What’s the best writing advice? 😅 This year I started a private playlist here, on UA-cam, saving videos with helpful writing tips and tricks. There are like 30 videos in it so far and 6 or 7 of them are actually yours. I love watching your channel. ❤ Thank you for all your help and knowledge that you share here with other people.
Same. I've often written short stories, scenes, or scripts to experiment with existing fictional characters; now I'm hoping to write a full-fledged, multi-chapter story.
The best money I spent this year was on collapsible bluetooth keyboards. I stash those things everywhere so that I can just connect them to my phone and start writing whenever the inspiration strikes. I still do the bulk of my writing in my office on a set schedule, but I've been able to add an extra 1k words/day to my average just by giving myself the option to impulse write wherever I am.
I’m lost. I retired. I’m old and I probably drink too much. I’ve always had adhd and I’m exhausted. My health problems are catching up to me. I started organizing my affairs a little bit starting maybe ten days ago. I wrote some log lines today and a little bit of dialogue. I want to make a film but I feel a little foolish like a man in his 60s looking to play NFL. Thanks for your videos. You seem intelligent.
I'm old, alone and occasionally drink too much. With nothing much else to do I dug out a terrible draft novel that I began years ago. I've been working on it pretty consistently for the last 18 months and its taking shape. Some of it is even pretty good. I am doing this for no reason other than it gives me great enjoyment and keeps the dark thoughts out of my mind. I don't need/want other people's opinions. I certainly don't need encouragement or approval. If you want to plan and make your film, do that.
My risk this year was quitting my stressful tech job to focus on my health and writing. Got a chill part time gig to help with expenses. I haven't finished the novel at all and my word count output is not where I want it to be, but been working with my writing coach on refining my process and getting higher word count weeks. Oh helps that I got an ADD diagnosis and medication too! Super rewarding experience so far
I do want to thank you for all the info you provide. These were some thought provoking questions. 1. Revising a book I had recently published. 2. Towards editing and making copies of the book I'm having revised so I could move forward with doing a Bible study while waiting on the publisher. 3. I have been consistent with spending time writing (about 2 hours most nights). 4. I did not do this one. 5. Not able to think of anything glaring. 6. Listening to Bookfox, Brandon McNaulty, and Jane Kalmes (mystery writing). 7. Being assertive with the publisher about my revisions. Finishing 6 of 7 short stories. Going to a conference to "hunt down" the person in charge of submissions for my short story book (there's a story that goes with this). 8. Writing for 2 hours instead of 3. 9. The book, "Great American Short Stories." 10. Didn't have one. 11. Writing the short stories. Some of them are interrelated storylines. It was fun blending them together (one is a detective story - went noir with it). 12. I have to be able to defend my work. Not be a jerk about it, but just to be able to defend it. 13. Scale of 1-10? An 8. 14. Yes.
Honestly an amazing and interesting video topic. I’m going to take time today to sit down, rewatch this, and write down my answers to all of these questions. Thank you!
1. Best risk: Writing several alternative first chapters for my WIP - definitely a learning experience 2. Best dollar? Not directly on writing, but Blue Metropolis Lit festival in Montreal 3. Time: Time management is a struggle, which I have to get a handle on it. 4. Joined an independent writers group and volunteered at our own local Lit Festival 5. Gotta stop using writing craft videos as a substitute for struggling with my own material! 6. Best advice: I'm reading Truby, the Anatomy of Story: "Characters exist not in isolation but in relationship to each other." So, you can only develop your principal characters in relationship to those around them. 7. Success: Wrote 50,000 words of my third draft. 8. Failure: I know that the draft still isn't working as I want. 9. Pleasurable reading: Hmmm, I'm re-reading J.A. Baker's the Peregrine for about the fifth time. It's one of those books where I'm constantly asking "How did he come up with that sentence?" 10. Worst reading: "The Labrynth of the Spirits" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I'm a fan of the whole cemetery of forgotten books series, but at 800 plus pages, this is probably the most bloated book I've ever read. Zafon's vibe is kind of Raymond Chandler meets Isabelle Allende, but pages and pages of dialogue whose only purpose is to demonstrate that he can do 40s-style film noir is too much. Barcelona is a character in the book, as the city deserves to be, but I now feel as though I've experienced 365 days of Barcelona weather forecasts. ON THE PLUS SIDE, reading this book made me re-evaluate my own WIP, whose 2nd draft ran to 150,000 words. I'm going back to start the 3rd draft again with a renewed focus on pacing. 11. Most fun? Blue Metropolis, where I got to meet a personal hero, British Nature writer, Robert MacFarlane 12. Learning: My attention span is not what it used to be and I'm reluctant to show my work to others 13. On a scale of 1 to 10, this year is a 4. Must do better. 14. Did I accomplish my goals? Not even close (see answers to 12 and 13).
