ChrisP Writing Tip #1 - What I Wish I Had Known Starting Out
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Hey everyone! This is the first video for ChrisP (yes, like crispy - pun intended) writing tips that I've been thinking about for awhile. I'll post plenty more of these snack-like videos as I think of topics. Hope you find this first tip useful so you can keep your own writing crisp. Stay tuned for more!
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This is exactly what I needed to hear honestly. I always stop writing a story because I felt it was absolute garbage in every aspect. I know in the back of my mind I need to push through and actually have something to work with, but overcoming that mindset is a challenge unto itself.
But it is encouraging to hear these words, the story will suck but I'll have the chance to make it great once the first draft is done.
Thanks for sharing this advice 🙂👍
Hyped for the TSIASOS release!
Great advice man. I'm about to start a really large draft here, and this sort of advice is just what I need
Good luck to you. I'm about to start a big project myself. It's very daunting, but always worth it.
Thanks, best of luck to you as well
@@ethanduncalfe4327 Thank you.
Okay am I the only one who wants to hear ALL the ChrisP puns? AND all other TECHNICAL advice CP has in his noggin. On a more personal note - I would love some publishing advice. Specifically what to look out for in contacts and how to own your craft?!
First I want to thank you, Christopher, Eragon was one of the reasons I started writing. When I bought your book I was 15. You encouraged me to write my own stories. Cause if a 15-year-old boy could write a book I also could, right? Not many people believed in me but I did because somewhere in the world was a boy as old as me who already had published a book successfully. That gave me hope to not give up. Eragon shaped me as a young author and gave me the strength to write on. Today I am 33 and managed to work on my novel 4-6 hours a day, after work. So I am very happy you had a great part in helping me to achieve this.
Second, this is a great tip. I work on my own novel series for 10 years now. I spend years and years on worldbuilding and character creating. When I started I wrote 120 pages in one month and then I stopped because the story wasn't really working. And I felt that. So I spent a lot of time trying to fix it. And today the story changed significantly. We must allow the story to change and grow like we change and grow as writers. Honestly, I thought my story was perfect at first but it wasn't. I stopped writing for a long time cause I was frustrated to not get it right the first time, to fail as an author. But not a long time ago I understood that this is not the way it works because you will never finish the first draft if you never write it.
This experience taught me that it doesn't matter how bad a chapter is the first time. You will go back and then you can fix it. This story is in my head for over ten years now and even in times when I thought I could never write it, there was a gentle voice in my head that said: Give yourself time to learn, don't give it up! Even my characters told me to not give up. So here I am, inhaling everything that I can possibly learn to become better at writing and make that book the amazing story my characters deserve.
Lol, I've been getting into writing again after a big gap in motivation and this is really helpful! And who doesn't like puns?
I'm a simple writer, I see a pun and I click. Great advice btw
can you make a video updating us on what’s going to happen with the inheritance cycle?
He already did, he's going to eventually return to alagaesia he said.
Guess I'm not the only one thinking about this in quarantine.
Id really like to think there is one more book down the line...
YES to ChrisP ! We love it
Omg i never expected to watch a video of tips by a author who i read as a kid.
Still one of my favorite authors. I wrote him a long time a go when I was a kid, and got a really cool response. I think I still have the letter. That said, I asked a lot of spoilery questions. That was before I really understood that authors can't just hand out that information. I appreciate your books, man. They helped me get through a tough time of foster care and served as an excellent gateway to the genre.
Eragon lit a fire for me to want to write. I definitely want to write fantasy. Thanks for these videos. Also, please return to Alagaesia soon. I'm dying to know how things in Alagaesia are now.
I am an engineer, almost towards the end of my PhD. We do face this problem in academic publishing where your guide/PI/college expects you to publish a certain number of papers every year. I will tell you this, most of the new research is either rejected or, if lucky, told to make revisions. Its very important to have an outline prepared before one writes the manuscript. One last thing, the writer also needs to be aware of where to stop. I might have written and reworded my masters thesis about 5 times before my PI literally yelled at me to stop wrting and turn the darn thing in. It doesn't have to be perfect. And just as Christopher says, the mistakes and the shortcomings of the work you turn in will help shape your next work. Great video Chris.
Your saying I almost read a story about Kevin and his pet unicorn? 😆
I'd love more of these.
