How to BEGIN YOUR STORY

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@ScritRighter 3 ай бұрын

Legends tell of a YTer who reads every comment even if he does not respond to all of them...

@BENNYBLUEVERSION2 3 ай бұрын

I like your videos as a film student

@jeremiahboyd2147 3 ай бұрын

I like you videos too

@geminiwriter8875 2 ай бұрын

I just like you :)

@Broski-nl2tl 2 ай бұрын

Crazy how I was in the process of subscribing right before you mentioned never asking people to.

@MrMoom08 3 ай бұрын

in the beninging

@680kwastaken 3 ай бұрын

In the beninginging

@CosImUpRn 3 ай бұрын

God said

@derpytoonsofficial6083 3 ай бұрын

in the... nohh no noh

@Chartus-ij1rp 3 ай бұрын

@@CosImUpRn grass grows, birds fly And brother, i hurt people

@vortexroshi 3 ай бұрын

@@Chartus-ij1rp im a force a nature!

@raginmage341 3 ай бұрын

Watching this knowing damn well I’ll never project my stories I’ve thought up in my head

@softestsoap 3 ай бұрын

why not write down a couple paragraphs of what you have in your head, beginnings aside

@kory.j6561 3 ай бұрын

just write, n refurbish later

@cloudynguyen6527 3 ай бұрын

Honestly, you don't necessarily need to write a story beginning. You need to begin to write your story. Be it a scene or a dialogue. Or a first of act 2 or a transition between act 1 and 2. Be it anything you want as long as it serves as a basis for the grand story. Most important part of doing art is doing what you enjoy most. It will blossom when the time is right

@galvinvoltag 3 ай бұрын

They look a thousand times more epic inside my head anyways, not gonna lie.

@UziDoorman000 2 ай бұрын

@kory.j6561 we love pantsing

@lukedelameter7961 2 ай бұрын

One mistake that I see a lot of people make is rushing through the first act. Every hero’s journey involves some sort of leaving of safety, if breaking the norm. But if you want that first step to have any weight to it, you have to show your audience what that normal looks like. Leaving home doesn’t mean anything to a story that has no home.

@ScritRighter 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@RiverNihilation 2 ай бұрын

Ngl one idea would be the protag go through the normal routine while putting hints of things being different like a radio bridge or someone reading a news paper that is out of view but the reader can see for some foreshadowing

@vesanus5600 2 ай бұрын

difficult. You've got a point there, but... At the same time you should give a "promise" to your reader. In a horror-movie, someone gets killed in the first scene, to show "hey you; you're watching a horror movie! people will get killed in that fashion! Like it? Stay tuned! Here's story!" And then you get thrown into mostly boring teenage-average life & wait for it to get destroyed If you really START your story with the boring all-day-life of your protagonist and spend like, lets say, a whole chapter on that, chances are that you accidently "promise" your reader that your story is gonna be boring-everyday-life-stuff & your reader MIGHT draw back from your story before it gets interesting

@justv7536 3 ай бұрын

I usually just get stuck rereading the entire story and changing sentences, paragraphs, even whole chapters some times. Then getting caught up and miserable and being unable to finish.

@tezereth 2 ай бұрын

"In the..... bebiging..... there was.... Freddy Fast Bear..."

@ScritRighter 2 ай бұрын

True Cinnabon

@pr0xi_zura. 3 ай бұрын

Now THESE are the kind of videos I love to see! When talking to my writer friends, I’ve discovered how many different writing styles there are. In college, I just so happened to do my ENGL-101 papers by writing the body paragraphs first. That’s because, if I start on the intro, it would always take more brain power than necessary since there is NOTHING on the page, thus NOTHING to introduce yet. When it came time to finally write my fiction, I would always be paralyzed by the amount of out of order scenes in my head, so I just started writing the first scene that popped up. That scene would ended up being…. the FINAL chapter of my narrative and an action-sequence at that. Heck, I was in a creative writing course and when it came time to submit a prose…I submitted THAT lol.

