Writing videos on YouTube

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When I first started writing about a year ago I found some channels on YouTube that really helped me improve as a writer. While I have improved a lot since then, I still watch those videos because they are still very useful, even though I'm not a beginner anymore. I decided to share the three channels that have helped me a lot on my writing journey, in the hopes that they might be useful to some beginning/intermediate writers.

The first is Jenna Moreci. She's a writer that published her first book some time ago and is working on her second book at the moment. Her videos are mostly aimed at writers writing a book for publication, but most of the tips easily apply to writing for a site like Literotica as well (just ignore the publishing videos and advice). But if you're wondering about how to publish your work she does have some very useful videos about that process. I really like her humor, but she does curse a lot. If you don't like F-bombs then you might want to avoid her videos since she uses them quite a lot.

The second writer is Kim Chance. She's a friend of Jenna Moreci and has just finished writing her first book. She's an English teacher, so she does have some more grammatically focused videos too. She's really enthusiastic and great at motivating you to write. Again, she also has some videos about publishing, but most of her content is just about writing in general.

Lastly there is Ellen Brock. She's a freelance editor and has a lot of videos about the more technical aspects of writing. She explains things like Show VS Tell, how to write dialogue and descriptions, as well as some more general writing tips and answering the questions of the viewers.

I hope these links are of some use to at lest some of the writers on here. If you got other writing channels that you watch, feel free to share them below. I know there are a lot of writers on YouTube, these are just the three that I have found and that I find helpful.
 
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Karen Weilland - she has a great series of video clips on writing and she's written a couple of really good books on Plotting your novel along with a great workbook to help structure your novel. I find her really useful and her video clips are short enough that you can watch them when you take a break. They don't drag on and on and on....

Ah, I'll certainly check her videos later. The videos of Kim Chance and Jenna Moreci are pretty short too. 5-10 minutes usually, if I remember correctly.
 
I hadn't thought of there being writing videos on YouTube. Thanks for pointing this out.
 
I hadn't thought of there being writing videos on YouTube. Thanks for pointing this out.

Oh, there are a lot of them. Mostly writers and editors who like to share their experience and expertise with other writers. I just listed the few that I personally watch regularly. But yeah, YouTube has videos about just about anything.
 
There is also the writing excuses group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIjFEkoaebc&list=PLwaAbNJR2DDe5j4_q-NNkZg3x9DQdz6Hg

that is several accomplished authors including Brandon Sanderson, the guy picked to finish Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I admit to being a fan of his work.

Writing Excuses is a fantastic podcast. I cannot recommend it enough. It's always short and to the point and I learn something new at least 98% of the time. Each of them has some impressive work on their resume. They're also really funny people in person.

And thanks, OP, for the links! I didn't think to check youtube for this.
 
In my opinion WRITING EXCUSES sux. Here's why.

You cant SHOW nominalizations, and the WE presenters talk with nominalizations and rarely use concrete examples of anything. A NOMINALIZATION is a process without form or mass. You cant carry a nominalization in a basket or truck or ship.LIBERTY, EMPATHY, COURAGE, BEAUTY, SEXY, SMARTS are nominalizations. And when a writing teacher says a character must be honest, brave, thrifty, loyal, friendly, whatever, you've learned nothing about those traits. No imahe erupts in your mind. When a hungry character shares an olive loaf sandwich with a hungry dog the act speaks volumes. When a teen meat carver see's his honeys mom in the serving line, and slices her a generous portion of roast beef, and his manager says, "SHE A FRIEND OF YOUR'S?" It says volumes about character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjZhz6ZcWV8
 
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Uh, oh. There's a rumor that there's a Raymond Chandler writing video up on YouTube. :D
 
As a general rule I stick with the "Don't feed the trolls" thought process when it comes to forums. I'm in a mood today.

In my opinion WRITING EXCUSES sux. Here's why.
What you presented after this statement makes zero sense. It sounds like the ramblings of my grandfather after senility sat in. I think what you meant was that you think it sucks because it is not that book that you read that you take as the absolute bible how to write and two people on the board like it.

You act as though you are better than anyone else here. You have you origin story, or several of them, and you preach to everyone who will listen about why you are better than them. To be a better person, you don't drive others down, you help lift them up. But that isn't you theory. You need to feel that superiority over others, so you are sure to point it out in every way possible.

But what do I know? I don't have degrees in, wait, which fields were they? Which origin story are you going with when you bash what I am saying? I haven't worked with the criminally insane. I deal with people. I try to see what makes people tick, not just kick the shit out of them.
 
The bottom line is all of us are buried beneath writing tutorials from birth. I mean, we master a language by 4 or 5, and writing tutorials are thrown at us till death.

Your writing is so fucking bad because youre lazy fucks with nothing to say. Youre boring and you know it. And Jay is your shepherd.
 
The bottom line is all of us are buried beneath writing tutorials from birth. I mean, we master a language by 4 or 5, and writing tutorials are thrown at us till death.

Your writing is so fucking bad because youre lazy fucks with nothing to say. Youre boring and you know it. And Jay is your shepherd.

There is a difference in a tutorial and in advice. In a tutorial you just do exactly as you're told and that's is. That doesn't work for writing.

Having some kind of guidance and advice and tips from people who are more experienced than you is always a good thing. But like tutorials, you shouldn't just follow it blindly. Writing is about developing your own style, and the advice from people who know what they are talking about can help speed up that process and help avoid common pitfalls.

It's true we master a language at an early age, but that's not necessarily the language we write in. I mastered Dutch at around 4-5 like you said, but only became fluent in English at about 18. There are some differences in writing practices in different languages, so the guidance that you find unneeded since you're born as an English speaker might be helpful to people who mastered the language much later in their life.
 
Its ok with me if every person here stays stupid fuck with writing. If the world aint beating your door down for your wares youre prolly mired in stupid fuck. And if the bogus praise and applause from your fellow numnutz does it for you, enjoy.
 
Albert Facey

Its ok with me if every person here stays stupid fuck with writing. If the world aint beating your door down for your wares youre prolly mired in stupid fuck. And if the bogus praise and applause from your fellow numnutz does it for you, enjoy.

James you might like 'A Fortunate Life by AB Facey' He never went to any school, started work at eight, taught himself to read as a teenager but never read much.But he wrote this autobiography which when he was 87 was published and sold almost a million copies. He had very limited vocabulary but had a gift of communication.

In keeping with the rest of his brutally tough life 'Bert Facey' never got anything from his authorship. He was dead within a few months of publication in 1981 and his kids have collected the royalties ever since.

There can have been very few authors who were less affected by either other writers/teachers/advisors than Facey.

Personally I think writers can emerge from every possible personal history and it is the differences which make them interesting.
 
James you might like 'A Fortunate Life by AB Facey' He never went to any school, started work at eight, taught himself to read as a teenager but never read much.But he wrote this autobiography which when he was 87 was published and sold almost a million copies. He had very limited vocabulary but had a gift of communication.

In keeping with the rest of his brutally tough life 'Bert Facey' never got anything from his authorship. He was dead within a few months of publication in 1981 and his kids have collected the royalties ever since.

There can have been very few authors who were less affected by either other writers/teachers/advisors than Facey.

Personally I think writers can emerge from every possible personal history and it is the differences which make them interesting.

I got one of them in my family, my 3rd great grandfather
https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofr00injohn
 
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