Thanks Chris, if you can show us new writers the techniques that you use to create plots or through the writting process, great smile 😊
Thank you for your advice. It means so much to hear it.
The pun game is strong here
Thank you so much. I love all of your books. My problem is rewriting befor I get 2 more chapters written.
Thank you for posting this! Love the steady stream of content you’ve been releasing. I can definitely get used to this
I spy the Incal! I wish more prose writers would talk about what comics and graphic novels they enjoy
extra chrisP
Engineering student here. The professors expect you to know the class before even teaching them.
3:30 Even Chris knows about practicing 40hours a day!
Hi! I've been a fan of Christopher ever since I read Eragon, and it inspired me to write my first novel, To Where It All Began, at thirteen! (You can find it on Amazon, by the way, at this link: www.amazon.com/dp/B086SDBMWN/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=To+Where+It+All+Began&qid=1586155573&s=books&sr=1-4 (please do check it out)) I just love your books like anything, and you're probably the reason I was able to achieve my dream. Kudos to you, ChrisP (I love that pun, by the way)!
I actually believed when I saw movies showing writers getting the sudden inspiration and then start obsessively writing away on paper or typewriters, and then showing that first draft to someone, and that reader would be like “this is incredible!” (Example: that movie on Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein). What a dent to my confidence when I started writing that I wasn’t that great
I love the pun, use it more! It's funny
love that you take time and effort to give us your writing wisdoms and it´s much appreciated
Really needed to hear this advice. Been realizing how important it is to push through and finish a draft-and let it suck-rather than scrap or abandon it every time I get burnt out/frustrated. Really appreciate you taking the time to upload this, and I look forward to more writing tips! Thanks Chris!
You really went with chrisp lol
Thank you Christopher Paolini! I am a young writer and found my passion for writing thanks to you! You paved the way for young writers to be confident in writing! I would not be so dedicated to my book and to writing if I hadn't known a 15 year old wrote one of my absolute favorite books, Eragon/ the inheritance cycle. Thank you for giving me the confidence and joy of writing, even though I am way younger than those I aspire to be like. Thank you, a thousand times thank you!
Chrispy Boi: Uploads a Writing Tip.
New Writers and I, crawling outta our Writer's Block; "My precious..!"
Outstanding video 👍 thank you so much for this Content. I needed this right now. As I comb through my stories for the 5th time.
Thank you so much! This is so wonderful to hear. I'm a 25 year old aspiring author--my first short story was published 3 years ago and ever since then I've been weighed down by the shackles of self doubt and trying to make my new stories perfect right away. Hearing from you that it's okay to write a terrible first draft, that it's normal...it's so reassuring! I've been struggling with the first draft of several stories and this is the perfect news. Thank you so so so so much! I hope you can make more writing advice videos like this in the feature! And for what it's worth, I absolutely love the "crispy= Chris P." thing!!
Going to put these in my writing tips notebook.
:) Im ending a book that is so orignal I think and I have 3829292922 ideas for do a good good world and thousand books
Eragon inspired me since 10 years ago and Im still with it
As an aspiring author who is held back by anxieties and fears of messing up; This is great to hear and I look forward to other videos in this series.
I see that pinnnnn
OK, now I just want the story of Kevin, the Unicorn-Rider.
Please? Chris P.? At least a short story?
Love the pun! (and the tip of course ;) )
"Embrace the suck." Yeah, I could see that being said in the military. In the navy especially for some reason...
And Marines lol
it gives me so much motivation to see that back when you wrote eragon you had the same troubles as i have now (Im 15 and write a draft at the moment but i have just 80 pages and im scared as well to show it to my family lol..) sorry for my bad english
Thank you very much for this video and all of the other ones after it! I'm 17 and started my book when I was 15 so I have been adding on and editing it ever since so this has motivated me to continue onward with it to get my first draft done and then go back and edit it! The Inheritance Cycle was my introduction to the depth of writing a story that I strive to try achieve every time I write. Thank you!
Basically don’t be hasty; don’t be overly self critical but don’t forget that there’s also always room for improvement and the moment you start thinking there isn’t perhaps another level to obtain, then you won’t try to obtain it and thus you’ll stay the same.
