Or you do it for money, like the rest of us with a job.

Highly recommend it as an academic writer.

Looking forward to your breakdown of Autocrit! Thanks for sharing this with us

as someone who's trying to get back into writing but doesn't have fictionary, this was still really helpful! the way i work is very unstructured, but seeing all the elements that go into a scene will hopefully guide me to more effective storytelling :]

Thanks so much for this thorough walk-through.

Well, you could just subscribe for a month when you are ready for editing.

Wish u success lady 👍

You are a lifesaver... great video, concise explanations. I'm going to give Atticus a try.

Your sound is really low... hard to hear the video.

Loved tip #3. Telling myself that 'the message is bigger than me' has kept me grounded during my process. Thank you for sharing this video!

What is book foundations?

The second tip really helped me. I'm writing my first flash story, Thanks!

I have an issue with writing from scratch too! Editing is much easier for me, although it greatly damages my self-esteem 😅 But while editing I have at least something to work with. When it's just a blank page, it's such a pain! Thank you so much for your tips, I really love this idea of splitting thinking and writing

You may have done that, but I have to use this brain and these wrists.

This is essentially a tutorial video. When writing a tutorial you should set three goals and prioritize them. Here are mine but feel free to make your own set. #1 Clarity: What information am I trying to convey? Is it being conveyed. #2 Concise: How quickly can I convey the information without compromising clarity? #3 Humor: People tend to remember things better if they laugh, can I sprinkle in a little humor without losing clarity or using to many extra words. Next you may want to include time codes in your description, KZbin will put these on the video's progress bar automatically and it makes it easier for a viewer to go back and rewatch parts and to see how the video is divided up. I wouldn't bother pushing your credentials in the video, maybe just one sentence tops. Put the rest in the description. And maybe one sentence on how you took 12 years on one book and now you can do it in a month with a 'and you can too' vibe. If you want to plug your books plug them into the point you're making. Lastly, the book shelf is simple elegant background for this video. Contemplate the books you're showcasing in the shot. Right now the eye is drawn most heavily to that Emotional Intelligence book behind you. Since this is a writing tutorial you may prefer to showcase books with titles like 'a writer's guide to' or suchlike. This is a minor thing, but your viewers will read the book titles so you may as well put thought into which ones are most visible. If you want to maximize your improvement, rescript this video two more times trying different angles and film them. Set all three videos aside for a bit, then watch them back to back and try to evaluate them. Best of luck. :)

It took me a long while to accept that in life - not just in writing - that there will be good days and bad days. And I am still learning to be kinder to myself in any day. Remembering what I love about writing keeps me happy, and makes me love the craft even more. xx

Loved these words and advice Robin! Cheers!

Well said.On communication and King, I think he once said that writing was telepathy, from the writer's brain to the reader's. An odd way to put it, but it shows the artificiality of the medium becoming the message.

8 years into psychology study, and I've been feeling some momentum recently with bucket list literary dreams recently. This is pretty much perfect time for me to see this.

yes! absolutely!

If you look at the differences between publishing now and when I was young even publishing isn't difficult anymore. Anyone can self-publish, although you may not make a good living at it. Who cares? At least you're writing. Writing is just putting one word after another in an order that conveys meaning. It's when you start worrying about your own talent and you start following the methods of other authors that it becomes difficult. There is so much nonsense written about how to write novels and short stories. Just write.

Nice title to begin with and great ideas. Thanks.

l am looking for a publishing software. Atticus is very promising. My question is, can I format a 7 x 10 trim size book by entering the trim size myself.

I've recently tried ChatGpt for help with brainstorming. Not too shabby. But... it can't write a compelling story like a good writer can. It sucks at dialogue and jokes. Ah, well.

The rule about not ending a sentence with a proposition was caused by students mistakenly thinking the rules they learnt in Latin class applied to English. In Latin, it is grammatically impossible to end a sentence with a proposition. Fowler's _Modern English Usage_ says a conjuction may be used at the start of a sentence for emphasis.

Kood u meyk 1 on speling roolz 2 pleez?

Great job! Thank you! 🎉

Absolutely brilliant! Well done!

Chatgpt o1 is better that other Ai

great video! I really admire your work,

Great advice

👌merci

We can also add a technique with the equation, like do what you are suppose to do without involving emotions.😃

This video is really a great help thanku😁

I'm not sure why anyone would want to try and write like another author. Developing my own voice was absolutely essential. In fact, copyright law reveals that style is the only thing of legal value: "Copyright only protects the particular manner of expression of an author in fixed form." Literary ideas are not protected. Only your unique style, tone or voice. Just my two cents.

and this would be why authors obsess over them lol!

