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How to outline a script for your YouTube video #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

How to outline a script for your YouTube video #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

How to outline a script for your YouTube video #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky https://lnkd.in/gQvUQuN5

How to outline a script for your YouTube video #authorsoftwitter #writer #writingcommunity #amwriting #inventingreality

How to outline a script for your YouTube video #authorsoftwitter #writer #writingcommunity #amwriting #inventingreality

🗣🖍 After my novel came out, whenever I met an author, I would ask, with increasing frenzy, how they managed the grisly experience of work going to market. I was comforted and horrified when everyone agreed it could be dispossessing. Then they all said the same thing: “I kept writing and I felt better.” That was the advice: keep writing. The market is the only mechanism for a piece of art to reach a pair of loving eyes. Even at a museum or library, the market had a hand in homing the item there. I didn’t understand that seeking a reader for my story meant handing over my work in the same way I sold my car on Craigslist: it’s gone from me, fully, bodily, finally. Or, as Marx says, alienated. I hated that advice to keep writing, because if I wrote another book, I’d have to go through the cycle again: slap my self on the scale like a pair of pork chops again. Now, I realize the authors I met meant something else. Yes, sell this part of your inner life but then go back in there and reinflate what’s been emptied. It’s a renewable resource. When I grasp this, all of it becomes tolerable. It’s like letting out a line, then braiding more line. I can manage, because there’ll always be more line. I will try to sell this essay to a publication, and if successful, the publication will try to sell it to readers. If you are reading this, it’s a commodity now, fluctuating and fungible, like so much digital dust.

Diving back into writing lately feels like flexing a long-forgotten muscle. It's taking me longer to crank out blog posts and articles, but the focus and satisfaction it brings are worth every minute! 💪🏼😊 #Blogging #Focus #Satisfaction #WritingJourney

I’m finding a way to write about cycling in the Scottish highlands. It’s not that easy. First, it means remembering what I did: - Reading through my journals  - Scrutinising my Komoot account   - Looking at the photos I took  - Listening to the voice notes I made along the way. While doing that, I’m adding whatever random memories come back. I’ve got more than I expected! but day by day, they’re fading. So this is quite urgent. And secondly, writing means a TON of reading. That includes: - Reports of journeys by English tourists (hello Defoe, Johnson, and Dorothy Wordsworth)   - Books about cycling in Scotland (there’s plenty of them, from 1886 onwards)  - The latest in UK travel writing  - A good sprinkle of history. The list will get longer and longer. But as I go along, I’ve forever got this commented from Dr “clever clogs” Johnson on my mind: “I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature, that are familiar to people of wider survey and more varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot but be conscious that my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts of one who has seen but little.” Every word I’ve ever written, for money or leisure, has carried with it my anxiety. Surely those “people of wider survey” will scoff at my naivety? Be that as it may: I'll carry on with this until my hyperfocus mojo runs dry. Have you ever written about your travels? What helped you along? #writing #contentwriting #cycling 

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Does your writing BORE your readers? Here’s the fourth of 10 ways to fascinate them instead: **Be SPECIFIC rather than general** Some otherwise interesting writers become boring because they feel obliged to be “general” enough to speak to a diverse audience. If they’re writing about “summer,” for example, they talk (generically) about high temperatures and ice cream cones, thinking that this is the best way to get more people to relate to them. This is always a mistake. Instead, write about the annual holiday YOU always had on Lake Martin, Alabama. Yes, the Cherokee Bluffs are specific, but their very specificity will give life to your writing. Talk about those specific 750 miles of wooded shoreline and you’ll be better able to tap into many readers’ experiences of summer holidays. Swimming and boating, yes, but YOUR experiences of swimming and boating are unique to you, and their originality will help lift your writing to another level. Specificity is your friend, not your enemy. ✍️ What's your take on this? ♻️ Share if this hits home