An outlining method for pantsers seems a bit of an oxymoron. Missed a comma out there because I hate using them.

Really helpful video! Bless you

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Would you consider sitting under a hooded dryer with deep clean on your hair to putting heat on your hair? And something to avoid?

Thank you so much for the information. I believe your video is the best video that I've seen and understood. I'm just starting off writing to be on KDP but I have done a lot of journal writing to myself. Not understanding how to do this for the public has been a bit of a challenge but you've explained it so very well God bless you and your family.

How about underlines or italics

Visual learner here. Definitely outline the main events. Also try to do a chronological timeline. Great video. Thank you!

Really helpful advice, thank you!

Thank You.

Thumbnail said 29 steps to publishing self pub checklist. Good grief this is the worst video checklist. I can’t imagine your book. Wow.

This is such good advice! I had never thought about how "suddenly" does the opposite effect for a reader

I had a question. There's already a writer with my name. So, I thought I'd use my initials and middle name as a pen name. But the interwebs are saying you don't have to register a pen name. So, how do I prevent someone from using the same pen name as me?🤔

if you have a microsoft-word or google-docs layout preformatted I can reuse , kindly help me out please?

I am writing a series of stories in which my main villains are human-spider hybrids, like Trish, the main villain of my fifth story, & mother of Telary, the main villain of my sixth story, conceived through parthenogenesis. Both have human-level intelligence, but with the predatory instincts & nature of a spider. They are incapable of feeling remorse, compassion, mercy, or pity for their prey, just like a spider, & humans are their chosen prey. They are extremely proliferate, capable of producing as many as sixty offspring in a one week period. Trish & Telary see themselves as the protagonists in their eyes, & the humans that want to hunt them down & kill them just for being who & what they are, & following their nature, a spider's nature, a nature those same humans put into them, humans like my main protagonists, as the villains. In their eyes, they are just following their nature, just doing what spiders do. Everything they do is motivated purely by survival of the species. Also, both Trish & Telary are capable of routinely wiping the floor with my protagonists in a fight, forcing them to really work for a win. Trish & Telary are both much stronger, faster, more agile, & harder to hurt than a normal human, have extremely heightened senses, can crawl along walls & ceilings, like a spider, can spin webs, have three different types of venom to paralyze, kill, or mutate their prey, turning them into hybrid spider creatures, & have a healing factor capable of regenerating lost limbs. It takes a lot to bring them down. They are able to turn into a giant spider the size of a car, or manifest four long spiderleg appendages from their backs, with sharply pointed tips capable of stabbing or slashing like a knife. They also have weaknesses. They must mate or produce offspring within a limited period of time or they will die. They only want to live as a species & follow their nature, but because they feed on humans, they are too much of a threat to be allowed to live, as they will replace humanity at the top of the food chain.

Dear fellow writers, please be mindful of KZbin grifters who claim that they can help you get published. Many of them just want your money as they charge you a months salary for a weekend of work. 🙏🏾

what self publishing company should I use?

I recently discovered your videos but I haven’t had a chance to watch many yet. I’ve completed my manuscript (though it hasn’t been professionally edited yet) and I have a vision for my book cover. Could you point me in the right direction or suggest which of your videos would be most helpful for turning my manuscript and cover art into a physical book?

I just outline each chapter as I write that way when I do find a publisher, the publisher has the outline already. Besides, I haven’t written in published a book yet I’m just starting.

Such a great author brand video. Very helpful!!!

I see all these rules and they make sense. Then I see some of the greatest authors and they use those methods described as bad writing. I opened a random page of a Murakami novel and in one paragraph alone he used several filter words, "he felt" etc., to describe how the character remembers something. Other great writers use "bad writing" and for me it feels organic. Not only for me as they are considered "the greatest". So... Sometimes it's just confusing and I ask myself if all those rules actually make me a worse writer if I apply them too strictly. Sometimes I search for a better way to describe something and my personal taste tells me that "he thought" is just the shortest, most fitting. Where is the fine line here? I'm German. In Germany or Europe what we consider so called "elevated literature" has a different style than American or English literature. I bite on granite here, to use a German idiom.

So I decided to write, storyboard, and sketch a comic/manga. This really helped me understand a paragraph as a frame. A picture is worth a thousand words as they say.

