I TRIED WRITING LIKE R.L. STINE // a writing vlog

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Time to learn R.L. Stine's secret to writing over 300 books, outlining a novel in 4 days, and not getting sucked down the hole of writer's block.
0:08 What's R.L. Stine's writing routine/process, anyways??
6:03 The experiment!
16:31 Bonus thoughts & R.L. Stine motivation & also the crappy alternative titles I came up with for Project Death...
☟↓ QUESTIONS FOR YOU BELOOOOOW! ↓☟
D I S C U S S I O N Q U E S T I O N S :
What do you think of R.L. Stine's process and mindset? Do you think you could outline an entire novel in 4 days? (And also....2 weeks. 2 weeks to write a first draft. AHH.) With enough practice, do you think you could get there? (I don't think I could.)
Do you have any authors you might be trying to channel their ~writing spirit~ this NaNoWriMo?
L I N K S M E N T I O N E D :
The writing program created by R.L. Stine on his own website!: rlstine.com/rls...
The Writers' Digest article about his routine and pet peeves: www.writersdig...
A quick version of R.L. Stine's (and others!) writing routines: www.writersdig...
Some quick quotes: awritersden.wo...
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@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

~OTHER "I TRIED WRITING LIKE" VIDEOS~ J.K. Rowling: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dDGt7pJPHIE.html Stephen King: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0UvWU8bEbPw.html Authortubers: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rYI5Rp_mhxk.html Brandon Sanderson: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EJfldHXFKk8.html Shonda Rhimes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7QU0mU2rO3g.html ALSO: I realize R.L. Stine's real first name is probably Robert and not just straight Bob (thus the R) but look...he goes by Bob, okay? Let me be surprised by this bahaha.

@lamarbrown3531 3 года назад

Try writing a movie with robbie Jones

@Alresu Год назад

It's Rbob, but the R is silent.

@stormidutton7696 4 года назад

Goosebumps was my freaking CHILDHOOD. The fact he can write one in TWO WEEKS and actually name it before is mind blowing lol

@manicmuffin 4 года назад

His books are pretty short, though, about 20,000-30,000 words or novella-sized. Basic math, but that's 10-15 days writing 2,000 words a day.

@Alayna1412 4 года назад

As a title I really love The Name of Death! I actually wanted to suggest it before I knew you had thought of it! But keep up the good work, it'll come in time!

@jonathanbaumler Год назад

He’s written so many. I’ve even found some without barcodes and stuff at Goodwill. Just random books I never knew existed.

@bycecelia6633 4 года назад

This is an awesome video. I might wanna try writing like him, too. I love RL Stine, he is incredible, especially with his routine & fact he claims he does not get writer's block. He can do a book a month, so incredible & inspiring. I loved his books as a kid and did a book report on him in 5th grade lol.

@LaHormiguitaLectora 4 года назад

I have never left you a comment, I think. Or maybe I did months ago. But I wanted you to know that you are my favorite Authortuber (can you say that?😂). I love all your videos, but especially your "I tried writing like" videos. Please, keep doing them 💜💜

@rhyegabrielse4688 4 года назад

The only writer I’m going to channel during Nano is you Kate! 😂 You’re so motivating!

@Katlyn_Duncan 4 года назад

I was so excited to this this come up in my feed. I love RL Stine. I met him several times and he’s a lovely man, so humble. 💜

@Kaygrl1 4 года назад

you should try one of those title generators where you put in key words and it formulates different titles based on the words you used. It's similar to a name generator, but for titles!

@frisonietdeprins 4 года назад

I guess I started naming my WIPs after colours too. My main WIP is Project Green, because I use green markers and green tags for it. I used to call it just "Logan" because that was going to be the protagonist's name, but I changed his name to Ravian.

@Antony_Oscar 4 года назад

Writing this comment before watching all of the vid: R.L. Stine also got me into reading as a kid! His books were just so exciting, before reading them I didn't realise books could be so much fun. :)

@Kat_Author2021 6 месяцев назад

How about Death's Price?