I'm currently reading jade city and I'm so intimidated by how intelligent this story is that Fonda Lee has written and everytime I think about it, I'm so scared I'm not gonna get to her level or authors like her, then I remember advice like this and am not as anxious 😅
I love your hair style
Fantastic advice. I've been trying to write a book for so many years now, and I need all the advice I can get. Been a huge fan of yours since I first read Eragon in middle school....... Now I'm in my senior year at college and I've been enjoying them even more as an adult (I just reread Brisingr last week). Keep up the amazing work... I can't wait for TSIASOS!!!
That was GREAT, Chris!! Thank you!! Your thoughts are KEY, and, as many of the others have noted here, they're VERY helpful! All the best, from NH!
More puns!
(Tho writing tips could also do :))
Great advice!
ChrisP!
I wish I had an elegant english name/surname
Oh my god, i just realized i share the same nickname with my favourite author!! ChrisP GANG
This is very helpful, thank you! I keep thinking there's so much to do to improve my novel and there will always be more to do to improve it. I have so much to learn, and the only way to learn how to write better is to keep on writing and keep on learning.
Can’t wait to read To sleep in a sea of stars. I heard that it is actually the first in a series?
Yup
I love the example of the musician "rough" when first playing. Very encouraging :)
P.S. I know you are learning 3d, I'm a lead Character Artist in video games, it can be a slow progress but very rewarding ;)
We learn by making mistakes. You are a talented writer. But To Sleep. is seriously overwritten. Your worldbuilding is phenomenal and your character dev is convincing. It could have been cut by 1/3.
Wonderful advice (and the pun is fantastic--only critique is that it doesn't "read" well the way it's spelled. Maybe ChrisPi would work better?)
It goes along with my favorite writing advice, which has to do with writers block. "To avoid writer's block, don't be a writer. Be an editor. Write some garbage down and, instead of getting stuck, embrace it and treat it like you would another person's work. 'Instead of this, what they SHOULD have done is such-and-such'. Eventually you'll get something less bad, and you can take that and make it okay; and you can take that and make it pretty good, and from there, great."
I absolutely love this series!!! Hearing your practical perspective on authorship is incredibly refreshing.
I also wanted to offer a small graphic design critique from a complete stranger and childhood fan, as the thumbnails are hitting my graphic design funny bone. On the off chance it’s in your creative blindspot, I thought it was worth a comment: the thumbnail art for your ChrisP series could be very much improved by capitalizing on your existing motifs of dragons, stars, maps, cobalt, sans serif Montserrat typefaces, that funky fantasy typeface from the Eragon covers, etc. - or just a screenshot of the video with its specific title on it maybe. I’m a marketing and graphic design person by day so I think it’d be super cool to see your stellar sage advice get the design treatment it deserves. Cheers!
I loved to write little books when I was seven years old. I always had little stories that I wanted to share.
Now I'm almost fifteen and completed reading The Inheritance Cycle and even the fifth book. I must say, the books really changed my life. I felt like a part of the story and while reading them my biggest fear was actually to complete reading the series. I was like "What am I supposed to do after I'm done reading?"
I've always loved dragons and I've had an idea for a couple of years of a story about a girl and a dragon.
I got inspiration from both your books and the Tomb Raider games. And a couple of weeks ago when I completed your fifth book I thought "why not begin with my own book? I've got my old map and the planning done already, I can just begin with it right now".
And thats what I'm doing, your words are really helping me, I needed this a lot, thank you!
(I'm from Sweden so If I a made grammar mistake I apologise, I'm still learning)
What he says here is so true, especially that your writing grows with you. There's a book I've been working on for about 10 years now (I started when I was 8) and the first draft was about 90% fart/poop jokes... In a fantasy novel. (Also, let's look at the fact that Eragon was almost about Kevin and his unicorns...) Moral: You WILL make questionable decisions in your first draft, and they WILL cause you to question yourself later. But that's everyone, so don't be too hard on yourself!
I can totally agree. I don't got a draft down but my story change so much. I came up with my story as a kid to mostly just a game with my brother and sister and are stuff animal. I
I agree! And it's important to acknowledge that too. I started writing my story 11 years ago, I was 11/12 and as I grew and matured so did the story. It took sometime to acknowledge that a story grows with you and that bad decisions can be made but they aren't as horrible as we think they are. That's why we learn and grow.
Thank you so much for doing a video like this! I hope there will be more.
You inspired me to read sooo many books after Eragon! I read Eragon when I was in 2nd or 3rd great and it really made me a book/Fantasy nerd! And recently your Inheritance cycle has inspired me AGAIN to pick up more books and to start reading again (last few years of school really killed all my love for reading lmao).