I've been über conscious about character motivation, consistencies, and stakes: my WIP is told from four different POVs; however, as the story progresses, it is discovered that those perspectives are actually from the protagonist, who, with the help of the other main characters, comes to appreciate the more omniscient/omnipotent scope she has. Her stakes turn out to be, in essence, herself and the prospect of almost godlike powers. The whole big concept of my novel hinges on character arcs nesting within themselves and overlapping. Right now, my biggest hurdle is clarity-using really logical flow to keep those overlapping seams as hidden or as smooth as possible. Fingers crossed. 🤞

"Show; don't tell" tells me I don't know how to write. It can always get more concrete. How superficially and intellectually we "normally" write.

Have you looked into AmpiFire? Is it an automated content creation and distribution software for marketing? It's a great service.

Another screen fatigue tip!! - there’s a desktop app called flux that allows you to night shift in your computer (aka turn the whole screen orange) - omg, it is the BEST. I would die without it lol

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That whole process sounds so stressful 😭 awesome to see how far you've come!

You are an angel! I really needed to see this video! I've looked around other places for help and so.egow got it in my head that every paragraph must be at least 8 sentences.

Tip from experience to consider: Never base a font on Normal. Always select "based on no style." The reason for this is too long to go into here but essentially, if the file is loaded on another computer that has a Normal style set with different characteristics, those characteristics can override the settings of the style you created. If Amazon says something different, please disregard this. I am new at KDP, but have been working with Word as a technical writer/publisher since they created it. (Only in-house corporate publications, though, other than the monthly mags.) Thank you for this video! All very useful info and pretty much exactly what I was looking for! I had been wondering if KDP takes Word formatting features such as section breaks (since Microsoft itself sometimes glitches on these). Am wondering one thing, though. For page numbers, I usually prefer inserting codes in footers (habit due to giving more control over page number formatting) rather than using the page number placement utility Word added a while back. Of course since complex page number formatting (e.g., including section numbers in the page number) is usually not used in books, such control isn't necessary. But I am wondering if KDP takes the old time page codes. Really useful info about the margin issues. I wouldn't have anticipated that. Thanks again.

For a nonfiction book, is my bibliography included with the manuscript and if so, how do I prepare that? My WIP is a historical critical biography.

Hello Natalia, your video was so helpful. I just have a question for you….do you know if KDP 5x8 size book can be printed in the landscape view? Please let me know. Thank you! Laurie

Non-breaking space. I finally solved my problem!

informative video but did anyone else notice the giant-ass fly in the background???

Another thing I do is i use a leave in on my classic length hair, and i put oil on four inches of the ends. Hair type..fine , 2 c wavy.

This was a huge help

Hello ! Natalia ma'am. I want to starting content writing in paranormal romance 70k words but I'm beginner level. What should I do can you any suggest me ?

Thank you so much!!!!

Always excited to see a new vlog!

Awesome video! Love it ❤

Cozy but spicy witchy novellas sound awesome! And did I hear you say they were seasonal? Does that mean like the setting is seasonal, like a Christmas novella or whatever, or that you’re releasing them seasonally? Also, I love your writing vlog. Your home is so chill and beautiful!

I didn't realize just how fast you've been publishing 😮 Seriously, 4 books in less than a year? You're my spirit animal Natalia! 😭 As a full-time freelancer myself, I'm happy you're booked out. I'm only taking on a few clients per month due to prioritizing content creation and writing, but it's insane how you’ve been juggling everything so well ❤ Congrats on 10K into the new WIP!

You might need to clean up some programs, or uninstall any programs using up a lot of memory. However, if you do need a RAM upgrade, you might need to just buy a new laptop altogether, because many new laptops these days (especially when it come to apple products) they solder the RAM onto the motherboard; so replacing RAM isn't like how it use to be. Anyways, If you do need to buy a new laptop, I would go for 16GB or more. I'm not sure how long you've had your Mac for, but if it's been more than 5 (or even 6) years, it's probably not a bad idea.

That's new mixing spice with cosy🤔

Ohh witchy novellas! So sad I won’t be able to read them 😅

Yay! That's a lot of books to publish in one year! WOW! I'm just finishing my gothic regency book for this Fall hopefully...think Jane Eyre combined with Crimson Peak. :)

Q: in your romance inter-connected series, how did you decide on your couples for each book? Love your vlogs ❤💜

I’ve been contemplating a Christmas novella and this vlog is making me really want to do it. ❤

Is there anything else you would publish under Natalie Leigh besides the Pistol Daisy series? Just wondering since you have more publishing and finished novels under your belt now. Edit: I love seeing more of your farm and home.

Wow! That garden looks awesome 😍!!

Love that you filmed a writing vlog! and you're showing a little bit of home life as well. Love that you have your own veggie garden, that's awesome!