@vyankiarivera865 7 месяцев назад

so im not a fan of goosebumps series but im a fan of fear street and im writing books like fear street but calling it scream street instead of teenagers its kids in amityville p.a

@lostinabookcase3796 4 года назад

I just wanna see people walking through a city, holding up their favorite Goosebumps book now XD

@francescogorbechov4192 2 года назад

Kathryn Cavanaugh’s gonna get busted!

@kcesca 4 года назад

The thing with his titles is that, especially with fear street, they are more like miniature prompts. For example: the prank call. If I told you to come up with a 30k horror story about a prank call, you probably could. Don't be discouraged by that.

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

That's an excellent point!!

@amandarowland 4 года назад

In that same vein, you could try out all your potential titles and see if any work as a prompt to continue your story. Maybe one makes you think about it in a different way?

@bytheBrooke 4 года назад

I hear you saying the titles of your book and for some reason think "Say My Name" would be a good title for Project Death, but then I get that Destiny's Child song stuck in my head lol.

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

Saaaaaame. I'm now walking through Animal Kingdom with it stuck in my head so I blame you.

@chenoapatton5895 4 года назад

You're probably not looking for suggestions on titles but one just popped up in my head and I just felt like sharing... Death's Name but it's probably dumb...🤣

@bytheBrooke 4 года назад

@@KateCavanaugh bahahaha!

@bytheBrooke 4 года назад

@@purplehermit Gah! I love that scene in Breaking Bad!!

@suffercore4483 4 года назад

I'm such musical trash that I thought of the Beetlejuice musical....

@TheImperatorKnight 4 года назад

Several suggestions for your book name - "Death Trade" "Death Deal" "Trade of Death" "Deal of Death" "Name Reaper" "Names of Reaping" "Dead/Death Market" "Death Exchange" "Death-changer" (last one is a play on 'game-changer' or 'name-changer') "Hallowname" (Hallow = Saint, so literally "Saint-name"... or even "Saint Death"? Maybe he visits once a year lol)

@spicypumpkins2640 3 года назад

I like Name Reaper the best :)

@TehBuggy 4 года назад

Your reaction to his name being Bob reminded me of the moment it hit me that some of David Bowie’s friends probably called him Dave. Like, could you imagine calling David Bowie just plain DAVE?!

@sarakatieee 4 года назад

TehBuggy oh my gosh, now I can’t stop thinking about this! 😂

@aprilkayauthor 4 года назад

One of the best days of my childhood was a trip to a yard sale, where I found a giant box just FULL of Goosebumps books, and the original owner sold it to my mom for like ten bucks and I was on cloud nine for like a year straight after that. He definitely inspired my interest in horror and my interest in writing at a young age, so I loved this video ugh. Also I’m so excited to see where Project Death goes!

@nikkireigns 4 года назад

My mom sold all mine at a garage sale and I wish I still had them!! The one with the dummy done f'd me up to this day 😂

@unamed1142 4 года назад

@@nikkireigns Quite a funny coincidence, perhaps April's books are yours lol.

@misfitcreates 4 года назад

YOU SHOULD DO 'MY NAME IS..." AS THE TITLE. DON'T SAY THE NAME, JUST MY NAME IS.

@weanikart Год назад

I'm 23 years old Thai women. I fall in love with R.L.Stine yesterday. I read his book for first time, I bought it from 2nd hand store only 10 Bath (about $0.2) and now I obsessed with it!!!!

@BonnieDragonKat 4 года назад

Between him and Christopher Pike.... They inspired my New Adult Urban Fantasy. 🎃👻🍫🍬🍭

@tryingtoputitintowords 4 года назад

Kali Angel Christopher Pikes were everything to me. Have you listened to the teen creeps podcast? They talk about all the old books in that genre. So good!