@Kanyes-alt 3 ай бұрын

Imagine starting your manga with a war arc or mass murder arc never could be me hahahaha

@NeddyBiose 2 ай бұрын

I'd like to see your ideas 😅

@GoldenYXZ 2 ай бұрын

I have one manga idea that I think it fits what you say, but is it bad if the story starts like that? In my idea town/village is being attacked by lots of witches and the mc arrives in that place to save them, the mc is basically a witch hunter so I think it sets what to expect to see, I don't want to start from the actual beginning, like when the mc was born, that he is actually a clone made to fight against humans not actually help them, him not being actual human, I will be making hints about his past until it gets revealed but I don't think I should start the story with it

@carso1500 2 ай бұрын

@@GoldenYXZThat is perfectly fine not all stories need to start literaly at the MCs conception its fine to start once the story us already in progress and go from there

@AhmedShadhuhaan 2 ай бұрын

WHY HAVE I NOT THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE 😭😭

@diazkohen2149 2 ай бұрын

Isn't it Youjo Senki?

@acrab7722 3 ай бұрын

"It's never okay to not finish those stories" Well shit

@PinkaholicOfficial 3 ай бұрын

As an aspiring indie game developer, I love your videos. This one was especially good, keep doing what you’re doing.

@mrhalfsaid1389 3 ай бұрын

I like how often people finalise the end before the start is even conceptualised. I like to imagine this is because we as humans always look to the future, but it's only the smart who can restart, thus create a beginning

@100element3 2 ай бұрын

Well speaking of beginnings, if you are a person who is about to begin to make a story. It’s smart not to tell it around in public or else someone might steal that idea from you. If you wanna share your ideas and story keep it a bit privated but you can still share it to a reliable person who wouldn’t share it to others and wouldn’t use your idea. So if you wanna write a story, don’t share stuff nilly willy or else you’ll be left feeling betrayed and jealous.

@ScritRighter 2 ай бұрын

This is a somewhat insecure and almost egotistical way to look at your own writing. You own the copyright to your ideas when they are written. No need to register or anything. So if someone plagiarizes your work, you can take legal action against it. On top of that, most people don't have any interest whatsoever in stealing your ideas and passing them off as their own. Some people might feel inspired and take a few lessons from your work if it's good enough, but most people are not gonna try to get away with theft. If you're sitting here with this mindset, chances are you're never gonna improve as a writer or get very far. Have confidence in your writing and your abilities as a storyteller. Only YOU can tell your story the way you wanna tell it. No one else has that power.

@hype8343 2 ай бұрын

@@ScritRighter You had me up until you said "--with this mindset, chances are you're never gonna improve as a writer or get very far." I'm not sure how not talking about your story in public suggests you're insecure or that you won't get far? Are you supposed to tell everyone around you what you're writing in order to be successful? I agree that it can be egotistical, and that it's not a big deal considering copyright law--and also the fact that random people around you aren't thinking about you all the time and therefore won't even consider thinking about your idea, let alone stealing it. But I don't understand how keeping conversations about your ideas limited to people you know and whatnot is a bad idea. Do you mind clarifying? Am I misunderstanding something?

@ScritRighter 2 ай бұрын

@@hype8343 I think taking critique from only a private select group of people which you trust is a great idea. I also think that only sharing something with trusted people before it is made public is good. However, I believe writing should be seen, and that hiding it from the public because you think someone else is gonna see it and steal it from you is something which will limit your progress as a writer. The mindset that you shouldn't share your writing because someone else might steal it is what can hold you back as a writer. Like, there is so much someone can do differently with a single concept or idea that even if you shared the premise of your novel and someone else stole that idea, you'd likely have two completely different novels anyways.

@hype8343 2 ай бұрын

@@ScritRighter Thanks for responding and clarifying. 100%, exposing it to the public is a good thing. If you keep it hidden forever... well... then nobody's ever gonna see it and you won't grow.

@EvdogMusic 3 ай бұрын

"The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace..."

