Really good review.

Hey hi, i'm trying to make sense of how stories works but i have some problems and after watching this video and see how easy and articulate you are i would really like for you to help me .. (note: i'm french, please forgive my terrible english) I have 4 questions: - What is the difference between an event and an action ? Events and actions are they both the same thing ? Cause the way i see them is: Event = Everything that happen in the story Action = What characters are doing ! For example: - Two idiots trying to start a fire in a forest is both, an action (because characters are performing the action) and an event (because it is something that happen in the story) - Now if rain start falling and stop the fire, this time is just an event (something that happen that didn't need a character to perform it) - And finally if the cops shows up, again it is both the action of the cops, and the event which is what happen in the story: the cops showing up Is my understanding of events and actions correct ? - What is a scene ? When watching for definitions all i get is: A scene is a unit of story comprise of one event ! But i have a hard time of understanding that definition since everything that happen in a story is a event how could a scene only have " ONE EVENT " ? For example how many scene would that be: - Getting into the castle - Looking for and finding the artefact - Steal it - Getting out of the castle Would it be: Example 1: 4 separate scenes - Entering the castle: a guard who is not supposed to be making the rounds at the moment spots them. They need to find a way to subdue the guard before he alerts others or they will have to face the consequences. - Finding the artifact: they get lost because the castle layout is not like the plan they had or they bump into castle residents who strike up a conversation. They improv, making the resident suspicious until they find their way out of the situation - Stealing the artifact: the location of the artifact is full of booby traps they must get past - Exit of the castle: it is impossible to exit the way they entered because the gate has been raised while they were inside. They must find a new exit before the change of the guards. - Example 2: one scene The obstacle occurs only during the stealing of the artifact. Entry and exit into the castle is fairly smooth sailing ? - Should a scene ALWAYS have conflict - What is the difference between plot and structure

Hi Tara. Please never think you aren't reaching people if KZbin progress is slow. It's 2024 and I'm only now finding this video, and it is tremendously helpful to me, so thank you so much! 💕

Thank you pure gold❤

that was too cute!

Tara ! Where have you been?! Us writers need you! I always watch your video on how to write a novel. You dissapeared. Come back! You’re a great instructor!!

This is a amazing video good job 👏

This is a great video. Thank you. My biggest source of paralysis comes from consuming KZbin videos on literary editing. Too much voice, not enough voice, similes, too much telling, unconscious shifts in point of view, too many adjectives and adverbs, repeating a character’s name in dialogue - I could go on. I feel as if I can’t write a damn word without violating some rule. Oh, excuse me. “Damn” is an adjective. 😢

This video changed my life. Writing this after eight years of having watched it.

9 Minutes in meandering about how great it's gonna be. Rewriting the finale of lost next?

My original structure was like this, about 30 chapters or 4-5 arcs, but has evolved a bit into 6 arcs-38 chapters and follows the 3 act story structure. Expansion by leeway of the content. Lemme know how yours goes! Working on the first draft!

You seem to be a bit fixated on adult men being creepy. When did I become a creepy, unsavory being? What age exactly? 40? 50? 60? Your creepy old man is someone's beloved grandfather. There was a day when one might even be considered wise in their senior years. Someday you'll see just how full of sh!t you were when you were young. I did. With age.

Safe???

This was the best review I've seen so far of this book

I enjoyed the way the story was told. To each their own. Good review, though.

I write daily on a dozen project's. None of my friends are readers. Time for new friends or... a new computer?

My biggest hold up is premise!

Awesome review and you are absolutely correct about the political correctness.

what happened to you i was caught by your video about outlining a novel and i went to your website but it seems it is incomplete... i am willing to offer my services to help get it 'Complete' and to your liking for a very cheap rate, and please make more videos; yours are way easier to understand and shorter then the videos by others like brandon sanderson and all them foos --- [email protected] (make your subject known or i may spam it)

She looks good.

How do I download?

Really great vid, thanks for making and sharing.

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Hi Tara! This video was awesome. Where have you been? Do you still teach people? Is there a website you have? Thanks!

Very well said

I would detain myself for 45 minutes of free time to prevent writers block

Bro 🤣🤣

Thank you for sharing!

Does the novel have to follow the flow in this exact order? Do all beats have to be made in novel?

