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Paradigm shift. Wow.

Thank you for these videos. Writer's Digest is an impeccable magazine and hearing your perspectives is great.

How do you get information on more of these?

Very interesting

Thanks so much for the visual of the podcast. What an inspirational way to get my writing accomplished. ✍

Very helpful. Thank you for sharing

The underdog and corrupted hero

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He was an opera freak with special affection for the operas of Richard Wagner.

Top 0, I guess.

I hope that the problem with promises really is just that you cannot include a scene or scenes that have no bearing on the main narrative. No reader would know if, for example, you named a character after your cat.

I definitely intend to eventually purchase and access a sampler of the Writer's Digest interviews referenced in this youtube video of Step Back In Time with the Writer's Voice Presented by Writers Digest. I am so happy that synchronicity helped me access this Writers Digest youtube video.

really a total dud.....teaches nothing about pitching and queries.

I think the most important thing to know in world-building is, much like Amy said, to take it bit by bit. Unless the character you are inhabiting is feeling overwhelmed, there is no reason to be overwhelmed in this process as you proceed into the story. BE the character. Feel what she feels. Experience this moment in this place as you would if you were there. World-builder is, in my view, just experiential story-telling.

10,000 words is not a novel. I like the idea. The challenge is fascinating. But trying to make a novel out of 10,000 words is missing the potential to mine the story for depth. Try 1000 100-word stories. I would put my money down on that. He's a very good writer, though.

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Couldn't concentrate on what you were saying because of the plopping distractions :(

Advice for narrators: Avoid saying "um," and "ah."

I hadn't realised until recently the connection between Campbell and psychoanalysis. Which has put me off him somewhat. Psychoanalysis, especially Freud, is harmful bunk. It's nothing more than an entirely invented explanation for observations without any evidence, Freud created a nonsense mythology to join up a few things he saw. It's no different than the early scientists who believed in the aether, or that the sun orbited the earth. Jung is better, more philosophical and less dogmatic. But it's still just his fictional explanation. All that said, the Hero's Journey does function, it's mechanically sound. But it is only the _hero's_ journey. Don't confuse it for the way all stories must be told.

I read the book this summer. It seems like a lot of people haven’t actually read it but are still referring to the theory. It’s very hard to grasp, but I suggest you read the book and ignore videos like this that misunderstands fundamental aspects of it.

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LOVED this series 👍🏾🎬🐉📝

This really helped me a lot. Thanks so much great people of the Writer's digest.

Thanks for the useful instruction! I am working on my first novel and will use all of your advice.

Great commentary but you all need to do much better when it comes to diversity and inclusion.

Unknown unknowns. If feedback is only to the writer's questions, unknown weaknesses in the writing won't be revealed. My critique group allows us to add written questions at the end of our submission. The other people are expected to address the questions as well as point out anything positive or negative they noticed. Many people write that they are looking for general feedback.

I also found poetry to be a good tool for jostling things loose in the brain in longer fiction.

Poetry: better Read than Said Ahem I shall now recite out loud muh poem about muh hamster 🐹 Hammy Muh dearest Hammy Ne’er a rodent you shall be To me, you see… Oh gee I am sorry Hammy Nair from a can I put on your hair Now I can see thee Fur free And I must say You sure are ug-ly But just like Mommy Yer fur shall grow again Regular-ly Now ride galant-ly Thru yon habitrail to Hammelot All wrinkly 🥸

They should not.

This video is interesting and well done.

Good to see the channel being updated again.

Hey Robert, I read your articles all the time, nice to have a face to a name

I’m a writer similar to Mariah and that I’m always marinating and percolating on a story But I believe it’s a combination of both where you have to do a little bit of planning and then there’s all these happy little accidents which occur as I’m writing I don’t believe I’ve ever stared at a blank page because I’m able to shift to a different project which includes journaling As well as writing here in the comment section 😬

Very exciting!

We answer the What. What happened to the who, when, and why?

Hoped to learn something as I'm about to have my own debut next year. Thanks.

Great commentary.

I could nor hear one more UM.

I could not finish listening, Um,um,um,um,um,.

I participated in 2021 and 2022 for the Flash Fiction Challenge. The first thing I got from the challenge is that I could write everyday--even it was a thousand words or less. It means I wrote about 20-thousand words or more in February. That tells me I could write a novel in a year. Currently I work on flash fiction or short stories, but there are days that go by when I don't write. Reading and writing go together so while I did the Flash Fiction Challenge I was also participating in a local library challenge where you read a book, posted a short review for points and a chance to win a prize. The reading spurred the writing even though I didn't necessarily mimic what I read.

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Thank you for the inspiration!

Wow, thanks for the visual of the podcast. I prefer watching when it comes to content like this 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Amazing these are stages we all go through, thus the strata of our experience is timeless. Campbell said at the end of life, life appears as a seamlessly written Story. These myths still resonate in Collective Memory. It’s very empowering to see your life in these stages. Campbell seems to uncover the psychological blueprint of Everyman.

Thank you for giving a lead on how to start writing a novel. Should I treat writing a creative Non-Fiction as a Fiction as well?

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Is it in the movie or book of da vinci code that opening scene is a failure regarding to show don't tell? Can someone please elaborate on taking a few examples of da Vinci code where it has failed so?

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Could you explain more about cinematic style writing? Could you give some definitive characteristics? Is it just dialogue heavy, white room style writing? Is cinematic style writing usually bad? Is there any more examples. Thank you for the lesson and thank you for the Dan Brown example.

In the mid-Eighties I had a incredible time watching hundreds of hours of Dr. Campbell with my Dad