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I really want to start my book but I don’t even know what I should call it🥲

Thank you for reviewing my excerpt, and for taking the time to help struggling writers like myself. You’re a great help!

Hard a sound on "machina." You never taken Latin class or something?

What modern day writer uses a typewriter?

So glad to hear the recording as the time zone didn't help me today! Tom Bromley's style and voice certainly appeal to the struggling or hopeful writer. The choice of genres presented made this a useful session. Thank you, Tom, Felicia, and Reedsy. The hour did fly by.

Notes from the LIVE session! 03:05 Beginnings (overall feedback) - cliched beginnings to avoid - Having the person wake up - Character waiting for a ship 07:25 Mystery/Suspense 1st person - Why are we joining the story at this point - Sense of the voice - Info without a dump (info is carefully slipped in) - Watch for familiar phrases - Watch for repeated sounds in a row - Specific in detail like setting and characters - Intentional with imagery (use sparingly) - Things happen unexpectedly / interrupted - effective storytelling 18:44 Romantic Comedy 1st person - Humour is strong - Character is likeable, making one laugh - Watch how many characters you introduce in the beginning to not overshadow protagonist - Little more focus on central character - Make more clear on what protagonist thinks, feels - Body movements are good - Dialogue is good - Good use of the senses - Specific in the description without too much detail for this genre (get the details right) 35:48 Romantic Fiction 1st person - Good example of capturing a time and setting - It grounds the reader really well - Smaller details rather than bigger details that reflects the time period - The structure to discuss the time period funnels down to the specific characters in the story - Check for repetitions and details that are not needed 52:52 Steampunk 3rd person - Ground reader to world through senses - Try and avoid words with ‘thing’ in it, everything - Use single sentence paragraph sparingly for impact - Strong verbs (raced, lingered, swayed) - He looks, glanced, saw - you can assumer we are seeing what they are seeing so don’t need these phrases

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What is the best way to find an agent for a non-fiction spiritual informational book..?❤

What's the history of writer's block?

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Thank you for covering this topic. I would love to see more videos discussing description. Thank you!

I have written book reviews in the past 18 years and don't care about likes. I always add what I liked about the book and what I wasn't a fan of.

I don't really write myself, but I love reading about writers. Not so much the writer's block, but just in general. Also, I hate when there are no quotation marks... it seems incredibly lazy to me, and often makes the story confusing, causing too much rereading, which ultimately wastes my time. Why should I have to do the work to reread someone's book because they were too lazy to write it well to begin with?

I need so much of this thank you

Omg im 14 and im writing a movie and ur channel have saved me thank you

Good advice. Many thanks. Really nailed the topic.

Remember this. If you use a fancy verb or adverb in your dialogue tag (instead of the simplest "says" or "said"), you already screwed up. A reader should know how the character will speak (how the dialogue will sound) before reading the first word of the dialogue. Show us the character's mental/emotional state through body language, facial expression, or action before the dialogue rather than telling us (belatedly) in a dialogue tag how he or she spoke.

good advice, actually.

I use action beats too much as attribution tags :p i make it work double time by making sure im making the setting interactive rather than just describe where they are- and i show something of character too, (the way they play with the cuffs of their shirt- anxious, uncomfortable? Or they clean their glasses- so now the reader knows he wears them. Etc). Pov character visceral reactions can also keep a back and forth conversation easy to follow. I 100% hate "question?" she asked. Pls noooooo. We know they responded by the response :p we know they asked by the question mark! This is more controversial though: Seldomly i use a dialogue tag and when i do i will argue they help understanding- whispered for instance. It isnt always obvious from the context. I so rarely use said, i prefer blank. When they do something while talking- i will put the action in the line and break the dialogue into parts. I love writing CRAFT. There is good practice, and helpful hints, but really it is up to the individual writer to decide what is the best for their story and pull it off. This is where the fun is ♡ Also, im not shy about adverbs in an early draft. Write that sucker for yourself (: and then go back through and find ways to make the adverb unneeded by fleshing things out more.

The repetition in the Nazar 50 sentence creates a very good rhythm. I would absolutely not change this, it serves a very good purpose. Rhythm, foreboding etc...

The Nazar-50-sentence is brilliant!

I am totally interested in Victor, there is tension because we get the feeling there is something at stake. In the standing and contemplating lies the tension.

Good explanation. The reason I think there's so much passive voice is that active voice requires more knowledge and commitment. Probably why lots of politicians use passive voice. :)

Much thanks for this!