@bella_daze3092 3 ай бұрын

0:17 iconic Percy Jackson quote- the first page of this book is what got me hooked LMAO- that and the chapter titles

@pokeballblaze9835 3 ай бұрын

Me personally I'm beginning mine with silence and lots of sensory details I want the reader to focus on what's going on and be immersed within the silence and what's occuring

@arrowrandoman 2 ай бұрын

I'm a worldbuilder who has struggled to write any plots. There's plenty of story to explore, but following a plot within those stories has been hard for me to get into so far. I haven't been certain where to start to "do it right." This is a good video for me. I had never thought of writing to figure out what kind of start I want for the book. Thanks.

@NiohArcadia 3 ай бұрын

0:07 "Mars was empty before we came..." This video is a Writer's poorly disguised fetish episode. I couldn't even make it to the 10 second mark before hearing stuff like this! 😭

@Nombrenooriginal 2 ай бұрын

I don't understand are you joking or mad with the guy on the video?

@traeesen 2 ай бұрын

what did the author MEAN

@h3llboyyy407 2 ай бұрын

idk i have yet to cum to the conclusion

@TheArtDev 2 ай бұрын

@@NombrenooriginalI think it's a joke about "before we came"

@isaackaumeyer6847 2 ай бұрын

hehe came

@theskeletonman2092 2 ай бұрын

Counter point: In a land far far away

@TheRealVyke 3 ай бұрын

Huh neat. Nice video. It’s actually a really good message. Not to sweat the small stuff, focus on writing. Don’t get stuck on one single idea and branch out for the sake of your story. Thanks man

@charlestedison2411 6 күн бұрын

There are many tricks to writing compelling, captivating, and engaging beginnings. One of the tricks that has helped me a lot in finding beginnings is to first write the ending. Writing the ending gives me a direction to follow and allows me to look back to see where it all started to get to that ending. Of course, the ending should not be fixed. It should only serve as a dynamic and malleable guide that must evolve with all the ideas and situations in your story so that it fits perfectly with the beginning and the middle. Work with the story structures. Remember that it does not block you creatively speaking, but it gives you a visible pattern for you at first, because you need to organize your ideas to see if they are good or bad, but also for the readers so that they can follow your story. In short, the beginning is important, of course, but don't forget the other parts of your story, because don't forget also that a screenplay is a whole, in which the parts of this whole must harmonize mutually and fluidly.

@Webgud 3 ай бұрын

I came here thinking this is some motivational video about taking control of your life lol

@ScritRighter 3 ай бұрын

The lesson could be applied elsewhere probably

@kaewierdoni4640 2 ай бұрын

I learned something once in learning to make games, figure out what a begining could be, them make everything else and your beginning last or late, your style will be defined by then and you'll know better how to set up the themes. By the time i finished typing this you had mentioned it in video, love that

@calvinlaw8859 3 ай бұрын

The video begins at 0:01

@BooksForever 3 ай бұрын

May you live a thousand years for this selfless, time-saving service to your unknown fellow man.

@mchlkpng 3 ай бұрын

Wrong. It's 0:00

@2eyedZnake 3 ай бұрын

@@mchlkpngbut if I were to click that timestamp in your comment, KZbin would begin to shit itself

@mchlkpng 3 ай бұрын

@@2eyedZnake but it's still starts at 0:00 tho, 0:01 misses an entire second of a video. An entire second! You know how much that is! In a 3 second video, that's 33.3333 repeating %! 33.3334 repeating % I say!

@Alecations 3 ай бұрын

*0:25

@DripGokualt 2 ай бұрын

I love stories that begin and end with the same sentence/ thing

@CompleteCube347 3 ай бұрын

One of my future goals is to turn the story I am writing into an actual show for others to watch. I already have a rough idea of what I want for the first episode and an especially clear idea for the ending of that episode. The beginnings of anything I write are a challenge like essays for school or the start of an episode but man, I love writing and creating a world with rules and logic for the characters to live and fight in. Writing is something that I am quite passionate about, I am sure you can tell by how long this comment is haha! Once my fingers start typing, they don't stop. I have a bright future ahead of me and I am not going to waste it. Thank you for this video, I am definitely subbing. ❤

@DiscardedYT 2 ай бұрын

Same twin ❤ Hopefully we make it

@Makimaroma 3 ай бұрын

Gee, I sure do hope this video doesn't use Berserk as an example!

