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  @dialecticsjunkie7653Күн бұрын

  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!

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  @nobodyxx560Күн бұрын

  Absolutely genius video. Thank you

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  @chacker21Күн бұрын

  Emotion shed?! Gonna steal that to explain myself better. A chained and dead bolted emotion shed 😂

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  @stevensandersauthorКүн бұрын

  Thank you for this. A professional writer is just an amateur who refused to quit. Love your videos.

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  @waseerahman9615Күн бұрын

  Thanks man, this was truly inspirational!

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  @user-kl6my9wu5yКүн бұрын

  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

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  @stevensandersauthorКүн бұрын

  Excellent. Thank you.

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  @sanjitjoseph8766Күн бұрын

  I Sanjit Joseph, am starting writing today.

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  @naveenprabhu8701Күн бұрын

  I loved these exercises. It was so much fun! Pls share more of these exercises.

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  @KierenWestwoodWritingКүн бұрын

  Another one coming very soon!

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  @sheilaholland7465Күн бұрын

  Thank you. I am working on your three minute writing practices in between work and other work. Just what I needed.

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  @chrisdurham58752 күн бұрын

  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

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  @ChimobiNkwor2 күн бұрын

  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...

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  @helenyoung27692 күн бұрын

  my granny was a writer and i love making up stories but im just no good at putting them into words, any advice?

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  @henrytheworst2 күн бұрын

  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

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  @eduardoshin5342 күн бұрын

  where dd that come from?

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  @Karsongrind3 күн бұрын

  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!

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  @megandunn89254 күн бұрын

  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!

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  @KierenWestwoodWriting3 күн бұрын

  Another one coming in a few days! :)

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  @Viperuk804 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @user-vh6bk3in2f4 күн бұрын

  is there a support group for 'completely stupid writers'....

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  @J_Baxter4 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @TenThousandMethod4 күн бұрын

  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!

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  @quantumindicesfuturestrade68734 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @cariewirick40644 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @cariewirick40644 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @zeniakhatri82915 күн бұрын

  This is amazing. Reasoning are more important in story to actually hold reader and make it more compelling.

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  @sallyj6325 күн бұрын

  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 ❤

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  @KierenWestwoodWriting5 күн бұрын

  That's fantastic! Well done for starting, that's one of the hardest parts done in my opinion.

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  @mightypensword5 күн бұрын

  Funny you mentioned Jon Snow because right now I am reading my favorite book GOT, so both my characters would have been him.

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  @xxmaej26xx6 күн бұрын

  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 🎉

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  @KierenWestwoodWriting5 күн бұрын

  That's a much more concise way to summarize it! Exactly. Thank you! ☺️

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  @frauleinniemand60436 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @feebo45586 күн бұрын

  I want to write this Novel!!

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  @mohammedalmalki89146 күн бұрын

  Thank you

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  @henrycooper84866 күн бұрын

  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 :)

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  @writergirl32336 күн бұрын

  Thank you for this video. 🙂

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  @projoepat6 күн бұрын

  Really appreciate this video 🙏 thank you

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  @zealed.7 күн бұрын

  As someone starting to write my first novel, I can see this will be one huge rollercoaster

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  @jelletimmerman39707 күн бұрын

  I start writting today!

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  @sallyalter60037 күн бұрын

  You make such quality videos. Thank you.

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  @arne80387 күн бұрын

  You really grabbing my hand to write...thank you

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  @AhadAliJamali-gb3sd7 күн бұрын

  Yes Am start it today that made me sense✌️

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  @AhadAliJamali-gb3sd7 күн бұрын

  Thanku for kind reply

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  @AhadAliJamali-gb3sd7 күн бұрын

  🙂🥰

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  @BrittsIndieBooks8 күн бұрын

  Aw. Youre so handsome! Great advice

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  @SueSA20098 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @MBSTARproduction1118 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @WeOnlyEatSoup9 күн бұрын

  Just started writing after putting it off for years great hobby

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  @loreandmorechannel9 күн бұрын

  Just finished my first short story after watching this video. Ty for your support.

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  @KaziMaruf-ik6tk9 күн бұрын

  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.

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  @JackieBeukes9 күн бұрын

  I'm going to to start writing today, thank you.

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  @TedMattos9 күн бұрын

  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."

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  @KingTeo-rj2eu9 күн бұрын

  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!!

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  @apimpnamedslickback593610 күн бұрын

  I’m committed I’ll be back in 2 weeks from now. In shame or triumph

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  @MD-eg3zh10 күн бұрын

  😀