@andreamalkinson1412 4 года назад

Don’t know if you’re interested in suggestions or if it fits the story but how about, “Death Knows my Name”? I would wanna read that!

@daysleeper1989 4 года назад

the fact that you missed the chance of doing the pun 'He goes as Bob iRL' left me sad hahaha Don't ask me why but I thought you were going to say that :)

@puffin8252 4 года назад

Ive never heard of rl Stine before also nanowrimo in 2 days (it gets closer by the second)

@Judy_32 4 года назад

me too, didn't even know goosebumps was a book series.

@stoppickingurnose7852 4 года назад

You’re getting closer to 30,000 subscribers! You deserve them, congrats Kate!

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

Woooooo! :) thank you!

@CatalleyaStorm 4 года назад

Growing up we weren't allowed to read his books. I remember my older brother getting caught with a whole stack hidden in his closet. I need to read some! Love these videos. Helps me with trying out different processes.

@KaterinaDeAnnika 4 года назад

Catalleya Storm same! I wasnt allowed either!

@falloutchar8029 4 года назад

*were you in Fahrenheit 451?*

@KaterinaDeAnnika 4 года назад

Panic!withsomecoffee Christian Conservative Midwestern Homeschool lol. So no SpongeBob, rugrats, live TV, R. L. Stine, Halloween *anything*, Mulan, Scooby Doo, TMNT, etc...., with Harry Potter til way later and no watching movie adaptations if we hadn't read the book in advance. No game consoles either. Or Pokémon, Digimon, Yugioh, MTG, D&D, etc... Took a LOT of catching up to do...

@KaterinaDeAnnika 4 года назад

You get caught having watched or read the wrong thing and it was hell to payyyy

@CatalleyaStorm 4 года назад

@@KaterinaDeAnnika all of those. Except we were allowed to watch Mulan. Just not anything with magic. I've since become a rebel and now I'm here. Lol.

@xShortyxJordyx 4 года назад

I am also terrible at titles! I called my current project The Crow for the longest time and then was like "help I need a title??" to my bff and she came through with a good one. Like Harry Potter, Goosebumps wasn't allowed in my house growing up (although I wasn't super mad about it... horror was *not* my thing), but I also can't imagine completely outlining in 4 days. I'm having a hard enough outlining in a month... and I'll be channeling my own writing spirit this NaNo b/c I don't think I have the capability to do much more than that (two jobs plus writer life~)

@vivianwakoff 4 года назад

I have a week (5 days) to "discover" the story, working from basic 3-act structure all the way to a details scene map. I'm on the same camp as R.L. Stine: the more I prepare before sitting down to write, the less likely I am to get stuck. In fact, I don't believe in writer's block at all. Period. Whenever I get close to getting stuck in a scene or sequence I just skip to another part of the story I want to write more. I tend to write out of order (as in: write the ending before the middle and only then tackling the first chapter, for instance). I've been doing it for years and it has worked wonders for me so far. This NaNoWriMo I want to channel my inner Gaiman. I'm going to try to write magical realism for the first time and I need all the help I can get. I'm a plot-driven author. Lyrical isn't really something I've done before. I'm not sure I can...

@oldchannelnotinuse8801 4 года назад

I love how inspired you are by him!

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

Yes! A childhood obsession with his books and now, as a writer and an adult, he can inspire me in more ways! It's awesome.

@caesuracrossing5473 4 года назад

Instagram stories brought me here

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

Bahahah! SUCCESS.

@singingsanja167 4 года назад

Oh yes, a new writing experiment! Wait a sec, I'll get my coffee! ^_^

@nocturnus009 4 года назад

Thank you for MORE perspective & inspiration. Color me incited to do the month long keyboard Rumba 🕺⌨️💃... FINGERS AT THE READY! ✍️✏️📖

@EmBurglar 4 года назад

What about just “In the Name Of”?

