I read this just when he said it 😂💀

i think its by mark twain

Sounds like bullisht to me, what is sense? Logic/rational? Like joyce/magic realism?

@@gk411 you have to have an explanation for things in fiction otherwise it will be considered sloppy writing, but there are a lot of thing we dont understand about our own world.

When u sparknotes a book

Not Available Agreed.

Once there was peace. Everyday we lived in harmony Until the fire nation attacked. Because of that, only the avatar, master of all 4 elements could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A 100 years passed my brother and I found a new avatar. Ever since then, i have believed in him that he can save the world.

Hero's Journey

​@@bagofdragonite149 Agreed, however I do think what Spongiest Bob suggested is great advice for beginner writers. It's a well-known process we all learn and go through, but that doesn't necessarily mean we have to stick with it in the end. The suggestion is a great guide for new writers to discover their own style of variety, as it has been said we all find the answers along the way. I too believe that following the rules are overrated but it's safe, and not many people like to take risks in writing.

I like this character/plot dvelopment blueprint. Especially the recurring event point. Thanks for sharing!

Jason Mott totally. probably the best writing instruction i've ever encountered.

This man speaks so majestically on the topic for sure. I have watched numerous videos to garner some perspective along this journey and this video is pure magic to me. Easily, one of my favorite Ted Talks ever done. A lot of wisdom and perspective in such a short amount of time.

Brave and refreshingly original. Imagine his confidence in storytelling ... Inspiring.

Game of Thrones is...It's a clean mess. Love clean messes and stuff.

I was bored. To formulated.

Storytelling is a journey. Plotting is just a map on how to get to the destination. Some people need detailed maps giving every street, every turn to be able to get to the end. Its not the most exciting journey, but it arrived at the destination. This is something beginners should do so they get a sense of navigation and that conclusion is important. Journeymen only need to know some major highways, a set of landmarks and can find their way to the destination and improvise when unexpected detours occur. This is the bulk of stories. The experts, the true elites just need to know the destination and can navigate by sun and moon, by back street and minimal maintenance road. They can take the scenic route and not get lost. When they've reached the destination, they've shown more beauty than storytelling highways, they've shown the world in its fullest glory.

@JTR Hockey Productions Very meaningful and intellectual.

peanut butter with get this c h i c c e n

He's vocabulary is amazing

Based on some really rough estimates, around 1,750! lol

What photographer?

sounds about right lol!

Can't stand it...

lmao i purposely looked for this like damn can u not

agreed. from times to times I come back to watch it again.

Just unknown, like ratio is awesome

maybe you're scared that what you write won't be as good as you want it to be? Even just now I have started to actually write stuff. not outlining or thinking or whatever but actually writing and it's hard and it's not as good as I know it can be. And I even have one passage that I really love but I don't know what to do or where to put it. Even if I have an idea of a character's general arc, where do I end it? I cannot settle on a narrative. but I do know one thing, just put the pen to the goddamn paper and WRITE. You will develop your own style over time, but only over time that is used to write. It is what happened for me and photography, it took about 3 years before I became relatively consistent and I was very satisfied with more than 1/70 photos. But that took many many photos to get to that point and it will take much writing to get to, for lack of a better word, an accomplished level. Your comment reminds me of people who say "if only I had a Leica, then i'd have beautiful photos." You know it has nothing to do with equipment more so with writing than ANYTHING else. I'm not trying to be an asshole but it sounds like you're crying out for a kick in the butt. So get writing and accept that it will likely suck for a while. Write it, edit it, move to the next piece.

Thanks. I really appreciate it. I keep blaming my dyslexia. Lol.

Sound exactly like me... today however, I at least printed out the last draft...

Lol u just wrote my plot for a writer I had been thinking about for a long time

@@joe-lshmoe4803 totally agree

@Ms Alchemist's Stories I watched one of your videos and i really liked it! good luck!

Me too. I have this idea but I feel like what I write is repetitive or not thrilling enough. But when I don’t I feel useless.

@Ms Alchemist's Stories This is amazing! Thank you for letting me know and I will definitely have to go and check out your channel :) I hope you are well and keep writing!

