HARSH WRITING ADVICE! (mostly for newer writers)

Whether you're energized by this video or bummed and you hate me, please check out the rest of my videos! My normal style is in-depth, informative videos with a positive spin (no, really). I post regular pep talks, plus real talk about traditional publishing (because it's no walk in the park). Welcome :)

youre mean

I would like to write a book, but I wanted to be published anomalously do you have any tips for that ?

Well, you just angered me to the point of word vomit! WRITE I SHALL!

Thanks!

you know what this right here is absolutely the most useful thing ive watched since i started writing

How do you seek out traditional publishing? So many hybrid publishers anymore that’s it’s put a bad taste in my mouth and I might as well publish KDP

feels kind of relief knowing that actually no one cares😂 i will remember that😊

Thank you so much for this video I’ll watch it now every night before I go to sleep to memorize it

If I can't get moving, I at least write an outline. If I have an idea for a scene, I write it, and build around it.
A slow trickle can fill a bucket faster than a closed faucet ever will.

This is a fantastic video. 🙏🏻 It ignited my Aries energy 😂

"Embrace the suck." Ha! Ha!

I discovered, when I started writing, that people will often ACT like they care when you tell them you are or want to be a writer. Like it’s some cool, beatnik thing. They may even agree to read your draft if you ask. But they won’t. They’ll give it back to you and say they were too busy. It’s like people overestimate their own interest. And if they do read your draft, they almost certainly won’t give you useful, substantial feedback. Because, as you say, people don’t care. Even when they say they do.
New writers always have unrealistic expectations, but it’s not always their own fault. Society is very selfish and dishonest, and hides it behind a mask of false politeness. Everyone wants to know a famous writer; no one wants to help a new writer become famous.
So yeah, if you want to be a writer, don’t kill your confidence by trying to involve people who don’t really care. You deserve better than that. Good beta readers are worth their weight in gold, and should you be lucky enough to find even one, cherish them. You’re going to be mostly working in a vacuum until you “make it”. To make it, you have to be enthusiastic about your own work to a degree that’s almost mentally ill. But you will make it. If you really, really want to.
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” —George Orwell

Thank you for making this video. This is was i was looking for

Thank you for this 😂

I finished my 1st chapter. Already, it's dogshit.

Damn! That was some harsh advice, but some that I really needed to hear. Thank you so much! You are awesome.

You sound like me when I'm so done with everything, go ranting and finally say FU to everyone. Then I leave and show the finger on my way out. It feels so good.

"I quit writing after listening to her." and it's for the better, I recommended every struggling writer to take a moment and reflect on their initial decision, as why they even started writing? If your answer is- just for writer's fame or you wanted to be called a writer than it's better it will be better if you find something else important.

I write like Andrew hussey

I’m 13 and im writing a book, I’ve written books before, and I have an editor. Sooo ya.

i really appreciate the reminder to stop worrying if it's all super original since everything's basically already been done. a decade ago, i wrote a near 1,000 page star wars inspired novel, started at age 13 and finished it by the time i was 14. and present day, i've been sitting here scratching my head now as a grown man, wondering why i can't just start writing like i used to for hours a day with no mental blocks. i think it's because i need to find structure for my own plots without fear of it being like something else, but remembering i dont need other mainstream plots to hold my hand either. everything is just a remix of something else anyway. thanks for being the kick in the ass i needed!

not sure all your advice was correct, but one thing is correct. Writers are a bunch of children that want too feel more unique than they are. Your core message is correct, stop bitching and realise that the odds are stacked against you. Now do something about it. I knew when starting my book, that I was shit, so kept writing and I didn't tell people and flaunt in front of them how I was writing, because that shits cringe and you shouldn't bet it all on writing your fantasy book

I don't know if it is just me, but I thought most of the things she said were pretty obvious 😅

Hey, you. I like you. /p

Life-changing, spectacular, well-made video!!!