7:29 Yes, best advice I got was from you: "I edited 51 Novels this year. These are 9 things EVERY Writer should know." It's in my favorites playlist. I loved that video, so warm and empathetic.
Do you know what will help me stay motivated? A list of authors who sat on their first book for years or even decades and then when they finally finished it and published it, it was incredibly well received. I’m sure there are many people who are struggling to fit this writing thing into everyday life, in between day job deadlines and other things that eat your mental bandwidth, if not your time, and knowing about other people who climbed that mountain and reached the summit will really help.
I just discovered your videos a few weeks ago and ordered The Linchpin Writer---FABULOUS-most helpful how--to writing book I've read in years. Thank you for all this content, too!
Second year participating in NaNoWriMo and my risk this year was a romance novel. Purchased Dabble writing tool a great investment. did a writers retreat also. Made time each day for watching videos like this and reading blogs for guidance. Thank you for helping me be a better writer!
"Discipline. Consistency. Deadlines. Creativity. Reflection. Repeat." --an award-winning author You either produce results or you don't. It's just that simple. Most are incapable of doing so because they lack expertise in the aforementioned skills. It is what it is. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
I invested in fabula cards. $50 and so handy for organizing my thoughts. I always resisted outlines but will use it for my next work. I also attended a writing festival as a volunteer. Incredibly inspiring and Rewarding. I'll be back next year
I took my firend to the Dr., the office waiting room had several adorable & funny children's books whcih had me lughing out lous in the wiating room. They were so hysterical - very, very fun to read!
Thank you for the video! It was great and got me thinking, especially because I already set up my goals for next year: Writing and polishing at least six (better 12) new novels. And releasing them, because that's the step I dread most. I will make this list into a blog post as well, to hopefully inspire my fellow German writers a bit. They tend to stay away from English videos, sadly enough. Especially those who would profit from your tips
I've spent the last decade wasting my time with multi-night catered stays, popping pills, diet experiments, not writing when I didn't feel like it... You know. Ever since the 2014 triple bypass, the later stent when a graft failed, the multi-night CCU stays, the dietary restrictions, the enforced rest, and the heart pills.
1. Sending out manuscripts to beta readers for critique 2. Probably buying a new keyboard, to be honest. My laptop has seen better days. 3. I did a reasonably good job of dividing the year between editing old projects, writing new ones and also having a little bit of downtime 4. I joined an online writing group 5. I don't think there's anything I need to stop doing, although I did waste far too much time waiting for other people to give me feedback. In fact relying on other people in general is something I should know better than to do. 6. It wasn't technically writing advice but I found it useful for writing. "Pretend you're holding up both middle fingers and telling the world to go f*ck itself while you set everything on fire. That's the same mindset you should be in when you're doing something creative." 7. Writing a 100,000 word first draft in only two months 8. Finding out that a novel I was planning to publish this year was so flawed and universally hated by beta readers that I'd basically need to rewrite the whole thing from scratch or else just throw it in the garbage with all my other failed novels. 9. Technically the most pleasurable book I read this year was "Extreme Makeover" by Dan Wells but that's as much because I read it while relaxing on the beach in summer than because of the content, though it's also one of the best books I read this year. I'm still yet to decide what the best books I read this year were, but it's in the top five for sure. 10. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" - supposed to be a great classic spy novel but bored the crap out of me. 11. Probably working on a novel that I hadn't even planned to write this year. It was the most fun I've had writing in a long time and was a stark contrast to the book I wrote in 2023, which made me want to never write again because the experience of writing that book was so painful. 12. 6/10 - I achieved all the bare minimum goals, but I feel like I'm on a treadmill. Most of this year was spent putting out fires, solving problems and trying to make up for previous failures. 13. No, but at least I have a hell of a head start on my 2025 writing goals.
