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Generally "show, not tell" is rule of scenario writing. Cannot aply on all of the literature and also not all the time.

The moment you are worried about what kind of book you are "caught" reading, you have lost the plot.

Finally, a how to show not tell that I actually get knowledge from.

Chuck Pumpernickel? 🤔

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That's Gandalf 😭💀

Thanks for answering my question! Mine was the last one. I loved how you mention readers perspective on the matter, bc what prompted me to ask was a comment from an old fanfiction of mine which, admittedly, I wrote at 18 so I was less experienced, and my story required a bit of suspended belief as it involved my MC being lied to by her love interested but nothing that hasn't happened irl. The comment simply called my MC 'dumb af' and I didn't even bother to look up what chapter or part of the story it was about but that unfortunately stuck with me. But your response REALLY helps to put it into perspective and inform my future writing, actions/reactions in a plot are truly what makes a character in a story. 💕💕💕

Fuck i just realized i head hop naturally

This is simply life-changing... I finally am even HOPING to finish my first draft 😍Thank you!

Butt munch?? That’s simutaniously gross and funny as hell- lower case.😅

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.