Back in the day you also inspired me to start writing myself, after finishing the third Eragon book I started writing cringeworthy Fanfictions when I was 10 or sth
And now your livestreams over the past few weeks have really inspired me to write again!! So the series comes at a perfect time.
Also, thank you sooo soooo much for answering all my (and other peoples) question during the last livestream!
You were so patient, and its great to see that the person you somewhat adore (as a writer) also has a great great personality!
You just seem... Like a person you wanna hug.
You've probably impacted my life way more than you could ever imagine, so I just wanna write this comment to thank you! Thank you, Chris!
Keep the ChrisP pun for sure. I appreciate the pun and the advice. I am currently in my process of collecting "Dear Author" rejection letters from agents and I needed this. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this! Please continue making these videos! I love your work!
Thank u for sharing your experience. It helps a lot for young writers like me, that we are just starting this adventure. In december i had a google meet chat with you and people from Umbriel Ediciones, i asked u a few questions and your answers had inspire me, and motivated to continue writing inspite everything that i have been through. Thank u from the bottom of my heart, i hope that one day you can read my book, because i'm writing a fantasy novel :)
Thank man. I been very down about the slow progress of my book but thus video help alot. Can't wait to read To Sleep In A Sea of Star. Nice glasses by the way.
Hey there 😃 I've read all your Eragon stories and am a self published author. You give great advice!
Hey Christopher, great fan of yours from India.Will we get to devour another full sized novel set in the world of Alagaesia with Eragon and Saphira as the main characters.
Thank you very much, I will get right back to it and embrace the suck. Thank you for what you're doing
Thank you for the reminder and the encouragement!! 🙌🤪 🤗 I appreciate you taking the time to invest in new writers.
Preview icon of the video is confusing. It is silly, while inside video is pretty serious. I see that your team is making experiments with presentation of the content, but this one doesn’t work well
Video itself is great and useful. Thanks for making such content! I hope you continue. And I’m looking forward for russian edition of Tsiasos 🙏
Definitely helpful, I’m now on like the 3rd edit of a short story I’m working on!
Yes!! Please go with the ChrisP idea on writing tips and advice. I believe every writer, along with inspired new writers, love getting advice. Thank you for the willing to share.
Thank you so for this advice. This thime a also try to wirte a Story, a fanfiction and I'm very thankfull for this Video 🥰
Mr Christopher, please keep it up with these videos and they are really helpful for us newcomer writers. (Also it feeds the fanbase haha) cheers to your hard work and advices 🖖
This is an amazing channel. I saw an interview you were in (read the entire inheritance cycle multiple times) and she mentioned you had a channel. I've never hopped to the search bar so fast
If Eragon's name was originally Kevin, what was the original title?
I like the name Kevin but as you have said you need a name that fits your character and Eragon definitely fits.
Kevin and the Unicorn 😭😂💛💛 that’s so fantastic
Man I wish I had know this ten years ago! Great tip. Also +1 for puns!
Man I wish I knew what every book on that shelf was. Would love to see what he reads
All the mozenrath Chris's have cyan eyes in there mind 🌙
I needed something ChrisP(y) today, thank you!
That first advice is so true and is a stigma that needs to dissapear. I dont mean to let mistakes slip into the final edition, but stop being unforgetful to your own manuscript because of a couple initial mistakes. This is what i believe is the bigger obstacle to any aspiring author to really start, starting to believe in yourself.
"You fail only if you stop writing" Ray Bradbury.
Oh my god he really named it ChrisP writing tips. 😂 This is the best
Just gunna say, 10/10 SOLID pun. Gaht Dang.
I think ChrisP(crispy) is brilliant! Own it man!
Thank you so much for this 😭. I feel lighter.
So to sum up: Be Humble
I like it! Stay Crispy!
Kevin the story of a unicorn and a unicornrider
best book
Yeah guys, make sure you make your stories nice & ChrisP
does anyone know who disliked?
when I started watching there was only one dislike.
Its so great to hear from a childhood hero of mine. Thanks for the advice Chris.
Thanks ChrisP! You're my hero.
Now I really want a bookshelf tour video
This was awesome and very inspiring. More please
It's better to have a beaten run down car, than no car at all basically
Thank you so much. Needed this.
Thanks Christopher ❤️