Oh, I love QnA! 1. Start a masterpiece novel. 2. I don't know for what I would spend money for writing, I don't have time for conferences or anything like that. 3. No, I've lost too much time for not doing anything productive or even fun. 4. I don't have friends - with writers or whoever. 5. Stop losing time. 6. "Nobody cares" 7. I actually wrote introduction to my story which is 60k words. 8. After I was backstabbed by some people I lost momentum to write. 9. I read Things Aint Right about Yuba County 5 case and I think solution has something to do with similar delusions of UFO like people who first joined UFO Cult (Known later as Heavens Gate) about in the same time. 10. Worst was reading about Adam Lanza and his attack on small children. 11. I had fun with writing before I was backstabbed. 12. I learn cosmic truth that "Life is meaningless and we're all gonna die", just kidding, it is a motto of living here. I learn that I can write the best story ever written, but it takes time. 13. 4/10 - I succeeded in writing after so many times thinking about it. Not much, but still something was made. 14. No.
Last year I finished and published a novel and wrote a NF which is now at the publisher. I'm now writing my tenth book with plans for more. I'm not doing as much art work as I'd like and I play my guitar less than before yet I'm still learning and studying what interests me. Sadly, I only read about 30 books so far this year. Have I mentioned I'm manic?
Best thing I learned this year is I write much faster in the morning, but much better and slower in the evening. So I am going to draft in the mornings and edit in the evenings in 2025, and see how it goes.
Probably my most productive month was like June - July. Why? Cuz the sky was blue and the weather. My book is placed in summer so it made it easy to visualize. So no, I can’t reproduce that.
I did not write at all, if anything i wrote in my journal and notice how bad my handwriting was. Then i took a course in horror, a genre i dont even read, but just watch on tv... it's been revealing!
The worst book I read this year is a sci-fi novel called gamers army. It’s Basically a VR gaming tournament that the balloons into an end of the world threat. It’s a massive slow burn, that doesn’t even start until halfway through. Most of the characters are one note and there’s no subtlety that an AI could right it. While gamers army has an Elon musk type villain that wants to create a singularity.
Did you get onto Chess by Stefan Zweig for cruise ship stories? that’s a good one. Usually Billy Collins is not my kind of thing for the same reason as you but in certain moments I am surprised to find myself I’m in the mood for it
My risk was paying for an AI app and turning my poems into music, then distributing them out! Dont know how its going to go! My Success was writing 12 poems so far, my failure was not finishing my first draft in May! A very good book was Vampire Academy book 1, worst books Vampire Academy 2 --6 😂
1. Best Risk - Began writing 2. Best Dollar - Scrivener 3. Wise Time - Writing (and then publishing) a novel 4. Friends - Sorry, no friendships, people annoy the shxt out of me 5. What to Stop - Watching so many videos on how to be a better writer 6. Best Advice - Research everything in great detail and then forget it 7. Writing Success - I tend to think of my writing successes in particularly good scenes. These are scenes that when I have a free 30 minutes, I will re-read that chapter just to see that scene (which frequently leads to be re-reading the rest of the book) 8. Writing Failure - Not getting an independent editor, but it wasn't really a choice, they are expensive af 9. Best reading experience - my books. Worst reading experience - other people writing in my genre. I think it's just something about the genre that attracts….never mind 10. Most Fun - I had the most fun and the most frustration of my life designing my book cover. 11. What I learned - I learned that being a good storyteller is not at all the same thing as being a good writer. Being a writer is a technical skill set, being a great storyteller is a gift that you either have or you don't. I am fortunately a good storyteller, but writing is work. I don't write to be writing, I write to tell the story. 12. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say about 8, but that will likely change when my editorial review comes back. 🤔😔🙄🤗🤔😔🙄🤗 13. Achieved Goals - Yes, I am 25% through volume two with volume one published.
