This has given me not just one but several MASSIVE light bulb moments, one after another! The whole time I've been feeling like there's a secret to plotting that I've been missing, that there's something I just can't quite grasp, and this video has finally connected the dots for me! This is probably the single most useful video on plot and outlining I have ever watched (and I have watched A LOT)!
@@DaisyByDesign Awh thank you so much! I am so glad you found this video helpful, I completely get the light bulb moments, that’s how I felt too when I discovered some of this information! Hopefully writing will be a lot easier for you from now on 🥰
I'm dipping my toes into the world of writing for the first time. Figuring out where, how, and when to start has been daunting. This was really helpful, thank you!🧡
As someone who has been wading through outline hell for weeks now and struggled to apply Brandon Sanderson's three Ps, this was SO unbelievably helpful. This video was incredible, thank you!
@@neekitsart I’m so glad to hear that this video helped you figure out Sanderson’s three Ps! It can be a bit confusing to apply, I tried to explain how I worked it out and seems like it worked!
Wow that was legitimately the most helpful writing advice I've yet to receive on outlines and plotting. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I really really appreciate it. Also I love those kitty posters, they're super cute.😊 I will be subscribing and checking out your channel now
WHAT THE HELL??? Thank god youtube recomended this video to me, I can't believe at this visualizations number... Girl... Thank you! What a great approach! You helped me realise that all the seamingly random things I have figured out for my story are actually a great starting point. I should stop forcing myself to figure out everything chronologically. The beginning and ending can both stem from the middle! Also, I loved what you had to say about character development, really helped me structure some ideas that were kinda aimlessly floating around my noggin. Thanks!
@@goopysubject Hahah wait, that is SO amazing to know!! I was hoping to reach someone like you, and I am so happy you found this video helpful! I hope you have the GREATEST time writing and will never have to feel overwhelmed again! 🤗
@@Warcraftjen Thank you!! And awh, I wish I could share a website or something, but I found them in a small little shop here in Seoul, so you probably won’t be able to find them elsewhere 🥹
Thank you, I'm coming back to this video to try this method on my current projects! I really love how you describe things and how you incorperate the Misbelief (I call this the Lie) and character arc stuff. The Mirror Moment is new to me and I'm excited to use it! I've never really tried outlining from the middle or any other point than the beginning, and its inspiring me a lot.
@@StarlitSeafoam I’m so glad this video found you, then! I truly hope this method will work for you as well as it does for me, but just in case it doesn’t, if there is anything you should try to remember from it, is the mirror moment. I believe all books can benefit from it!
I want to thank you for these videos. I’m also attempting to write something fairly ambitious and I rely on people like you to be my guide. I’m actually terrible at this but hopefully with the tools you are providing I can be a little less so. Also random thought but how would this apply to a multi book series I wonder. I would probably need a cascade of these threads weaving through the books I think. Engineering problem I guess 😂
First of all thank you for sharing all this information and your valuable explanations, as a natural hermit writer I always avoid to seek for inspiration in other writer's work, when an idea comes to mind I seclute myself immediately to avoid any external influence, trying to avoid writing something similar to other writers, but my biggest problem is that I am not a ploter nor an absolute pantser either, because I feel any outline or structure is restrictive and because nowadays when you sit to watch a movie after 5 minutes you can predict the ending and same when you start reading abook after 5 pages you already knows how will end, mostly because the overuse of the same structures, for that reason in my first draft I just go rampage without thinking in structure, page count or anything I need to make my story fit in, and try to let the story flow naturally, one of my more recognizable treats is that you get interested in the story thinking I started with the MC when you realize it is the antagonist or is a support character and that force me to level up the tension because if a support character can be as interesting the antagonist must be at less the double of interesting and the MC 5 times more interesting, that push me to the limit, my chaotic non linear story get your nerves, because you actually can't predict what will happen, every page turn things and open new possibilities, I build my story like a puzzle, but I would like to know your opinion about a different method that I have in mind but can't describe clearly yet, I would like to write like when you play with lego blocks, in apuzzle pieces only can fit in one place, but with lego blocks you have much more flexibility, I know is a vage description in terms of writing and outlining, but like in the explample you gave us of the outline, how we could altere in right way the sequence of all the elements? do you believe can be possible?