@@adalianantz9793 I totally feel this even now. Just know that when you were totally made to do this and that the feeling you get when you don't write is that passion driving you back into what you love doing. Don't let any self-doubt or fear get to you. I know that's easier said than done but just take it one day at a time. I hope you are well and best of luck with your writing :)

@@xocoolchickxo thank you. I’ve got this idea, too. When I think could really be something great. And it already is, I just have to make sense of it in my head, compress it into the pages and eradicate some of the things that are excess, and learn to work them in when I need to

Very awesome. This helped me so much.

True,kind of disagree with him there. You can have kafkaesque nonsensical-seeming narratives that are still compelling.

Lol

D&D brought to the screen the greatest story ever told. I'm not the one who's saying it, the numbers are there, you can check it yourself. It is the highest-rated series on the globe as of today. No other series even comes close. You can say that you didn't like the ending, yeah l would have liked a happier ending too, but keep in mind that GoT was NEVER about happy endings. That's what kept us glued to the series, fearing that our favorite character could die at any minute. With all due respect, who do you think is right, you or thirty-some million viewers that watch every episode of the final season?

@@signdesigners4146 The numbers are a perfect manifestation of sunk cost fallacy. I watched the whole of season 8 even though by episode 3 my love for the show was very much dead. Just because something is popular, doesn't make it good. It's not about who is right, it's about good writing and if you say that s8 was well written, I have nothing to say to you.

If you’re a short story reader, an author named Paul Bovino has a collection of a half dozen or so very powerfully themed short stories on Amazon in an anthology entitled “Something for the subway.” I remember being greatly moved by the stories when I first read them many years ago, but I understand that there’s an updated edition which I’m a couple of mouse clicks away from ordering.

" If at first you don't succeed ; give up " ?

+James Sykes Filler. xD

+James Sykes Keep sitting in the chair

+James Sykes That's like asking how can I live to be a hundred years old. Just keep breathing.

By sitting your arse down :P

My arse is busy lol

How's it goin w em stories yo

how they going man

did you?

Share one with me

Yep ! " how do you write a story ? ...... " you write a story by sitting down and writing it !! " There is no other way...

That's not what he's saying.

Cunta Canoe I must have missed his point then?

+Tol Beepies Game of Thrones is a compilation of various central characters, who sometimes interact with one another, but nonetheless the reader has a completely different outlook on a scenario depending on which character's head their in. So you could say Game of Thrones is a mashup of different stories, all in one universe

Nishanth Moolam I kind of understand what you're saying. The thing is, the book is not made up of individual stories told from various perspectives throughout the universe, it's comprised of a large main cast segregated into several groups that interact with each other and all work towards one central story arc. There is also no 'main character', thus, my comment.

+Tol Beepies I believe that the central character for Game of Thrones is in fact the Iron Throne, itself. In a sense, it's taken on a human like quality... the central question being, who will "it" choose, or allow to rule... all the while, the struggle between the noble classes to posses it being the obstacles that create the subplots that move the story forward. The beauty about this series is that it can branch off with so many subplots to keep the readers engaged. However, the central (metaphorical) character, the Iron Throne, takes center stage, watching and waiting for a rightful heir or ruler, while the rest of the characters fight it out. I hope that makes sense. :-)

They may be unreliable because of their limited perspective and they may be unreliable also because they have a stake in the outcome. A four-year-old caught with her hand in the cookie jar will tell a story based on what she prefers as an outcome.

Now you are getting into voice, and you are assuming all stories are written to a detached audience with no stake. I would argue that such a story removes itself from the human condition and renders itself moot because it addresses an audience that by your definition remains disinterested.

+star999nine I think you're splitting at hairs here, and you've gone off on a tangent that has no bearing on what John Dufresne was talking about. Dufresne was talking about narrating in first person from the POV of the hero. That POV is colored by the hero's stake in the outcome, which you are saying doesn't influence the outcome. Of course not, but it does influence the narration and makes it less reliable. Whatever your reasoning is, it's wrong in relation to what Dufresne said.

Good luck with writing your book😄

It's been a year since you left that comment, so I'm really interested to know what happened...

How’s it going?

+dearserena But can he durka durka?