My video on making writing goals: ua-cam.com/video/2adzKFrUxOc/v-deo.html
This year, I finished my first book.
Congratulations!
Congrats bud🍻
yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best risk I took was joining a critique group. I improved so much having consistent feedback for my work.
How did you find a critique group?
@@Starburst514 I used MeetUp
@@intellectually_lazy wait real
same!!
What’s the best writing advice? 😅 This year I started a private playlist here, on UA-cam, saving videos with helpful writing tips and tricks. There are like 30 videos in it so far and 6 or 7 of them are actually yours. I love watching your channel. ❤ Thank you for all your help and knowledge that you share here with other people.
My best risk was starting to write, I have never undertaken such a project but it's proving fun!
Same. I've often written short stories, scenes, or scripts to experiment with existing fictional characters; now I'm hoping to write a full-fledged, multi-chapter story.
yes it is for me too!
My writing group organizes a four-day writing retreat, every spring, and a one-day writing retreat at somebody’s house every fall. Super productive.
Oh man, that's incredible! I used to do that with both my writing groups, until everyone moved away. Where are you located?
The best money I spent this year was on collapsible bluetooth keyboards. I stash those things everywhere so that I can just connect them to my phone and start writing whenever the inspiration strikes. I still do the bulk of my writing in my office on a set schedule, but I've been able to add an extra 1k words/day to my average just by giving myself the option to impulse write wherever I am.
I’m lost. I retired. I’m old and I probably drink too much. I’ve always had adhd and I’m exhausted. My health problems are catching up to me. I started organizing my affairs a little bit starting maybe ten days ago. I wrote some log lines today and a little bit of dialogue. I want to make a film but I feel a little foolish like a man in his 60s looking to play NFL. Thanks for your videos. You seem intelligent.
writing isn't like being in the NFL. It's never too late!!
I'm old, alone and occasionally drink too much. With nothing much else to do I dug out a terrible draft novel that I began years ago. I've been working on it pretty consistently for the last 18 months and its taking shape. Some of it is even pretty good. I am doing this for no reason other than it gives me great enjoyment and keeps the dark thoughts out of my mind. I don't need/want other people's opinions. I certainly don't need encouragement or approval. If you want to plan and make your film, do that.
stop this! Do not be sooooooo hard on yourself - sit down put the alcohol down and write YOUR NFL script!
My risk this year was quitting my stressful tech job to focus on my health and writing. Got a chill part time gig to help with expenses. I haven't finished the novel at all and my word count output is not where I want it to be, but been working with my writing coach on refining my process and getting higher word count weeks. Oh helps that I got an ADD diagnosis and medication too! Super rewarding experience so far
I do want to thank you for all the info you provide. These were some thought provoking questions. 1. Revising a book I had recently published. 2. Towards editing and making copies of the book I'm having revised so I could move forward with doing a Bible study while waiting on the publisher. 3. I have been consistent with spending time writing (about 2 hours most nights). 4. I did not do this one. 5. Not able to think of anything glaring. 6. Listening to Bookfox, Brandon McNaulty, and Jane Kalmes (mystery writing). 7. Being assertive with the publisher about my revisions. Finishing 6 of 7 short stories. Going to a conference to "hunt down" the person in charge of submissions for my short story book (there's a story that goes with this). 8. Writing for 2 hours instead of 3. 9. The book, "Great American Short Stories." 10. Didn't have one. 11. Writing the short stories. Some of them are interrelated storylines. It was fun blending them together (one is a detective story - went noir with it). 12. I have to be able to defend my work. Not be a jerk about it, but just to be able to defend it. 13. Scale of 1-10? An 8. 14. Yes.
