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@kenneth1767 4 күн бұрын
😂
@MrRosebeing 6 күн бұрын
I'm not sure. I can't even master first person. He initially wanted to learn third person, but that was way too difficult for him. He was going to watch a KZbin video on point of view but decided not to, he had better things to do. He watched a cat video instead. Meanwhile, in another part of the country, in a hole there lived a person of short stature that, little did he know, was soon going to find a McGuffin that would start an incredible adventure. You read this comment with incredulity because, you see, you already do it every day and have nothing more to learn regarding point of view. Nope, can't do it.
@MrRosebeing 10 күн бұрын
It's not terrible. It's just writing. It's terrible in a couple of person's opinion.
@kenneth1767 12 күн бұрын
I grew up in a reading family but avoided reading (learning challenges) until adulthood. I was too busy immersed in life's experiences. However after bouts of temporal lobe epilepsy everything changed, resulting in hypergraphia and a verocious appetite for reading, and the desire to tell stories that have emerged.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing 10 күн бұрын
Tahlia here. That's fascinating. I also have temporal lobe epilepsy. It came to light when I was a teen, but I was the main reader in our family. My sister and father read, but not to the extent that I did. I think it was teachers at school and certainly the librarians at high school that fostered my love of books.
@BeyondMediocreMandarin 13 күн бұрын
I didn't get into reading at a young age, and it's carried through to adulthood; I've read very few books period. But videos like yours that are passionate about reading are genuinely infectious and make me want to read. I wish such videos existed when I was young.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing 13 күн бұрын
Oh, it's great to hear that you find it inspiring. I honestly don't know what I'd do without having a good book to read. It's so much better for your brain than scrolling mindlessly through social media. They say that the only reason people don't read is that they haven't found the right book. So I hope you find the right books. I plan to do a quiz sometime to help people find the kinds of books they might like.
@jakobw135 16 күн бұрын
1. Listening to you ladies, really peaked my interest. OR 2. I loved every moment of your revealing conversation! Yours Truly, A HOPEFUL writer. 🖐️☺️👍
@RoseNewland 17 күн бұрын
Nothing worse than starting reading a new book and having to wade through a mass of lore/world dump before even deciding if I like the main character yet. 😅
@bethelshiloh 25 күн бұрын
Thank you ladies.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing 18 күн бұрын
Our pleasure
@bethelshiloh 25 күн бұрын
I’m with you. I need SEVEN.
@RoseNewland 26 күн бұрын
Hear hear!
@RoseNewland Ай бұрын
Lol
@RoseNewland Ай бұрын
Ohh the joys of technology 😂
@kenneth1767 Ай бұрын
We as writers need to step up our game and think outside of the AI box. Subtext, metaphor, analogy, parable etc. Every time we use AI we are robbing our creative genius doing what it loves do. I can understand using AI for research, but the quick fix will alienate us from the journey of surprise discoveries. AI will never get Qualia, as Federico Faggin showed in his book Irreducible. We will reinvent at every threat of takeover. This is the human response.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Tahlia here. I agree, and the more we give our tasks to AI, the more skills we lose ourselves. Look at calculators. My generation can multiply in our head and get an answer much faster than our children can reach for the phone, open the calculator app and type in the numbers to get the answer to a simple problem.
@chelseyummali Ай бұрын
Love how you match! ❤
@chelseyummali Ай бұрын
I am loving your channel so much! Why do you only have 1k subscribers?! I'm currently writing a manuscript and this one feels different...feels more important. I struggle to finish my 1st drafts so I'm watching writing videos to give myself a little more assurance. I only have a couple writing friends unfortunately. Be my friend? Haha 😄 I'm on a marathon for tour videos.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Hi Tahlia here, I'd be delighted to be your friend. I glad you find our stuff helpful. As to why we have so few followers - no time to do what's needed to get them. Too busy editing and publishing our author's books.
@chelseyummali Ай бұрын
@AlkiraPublishingEditing I feel ya. I've had 3 online businesses in the past 10 years and I finally just threw my stuff on Etsy and said a little prayer. I'm so tired of marketing and "showing up" on social. I have better things to do like writing a book 🤣
@jasonsomers8224 Ай бұрын
5:00 At least as an isolated sentence, I liked the sentence that started with a participle.
@ExplicitPublishing Ай бұрын
Erm, you cannot run "through" trees, a fault shared by both,
@kenneth1767 Ай бұрын
Yes, I can attest to this; the character knowing what's best for the story. I had a character insisting a certain piece of poetry be inserted earlier. I resisted, and I then had the image of us both tugging on the page till it was about to tear. I relented. And the story was better for it. My question is How does the character know the bigger picture that I have yet to discover? And, does the character not fear that I could orchestrate revenge through them having some nasty accident later on? But even in their foolishness they are wise and unselfish. For the sake of Story they prevail. The domains we enter have a worlds of their own. Mysterious, magical and sometimes frightening. Thank you for the wonderful chat. This format is great.