@leonie9101 4 года назад

I actually think „Don’t Say My Name“ would be a really nice title. :) And I also really like „The Name Of Death“!

@InfidelProductionz 4 года назад

I'm starting my outline today. Yeah, you heard that right. This is going to be a painful month.

@WORDSANDBRUSHSTROKESSTUDIO 4 года назад

I love R.L.Stine.

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

SAME.

@amandadavalos 4 года назад

“What’s in a name?”

@axelmorgan8853 4 года назад

Omg I’m so ready for this

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

WOOOO.

@pipemontesi 4 года назад

Hey girl you totally inspire me you rock keep going!!!

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

Awww yay, thank you! I'm so glad. :)

@SarahCahillWrites 4 года назад

Outlining in four days sounds difficult. I can barely do it in two months (but that’s main my procrastination.) But a novel in two weeks?!? Insane! I love your ‘writing like,’ series. Has doing it changed your writing routine?

@nikkireigns 4 года назад

Yes, could you do a video on the best tips you've learned from this series so far?! Like a guide video of quick tips to reference for those of us who forget things as soon as we...wait, where am I?

@ChelseyFuredi 4 года назад

Even if his works are formulaic, I don't think that's a bad thing! He's spent years perfecting how he writes his books, and it works, therefore he can keep pumping out great books. I find it's the same with art too, once artists find a simple original style that's appealing, it's a lot easier to make more pieces. It's just hard to get there! Also, are we able to suggest names? 'Death by Name ' would be mine 👀

@chloesa4487 4 года назад

Preparing the outline chap by chap sounds scary but it's a GREAT idea. I can't wait to try it out! Thanks Kate, as usual, for creating this series. I'm loving every moment of it. I've also learnt alot through the writers you tried writing like and through YOU! Pls continue this series!

@jemajoy8839 4 года назад

I had finish a first draft in two weeks. Those two weeks were unforgettable 😵. Haven't touched it to edit until today 😅.

@Writer9 4 года назад

I have a story idea that is currently called Death Comes Calling, but it might not really work for it completely. So if that might work for your idea, I’ll suggest it...

@grapefry 4 года назад

Death Becomes Them sounds like the name of a Metal band I would have listened to in high school 😂😂😂

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

STAHP 😂😂 it totally does.

@alyciadweeb 4 года назад

Yayayayay the perfect way to start my morning 😍 Love your videos!

@grayh.8905 4 года назад

I loved his books so much as a kid that they were the only thing my parents could ground me from when I would get in trouble! I had collected almost all of them until one of my younger cousins needed more books to read, so I gave them all away. Your writing experiment videos help me to realize that writing routines exist, in which I have no routine at all (or maybe I do but I can't see it, haha). Also I do agree with R. L. Stine's quote, to write for an audience! Some stories are meant to entertain!

@mvrfilms7151 4 года назад

big fan of Rlstine😍

@rosey4exclaim 4 года назад

The summer before seventh grade, my family had no TV, and I read a Goosebumps book a day (I also baked something every day). They definitely hold a special place in my heart! I've also been trying to lay out a detailed outline for this NaNoWriMo, and aaahhhhhhh I only have two days. o.O

@theclvrpotato4306 4 года назад

Trying to channel Barbara Kingsolver this november

@WriteratWork 4 года назад

OMG, I can't wait to watch this!! And, to answer your second question, the person whose spirit I'll be trying to channel this NaNoWriMo is definitely you. I get that you're not published yet, but I really would like to try the fast drafting method. I usually can get a story finished pretty quickly depending on how interested I am in the premise. I have a list of stories I'd like to get written and hopefully submitted to a couple lit mags over the next two months. Plus...I heard back from that lit mag I mentioned a while ago...the two stories I submitted to them were rejected :( But it's okay! I still have 4 more lit mags to hear back from and two of my stories are "in-progress" on Submittable, so keep your fingers crossed! I should hear back from one of them any day now (before Nov. 24th, I think), and I think it's my best story yet. I also submitted a story that got a higher tier rejection from one of the most respected lit mags in the country to a BIG name lit mag. They pay $2/word, and the story is 8,279 words, so...Definitely keep your fingers crossed for that one! I hope you're doing well and that life is going smoothly for you. Give Duke a head rub for me lol! Take care!