Honestly an amazing and interesting video topic. I’m going to take time today to sit down, rewatch this, and write down my answers to all of these questions. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Would love to hear some of the answers here in the comments section.
@ Will do!
1. Best risk: Writing several alternative first chapters for my WIP - definitely a learning experience
2. Best dollar? Not directly on writing, but Blue Metropolis Lit festival in Montreal
3. Time: Time management is a struggle, which I have to get a handle on it.
4. Joined an independent writers group and volunteered at our own local Lit Festival
5. Gotta stop using writing craft videos as a substitute for struggling with my own material!
6. Best advice: I'm reading Truby, the Anatomy of Story: "Characters exist not in isolation but in relationship to each other." So, you can only develop your principal characters in relationship to those around them.
7. Success: Wrote 50,000 words of my third draft.
8. Failure: I know that the draft still isn't working as I want.
9. Pleasurable reading: Hmmm, I'm re-reading J.A. Baker's the Peregrine for about the fifth time. It's one of those books where I'm constantly asking "How did he come up with that sentence?"
10. Worst reading: "The Labrynth of the Spirits" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I'm a fan of the whole cemetery of forgotten books series, but at 800 plus pages, this is probably the most bloated book I've ever read. Zafon's vibe is kind of Raymond Chandler meets Isabelle Allende, but pages and pages of dialogue whose only purpose is to demonstrate that he can do 40s-style film noir is too much. Barcelona is a character in the book, as the city deserves to be, but I now feel as though I've experienced 365 days of Barcelona weather forecasts. ON THE PLUS SIDE, reading this book made me re-evaluate my own WIP, whose 2nd draft ran to 150,000 words. I'm going back to start the 3rd draft again with a renewed focus on pacing.
11. Most fun? Blue Metropolis, where I got to meet a personal hero, British Nature writer, Robert MacFarlane
12. Learning: My attention span is not what it used to be and I'm reluctant to show my work to others
13. On a scale of 1 to 10, this year is a 4. Must do better.
14. Did I accomplish my goals? Not even close (see answers to 12 and 13).
Just answered all the questions and now I'm anxiously awaiting the goals video!
This actually made me feel better about this past year. THANKS!
7:29 Yes, best advice I got was from you: "I edited 51 Novels this year. These are 9 things EVERY Writer should know."
It's in my favorites playlist. I loved that video, so warm and empathetic.
Do you know what will help me stay motivated? A list of authors who sat on their first book for years or even decades and then when they finally finished it and published it, it was incredibly well received. I’m sure there are many people who are struggling to fit this writing thing into everyday life, in between day job deadlines and other things that eat your mental bandwidth, if not your time, and knowing about other people who climbed that mountain and reached the summit will really help.
I just discovered your videos a few weeks ago and ordered The Linchpin Writer---FABULOUS-most helpful how--to writing book I've read in years. Thank you for all this content, too!
Wonderful! Welcome to the Bookfox clan!
Really great content Bookfox!
My few funds had me at Wallymart, where I bought a few composition notebooks for 50 cents a pop. Great deal!
I adore your channel. Thank you so much for all your advice.
7:31 yes, I’m thinking of one of your scene writing videos that have helped me immensely 🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
Thanks so much for your videos. They really help me get out of a writing slump, so I'm really grateful to you.
You are so welcome!
scrivner the best purchase by farrrr
Thank you so much for your channel ♥
I joined Bookfox Academy. Great stuff!
Great advice! Thank you.
One of the things I learned was ‘show don’t tell’ (and hopefully how to do it!) so yeah I’m a beginner.