@FBI_Cyber Ай бұрын
I love worldbuilding, but I always run into the problem of not knowing a damn thing about how real life works, especially when it comes to politics. So I tend to gloss over that aspect of my writing and just “cow tool” the whole thing.
@RoseNewland 19 күн бұрын
😂😂 I feel that pain
@Quietcloud Ай бұрын
I know I'm finding this video very late, but it changed everything for me in editing my manuscript. The explanation about "telling" in prose as "reporting on the scene" really spoke to me. And I also had too many -ing verbs!
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Glad it helped!
@pratapanurag757 2 ай бұрын
Hey, really liked the video🙌! I was Wondering if you'd ever be interested in expanding your reach? I could extract up some super catchy short clips from your content, perfect for grabbing attention. They'd be subtle additions but make a big difference. Let me know if that's cool, or if you just wanna chat video content!
@kenneth1767 2 ай бұрын
I'm binge watching. Thank you for these videos.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Glad you like them!
@SquarestPants 2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your insights, I have been eating up all the advice from your videos, I found a copy of your book which has been a real eye opener. Truly grateful I discovered your channel.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
I'm pleased about that.
@rachelthompson9324 2 ай бұрын
I've published 8 books so far and I'm working on the next. None of them make money...yet. It doesn't matter I will push on. None of my books are sub par.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Selling the books is tough. There are just so many out there. We publish great books, but selling them is another matter. Our authors write and publish with us because they love writing and getting to hold a beautiful product in their hand. I think that's the right attitude, otherwise you're likely to be disappointed unless you have lots of energy or big bucks for promotions.
@rachelthompson9324 Ай бұрын
@@AlkiraPublishingEditing Yeah, it's not easy but I'm going to stop.
@JCKHayala 2 ай бұрын
you write in body language, don't use said at all
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Yep. That's the way. But sometimes a 'said' or two is necessary.
@jennyts-s6v 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this information. Very helpful
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@RoseNewland 2 ай бұрын
A book trailer made with AI for a book about AI. AI ception!! Still impressed at the new ability to make a main character cohesive across artworks.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Yeah, it's only just become possible. Takes a bit of know-how though.
@DefektiveEnvy 2 ай бұрын
Loved these tips with comparative examples! My question is: when using ed sentences, “john walked, sarah smiled,” how do you avoid it getting repetitive? I think a lot of novice writers use the present participle to begin sentences to break up the repetition of subject verb sentences.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Sometimes using a present participle beginning a sentence works well. The advice is not to overdo it. Once in 10,000 words is fine, and it works well if the 'ing' is an internal something, like thinking or feeling something because that can happen while another action happens. On top of that there are many other sentence construction available that the 'John walked' structure. This is why working with a line editor is so important, even if you only can pay them for 3 chapters, you can learn from them and do it yourself for the rest of the book.
@GailAnastasion-vf9ej 3 ай бұрын
where can I find the video lesson on creating a book summary
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Good question. I'll note it down as an idea for a video somtime. You're probably more likely to find a blog post on it somewhere.
@Dawn8022 3 ай бұрын
" Like a shoot" ????? All the example you give sound terrible to me
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
I don't like some of them either. It's hard to come up with good ones on the fly during a conversation like this.
@ArtemHahauz-nm7bk 3 ай бұрын
The more authors are aware of all these tips, the better global writing industry becomes. Thank you! Best regards from Ukraine. There's a big blackout!
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Absolutely. That's why we make these videos.
@Zigurat7 3 ай бұрын
So every novel ever written (of about 90,000 words) that used an “ing” verb to start a sentence more than 9 times is bad. Okay.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Not necessarily. Nothing in writing is that cut and dried. Depends on how well those present participle beginning sentences are used. Are they combining two actions that can't be done at the same time? (ie impossible and therefore jarring.) Are they grammatically correct? Or do they combine an inner action (like thinking) with an outer action, which is a good use of the construction, and are so smoothy flowing with the rest of the writing that you don't notice it? And are we talking about 20 or 200? The point for authors is to be aware that it's a construction to use occaisonally and not to overdo it.
@timmellis5038 3 ай бұрын
"A Little Life" is 4.33 on goodreads and is suppose to be awfully depressing. I can't bring myself to read it. I imagine, though, in the end it's probably a positive character arc... but even the image on the cover scares me off. Have you read it?