@TheHexedLibrary 4 года назад

I don't know how I haven't watched this one yet but there it was, buried deep in my watch later list, unwatched. Ok. first off, I just had a great idea. You should do an I tried EDITING like so and so video. Because, well, because I said so :P Also, calling yourself out on your book "titles" you're the best haha You've got some solid ideas for names! You're not as terrible at naming things as you think!

@quantwhodratherbewritingak8698 4 года назад

Yay!! 🙌🏻 I’m so excited! 🎃

@KateCavanaugh 4 года назад

🎃🎃🎃

@prologueofzinachia7123 3 года назад

I was investigating the R.L. Stine books, I was investigating a Goosebumps books/stories. 🤔 Who say about Goosebumps? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@Kat_Author2021 7 месяцев назад

How about "The Consequences of a Name" for your project death story (the first one)? Yes, I know you are splitting it up... but the name seems to be a good representation of her learning the consequences of telling someone you name. Right?

@maggiimora7072 4 года назад

The Goosebumps books were my childhood and the Fear Street books were my teenage years.

@adventureswithmadison 4 года назад

I've always tried to outline but I can get like the first four points or an entire like two chapters completely outlined and then I don't know what happens in the middle and so I stop outlining...

@AeSunfyre 3 года назад

Well, I mean... I often write from my heart, but ALSO for an audience. Like, I write the stories I'm inspired to write, but often times, when I'm stuck, I think of the potential audience, what the reader would rather like to read. And I never only write what I know. Jesus Christ, my Google search history. XD

@purpleghost106 4 года назад

Titles are difficult, but fun too. Could always throw some latin at it, Nominis means name and sounds like ominous, which is the right mood for death, so: "Nominis Exchange" Or assuming the exchange is contractual, Legalese for name, but let's give it a framing device to make it more clear, so: "Singed, The Gravely Denoted" (like a hella creepy letter contract)

@michaela2518 4 года назад

R.L Stine literally was my favourite Point horror writer. I got a gold medal at the library for the summer reading challenge after reading The Baby-sitter. Beach House is one of the first books I can remember reading other than Enid Blyton's famous five books. The Hitch-Hiker was the most shocking twist in a book I ever had growing up! He's my childhood hero, and will always hold as one of my favourite authors.

@LessaCaira 4 года назад

There is a quote of him talking about finally getting to meet Stephen King, a person he is compared to a lot. In it, he says that some publication or person (I can't remember who now) said that "R.L. Stein is a literary training bra for Stephen King." Which I find absolutely hilarious. Not wrong but just funny.

@Stikkelsbær 4 года назад

In a similar vein, maybe you should try writing like Bruce Coville :) He my version of R.L. Stine when I was growing up. Not sure if he talks about his writing methods anywhere though.

@madhatter9404 4 года назад

I love R.L. Stine!! Can you do James Patterson?

@sarakatieee 4 года назад

My parents didn’t like me reading these as a kid, so whenever I was able to smuggle one out of the public or school library, I felt so sneaky, and I think that made me love them even more. 😆

@EmptyKingdoms 4 года назад

I would honestly like to see you attempting Gustave Flaubert's process for _Mme. Bovary:_ 2 pages max. per day, at least 8 hours per day on said 2 pages. Write and rewrite until perfection, then move on.

@reginaduke7451 4 года назад

Does watching your videos count as writing time??? *laughing* I think I am using your videos as a reason to procrastinate. I need maybe 5K more words to wrap up the current novel, and here I sit, enjoying watching you talk about sitting and staring.