I loved this video! I think it’s rly going to help me. I just want to make sure I understand though: is the method to figure out what midpoint moment you want with the progress, payoffs and promised method? Then use the midpoint method method to help build around it? I’m just a little unclear on the step by step and I think I almost understand it but could you clarify/explain a bit more? Or give an example? It seems so promising and I really want to get it!
The first step is to answer the questions mentioned at 7:51 to then clarify your promises, payoffs and progresses. The midpoint moment could be in the promised scenes, but it's not necessarily there. If it's not there it's completely fine, you can figure it out once you fill the signpost scenes with scenes from your novel! Once the signpost scenes are filled and the promises, payoffs and progresses clarified, all you need to do is to go write your first draft keeping in mind both techniques and the things you learned about your novel through them 😊
Great video. Well presented. Very interesting combination of methods. Please make the music quieter and a longer loop. It couldn't have been longer than six or seven seconds.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:49 My outlining struggle
3:53 The Midpoint Epiphany
6:28 Brandon Sanderson’s Philosophy on Plot
7:51 Promise, Progress, Payoff
9:51 The Signpost Scenes
15:53 Conclusion
This has given me not just one but several MASSIVE light bulb moments, one after another!
The whole time I've been feeling like there's a secret to plotting that I've been missing, that there's something I just can't quite grasp, and this video has finally connected the dots for me!
This is probably the single most useful video on plot and outlining I have ever watched (and I have watched A LOT)!
@@DaisyByDesign Awh thank you so much! I am so glad you found this video helpful, I completely get the light bulb moments, that’s how I felt too when I discovered some of this information! Hopefully writing will be a lot easier for you from now on 🥰
I'm dipping my toes into the world of writing for the first time. Figuring out where, how, and when to start has been daunting. This was really helpful, thank you!🧡
@@davidfields2769 I completely understand your feelings! I’m glad that this video could be of some help 😊
As someone who has been wading through outline hell for weeks now and struggled to apply Brandon Sanderson's three Ps, this was SO unbelievably helpful. This video was incredible, thank you!
@@neekitsart I’m so glad to hear that this video helped you figure out Sanderson’s three Ps! It can be a bit confusing to apply, I tried to explain how I worked it out and seems like it worked!
Wow that was legitimately the most helpful writing advice I've yet to receive on outlines and plotting. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I really really appreciate it. Also I love those kitty posters, they're super cute.😊 I will be subscribing and checking out your channel now
@@kelseyculpepper6701 Thank you so much! I am so glad you found it helpful ☺️ and oh, my kitty posters thank you as well! Haha
Promise: This video will explain critical plotting methods to me
Progress: The video
Payoff: You just earned yourself a subscriber
@@emilycarey7667 Someone has been taking notes! 😉 Hahah thank you so much ❤️
Thank YOU for making this super clear!!
literal same 😆
WHAT THE HELL??? Thank god youtube recomended this video to me, I can't believe at this visualizations number...
Girl... Thank you! What a great approach! You helped me realise that all the seamingly random things I have figured out for my story are actually a great starting point. I should stop forcing myself to figure out everything chronologically. The beginning and ending can both stem from the middle! Also, I loved what you had to say about character development, really helped me structure some ideas that were kinda aimlessly floating around my noggin. Thanks!
@@goopysubject Hahah wait, that is SO amazing to know!! I was hoping to reach someone like you, and I am so happy you found this video helpful! I hope you have the GREATEST time writing and will never have to feel overwhelmed again! 🤗
This was wonderful! Thank you for taking the time to share it! Also, I have to know where you got your cat art on the walls?! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!
@@Warcraftjen Thank you!! And awh, I wish I could share a website or something, but I found them in a small little shop here in Seoul, so you probably won’t be able to find them elsewhere 🥹
@@ohmyjordy.official Aww such a magnificent find! Thank you for letting me know and I hope your writing has been going wonderfully!
@@Warcraftjen Thank you 🥰 Honestly a writing block has been kicking my butt recently, but hopefully I’ll soon find the energy to climb over it!