Good one, will help to unblock ideas. I always find that her ideas are amazing, however I always have hard time to focus because of this speaker voice sounds annoying and disturbing (going deep deep deep)

If came to watch lecture for tomorrow paper, but now I'm watching again and again bcz u Looking so beautiful❤😂❤

You hit on some of the best, I like Greek quantitative verse and the Chinese have a sort of sonnet form also. I've written several ballads which if you enjoy a song likeness are very exciting

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Good content but your cracky voice doesn't really help listening and I mention this because it seems that your natural voice is not cracky so you can actually control that by relaxing and breathing we'll while talking

Dear @Reedsy could you please ban Vocal Fry on your training videos for us oldies. It’s incredibly grating and distracting 😢 It makes it really difficult to focus on the content. Apologies for being grumpy, but it really is excruciating and frustrating 😊

Stellar advice, thank you! I’ve seen terrible dialogue tag advice lately, and wish I could share this video with everyone who had the misfortune of watching other videos that recommended googling alternatives for ‘said’. This is an art, sure, but following these suggestions will make the difference between elevating your writing to a professional level and letting it fall flat like a toddler in the play yard.

Excellent video. At last, someone clarified tags succinctly.

Of course, there's a whole genre of jokes about dialog tag adverbs, called Tom Swift jokes. E.g. "I don't know why I lost the race," Tom said slowly.

Wow, that's the best video about dialogs tags! Actions beats are so helpful!

Great advice. One caveat to the "make your aliens alien" principle is if you're writing for a multimedia form like film or video games, or even if you just think there's a chance your work could be adapted to such someday if it becomes popular, you might want to think a little bit about what the production process would be before comitting to a design. Black squids floating in fog that speak using simple particle effects are a lot easier to design and implement than... say... 5-D fractal monsters that fold themselves into a tiny speck to hide, and fill the sky when paying close attention to 3D creatures, and speak by growing and dissolving their individual facial features.

Thank you martin sometimes in restaurants I love to eavesdrop language and rhythm of the patrons are funny or sad but the Jewish are in the silence I am so interested in the sound then their actions very funny

I don't understand why "snorted" isn't an action beat. It shows something you can't get from the dialogue.

"I really needed this," he sighed sheepishly.

Excellent video!

This seems to be right, for most dialogue. However, it only lasts so long on a page when action and nuance of intentions are at play. But taken entirely, the Eleamore Lenord list of do's and don'ts is hardly a refind instruction. Here and with Lenord, this instruction is not the living end for how to construct a good page of dialogue. I shall continue to use and not use this as ho-hum partially useful info. BTW, James Lee Burke beats Lenord's dialogue easily today, he isn't adhering to this rule entirely either. So, you write you and I will write me, and that's what is best.

If you haven't read The Friends of Eddie Coyle then drop what you are doing right now and fix that. It was a book that influenced Elmore Leonard's work.

I always think it's funny how some newbie writers think they can write an entire novel without using a 'said' tag. Like it's going to be the best book ever because they heard that said tags were frowned upon or something. I guess sooner or later we all come to realise that said tags are perfectly fine to use in moderation.

I'm always amazed at how polite you Brits are. I was raised by a German mother. Consequently, my childhood was the polar opposite of polite. It comes as no surprise to me that you won the war. Politeness always trumps harshness. My debut novel, The Year of The Cat, has been submitted to an editor. As I anxiously await her verdict, I'm playing around with ideas for my next story. I hope to avoid the nervous breakdown I experienced with my first book when edited as I wrote (talk about driving with your foot on the gas and breaker peddle) by embracing the concept of a Zero Draft. I greatly appreciate your video. You both did a great job, and I'm inspired.

"With the tweed hat perched on his head, Tim slipped into character once again." The professor ended the chapter with a plot twist and walked away, oblivious to the students' gasps. ===Tried to remove 'said' with an action. Thanks for the video, Martin. Always look forward to these.

Recently I've started to prefer when writers use "said" even when following a question. "What's that?" he said.

Incredible video!

Do you have a suggestion on how to use a conversation as a hook?

I wrote a haiku in high-school. When I got curious about poetry I found a list of 15 poem types on a website and experimented. I like the villanelle. I liked coming up with new poem templates during that season. I like using Rhymezone if I'm stuck but I try to rhyme by writing words from my vocabulary off the top of my head. I admit that I don't like worrying about syllables when writing poems. Writing Poetry and reading it out loud helped me let go of burdensome thoughts and feelings I felt like I couldn't speak to family of friend's in person. It helped me let go of things. I also wrote a poem to help me mourn the death of our beagle mix.

What are examples of book category? Does that just mean fiction/non-fiction?