Came here because of Shaelin because all her videos are awesome. This video is great. It's a topic I've not seen many writing related channels talk about. The tips are simple and crisp and thanks a lot for summarizing in the end.
Loved this. I would add one more thing to the list. Weather. In a few words weather can provide a specific mood. Drenching rain or rolling fog can be ominous while a wispy breeze is happy and oppressive heat, well that's just crushing.
You're amazing. Your wording choices when you speak are magnatising. Intellectual and beautiful. I enjoy and get more out of your tutorials than most. Thank you.
Just started this little AI dungeon story with a good friend of mine, it's super fun so far but I'm not that great of a writer so it's difficult! This was so helpful thank you
hi just found ur channel & i love your videos i struggle with writing sometimes and am thinking of getting into writing little sci fi/horror short stories and the way you explain things makes things so easy to understand and just thank you 🥺💗
They are very similar and sometimes used interchangeably, and the definitions of both terms are overall quite vague and disputed. A common distinction is that the mood is the emotion within individual moments (so it'll change, maybe sad in one scene, maybe brighter in another), whereas the atmosphere is the overall feeling of an entire piece. Mood is like a component of atmosphere in that way.
I was under the impression that specifying anything in your story (in this case the environment) meant that it would play a role later on in the story. But if I'm understanding this correctly, if I were describing a run down pawn shop, I can describe its swamp brown walls and specify the cracked CRTVs behind it's cracked display windows without that CRTV ever coming back later in the story?
Do you have any advice on how to make a piece of writing feel less dry? A problem I have with writing is that I can't really make the writing feel emotional or even feel it at all, it feels more like exposition than showing what a character is feeling or what a place feels like. Let's say I want to make a character blush because their crush said something nice tothem but the chracter that blushed doesn't know that they like the person so they are confused on why they feel this way. I try to write that but in my writing it feels messy and dry and more like I'm telling you how the character feels, than actually putting you in the character's mind and make you feel what the feel.
You would like to avoid telling, instead you "show" the scene. One way to avoid telling is to refrain using sense or filter words like "smell", " hear", "see" etc. because if you do, you are just simply telling to the readers what the character is feeling and the reader wouldn't have more immersion to the story. We want them to feel the emotions, not just know what your character is feeling. Another indirect way, for me, is yo absorb more materials whether it be books or films in which you can use to internalize the emotions or scenes you are writing. When you're writing about love confession but you never have experienced that in real life, it could be difficult to write the scene so maybe watch or read stories so you can relate yourself more. Of course, you should also internalize your own story.
Pls do not mind but your talks lack Clarity due to your pronunciation. You do not open your mouth fully but eat up the words in a hurry. Hence it is difficult to understand what you utter. Can't you improve your presentation to the Level of Clarity? Like Barrack Obama!! Hope you have heard him in your lifetime.
It is amazing how much information you pack into a short video. Wonderful tips. Can I tell you how much I love that you summarize the video at the end and break it into chapters that makes it easy to review specific parts Thank you.