Amaze 🎉 this was such a good update video and so informative. Im very excited for the new essays, book vids, Book Gal, and everything!
@@ArborWinterBarrow Awwh thank you! More to come soon! ☺️ If you have any requests, don’t be shy!
Shout out to James Scott Bell! Such a good writing coach.
@@JonBaldie I have only read his book, but just from the book alone I also have to agree! I’ll have to dive deeper in his other teachings!
Thank you, I'm coming back to this video to try this method on my current projects! I really love how you describe things and how you incorperate the Misbelief (I call this the Lie) and character arc stuff. The Mirror Moment is new to me and I'm excited to use it! I've never really tried outlining from the middle or any other point than the beginning, and its inspiring me a lot.
@@StarlitSeafoam I’m so glad this video found you, then! I truly hope this method will work for you as well as it does for me, but just in case it doesn’t, if there is anything you should try to remember from it, is the mirror moment. I believe all books can benefit from it!
Thank you for your insight, it is very helpful.
I wish I'd this information years ago!
@@chrisowenssff4876 So glad you have it moving forward!
I want to thank you for these videos. I’m also attempting to write something fairly ambitious and I rely on people like you to be my guide. I’m actually terrible at this but hopefully with the tools you are providing I can be a little less so.
Also random thought but how would this apply to a multi book series I wonder. I would probably need a cascade of these threads weaving through the books I think. Engineering problem I guess 😂
First of all thank you for sharing all this information and your valuable explanations, as a natural hermit writer I always avoid to seek for inspiration in other writer's work, when an idea comes to mind I seclute myself immediately to avoid any external influence, trying to avoid writing something similar to other writers, but my biggest problem is that I am not a ploter nor an absolute pantser either, because I feel any outline or structure is restrictive and because nowadays when you sit to watch a movie after 5 minutes you can predict the ending and same when you start reading abook after 5 pages you already knows how will end, mostly because the overuse of the same structures, for that reason in my first draft I just go rampage without thinking in structure, page count or anything I need to make my story fit in, and try to let the story flow naturally, one of my more recognizable treats is that you get interested in the story thinking I started with the MC when you realize it is the antagonist or is a support character and that force me to level up the tension because if a support character can be as interesting the antagonist must be at less the double of interesting and the MC 5 times more interesting, that push me to the limit, my chaotic non linear story get your nerves, because you actually can't predict what will happen, every page turn things and open new possibilities, I build my story like a puzzle, but I would like to know your opinion about a different method that I have in mind but can't describe clearly yet, I would like to write like when you play with lego blocks, in apuzzle pieces only can fit in one place, but with lego blocks you have much more flexibility, I know is a vage description in terms of writing and outlining, but like in the explample you gave us of the outline, how we could altere in right way the sequence of all the elements? do you believe can be possible?
incredibly helpful, thanks!
I loved this! I'll have to check out the book!
Please, do! It was such an eye opener for me! ❤
I loved this video! I think it’s rly going to help me. I just want to make sure I understand though: is the method to figure out what midpoint moment you want with the progress, payoffs and promised method? Then use the midpoint method method to help build around it? I’m just a little unclear on the step by step and I think I almost understand it but could you clarify/explain a bit more? Or give an example? It seems so promising and I really want to get it!
The first step is to answer the questions mentioned at 7:51 to then clarify your promises, payoffs and progresses. The midpoint moment could be in the promised scenes, but it's not necessarily there. If it's not there it's completely fine, you can figure it out once you fill the signpost scenes with scenes from your novel! Once the signpost scenes are filled and the promises, payoffs and progresses clarified, all you need to do is to go write your first draft keeping in mind both techniques and the things you learned about your novel through them 😊
Super helpful, Jordy!
@@bbrookewrites Thank youuu! I’m so glad 🥹❤️
Great video. Well presented. Very interesting combination of methods. Please make the music quieter and a longer loop. It couldn't have been longer than six or seven seconds.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. The music is about 3 minutes long, but I will make it more quiet in future videos 😊
Agreed, her voice is too delicate and soft, at least for violins. And the content isn't enriched by it.
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