I'm Kieren, I make videos supporting and encouraging writers to tell their stories and to have fun doing it.
Writing is hard, but you don't have to do it alone.
This is a safe place, where bigotry and bullying of any kind is not tolerated.
Here's some stuff I've done:
Shortlisted for Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2011
Longlisted for Bridport First Novel Prize 2015
Shortlisted for Fiction Factory Flash Fiction Comp' 2017
Longlisted for Fiction Factory Flash Fiction Comp' 2019
Shortlisted for Bath Novella in Flash Prize 2020
Shortlisted for Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2020
Story 'The Reach of the Light' published by Five South 2021
Story 'Empty Backyard Pool' published by Free Flash Fiction Online 2021
Wrestled with self doubt - daily since the late 80s.
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Very commendable honest self-reflection here. Love this type of video. I think credit where it's due -- Retrograde Radio is a genuinely great title. It has a beautiful ring, it's intriguing and evocative while being ambiguous enough to mean a lot of things. Hopefully you'll find a better work to go with it, would be a shame to waste!
Absolutely genius video. Thank you
Emotion shed?! Gonna steal that to explain myself better. A chained and dead bolted emotion shed 😂
Thank you for this. A professional writer is just an amateur who refused to quit. Love your videos.
Thanks man, this was truly inspirational!
Thanks very much for your great advice sir and I have some questions? I would be glad if you have time to help me. I wrote almost 500 handed short stories and 3 more long stories and I almost good at short stories but I have problems with long stories writing when I want to write I stuck and don't know what to do? In recent times I want to write stories about some semester of my college and my brain stop and don't know what to do? Thanks very much
Excellent. Thank you.
I Sanjit Joseph, am starting writing today.
I loved these exercises. It was so much fun! Pls share more of these exercises.
Another one coming very soon!
Thank you. I am working on your three minute writing practices in between work and other work. Just what I needed.
Thanks Kieren, I’m really happy to have found your channel as your videos have given me lots of really helpful advice and information. I really appreciate them and I also really like how you produce them, the lighting is perfect as it creates a warm intimacy that makes it feel you are talking to each person individually. I shared your channel with an American lady I met in a Zoom workshop on free writing that I did the other day. I’m in Australia. I hope you achieve your goal of doing this full-time. My goal is just to write and get better at it. I’m not considering even trying to get the novel I’m writing now, my first one, published. After attending numerous writers workshops it became obvious to me that so many people ‘s hopes and dreams of getting published, or even just having their story read by an agent were shattered by the process and by the gatekeepers in the traditional publishing industry. It was interesting to hear you are not going down this path and I was hoping you might share why not and what you are intending on doing with your writing? Self publishing or … ? Thanks again for your channel, I listen to one video every night. Chris
I've started multiple stories in my head but never put down a single one, i try and try but it's like the moment i start i immediately feel overwhelmed by fear of not being able to convey the world or scene as i imagine it...
my granny was a writer and i love making up stories but im just no good at putting them into words, any advice?
I love that McCarthy wrote in Spanish. There’s a tiny Mexican restaurant in Santa Fe that only does takeout and the owner is the only cashier. She knows but doesn’t speak English on purpose, forcing you to use your Spanish. Maybe it took you out of the story but taking you out of your comfort zone seems to be his intention
where dd that come from?
Lets go am doing it today i am starting it today no matter how lame my first works turns out I'll still keep doing it anyways letss go!
Love this video!! Would love to maybe see another sort of “write with me” where you talk us through short exercises like that. It was super helpful!
Another one coming in a few days! :)
I decided i wanted to write a book when i was 32, It has always been a dream of mine... Role forward to age 44 and I am still procrastinating. How do I get my arse in gear? I've lost so many years from not starting.
is there a support group for 'completely stupid writers'....
When I go to work on my second draft ny word length usually increases because Im adding things, like mlre flashbacks, more descriptions, and sometimes I even give the charactera more dialogue.
You have such a nice tone! Thank you for sharing these thoughts. I'll do my best to write my books asap. Thanks for your encouragement!
He's amazing. It's not easy. I don't know if it's talent as much as it's perseverance and taking the journey. The mind is more powerful than you think. I'm 67 and sitting down to write those old scripts of mine I put in a drawer long ago. It was lack of patience, perseverance and ideas. Or so I thought.
