I know this is a two-year-old video, but I'm so glad I found it. I am a brand new writer writing my first book and you gave some fantastic examples of filter words and how to avoid them. Plus I love the example of the two characters on the same journey and how their experiences could be so vastly different. Thank you so much
@@authorrachelmorton It's going very well. Yesterday and today I had bouts of inspiration and wrote some scenes I'm proud of. I had to stop to eat some dinner and fired up RU-vid so I could listen to some author advice and watched three of your videos in a row. Your ideas spurred my ideas and I planned out to plot elements of loss for my main character, one of which comes from my own experience, the loss of a father, which brought tears to my eyes even now. That one's going to be a hard 12 write. thank you for the inspiration.
I absolutely understand and agree with the notion of filter words but I always wonder how character names no function much like filter words… I understand the reader may bond with a name on a page, but it’s just seems like something that easily disrupts that immersion just like filter words can.
This is really awesome! Thanks for sharing! There's another great book called The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide To Character Expression. It's a real help when it comes to expressing character's emotions instead of telling them.
I'm really glad I came across this video. You just taught me so many things I would've never realised by myself, no matter how much expirience I got. Thank you
Such great, helpful advice, Rachel. I have never heard of deep POV before, so imagine my surprise to find I am writing it automatically. You’ve made my day.
I appreciate your helpful, instructional voice. It is refreshing to hear/see someone deliver information in a straight forward, non gimmicky way. I'll edit that: I like your style. Just subscribed.
OMG! This was the BEST explanation on creating deeper characters I've come across. The examples were extremely helpful. And this helps me so much with finding ways to describe the setting and avoiding white room syndrome. Thank you, Rachel ❤.
I find my issue isn't telling over showing... my problem is showing too much. My roots in using world building to escape make my descriptions a bit wordy. I hadn't noticed until I packed 10k words into what I thought was half of a short prelude lmao
The way you approach identifying with the emotions of your characters, the "write what you know" reminds me of the Stanislavsky acting method, applied to writing fiction. Very interesting.
Hi, Rachel, so cool what you're doing and I do think you need more subcribers. Right now, I'm at the point where you're talking about personalty and in addition to that I can really recommend to as doing general research: try to dive deeper into one of those personality systems. Diving deep into MBTI has helped me tremendously with describing characters in depth, cognitive functions in general and how an INFJ is different from an INFP (but also from an ENFJ), even though they still are closely related in the way they function. Even MBTI through the lense of mental health, which I am currently studying... Learn all about it and then, in your writings, try to translate your newly acquired theoretic knowledge into what would be visible on a day to day basis... I find it to be a HUGE whell of information and I just can't get enough of it, lol! 👍
Agree with you. This is how I approach character too. (im INFJ) Or as Frederik Hiller says - Care Actor. Every character cares about something whether protag on antag. It's the way they express it.
Rachel, I'm confused: at 0:51 you said deep POV is subjective. At 0:59 you said that objective POV is what you're aiming for, to go deeper within the character. This is how it came up in closed-caption. I'm new and I want to learn from you. This is not any kind of criticism. Thank you.
Sorry, but this is simply self-evident. A "deep point of view", as you call it, is what defines literature - the rest (95 % of what's published today) is garbage, nothing but fleshed-out film scripts.