Second year participating in NaNoWriMo and my risk this year was a romance novel. Purchased Dabble writing tool a great investment. did a writers retreat also. Made time each day for watching videos like this and reading blogs for guidance. Thank you for helping me be a better writer!
"Discipline. Consistency. Deadlines. Creativity. Reflection. Repeat." --an award-winning author
You either produce results or you don't. It's just that simple. Most are incapable of doing so because they lack expertise in the aforementioned skills. It is what it is.
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
I invested in fabula cards. $50 and so handy for organizing my thoughts. I always resisted outlines but will use it for my next work. I also attended a writing festival as a volunteer. Incredibly inspiring and Rewarding. I'll be back next year
I took my firend to the Dr., the office waiting room had several adorable & funny children's books whcih had me lughing out lous in the wiating room. They were so hysterical - very, very fun to read!
Thank you for the video! It was great and got me thinking, especially because I already set up my goals for next year: Writing and polishing at least six (better 12) new novels. And releasing them, because that's the step I dread most.
I will make this list into a blog post as well, to hopefully inspire my fellow German writers a bit. They tend to stay away from English videos, sadly enough. Especially those who would profit from your tips
I've spent the last decade wasting my time with multi-night catered stays, popping pills, diet experiments, not writing when I didn't feel like it... You know. Ever since the 2014 triple bypass, the later stent when a graft failed, the multi-night CCU stays, the dietary restrictions, the enforced rest, and the heart pills.
1. Sending out manuscripts to beta readers for critique
2. Probably buying a new keyboard, to be honest. My laptop has seen better days.
3. I did a reasonably good job of dividing the year between editing old projects, writing new ones and also having a little bit of downtime
4. I joined an online writing group
5. I don't think there's anything I need to stop doing, although I did waste far too much time waiting for other people to give me feedback. In fact relying on other people in general is something I should know better than to do.
6. It wasn't technically writing advice but I found it useful for writing. "Pretend you're holding up both middle fingers and telling the world to go f*ck itself while you set everything on fire. That's the same mindset you should be in when you're doing something creative."
7. Writing a 100,000 word first draft in only two months
8. Finding out that a novel I was planning to publish this year was so flawed and universally hated by beta readers that I'd basically need to rewrite the whole thing from scratch or else just throw it in the garbage with all my other failed novels.
9. Technically the most pleasurable book I read this year was "Extreme Makeover" by Dan Wells but that's as much because I read it while relaxing on the beach in summer than because of the content, though it's also one of the best books I read this year. I'm still yet to decide what the best books I read this year were, but it's in the top five for sure.
10. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" - supposed to be a great classic spy novel but bored the crap out of me.
11. Probably working on a novel that I hadn't even planned to write this year. It was the most fun I've had writing in a long time and was a stark contrast to the book I wrote in 2023, which made me want to never write again because the experience of writing that book was so painful.
12. 6/10 - I achieved all the bare minimum goals, but I feel like I'm on a treadmill. Most of this year was spent putting out fires, solving problems and trying to make up for previous failures.
13. No, but at least I have a hell of a head start on my 2025 writing goals.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is much better than Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, BTW.
@@BookfoxI'll tentatively give it a try next year!
Finished the first draft of my first book this year and got first beta readers' feedback :)
Love that you included a Lucifer reference. That show's bloody fantastic, wouldn't you say, Detective? 😂
Oh, I love QnA!
1. Start a masterpiece novel.
2. I don't know for what I would spend money for writing, I don't have time for conferences or anything like that.
3. No, I've lost too much time for not doing anything productive or even fun.
4. I don't have friends - with writers or whoever.
5. Stop losing time.
6. "Nobody cares"
7. I actually wrote introduction to my story which is 60k words.
8. After I was backstabbed by some people I lost momentum to write.
9. I read Things Aint Right about Yuba County 5 case and I think solution has something to do with similar delusions of UFO like people who first joined UFO Cult (Known later as Heavens Gate) about in the same time.