I have had atticus for over a year and I really would not recommend it. It is glitchy, super slow, freezes up randomly, and there are multiple formatting errors especially in regards to trim sizes. For example some sizes they claim are 'supported by KDP' are not KDP-compatible. And they are missing a lot of trim sizes and other features. Their customer service is fast and friendly in a cheap, useless way--they do nothing to actually try to help you with these issues and are strangely carefree about them. I'm giving vellum a try, wishing I had done that from the start.

If you coming from a typewriter then Atticus is absolutely awesome because you get a very basic word processor that, right now, is unable to do anything near to what MSWord, Pages, Scrivener or Google Docs can do, but coming from a typewriter this would not matter to you because you will have an awesome though extremely basic NotePad-like section to write your novel in where you don't have to retype a whole new page every time you make a typing error. The great thing about the minimalistic section where you do your actual writing of your novel is that ProWritingAid works seamlessly with your basic writing section of Atticus giving it a boost and making it a lot better for you, but after paying your once off $147 for Atticus you will then have to pay for a ProWritingAid monthly, yearly or lifetime subscription to get this added super nice benefit. I got the lifetime subscription of ProWritingAid. Atticus does nothing to assist you with plotting, planning, character building or structuring your novel in any shape or form. I've owned Atticus for almost two years now and after two years they are still telling me that these updates to the actual writing section of Atticus take time and after almost two years I am still being promised that Atticus plans to be a full rounded writing software package that is able to plot, plan, structure and do everything a novelist needs it to do to assist in your writing, but still no basic JKR style plot grid like Dabble has and no great improvements to the actual writing section of Atticus either. You know that place where you spend hours upon hours on your masterpiece, the actual writing section of Atticus. Instead all that Atticus has done in the past two years is continually improve on the section of Atticus that enables you to expertly format and publish your ebooks and paperbacks. This is the awesome part of Atticus, but the funny part is you need to write the novel first before formatting it for self publication and the writing section of Atticus is so limited right now, boring and bare bones. I mean if you don't want to wait another two years you could pay for another software on top of what you paying for ProWritingAid ProWritingAid. It's called Plotrr and you could do your plotting over there and export it to Atticus. It's totally unfair to force writers who have waited two years already for the writing section of Atticus to improve to now be told to go and spend more money until Atticus can catch-up and make good on there initial - and now - after two years their ongoing promise that Atticus will eventually not only be a great formatting app, but also a full featured writing app that can compete with Google Docs, Scrivener, MSWord and the best of them. The way Atticus put it was that Atticus was the baby born from Vellum, Scrivener and Google Docs having the best of the three. Hopefully this eventually happens because right now all Atticus really is, is a brilliant book formatting app that can compete with Vellum and not much else. If you looking for world, character, plot, structure, storyline, timeline, scene or chapter building you will not find it here. At least not yet, in 2024. All the writing section of Atticus has has is a side tree, save as you write, a goals tracker and a timer, but no add-on feature like Google Docs or MSWord so you can add all the missing stuff like a left information side bar where you can add your plot, synopsis or notes so it's nothing like Google Docs or MSWORD just yet, but after almost two years of waiting and after almost two years of excuses from Atticus I am still hopeful that Atticus will become a full featured writing, plotting, novel structuring, character building, note taking and novel honing app it promises to become.

Thank you

As of 16th december, I'm not experiencing any bugs. Quite the opposite. I'm surprised by how smoothly every one of my design elements is rendered (I even have text boxes within the manuscript) and how identical the final epub file looks to what I see on the preview. Perhaps I've just been lucky or perhaps they have already ironed out those bugs since your video. Thanks for the vid, anyway!

Was this an ad? This was kind of sounding like an ad, especially with the "I've never tried Vellum before, but it can't compare to Atticus." Girl, what?

I'm glad you mentioned "buggy" because I just bought it and few wee things got stuck. But it didn't last long and away we went again. I really love it. Joanna Penn uses Vellum and I do have a mac: both these positives got me considering it however like yourself I wasn't keen on the high price tag. Good video thanks

I think it's hard to compare when you haven't even used Vellum.

2023 update: there is a lifetime subscription option for autocrit, you just have to be on their email list to hear about it

Thanks Robin. This is very useful.

Where do I get mine?!?

“It’s really buggy” is not something I want to hear about software with a $147 price tag 😕

Almost 80% before line editing in Autocrit is amazing. I put my final chapter of a third edit and compared it to King and it came out to a 78.9. I will take that any day.

I love the idea of a 365 day challenge! Great video!

The cover looks phenomenal. Thank you immensely for your hard work!