Right now I'm doing the hardest part (for me) of writing: Waiting to reread my manuscript to edit it. So many authors stress that when you finish a manuscript you should wait a while so you can look at it with a fresh unbiased perspective. I recently finished two stories and want to edit them so bad haha. I suppose I don't have to follow the advice, but I think the advice makes sense so I trust it. Also, for those of you who think your life is interesting enough to write about, use parts of your life as inspirations for different stories. Usually that will make better entertainment than a memoir anyway. And don't just write what happened in your life word for word and just changing the names of real life people. Take a snippet of your real life, exaggerate and fictionalize it and create new and interesting characters to throw into it, and use it as a base to setup a bigger story. Some examples of this are The Dark Half and Secret Window, Secret Garden, both by Stephen King. The setups for both stories are based off of something from King's life (The Dark Half being based on his pseudonym being outed as himself and Secret Window, Secret Garden being inspired by a crazed fan that broke into his house and accused him of stealing the story for "Misery") but as the stories go on they become their own entity disconnected from reality.

You are such a love damn... I was really nervous just because of your thumbnail....🤣🤣

"Watching this video isn't writing" ok byeee 🥲

Thanks so much for the kick in the butt--this was the best advice I've ever heard on writing a first novel. I watched this video 3 months ago and finally stopped procrastinating. I just dove into writing it. I finished it a couple of days ago, and it ended up at 87k words. I pantsed it, used a notebook for time tracking, and kept a separate notebook for characters as they came up in the story.

Even better: it sucks, but I skimmed bits of it before setting it aside for the next 6 months, and it's definitely a keeper!

Thanks again!

I'll save y'all some time. "Nobody cares about you or your book, you're not interesting not are you talented, BUT that's how you get experience so write the book you want to write."

Really good video💯 not enough ppl are realistic like this

I remember a few years ago just before I quit writing all together, I watched this and couldn’t bear finish it because.. idk maybe I couldn’t handle it. Now I’m back and I’m taking the advice without feeling like it’s an attack on the person watching this video but genuine support because you have to just go and write.

I had set up a schedule to plot my chapters on Wednesdays and write them on the Saturday and before I knew it I had a short story finished.

Just go and write. Seriously.

I really like this video because despite the 'harsh' tone of the video, and even though i know about 0 about reading from my experiences i know how true it all is and i love it

The "youre not original" one is actually a great point. I get worried all the time that I'm subconciously copying someone else.

Super useful information, good advice I think. I have to hard disagree on the point of writers block though.

this dicouraged me a bunge i dont even want to wright it anymore i regret clicking this

2x isn't even that fast...Blk Autistic Baby Jesus neurotypicals think as slow as they talk.......

Thay actually are. If I wrote a book arguing that neurotypicals are mentally ill, who do you think will stop me? Giant mean gatekeepers who don't allow bleeding thinkers to cross any threshold. Reddit? That's adorable because reddit wouldn't even let my username exist. They banned me as I was making the account 😔 because I was arguing neurotypicals are mentally inept. My username was going to be "AutismInPerserverance" but Traditionally Autism girls are not allowed to be Great Minds. Especially if we are not yt. We are not allowed to tell yt ppl how or what to think. Or the true origin of mankind.......well good to know ill just go back to my first passion...drinking 🍸

she’s hitting the hot iron, vigorously so as to strengthen
my will,my thudding heart.
throughout her spoken words,
terror strikes as well
as insights thrown to my souls door steps.
scared to pick it up,
as well as i needed to grasp it.
as it is her afterthoughts after those miseries full of despair.

This is really good. Thank you.

She’s been waiting her whole life to say this 🤣- off jokes though, thanks a lot for everything you said!

Do you have to go to school to be a writer ?

The thing is that now I'll think of three new plots for other books, so that I can write the one I actually want to write when I have enough experience to make it good

This is perfect, Thank you.

I needed to hear this! Thank you so much

Your a good coach!

I don't know why but this was honestly so motivating😅😊

Kindest kick in the ass I've ever received! Thanks. Now I've gotta go write!

you know what? this is truly harsh advice so do not take advice from this lady because she is straight up mean.