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Every single sentence you speak ends in a question. Say something. Make a statement.

These tips are great, and can be learned really well by reading or even writing poetry.

Buy a 4runner; the Bronko is vastly overrated.

Turned off after 30 seconds - sticking up for women and womens spaces is not a problem for me.

This is necessary for me; I was laid off from my job, and I have time! I have multiple stories started. I need to finish and get rejected!

It is true to the core

Your hair looks beautiful!

Wow. Outlines are terrifying.

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Thanks for sharing, such a powerful video! I feel that my limiting beliefs were so similar to yours, you sharing them made me feel like I'm not alone and the positive beliefs were definitely inspiring. Love your videos and instagram, keep creating! Love from Brazil

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"What's going to change the universe the most for me right now?" "Adding to this outline is what's going to change the universe the most for me right now." Totally relate to that feeling.

You are already a pro but looking forward to your first published book!

I live in VietNam and it's impossible for me to attend any class because it's too expensive😢. I'm glad i found this clip. Thank you for the review❤❤

Keep writing💯 ill always read your work🥰

Have you thought of getting concept art commissioned for some of these characters? (Like Alvina, Mera, and them)?

What does this one mean? Treating like a character?

It always surprises me how TINY everything used to be. Houses. Chairs. Beds. Balconies. I'm quite tall, and I can barely fit in many historic rooms.

I really enjoyed this - thank you very much. One piece of (hopefully constructive) criticism would be to work on however you are porting the sound in from external sources. In my car, there was a really bassy thrum or hum during Gaiman's audio. It was unrelated to his voice and was there during silences and pauses. Less noticeable on less bassy sound systems like my earbuds or phone speakers, but very noticeable on a decent sound system. Worth noting that my car's audio is stock - I haven't chucked a bunch of subwoofers in it or anything 😂. I'd watched another booktuber do a breakdown on this class, also using the audio, and it wasn't present in that - so I just thought i'd mention it in case you were unaware 🙂. While on that point, yourself and the other booktuber had a little overlap, but a lot that didn't overlap too. It was well worth watching yours, even after watching his - so thank you once again.

Whenever I feel uninspired in my writing, I visit your channel for inspiration! Your videos have been a comfort to me for years (omg, years! I can't believe it). Thank you for taking the time to make & share your videos, I don't know what I would do without you!

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this was me with Harry Potter knowing all the spells that could solve my problems as a teen lol

4:52 I'm doing that with my screenwriting software for my mini series! It's helping me with my rewrite! Thank you for sharing your process, Sara! :D

Thank you for this! 😊

And because you're awesome, Sara!

This is why you are so great to follow! Good luck!

Dude! You look like abbie emmons! Like lowkey

Timestamp 8:28 yes I followed complely without confusion at all. 😂 (not being sarcastic actually did follow)

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Maybe they are on a lunch break

Literally, me every day...lol Thanks for sharing. We are def not perfect, but we keep at it. Some days we end up procrastinating more than productive work and that's okay too.

So, how much cash did you get so far, and did it help soothe the disappointment?

😂😂😂 for me it is flying cars, warp drive, and lightsabers but yes.

It's not GOT but I'm now reading When the Moon Hatched.

Ikr. 😂

Do not feel discouraged, I also feel like I have no idea of what I'm doing when I'm editing/making sense of this in any novel. This is the part no one talks about in writting a novel. Outlines help, but there is a lot of work that happens organically and it sucks when you feel you have no idea what is going on. You got this!

😆😆😆 Priorities 😆😆😆💐🍃🌱🌾🪴🎍

Ive never even attempted writing multiple povs in like over my 5 years of hobby writing. This sounds too complicated. Lol.😅. Of course i don't know your story but on the chapter that needed to be earlier but couldn't put earlier maybe you could've started it with "x 'insert time period' earlier"

extremely informative, and encouraging to boot!

Absolutely make a spreadsheet

Resorting to a spreadsheet has happened to me many, many times. There's a fun to it if you're working on a bigger book series or a play cycle or something for TV. Where you are, though, I get the exasperation. That arboretum is such a pickup in mood, even secondhand with you showing us. 12:38 I immediately went "aww da happy squirrels" and now I forgot exactly why I got out of bed angry. It must've not been important.

Love the video! It's not quite the same thing but I think I know how you feel. I have a simulation that I've been spending evenings and weekends on since January. When something goes wrong I have to do a lot of forensics and look at the timeline to figure out which property was happening when and where the conflict might arise. It is really hard to wrap your brain around something when you have multiple moving parts across time!

I feel this so video so badly!! Currently doing a first draft of my second novel (fantasy) and I am so bad at intros, I had to go back and rework the draft or my brain just would not allow me to go forward (what I thought was the inciting incident should actually come after it, hence I had no catalyst for my characters lmao). one more chapter to go and I'm free! Wishing you luck!!

I think something like Aeon Timeline is what you needed here, for future reference!

PD James, cozy mystery writer, said she mapped out a timeline chart for every 10 minutes for every character in her story. She said this helped her ensure the plot timeline was solid and that people were where they were supposed to be or it could be proven they were lying.

Wow that was a good video you have to eat content

I feel you in this one! Reorganizing chapters and putting them in the right order is hard. For my past novels I wrote the scenes that came to my mind and that usually wasn't in chronological order. Visualizing where the chapters need to go definitely helps. What helps me most is the Save the Cat Beats in which the scenes/chapters are playing and the character arcs. That way even when I write not in chronological order I know where chapters need to go based on the beats and the characters development :) Wishing you a wonderful day and sending you love and creative vibes <3 P.S. I sent you a dm on Instagram :)

Hello, Sara! I don't usually comment, but considering you posted this merely 2 minutes ago, I must claim my first early card!

DE definitely sounds fun 😮 These lines are gorgeous!

I find this advice equally applicable to me as a programmer by trade. I'm particularly the type that needs to be reminded of the Steve Jobs quote: "Real artists ship." Left to my own advices, I'm not the type absent creative ideas but overflowing with them. My vicious tendency is to work on something for a whole day, week, sometimes even month, only to generate more and more ideas midway, throw everything out, and start over again. I keep wanting to reset my progress as I keep discovering new and radically different things I want to try, and it's difficult for me to even start trying anything in the first place since I keep second-guessing my ideas and keep coming up with new ones. In my field working professionally, I have looming deadlines and project managers breathing down my neck to keep my habitual tendencies from veering off the rails (I maximally appreciate the strictest managers and tightest deadlines since I doubt I'd get anything ready to ship absent them). Yet my personal projects outside of my work are a complete mess: endless analogues of half-finished gardens overgrown with weeds from neglect as I keep ditching project after project to try something new.