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The Ultimate Guide to Writing Craft Books
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2024
- This is the magnum opus of my channel. Seriously folks-it's only downhill from here. I have peaked.
My Save the Cat Writes a Novel Read-a-long: • Video
TIER RANKING writing craft books video: • Ranking Writing Craft ...
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Hello! waves I'm Lindsay-a bonafide bookaholic and children's fantasy novelist. On this channel you can expect writing and book related content including discussions, vlogs, writing process videos, recommendations, and more!
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Love this wrap-up! I definitely have to read the Anatomy of Story!
Thank you so much for this list Lindsay! I have some of them, and I agree with your assessments on them. Will totally be ordering some of these that I don't have.
Also, can we talk about the DEDICATION! All these craft books in such a short time.. truly a servant to the people lol! Endued with the powers of big brain too, no doubt, after all that!
there is a fine line into madness I might have crossed...but thanks! LOL
I have watched countless book craft videos to help me write better, and by far your video was the best 100% Thank so much
that's amazing! Thank you so much!
This was fantastic! And still with you on the middle with Save the Cat.
Thank you for organizing these books into categories for a concise review! Very helpful for me to figure out what to buy
Thanks for doing all of this! There are a few of these that I was kind of interesting in reading, but wasn't sure it was worth it, and so this helped me with my consideration.
yay! haha glad it helped. :)
I've been waiting for this video ever since you first mentioned working on it! I just finished On Writing and loved it. I agree with you that it's not much of a craft book, it was just interesting to find out more about Stephen King's journey.
Ah this was amazing! Thank you so much for making this video! Definitely going to get some of these books!
I've written 30ish books and have never read Save the Cat Writes a Novel. So I bought it today lol I don't want to be the only authortuber who hasn't read it ;) I DNF'd Creating Character Arcs but I want to pick it back up. I'm currently reading Wired for Story by Lisa Cron #alwayslearning
I just found this video, and Lindsay, I have to go buy two of those books! You did great reviews. Nice job!
This was a really interesting and useful video :-) And I'm so glad you said Truby is condescending, that's exactly how I feel about the book!! I've tried to read it three times and haven't made it more than about 20% because he's so mean to "most mediocre writers"! One day I'll get through it :P
haha he IS! it's so bad. I totally understand why some people don't like it
Creating character arcs is a book I’m actually considering for a future book club read!
Laura Writes I DNFd it, but if you pick it, I shall finish it :)
The book that really helped me understand genre conventions, though it is also really good for editing your book from a story standpoint, was The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne. If I could teach a creative writing class, that book would be the required textbook for the class.
oh wow that's amazing! Thanks for letting me know and I'll add it to my TBR list!
what a useful video! Thank you so so much for putting in all this work to help us! Just ordered the character traits book!
glad I could help!! and yay! I hope you like it :)
@@LindsayPuckett omg this is the most useful video ever. i keep coming back to it for reference. So helpful. Right now I am writing a novella in my native greek and I needed a ton of help with so I went the book on arcs. So helpful! THANK YOU! Ευχαριστώ.
Girl, I'm just impressed your brain didn't explode from all the information! Great job!!
haha it still might!
Apart from Save the Cat, I haven’t actually read any craft books, because I don’t learn well by reading, but by doing badly and then doing again, so this is helpful if I ever want to go there. (Although I won’t read On writing because I don’t like his advice.)
Thoroughly agree with your assessment of Stephen King's, 'On Writing.'
thanks, andyallen!
This was most helpful. Thank you.
OMG this was great! Thank you for this public service!
haha you are welcome!!
This is great! Thank you.
Glad you found it helpful!
I thought this meant "guide to writing books about crafts"?! And I still clicked it because I was like "Lindsay writes books about crafts?!" What's wrong with me?
omg no! LOL :)
I strongly recommend:
“Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Thank you! will check it out!
All i had to hear was that Stephen King review and ill respect ur opinion forever. It got such wave reviews from writers, but im like uhhhh no. Where's the writing content. Hes lived an interesting life but i know what i bought this book for.
exactly!! It's wild. And thank you! :)
Out of all of the books, 3 of them I want to buy.
yay! I'm glad to hear it! Any bit helps.
Love it
I've suspected for a while now that "On Writing" is not really a craft book. Since I'm not a reader of Stephen King, I will pass on that one.
I would agree with that decision!
Have you read Robert McKee's books? STORY is a classic. He, too, is a screenwriter, and he, too, is a total douche. But STORY is one of the best craft books I've ever read. Oh! And check out Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks for Authors series. The first book in that series is my personal bible. I write every novel in eight sequences, now. It works so well!
Ooh thank you for the recs! I will definitely be adding them to my list!
Save The Cat, I think, is the sacred book of Authortube
for sure haha
The Most Holy Tome of Ancient Wisdom
oh you don't have fun reading reference books? guess you aren't a REAL writer.
also wow reading all those craft books back to back? your poor brain, I don't even want to imagine how badly you want to revise everything you've ever written now xD
I've only read Save the Cat (I knooooow I need to read more oops) and wow I basically wanted to revise everything I've ever thought about writing
LOL I am still moosh. Will always be moosh. May never recover.