BAD Writing Advice I Hate

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In this video, I share pieces of writing advice I hate.
Some of these tips may not come as a surprise to you. But everything I share here is just my opinion. If you resonate with it, awesome, but if you disagree, that's totally fine. Comment below and share your thoughts on the pieces of advice I shared 👇
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@TS4072 3 месяца назад

The Gist: Don't read in your genre. It's important to understand the genre you are writing in. Never use adverbs. Adverbs can be useful in certain situations. Use complex words. Use words that fit the tone of your writing. Only write when you're inspired. Discipline is important for writing. Listen to all of the feedback you get. It's important to be selective about feedback. Only focus on plot when outlining your books. Consider other elements besides plot when outlining. Always outline your story. Some writers prefer not to outline their stories. Prioritize quantity over quality of work. Focus on writing good quality work. Said is dead. "Said" is a perfectly acceptable dialogue tag. Let the characters write themselves. It's important to actively develop your characters.

@akale2620 3 месяца назад

In romance people expect happily ever after. Not romeo and juliet being the most popular romance ever.

@WritewithClaireFraise 3 месяца назад

I would argue that Romeo and Juliet is actually a tragedy. It's a fantastic story, but as a reader, I like reading different genres to experience different things. I usually pick up a romance when I want to be happy and read about two people falling in love, so I would feel frustrated if a book was marketed as a cheesy romance and it ended with both of the main characters dying. I like to know what I'm signing up for when I read something. Tragedies can be wonderful and important stories, but they give the reader a different type of reading experience. If I go into a book knowing that, I enjoy it more 😄

@Raekyzz 3 месяца назад

Finally someone said it. Not every advice serves all writers. Awesome video, congrats.

@WritewithClaireFraise 3 месяца назад

So glad it was helpful!

@davidlovingmusic 18 дней назад

Im loving your videos and just picked up They Stay on the strength of them. The “no adverbs” advice always seems weird to me because it’s basically editing advice not writing advice. When you’re in a creative flow getting a draft down, who cares about adverbs. These are things to fix in a line edit, not in the midst of trying to turn ideas into words. Also glad to hear someone who understands the value of “said” as a dialog attribution. It worked for Robert B. Parker for decades! Thanks for a great vid. Keep it up!

@waypay1 3 месяца назад

Great list! RU-vid is full of "Quantity over Quality" creators. Nanowrimo contributes to that, imo. There's more to writing than word count. A great story can be a novel or a short story or an essay, but a half-finished 600,000 random word count isn't ever going to tell a complete story.

@WritewithClaireFraise 3 месяца назад

I completely agree!!

@MrNoucfeanor 3 месяца назад

I'm a pantser but still create a basic outline. Without some A to B goal of the tale, I tend to end up writing massive manuscripts that go nowhere.

@WritewithClaireFraise 3 месяца назад

I do the same thing. A basic outline helps me a ton with that!

@brucewayne5201 3 месяца назад

how many beta readers you think would be suitable before i send it out to an agent?

@dukeofdenver 3 месяца назад

As someone whose "characters wrote themselves"😂 I think I can offer some perspective. It happened because I was crafting characters based on archetype (the wizard, the trickster, the prince, the damsel), rather than from their underlying trauma. So mid way through the story I wanted some of them to do the genre conventions of their archetype, but the foundational trauma I'd set up for them was misaligned with the genre convention of that archetype. So I had to capitulate and write what my character would actually do, deviating from the genre archetype. No one had taught me about writing from the underlying trauma then. These days I do that, and I don't get the "character resisting" feeling much anymore 😂😂

@WritewithClaireFraise 3 месяца назад

This is really interesting. It's the best feeling when your characters feel alive on the page!

@PaulRWorthington 3 месяца назад

I think the first few 'bad advice' ideas you are justifiably criticizing here is the sort that comes from writers who want to impress other writers more than they want to successfully tell entertaining stories. Their goal is "the quality of the prose" more than it is prose that gets out of the way of the story. (Of course as I typed that I thought how it's not entirely true as a leading "no adverbs" advice giver is Stephen King who is primarily driven by telling a story, not typing impressive prose. So I guess the only truism is "opinions differ on this matter.")