Idk what that means, lol

dearserena So he can't durka durka? :'(

And the best thing about it is that most of the time, he told a story as an example instead of just reciting a plain list of tips. He made his advice come alive.

What do u do now.. I mean in job or work?

@@50shadesofdisappointment I taught school for almost 30 years. I do love to write as a hobby. Did you have Prof. DuFresne?

Not necessarily

No but you really should stop procrastinating boy

@@marcinb4647 Cheers mate, I'll write a bit tonight

pussy?

+Zahid Khan lmao

Zahid Khan What's storytelling got to do with vaginas and pussys?

Dude said that he thought this video was like the most inspirational.....i said pussy is more inspirational. Happy now?

pouseylova6 😄 thanks

***** That's a narrow interpretation of what he said. Most of these books you listed are about characters going through life, and the reader knows there is something meaningful they just don't know what it is.

Rotionpotion If you look at the counter-examples, you can see that it's really bad advice, because there's a ton of really good literature which doesn't bother with it. Since writing the post, I also thought of various examples of fiction which satisfies his guidance, but is essentially rubbish. For example, the action TV series, "24", or the 2014 movie version of Alice in Wonderland, starring Depp, Bonham-Carter, etc... Hollywood really does produce a lot of fiction which follows all his guidance in detail. And most of it is commercial rubbish. I've also noticed that since I started listing the great novels which fail to follow his advice - The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Nana by Zola, Alice In Wonderland, (by Lewis Carol, not Tim Burton)... There are no truly great novels I can find who proceed in the fashion he describes. Can you yourself think of any great works of literature which do? What is the difference between the style of writing he describes and the countless classics which avoid this process? Simple - This style of writing reassures the reader or the movie goer that what they assumed life is about was correct. That love is the answer, that heroes can be easily identified from villains by their table manners, that gay people don't exist etc... That's why they're popular and that's what directors don't want to to take on. Other styles of writing which have produced true classics convincingly challenge these assumptions.

Heart of Darkness revolves around Marlowe's obsession in finding Kurtz. And he finds him. That was his goal, which had a result

True, and fair comment, and thank you for giving me an intelligent response, you may indeed have a point. Having read the book, (one of my favourites,) what he finds is not what he expected to find. In the book. I mean maybe you do in fact have a point. Check me as I go and let's chew this over, I'm genuinely interested, because it's too obvious an example to ignore.. The Kurtz in the book is already dying and Marlowe isn't really obsessed as such, he's just doing a job, and at that, it's a job he's totally new to. What is notable about the book isn't the Apolonic "Mission Accomplished" scenario, but a general bewilderment bout 'What's going on, why is it going on and Jesus, what just happened?" It's very clear, as it was in Vietnam, that the invaders were out of their depth, which I think is what the movie was largely true to, (although in the movie, the guy had a mission which he did accomplish). As with Brando's performance, Kurtz is revered as a kind of god, but we're never sure how he came to be so, what role he played or what the hell he was trying to accomplish. He's not like Goldfinger who carefully lays out for Bond how he plans to take over the world. He's a complete mystery. We don't know whether he's good or bad. And so the main statement of the novel, here's my position, isn't "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do", so much as "What the hell are we doing?"

***** - Have you read this book? I read it twice. In what sense was Marlowe's search 'an obsession'? Where in the book does it indicate that he has any personal desire to find him at all. He drifted into a job and was never really told why Kurtz was a priority, just, 'We need you to go find this guy and ask him what he's doing". He is slowly fascinated by Kurtz because everybody else, however at no point does he resolutely decide, "I've GOT to find this guy". Had he received a message saying, "Change of plans, old boy, we need you back at the accounts department, he'd probably have been happy to comply. In Apocalypse Now, Marlowe is given the mission of executing Kurtz, but Hollywood is always "missionizing" the plot. And with respect to the speaker's advice, "If your central character isn't striving to accomplish something meaningful, then the reader will put down the story." exactly what is MEANINGFUL about Marlowe's search? Even after he gets back, we're left trying to see any meaning to his journey, even to himself. It's really not a "quest" kind of a plot. No way is this the Lion King or The Right Stuff or Star Wars.

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