10. Worst was reading about Adam Lanza and his attack on small children.
11. I had fun with writing before I was backstabbed.
12. I learn cosmic truth that "Life is meaningless and we're all gonna die", just kidding, it is a motto of living here. I learn that I can write the best story ever written, but it takes time.
13. 4/10 - I succeeded in writing after so many times thinking about it. Not much, but still something was made.
14. No.
Last year I finished and published a novel and wrote a NF which is now at the publisher. I'm now writing my tenth book with plans for more. I'm not doing as much art work as I'd like and I play my guitar less than before yet I'm still learning and studying what interests me. Sadly, I only read about 30 books so far this year. Have I mentioned I'm manic?
Best thing I learned this year is I write much faster in the morning, but much better and slower in the evening. So I am going to draft in the mornings and edit in the evenings in 2025, and see how it goes.
@@intellectually_lazyFinally, an achievable New Year’s resolution
We still got a month left to squeeze in your best effort!
i have talen the E. Hemingway - POV assignment and it really helped me!
Probably my most productive month was like June - July. Why? Cuz the sky was blue and the weather. My book is placed in summer so it made it easy to visualize. So no, I can’t reproduce that.
I did not write at all, if anything i wrote in my journal and notice how bad my handwriting was. Then i took a course in horror, a genre i dont even read, but just watch on tv... it's been revealing!
The worst book I read this year is a sci-fi novel called gamers army. It’s Basically a VR gaming tournament that the balloons into an end of the world threat. It’s a massive slow burn, that doesn’t even start until halfway through. Most of the characters are one note and there’s no subtlety that an AI could right it. While gamers army has an Elon musk type villain that wants to create a singularity.
yes i spent too much time on social media and video games and you know what I'll do the same again next year and the year after. get off my back geez.
Did you get onto Chess by Stefan Zweig for cruise ship stories? that’s a good one.
Usually Billy Collins is not my kind of thing for the same reason as you but in certain moments I am surprised to find myself I’m in the mood for it
I have read the Zweig novel, but that wasn't what I was reading for the cruise ship stories. It is a good one! A chess friend of mine gave it to me.
@@Bookfox what's your elo
I widh you woulld identify the movie clips that you use in the videos???
My risk was paying for an AI app and turning my poems into music, then distributing them out! Dont know how its going to go!
My Success was writing 12 poems so far, my failure was not finishing my first draft in May! A very good book was Vampire Academy book 1, worst books Vampire Academy 2 --6 😂
Was just wondering when the next one was coming 😂
1. Best Risk - Began writing
2. Best Dollar - Scrivener
3. Wise Time - Writing (and then publishing) a novel
4. Friends - Sorry, no friendships, people annoy the shxt out of me
5. What to Stop - Watching so many videos on how to be a better writer
6. Best Advice - Research everything in great detail and then forget it
7. Writing Success - I tend to think of my writing successes in particularly good scenes. These are scenes that when I have a free 30 minutes, I will re-read that chapter just to see that scene (which frequently leads to be re-reading the rest of the book)
8. Writing Failure - Not getting an independent editor, but it wasn't really a choice, they are expensive af
9. Best reading experience - my books. Worst reading experience - other people writing in my genre. I think it's just something about the genre that attracts….never mind
10. Most Fun - I had the most fun and the most frustration of my life designing my book cover.
11. What I learned - I learned that being a good storyteller is not at all the same thing as being a good writer. Being a writer is a technical skill set, being a great storyteller is a gift that you either have or you don't. I am fortunately a good storyteller, but writing is work. I don't write to be writing, I write to tell the story.
12. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would say about 8, but that will likely change when my editorial review comes back. 🤔😔🙄🤗🤔😔🙄🤗
13. Achieved Goals - Yes, I am 25% through volume two with volume one published.
Time unwisely? Binge-watching UA-cam
I need a new writing group. Anyone have some ideas? I write rule based fantasy and am not published yet.
I spend way too much time reading. All free time, every day ~200k a day…