how to actually finish creative projects! (one quick tip)

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Tim DeMoss

Күн бұрын

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@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

what's a book/movie/album/game/etc that has an absolutely killer title? what do you like about it?

@brycelavender2255 2 ай бұрын

Pax Americana a comic by Grant Morrison

@benconnolly9883 2 ай бұрын

"This is How You Lose the Time War" - I've always thought that was a striking title. "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, as well

@nathicccc 2 ай бұрын

"Mudda Fuggin Big Wave" by the Iguanacondas - what is there not to love about an album with that name? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWa3nJauZp1sZpY

@dnairrrr 2 ай бұрын

All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum :)

@WritingRain 2 ай бұрын

The Devil Wears Prada

@thiagogoncalves5664 2 ай бұрын

A fun thing about my unfinished projects. They all have names, but I never call them by their name. Is aways "the mobile game", "the short story", "the card game"... Só... Yea, tip number 6. Call your projects by their name

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

love that tip!

@sophiasaudacity 2 ай бұрын

this isn't about projects but i like to name my days in the morning on my journal, as if it's an episode. sometimes its related to what i want to accomplish, others its just as random as "chamomile tea". naming my days makes them feel distinct from each other and personal. as if i'm acknowledging that i own my time in a way? i guess you could say it's making your days projects, i like the thought of that. awesome video, as always:)!

@ayshee.2b386 2 ай бұрын

May God bless you! This idea touched my soul

@pendlera2959 2 ай бұрын

What a cool idea!

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

what a cool idea! name your days. absolutely love

@placeHolder-tj2od 2 ай бұрын

oh this is such a beautiful idea I definitely will start doing this too

@benconnolly9883 2 ай бұрын

For a moment, I thought I didn't identify with this, but then I realized that this also applies when you *rename* a project. In my back catalogue, many of my projects have names. Not long ago, with a short story I conceived a few years ago, I changed the name and it actually solidified the theme I was going for, which helped me fully edit and finish the story. That was my first-ever completed work. And now with a different short story I've returned to recently, I realized that the title doesn't actually fit what the story needs to evolve into, and once that new title comes to me, I can tell it will unlatch the flood gates. Thanks for the inspo, Tim!

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

renaming something - that does totally work. wonderful point and perspective!

@jar1041 2 ай бұрын

my creative project is building a simple guitar, its the first time im making one. something that helped me was telling people about my project, like i message my friends who care with progress pics. at work most of my coworkers are really nice, and i told them about my project too and now like everytime some of them see me they're like, how is the guitar and they seem genuinely excited to see my project. so i guess another tip is telling nice ppl about ur project.

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

that’s such a cool project! and yes that’s a great tip!

@nathicccc 2 ай бұрын

Poetry Collection Titles I havent finished, "Coffee & Contemplation," "Going Back to Happy Lane," and "Friends and Friends of Friends," have been things I've been working on for a bit! The titles have helped me keep going at least somewhat. Also have a few short story or fiction story ideas floating around!

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

friends & friends of friends is such a cool title. & I for sure have projects that have names and haven’t been finished yet too, but at least that title keeps me from forgetting it! :)

@nathicccc 2 ай бұрын

@@timdemoss exactly!

@commandergrab396 Ай бұрын

Thank you for posting this. I've been in a "rut" I've never seen the outside of. Maybe this won't get me out of it completely, but I want to believe this will help me

@timdemoss 27 күн бұрын

little steps forward :) hope it helps some!

@wisdomseeker405 2 ай бұрын

So glad to find other creatives that do a lot of different projects.

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

it’s fun to dabble! :)

@lovexsanika 2 ай бұрын

Thats pretty solid advice. I do name my projects but this gave me more reasons to do so. Funner the name the better.

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

it's definitely nothing groundbreaking (I imagine a lot of people give their work titles) but it was really helpful for me to think through why I do it. glad it was helpful for you too! and agree on fun names being best - always always more fun!

@pablosanfilippo4781 2 ай бұрын

Oh, this had never crossed my mind. It makes so much sense. Great advice!

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

so glad to hear! thanks for watching!

@cocorru4501 2 ай бұрын

oh wow. so simple, yet effective! thank you!

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

thanks so much for watching! glad it was helpful!

@ArticuloM 2 ай бұрын

UNDERRATED channel, great video man!!

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

thanks! glad you enjoyed!

@FlameForgedSoul 2 ай бұрын

A favorite writer of Ours gives his projects cool code names; "AGAMEMNON" "PHOSPHOR BEND" "ALECTO" etc. This was primarily to avoid mentioning too much about yet to be announced projects but We find it adapts well to this methodology.

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

sounds like a terrific idea!

@Emiliafs 2 ай бұрын

Great tip, Tim! Thanks for the video :)

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful

@triacontahedron 2 ай бұрын

Any advice for _how_ to name a project? Naming projects and characters is the bane of my existence.

@bear3s 2 ай бұрын

Same, maybe ask ChatGPT, I usually do that when I can't think of presentations or scientific papers titles

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to tackle this in a future video sometime...in the meantime, a really standard way I use sometimes is to just use the first line of whatever the poem/song/story is. works really well with poetry. old hymns used to do this too (Amazing Grace). but also, a lot of the time, I find my titles come first & then I end up making a project around them. I did a video a few months ago about a story called "Pruneboy Tom at the End of the Earth" and I have no idea where the title came from, but I wrote it down & then months later I actually wrote a story to match it. so maybe some advice would be: if some weird phrase comes to mind, write it down, and then later make a project to go along with it.

@guilhermeparizotto7095 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

thank you for watching!

@WritingRain 2 ай бұрын

I would love to do this, but unfortunately I found that when I title something in the early stages, the context surrounding the title changes so it no longer represents my book as a whole. If I change the title to better suit the new direction my story is going in, then I forget that new name as I worked on the story with the previous name for much longer. But if I don't name my book at all, I'll completely forget about it. Do you have any advice on what I should do?

@bear3s 2 ай бұрын

I don't think naming your project (in your case book) is actually meant to be its title. You can give it a person's name, a nickname or anything like that to make it personal, then just give it an official title when it's finished

@WritingRain 2 ай бұрын

@@bear3s oh. i didn't think of that. i'll try that method. thank you.

@timdemoss 2 ай бұрын

you could always try that two-title thing some books and movies do! Moby-Dick; or, The Whale - Walden; or, Life in the Woods - Birdman; or, The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance. I don't know the history of why they chose two titles, but it could be a fun way for you to sandwich both names, at least until the new name sticks in your head and you can ditch the old name :)