@AnggiSahamCantik Год назад

RL Stine's book is all about my teenage day 😍 I still remember the saga series was the best ❤

@AeSunfyre 4 года назад

I haven't written 300 books, only a few short stories and fanfictions I published online on a fanfiction-page for free, and I do like Stine's advise regarding this 'writing-from-your-heart-thing'. I'm a nobody in the writing world and I don't have a fanbase like Stine, but I don't really write from my heart either. Yes, the stories in my head I want to write are exciting and important to me, but in the back of my mind I always have the potential people who would hopefully want to read my story.

@suijin25 4 года назад

I didn't think titling all of my chapters would help me but it actually did. I find that often it helps with the setting or direction. Even if you feel like you need to change it. In my current project I changed one chapter names from the very generic "proving grounds" to the much more fitting (all be it juvenile) "Carbon Fiber Hardbody" and boom 17 pages in a night. I know it's not going to work for everyone, but worth giving it a try.

@gristlevonraben 2 года назад

Was it not Steve Allen who said that comedy was tragedy plus time? I think Alfred Hitchcock, though I can't find the quote, said that horror was comedy slowed down. So the idea has been around a while. in truth, though, comedy is not horror, it is the unexpected in a silly situation or manner. Take for instance Monty Python's silly walks, there is nothing horrific about them, just unexpected movements done in a silly manner. The world is odd, sometimes, in Hollywood and art, they seem to desire to build a mythos that is not true, as if their theories and lies will make something greater than it is, but in truth, art when done for good reasons, to please one's self or others, usually others, really does become something greater than itself does it not?

@c.lstrife2829 4 года назад

Can you try writing like Amanda Hocking? She's one of my favorite authors. Or maybe Rainbow Rowell?

@moo690000 4 года назад

Your struggles with naming this has wormed its way into my brain. As I was falling asleep I couldn't help but brainstorm for you. The only one I can remember is "The names in my hand". Maybe this sparks something for you! And I understand you. I am not happy with the name of my project either...

@aneeshupadhya3170 4 года назад

R.L Stine was the guy who got me into reading. It was 'The Planet of The Lawn Gnomes' from the most wanted series for me. What was all of ur first R.L Stine books?

@kristinet.3596 2 месяца назад

He is my childhood hero who got me into writing! I am not a writer now but I think my childhood was crazy! I got so creative when I was a kid and I revisited my weird stories.

@franciscogaelramirez2486 5 месяцев назад

Great vid, I would LOVE, for you to try and write ✍️ like Roald Dahl for 2 days :)

@heathercampbell6059 4 года назад

I completely agree. Just because something has a similar basis as something else doesn't make it boring. My favorite Goosebumps book is number 9 I think it is, the ghost next door… 9 could have been let's get invisible. I forget. In any case, I do remember the story, and while I see very similar elements in all of the other books, there are still some books that are infinitely better then some of the other books in the Goosebumps series alone. Nightmare a fever swamp was great. Shocker on shock street wasn't all that good. And honestly common now that I am 20 years older than when I read all those books, I would probably not like any of them because they're just below my level of reading comprehension. But I can still breathe I appreciate the effort that he puts into them. And I still like the characters and I think the characters are part of what makes all of his books amusing.

@courtneycorboy1081 4 года назад

I grew up reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series - at least what was available in my school libraries. Love most of his books. I hate the dummies and gnomes books because those things creep me out - they still do. His other books don't scare me at all. They are interesting and fast-paced!

@snoopygonewilder 4 года назад

Goosebumps are the first books I remember reading as a kid. Welcome to Dead House came out when I was 8 years old, so I probably read other books before that, but I don't really remember. I do have a copy of Bambi from the first grade sitting in my bookshelf.