I have been using your advice to edit my first book. I know you should not write a novel first, but my muse disagrees. I heard a quote, "A good book will write itself." This book and its characters have led me through my changes. I have cried twice. I am just finishing the first 20,000 words.
Thank you for the positivity. When I was looking for writing advice, many authors gave all the reasons not to write. I like that you present a concept, give examples, and explain your thoughts. No judgment.
This is amazing. Reasoning are more important in story to actually hold reader and make it more compelling.
I really needed this. I've been thinking about a story for YEARS! I want to sit down and write it. It's about time.... UPDATE: I just spent 2 full hours, writing a total of 3 pages. That's far better than what I've been doing with zero. And I can always edit and/or rewrite. But for now I'm happy to have just started ❤
That's fantastic! Well done for starting, that's one of the hardest parts done in my opinion.
Funny you mentioned Jon Snow because right now I am reading my favorite book GOT, so both my characters would have been him.
Yes! Get in late, get out early. I used this advice with the latest book I wrote. Reminded myself of it with each chapter. Great vid and congrats on hitting 20K 🎉
That's a much more concise way to summarize it! Exactly. Thank you! ☺️
Guess I did something Like you said in your Video in my novel. My character is a german soilder who comes back to germany into a foreign town after WW 1 ends. Now he is walking over the town hall square, where he and his comrades arrived the day before: The town hall square looks very different from yesterday. There were only people and flags. Now I notice everything: The blue sky is hung with clouds, not tethered balloons or airplanes. Half-timbered houses stand in an orderly row. Flags fly from their gables and roofs. The cobblestones on the ground are clean and bicycles lean against the walls of the houses. A group of young boys play by the fountain and people walk past me. They are talking, laughing or hurrying. It is an idyllic, peaceful town. An intact town, there is still such a thing, not just shot-up frontline villages.
I want to write this Novel!!
Thank you
I've just discovered your channel and I am really enjoying your videos. Thank you so much for all the valuable advice you have been sharing. I am going to be 50 next year and I always wanted to write stories, so there is no time better than now! Have you ever considered creating a discord channel to create a community around writers? I also use VR and there is this VR software called VRChat where people can meet like in real life and talk. It would be great to hang out with you and others to talk about this passion of ours that is writing :) Greetings :)
Thank you for this video. 🙂
Really appreciate this video 🙏 thank you
As someone starting to write my first novel, I can see this will be one huge rollercoaster
I start writting today!
You make such quality videos. Thank you.
You really grabbing my hand to write...thank you
Yes Am start it today that made me sense✌️
Thanku for kind reply
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Aw. Youre so handsome! Great advice
You love to help others, I can feel it, I can understand, and I do appreciate it. I tried to change the channel, but it felt like you only spoke to me, and this felt right. I do appreciate the time you spent to help us, particularly when you said , "If English is not our first language," in my case, it's my 5th, language, it's challenging sometimes. Thanks tremendously.
Thank you for this videos. I didn't go to university for writing. And I did doubt my self too. But I know I have it on me since my first writing I was 8 years old. I been learning process from reading, search, video's like yours. I'm good at story telling but still learning on script writing. My story coming from my own experience. My life story is my teachers. Writing is my savior and my companion during dark times of my life. I have written so far 8 story base on true events with fiction.
Just started writing after putting it off for years great hobby
Just finished my first short story after watching this video. Ty for your support.
Nice to hear from you😊 Yes I'm often doing the same exercise when i try myself to improve my writing skills. Hopefully i can say, it’s better now. My aim to improve writing language skills.
I'm going to to start writing today, thank you.
Regarding seeing things through a bad character's eyes - I used to tell my fourth-grade students, "Please remember. The antagonist is the protagonist in his own story."
Thanks for the advice man, I tried these exercises and it's incredibly helpful.The last one was especially helpful and I started writing a lot more, ideas just came flooding me as I was writing.I started with writing about something as insignificant as me waking up to wanting to write a full on mystery novel.I truly appreciate your help because I really want to become a writer and there's many other things I want to do but I just absolutely love writing, it's amazing how words on a page can completely transport my mind into a whole new world I love it!!
I’m committed I’ll be back in 2 weeks from now. In shame or triumph
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