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
No. If a review says a book is depressing, I won't read it.
@franzifrooo1 4 ай бұрын
I love your books! So does my husband and my best friend. Sensitive, deep, authentic, so real, never predictable, so realistic and still such special encounters in people’s lives that changes them on a deep level. Love your books. They give me more every time I read them and add to a life full of realness, compassion, authenticity and humanity and also bravery that I crave for. Very interesting about Amazon publishing too. Those algorithms seem scary and maybe the are too in certain ways but they can also be amazing for enriching people’s lives by getting them closer to what they are actually looking for.
@Michelle-eu5jm 4 ай бұрын
I just finished reading the book and I loved it so much! It’s not something I would normally read but it was definitely worth it. The book made me extremely emotional but overall I am glad it had a happy ending.
@anthonycosentino463 4 ай бұрын
I've never heard the word Journey A hundred times in a video before. I don't ever want to hear it again for the rest of my life.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
LOL. It's kind of hard to talk about inner and outer journeys without using the word. Oops, now you've heard it again. Sorry!
@ejenglin 4 ай бұрын
Yeah. That happens to me a lot. 😂😂
@RoseNewland Ай бұрын
😂😂
@consciousnesswithpetesmith2753 5 ай бұрын
Great video as I contemplate my next book, after you did such a wonderful job with the last one. Thanks for the fun way you offer your wisdom.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing 4 ай бұрын
Thanks Pete. There are so many people delivering information, we thought it would be nice to do it in a different way.
@VinnyTheory 5 ай бұрын
This must be the best video on this on the internet
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Thanks. I hope heaps of authors read it so we all have better books to read.
@anthonyw2931 5 ай бұрын
awesome content. very informative, but it's especially lovely to see the chemistry between the two of you.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing 5 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@anthonyw2931 5 ай бұрын
you got cats, mother-daughter banter, comedy and...erm dogs? If not, pretend I don't exist, and I'll just quietly watch.
@Dawn8022 5 ай бұрын
Why cut the music from the prose?
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
'music'? I don't know what you mean. These tips are about creating beautiful writing.
@JadeJuniiper 5 ай бұрын
You guys are SO cute 😭 you are definitely a sunny happy place
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Aw gee, thanks.
@yapdog 5 ай бұрын
TELL ME! *_TELL ME, ALREADY!!!_* 😤 ....... Oh. (ahem) Thanx😌 I like the name change, and totally appreciate your reasons for doing so. Best of luck!
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Thanks. You gave me a smil with this comment.
@Tatyana2006 7 ай бұрын
This was very helpful! Thank you!
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@delstanley1349 8 ай бұрын
Starting (😬) a sentence with an "ing" ending word can be used once in about in every 10k words. OK, gotcha! I choose to use my allowance NOW, at 10:29, Tip 3. "Hearing about the coming rain, John turned off the sprinkler." This sounds more "immediate" (to me anyway) than the other two, or perhaps it has more of a sense of urgency for John to take action. The two sentences above sound like John is acting on second-hand information, hear-say, or even a rumo(u)r, and he is acting because of it. Using (oops) the pp in this case "Hearing," it sounds like John is doing the hearing "with his own ears" and turned off the sprinkler because HE had direct knowledge. That's my take on it anyway, it rolls off the tongue better---if that's worth anything. I agree with all the other examples you presented. Loved the video, it's fun! Thanx.
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Good spotting. That wasn't a good example for me to use in the 'don't do' context because it is an instance where starting with an 'ing' ending participle actually works quite well for the reasons you say. I find coming up with examples on the fly during a conversation isn't easy.
@apurvamohite524 8 ай бұрын
This is the first video that actually gave me helpful tips. Thank you so much for making it easy to understand!
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@HORSESNDOGS9 8 ай бұрын
You ladies are amazing! I've recently come to terms with how weak my prose are in general, and it's as if I'm starting from ground zero 😂. But, this video was so well done, easy to follow, and it encouraged me a lot! I've been writing for myself for so many years to get plots and characters fleshed out, so now that I'm working to get things written and published, i started to get discouraged. This is a wonderful video to help pick myself up. Thank you!
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Thanks. I'm so glad you found it helpful.
@PBCurtis 8 ай бұрын
The two of you are so funny. You could lose your plot....where did my plot go?😂
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
Oh yeah, I do lose the plot, but luckily we can edit those bits out.
@PBCurtis 8 ай бұрын
Thank you for teaching me about writing better prose, using an active voice instead of a passive voice, and getting rid of empty openers. So helpful with my writing. 😊
@AlkiraPublishingEditing Ай бұрын
I'm pleased we could help.