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Best method for me is to listen to Regnum Umbrae - 5 minutes of that amazing music and the whole chapter just writes itself

living out HGTV dreams!!! I love that! I love watching home renovation shows.

I’m doing this to fast draft my 0 draft for July camp nano ❤ thanks for this, Kate!

I already know one of the edits Grammar 😂

Omg this is such a cool method! I might just try it out. Question- did you write 500 words out of the scene, so like dialog and everything you would write normally, and stopped in the middle of a scene if it hit the 500 words mark? Or did you write basically a synopsis of the full scene, using 500 words?

Very helpful and comforting

He also said, "WORK - RELAX - STOP THINKING." He was talking about using Metaphor and Simile in your writing as well. Metaphorical Writing or also known as Lost World Tonality. Best thing to do is buy a good dictionary in that. It's shorthand for description, characterization, concept, and dramatic questions. Great writers use that.

the cat is beyond relatable

Question: But how did you make it work with scenes longer than 500 words? Didn't you have to leave some details/end of scenes behind and it impacted the flow of the story? Otherwise great challenge, I want to try it too :)

Hi Kate, I'm a blind girl and I'm not able to use Twitch because of my disability. Could you, please, do Live write in here on UA-cam as well? Please! I loved them so much! Please, do it for me. You have a beautiful voice and you always motivate me to write, read, brainstorm etcetera, so thank you with all my heart.

Maybe for the pronouncement of the name, put a star next to it and then put the pronouncement in the footnote at the bottom of the page?

Guuuuurl…I saw Butcher and Blackbird in that pile of books. 👀 I just finished Leather and Lark. What are your thoughts? (When you have them, of course!)

I had a name pronunciation issue with one of my scripts. I used my uncle's name, Izatt (EYE-zut), as one of the characters. During the table read the narrator introduced the character as EE-zat. I did the easy thing and changed the name to Earl (my grandpa's name). If you don't want to change your character's name, I agree with the suggestions about having someone mispronounce it, then being corrected. Remember when the Harry Potter books first came out? Before the movies? I had no clue how to pronounce Hermione. My friend called her Her-mee-OWN. One of the main characters from my favorite fantasy series, The Riddle-Master Trilogy, is called Raederle. I still don't know how to pronounce it. The author died a couple of years ago, so I can't ask her. I think it's pronounced Ray-der-lay. If anyone knows, please reply to this comment! Last question: How do I get on your beta readers list?

Such a fun vlog. Besides the cards how do I keep of all the details in my story? Anyone have any tips?

The bat clips!!!!!! I've literally never seen anything cuter hahaha ❣️

At 39:55 - the Black Cat figured out that he would be a good sub-plot character on the pink cards. No one figured out that the cat with the glowing eyes was the culprit all along. dido

I love reading other works it’s awesome and a great motivator to write! Also, red is your color!!!!❤

As someone who reads and is currently working on starting a cozy mystery series herself, I can tell you that the rumor is publishers prefer the murder to happen within the first 30 pages or so. However, in most cozies the murder is the one big mystery. Obviously, the mystery doesn’t even have to be a murder at all. I think the concept is the reader wants to read a mystery, so publishers want that to start as soon as possible to get the reader invested quicker (just like they might want any main elements of any genre introduced as soon as possible). A mystery that is not the main murder/mystery would still serve that purpose. Not having the murder so early on does not mean your book is not a cozy. All my opinion, of course, but I have been researching. 😜

Dimension 20!!! 🎉 hell yeah!

Hi there (long time lurker here 🙂) I loved this video. So much fun! Just for your "You tell yourself the story" I have to try that method on my next project. Quick Question: Do you know the method "Writing into the dark"? Like writing without an outline or even a real clue where the project is headed? (it's like no writer has ever heard of plotting and just start writing 😀) I try that at the moment and it's really hard for me but on the same time so much fun because I'm really the first reader of my story and I don't know what's happening next. It's also a little bit scary... Just saying. Maybe it's something for you too? Or you did something like that already?

For some reason, I have an image of the Patrick Bateman meme where he's walking down a hallway with his headphones on as the representation of the Sigma Reader. He's heading to find all the things the Alpha and Beta readers missed.

With name pronunciation, if it's someone at work, possibly have her see it written down (name on cubicle or something) and asking how to pronounce it, or someone auto-corrects it immediately because they're so used to people getting it wrong.

is smirking in OCD as you use physical notecards AND you are using Scrivener (which has a notecard function) :P No shade, just funny to me! Love the batwings, dear!

Oooh this was a lot of exciting alpha reader fun. I'm currently working on revisions for my main fantasy project. I'm working on writing two different projects: contemporary novel and main fantasy project book 2. I'm going to be trying to plan out a Peter Pan retelling, which I had previously written as a short story, but want to completely retool as a novella. So I've got a lot on the go, as usual.