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Stephen king, misery, first chapter Umber whunnnn Yerrrnnn umber uhunnnn Fayunnnn These sounds: even in the haze.

There is a saying in Buddhism: If nothing is done, nothing is left undone. If there is no plot, there can be no pitfalls.

To be frank, given the age of this video, I'm not sure what my motivations are for commenting; yet, I shall do so. "Literary" fiction has only been around since the early nineties, the term having been coined by some 'bright young thing' to try to develop a new genre that spoke to a particular demographic. Until then, anything could be considered, what I shall call, high-art fiction. John le Carre wrote spy novels, but no one would argue with the highly developed craft of his novels. You, yourself, showed Garcia-Marquez, I would add Borges, Calvino, & Bulgakov to that list, whom all dealt, in one form or another, with fantasy. Even the Surrealists were trying only to get to the root of the humans' experience in the world, just in a way that that would shock the reader out of their normality. Umberto Eco, Professor of Medieval History & Semiotics, also wrote Baudolino, about a knight on a quest to find Prester John--surely a fantasy, considering all the strange characters, beings, & monsters his Protagonist met on his journey. It is certainly a work of the highest esteem. It was, perhaps, ironic, that at the same time as the literary genre was created, I decided to up my reading game. I simply wanted more than what I was getting out of fantasy/science fiction being published at the time. So I went back to the beginning & started reading Ancient Greek myths, tales, & dramas. I have slowly worked my way forward. As it turns out, I enjoy a challenge, &, perhaps even more, learned to enjoy a really well written sentence. (If you are a writer I would suggest Stanley Fish's book How to Write a Sentence). A well written sentence doesn't mean opening a thesaurus, but choosing the proper word for whatever it is you are trying to convey, given the setting, characters, & time of your writing. I would suggest anything written by Chester Himes to see how it is done; should you prefer something thicker, then take up Broch's The Death of Virgil (which is basically a five hundred page prose poem). I want to re-read a sentence or paragraph, not because I didn't understand it, but because it is so wonderfully crafted, that I don't want to let it go. Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser is still one of my favorites. There are now over a million words, either invented or imported, in the English language. Search for them, hunt them down, find them & use them. Grow to cherish them. If I am reading a fantasy that is based, to some degree or other, on the medieval times of Europe, I do not want to be assaulted by the contemporary vernacular. Find the great older books that were published before the Literary genre was encapsulated in the MFA churn-house. Read The Master & Margarita & you will find the craft of writing heightened & honed to the very finest degree.

Meh, I write crappy poems in the Gothic Language while still basing my current English language stories off of stuff I read a long time ago primarily. I still read now on very slight occasions of mostly religious literature, that or some crappy old fiction I only skim through to be inspired by its greatness. I used to edit fanfics long ago when I was sixteen. Reading inspired me to write stuff but I went through long periods of writing and not reading stuff at all lol. Philosophical books I like sometimes but only seldom. Karl Marx, Joad and Thomas Sowel mostly. I try to limit so much of my reading as it's just a waste of time for me. I've also read enough in my life lol really. The very personal poems I write in Gothic I never needed to read a single book for. Our mouths move us I think, not our keyboards or pens.

Putting the comma inside the quotation marks is for me, as a German speaker, repellent enough to refrain from reading books in English. I mean, this is not convention, it is straight violence 😂

Change is a conduit

I'm writing a character who is very much like me. But I'm from England he's Texan, I've changed it a bit.

Just found this chanel by accident . So glad❤❤❤❤

„Leaves crunched under his feet“ this is the worst way to apply „showing“. I would rather read „It was fall“. Why would I care that leaves are crunching? Is it related to the story? It reads to me like cheap atmosphere building and an author who has nothing really important to say. This show don‘t tell is just encouraging bad writing at this point.

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I love writing but reading hasn't been easy i prefer watching good movie then reading

Completely disagree on that first example, it sounded great just the way it was. Much better than the second example at least.

Great video, but Rain against the window like rounds from an uzi 😂

The time and place for pantsing is when brainstorming your story outline. As the structure begins to take coherent shape your pantsing becomes more constrained and focused to fit within the key outline benchmarks that you find most pleasing to retain. Ultimately you’ll have a very satisfying outline as a settled plot roadmap, and as you write the actual prose to deliver that plot, on a word by word basis you’ll feel like you are pantsing again, but on a much tighter scale.

The picture of Gandalf at the end made me laugh out loud.

Not me doing research just to write a 400 word fanfiction

I had zero idea how dialogue tags can affect characters speech. 😮 or how they speak. Thank you for this video. It’s been the most informative video I’ve watched.