Following you?..so what you gonna call the cops now?...😂😂😂...a man cant simply be male and out and about?...geees

Love this. Im adding this into my outline method! 🥂 Hope everyone writes marvelous books with genius plots!

I call that middle the middle muddle puddle, now i know where to tighten the story.

Watch some videos about delivery of a single message. Then watch some videos about how quickly and easily people change their minds. Then watch some videos about why general people hate hearing about limited-time offers. With the last one, pay special attention to the angry responses to telemarketers. After that, you should understand why I couldn't stand to listen to your 26 minutes of you selling yourself to me ineffectively. Good day.

I liked the stick-figures, and the type of perspectives that you were drawing. Pun not intended. But you're trying too hard to sell me something. It wont be there forever, check it out now before it's gone, don't miss what is fleeting because I'm only being helping for a short time. Girl, stop. I like your voice, your animation in the beginning, and your boot to butt kind of encouragement. I hate every single instance where you mention the time in which I should take action though. Stop forcing me, let me simply absorb your video, and don't tell me how quickly I should act. You're a telemarketer with a scam, and the scam is that you have a video over 26 mins with an emphasis on time. I only watched 6 of those minutes, and felt like I answered the phone, only to have a mechanical voice tell me what to do and how soon to do it. Sorry love, I don't like that. I don't do thumbs down, but unless you magically draw me back in... I wont ever watch one of your videos again.

Scene number 1: Chase your POV up a tree and start pounding the POV with a sledgehammer. Scenes 2 through.....??? however many... keep using bigger and bigger sledgehammers.

Good job, this is actually the single most useful video on KZbin about writing a scene in a novel. I mean come on though where are all the damn scene making videos at?!

I liked the book enough to read the trilogy.

3:23? This video has been up for five years now.

Even homeless poor writers got haters. Checkmark.

Like everyone else, I would like to get a copy of the worksheet or workbook. I even signed up on your list, but couldn't find the workbook or worksheet. Where is it?

She's not my boss. The one who doesn't want me to write if my wife. She has Parkinson's Disease and is afraid that I will stop giving her constant attention, which she does need. The problem is that she is afraid I will ignore her while she is sleeping, by writing something. I should also point out that I used to write New Testament Greek Lessons, put them on a website and gave them away. After hackers inserted malicious malware into my website, I had to take down the site, and later, my computer crashed. I lost my universal font and now only have a small computer which I cannot use with a universal true front. Not able to write more Greek lessons, I decided to start studying craft issues. She then got Parkinson's and, now tells me I am betraying her by wanting to write a story. Sometimes we have to set aside our own life goals to comfort a loved one. However, to be blunt, when I am pushed around and told to forget my hopes and deams, I find my care for her makes me angered. If I were a better man, I wouldn't get angry just because I am not allowed to do anything I can either enjoy, or even feel slightly better for doing. Instead I would freely give up my hopes and dreams and get ordered around for eighteen hours a day for the one woman I love. I hate myself for it, but I am angry at her for getting that sick.

Hi, where do I find the download don't see anywhere the link to download please let me know and how to go to your face book page for question / answer. Very good teaching how to out line your novel. Jena

Was interested in this book, glad I found this review. Thanks!

Spot on info Loved your video

By far the biggest challenge in writing is to actually get yourself to write consistently. At least, that's how it is for me. Everything else can be studied, and there are as many ways to plot a novel as there are writers - perhaps more. I, for one, really like Dan Wells's 7 point method for structuring a story, but many will prefer to discovery-write the whole thing and revise heavily afterwards.

This has actually helped me a lot and ive been stuck on this for years. Thank you!!

This is a nice refresher. Were you taking a walk during part of it? I"m sure I heard a lawnmower! I hate to yell "Fire!" but there's smoke on your stage! Cool cameo by SIgmund Freud... haha! Did you know there is about 4:30 of black at the end of your video?

Welcome to Booktube!!

I loved your story about four-dimensional alien:) Tara, I tagged you in The New Year Book Tag 2018. It's totally alright with me whether you decide to do the tag or not to do it:)

So first series and you're judging it like this..mmm Star Trek Next Gen and Voyager were all crap until the 3rd series..So your rant is a homage to the Orville doing ST better than ST in season 1..Point concluded your honour :-)