work at it
Is there a video with 7 writing tips? I’m looking for more
Try to imagine how a book you reading will be if you has written. Find out my voice doing this to Murakami and Electric Lit short stories.
Love ya, buddy
"Kill your darlings." An oldie but a goodie from Stephen King.
A classic 👌
William Faulkner, not King.
@@jpch8814 you may be right, but I read it in King's On Writing. I don't recall that he credited Faulkner, but either way, it's good advice.
He credited Hemingway.
The muse will hit me in the shower. I have to get up early in the morning and write it down. I will forget it if I don’t.
Hazel Grace
Write what you want written.
Write it the way you want it to be read.
It’s Ayende.
To give your whole heart to something and defy a few rules means to Burn with Fire and Sing to Heaven.
I think Chekhov did not say that to give us some advice how to write better in general but how to write as an impresionist. He was writing in that style. The style which wanted to show quick impressions of nature in front of us. To be good impressionist you could not tell that moon is shining. You had to describe it like an impression. I think there is no connection between nowadays advice and his quote. It seems to me that a lot of people are trying to find something hidden in every word anyone said.
I was trying to search that piece of information but everything I found was that the rule show do not tell has maybe connection with Chekhov and this quote.
“Ayende”
"Ideas are cheap" -Brandon Sanderson
Bird by Bird
isabelle allende is right .
Yanminza piensa que nosotros somos gringos
No entendi nada
If you don’t write what you know, you’re a fraud lol. I get the “fiction” part of it but we have enough people publishing books about nonsense and without style. If your writing doesn’t have a purpose it’s probably gonna suck