@elizalagonia1049 4 года назад

I liked In the Name of Death for a title. I know you don't like it so maybe do a variation like The Name Collector or Death comes with a Name. Something like that. I didn't get into the RL Stine books, but my youngest brother did. I'm glad he's still writing

@pharmacyfox1704 4 года назад

Wait, two weeks? So technically one could write two Goosebumps novels in one NaNo?? #goals

@amandahather 4 года назад

I don’t think having books following a formula is a terrible thing. A lot of the books I read are like guy and girl meet, there’s some sort of conflict, oh no they catch feelings, deny feelings, sexy times ensue, huge fight and/or some sort of drama drive them apart, and near the end they get back together and live happily ever after. Doesn’t mean I enjoy it any less, yeah it’s repetitive but the books sell, that’s why a lot of people follow the same layout

@xfilion 4 года назад

I've never read R L Stine but popping onto Amazon I've taken a look at the number of pages and it looks like he writes novellas. I would imagine, as I haven't seen inside the books, that the font is slightly larger and the spacing is generous to increase the page count. Please let me know if that's close.

@Aimz360 4 года назад

I've come across a lot of books that have the same title as 3 other authors and even several movies. Only difference between them, IF any, is the content. For me "Frozen" is a horror movie where 3 people get stranded on a ski lift and surrounded by wolves.

@WriterGirl719 3 года назад

Greetings from a year in the future! I just did that Google search and he's up to "at least 31." Good job, Bob!

@thoughtfulbeing 4 года назад

I am so behind on my NaNoWriMo prep... I was gonna ask you what program do you use to set up your timeline??? I know you have already mentioned it in a video but I forgot to write down the name...

@deadnamedan6726 4 года назад

I'm finishing up some heavy outlining now. Super excited for NaNo!

@gracygrace.mp4 4 года назад

Loved this! Thank you. I was actually wanting you to do this, and you did! :D

@anastaziakettlewell7064 4 года назад

Writing a book in two weeks would be a dream. I wrote my 97,000 word zero draft in just over 2 months, and hope to someday write that much in 2 weeks. Actually, that would be painful. I just did the math and that comes to an average of 7000 words/day without a break. That could be an interesting experiment to do, though... Good luck with NaNoWriMo tomorrow!! Ahhh!! It's tomorrow!!! Where did time go...

@akoelzerstein101 4 года назад

ALL OF MY SPOOKY DREAMS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED!!!

@dream.Allsummer 4 года назад

All I can think during this video is its not even written yet but I’m already so hyped for Project Death!!! 💀 also am I the only one who actually just really likes “Project Death” as a title? Yeah probably. 💩 I guess it’s maybe not super relative to what the plot sounds like it is, but still, for some reason I really like it ☠️

@shrinkydinksquirrel 4 года назад

It wasn’t his “Goosebumps” series that got me into writing and reading. I was an adult by the time that series came along. However, his “Fear Street” series was pivotal for me.

@FeeBee3001 4 года назад

I was never into Goosebumps because I don't like horror. I tried to read them but the scared me to much as a child. I have his biography and it was so inspiring and I look up to him despite never getting into the books.

@nrivanwrites 3 года назад

your title brainstorming reminds me of this one regina spektor lyric: "If you never say your name out loud to anyone / They can never ever call you by it"

@bodine219 Год назад

Why did I grow up firmly believing R.L. Stine was a woman?

@AoifeMysthart Год назад

This whole time I thought R L Stine was ghostwritten. I didn’t think it was an actual person.

@a.l.i.c.e3436 4 года назад

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! Thought of the crucible when you started taking about the price of a name

@ac8123 3 года назад

I work at a library and he came to a book event we had years ago (and he does NOT make appearances so we were super lucky) and he is an absolutely lovely person.

@shadylady0225 4 года назад

Hi yes, titles are the hardest, I too have a long list of UGH!!! bad titles. I still haven't found the "ONE "yet... I get so inspired by all your videos, love the pupirone too..lol thanks for all your time working out these Authors writing routines, I find them really cool and take a few ideas here and there to make it my own. Happy Writing NaNo this year.