My exercise : A rough, seemingly overused black backpack rustled behind Ralf, the man in his 20s spent another night running through the city only to reach that one dim lighted, wet alley, turned even wetter since the heavy rain refused to stop tonight. Familiar noises of sirens howled, violating Ralf's ears along with the rain hitting ground and building. No matter how experienced he was at it, those dogs of government kept seeking him out. And no matter how familiar he was by the situation, the painful pounding sensation in his chest remained there. "Here, here, get your goods" he whispered, not even completely stepping into the alley as he swung the bag and forced open the zipper. "Take it easy, bro. You might scratch my gem" said Arlo with a chuckle. The cold sensation of the metallic box lingered on Ralf's palm as the box now sat on Arlo's. With a glint in his eyes, Arlo spoke "Very well, now where's my money?" Ralf's death eyes narrowed "what money?" "Don't tell me your boss hasn't informed you, dude. I sent more money than I should by accident, he said he'd send back the money through the deliveryman" Arlo replied, his voice smooth. Neither Ralf's pockets nor bags held cash, if only he had time to explain how obvious his scam was. However, dealing with scheming scum was unrelated to his delivery job. "Classic, I ain't falling for that" Ralf scoffed, his leg took a wide step away only to be stopped by the tight grip on his opened backpack. "Not so fast" Arlo murmured. Something weighted the backpack as he realized the metallic box had entered back. He turned. "What the hell!?" Ralf protested "You're hurrying, a police, right?" Arlo said with a raised eyebrow. "No, no, no police. Take back your thing!" Ralf reached the box, desperate to get it back to Arlo's hand. Loud sirens struck both men's ears, they could tell it wasn't so far away...

Well done! You've done the most concise comparison I really clearly understand better now

Thanks so much, it's a lot to take in but I'm glad it's that way. 🙏🏼✨

As for me, the biggest new authors' mistake is definitely not writing at all; I'm also suffering from it btw. Thank you so much, Diane, for this inspiring video! Best regards from Ukraine! Keep up the great work!

So many writers eagerly awaits your new uploads. Diane, I believe you're an incredible author. Could I, please, ask how many years you put into writing? Thank you so much! Best regards from Ukraine! The advice that you and the excellent writers give here is priceless.

Why am i finding this 6 years later?? This is great! Amazing video. Thank you.

But Rhett really did mean it at the end, when his patience had run out: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Chuck what?

“How’s your day been?…”

Love it. I'll keep wrinting. Thanks

I'm sorry the audacity of anyone to be buried on Christmas day, in Texas. Just no. Ain't nobody got time for that. You wanna visit a graveyard Christmas day, that's your bussiness. But the test of us got places to be.

Oh, no! Not now. Ashley felt her chest tighten as she fought back the tears that threatened to fall, while Mr. Chan continued talking. What do you think?😢

Watched this again just now. Again, finding this very insightful. Interestingly I'd say that whilst, yes, ending with a bang instead of a whimper is the way to go, I've read two books in the last year or so that had very different but very unsatisfactory endings, one a whimper, (The Book of Strange New Things,) and one a bang, (Birnham Wood.) Both were reasonably readable up until the end, but both left me feeling, "What a stupid lazy ending." I've a feeling there's quite a trend of leaving books without a real resolution, without tying up at least most of the loose ends. And I hate it. As I say, it feels like the author's gotten tired of the journey, and just wants to wrap things up quickly so they can sell the book and move on. But either there is no real ending, or the ending is a cheap ploy for dramatic effect, that leaves you thinking, "What about all that other stuff?" and, "Oh. Right. Those characters really were that two-dimensional after all." But I love your clear and sensible unpacking of this topic Diane. Very grateful you've taken the time to create this and upload to UA-cam. (I personally don't use any social media, unless UA-cam can be described as such.) Looking forward to the next piece you might choose to create and upload 🙂

“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.” Admittedly, it is from the middle of a series, so anyone reading this line should know roughly what they are getting into, but it is still a strong opening. It sets the scene, the building is on fire, the story is first person (the series as a whole is, but it reminds the reader what person the story is set in), and it leads the reader to be curious how the building came to be on fire if the POV character didn’t do it.

This is the single biggest piece of bullshit writing advice ever and proof that all writing advice is specifically for any medium that isn't written because how the absolute fuck do you do anything besides telling in writing. For fuck's sake people, use your brains.

What I've decided to do with my current novel is have two different versions. One where I can write as much as I like, the other one for publication, much more concise. This way I am more likely to make the necessary edits for publication, knowing I have a version for myself -and friends if I want to share -that is the full length, extended version. So I let myself write to my heart's content, keep a copy of that, then copy and paste my work to a blank document for editing.

Yeeesssss using “the secret garden” as an example!! I love that book so much 😌🙌

Have something important to say, and say it, write it.

I have just completed my first echo exercise, and the results are amazing. This is such a wonderful exercise. - Thank you 😍

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