@Crash_2099 3 ай бұрын

Why not? It’s the best opening.

@dontseemyprofilepic3157 2 ай бұрын

@@Crash_2099it’s probably one of those jokes where something is so dependably good at a thing that using it as an example has been done often enough to warrant sarcasm about how predictable using it as an example is. This was poorly explained, I apologise.

@satriadicky3732 2 ай бұрын

@@Crash_2099Berserk begin with Guts banging a demon and it will end with Guts banging a demon😂

@phillybobjr461 Ай бұрын

I like this way of thinking, how we might not be able to figure out the beginning because we haven't yet figure out the story we want to tell. we can't expect gold to just appear as we right, it is important to work it out. I know I really struggle with that, not liking rough drafts, but thinking about it more so a a skeleton to then add more meat onto, has been helping me,^^ (even though my blank document won't show you that, still needing to get the pen to paper part down)

@DanialTarki 3 ай бұрын

Oh, my God. I know exactly where that thumbnail art is from…

@reptiliannoizezz.413 2 ай бұрын

I did hear that Berserk opens with Guts banging a monster. Is that it?

@litebulb2699 10 күн бұрын

This video really resonated with me, as someone who's been working on a comic script for some two years now (Yeah, yeah, I *have* storyboards, it only took me a year and a half). The beginning was so weak; I had imagined a story that I had began conceptualizing in the middle of the action and so every bit of establishment before that was so slow and exposit-y. After breaking up and shaking up the groupings, adding strife and solutions to the calm before the storm, and putting my character's coattails to the fire, those sparks became the pilot light for every other part of the story. It's practically unrecognizable from it's first draft. In some characters, their names are the only holdovers. Kill your darlings, I promise you there's so much fun to be had.

@FawnTheCreator 3 ай бұрын

I have decided that the beginning will be the same as the end for my stories. It will parallel exactly what will happen in the very last scene.

@Vearru Ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure the beginnings of my stories are almost always the last part of my plan. I know where I want the characters to end up and I know generally how I want them to get there, but I don’t know where their starting point should be. Although sometimes I will start my stories with the main character’s first memories since those are obviously the very beginning and they often can serve as some nice characterization.

@charger9912 2 ай бұрын

Fuck it. I'll try writing the climax first. Let's see how it goes.

@resistancepublishing 3 ай бұрын

For me beginnings are easy because 95% of the time I already know who my characters are, what type of story I want to tell and what my endings are. Knowing all this helps plus I like to start in the middle of an action to hook the reader and show how far the main character is willing to go or not go to get what he wants.

@yonesmohamed3261 3 ай бұрын

thanks for the encouragement, also good thinking not to make a video on how to make good beginning because there is so many ways to do one

@glimmerstantroop46321 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's it. I'm officially subscribed. As an aspiring writer, this essay hit the nail right on with how I struggle with story commencing. I feel oddly motivated

@ScritRighter 2 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@dolphiino 3 ай бұрын

Ever since I read Fahrenheit 451 it felt like every other beginning is not as good lmfao

@VeonySyndrome 3 ай бұрын

Found ur vid by typing YOU ESCAPED THE MATRIX looking for a specific vid but as a writer i had to click on ur video and boy am i glad! Subbed!!

@toaster_mage 3 ай бұрын

this video inspired me to add a prologue to my story that should make it easier to get into, thanks scrit!

@An_Iron_God69420 Ай бұрын

These vids are helpful, but when ive already thought of a story and am trying to write it, watching vids like these give me cold feet and get me overanalysing lol.

@california816 2 ай бұрын

I needed to hear this. Thank you, Father. ❤

@ScritRighter 2 ай бұрын

I'm not your dad.

@california816 2 ай бұрын

@@ScritRighter :,3

@charade539 3 ай бұрын

Your channel (and the help of some friends I have begged to harass me) has actually made me start writing again. So, thanks for that. This isn't relevant to this video in particular, it was several videos ago that got me going, but I just wanted to let you know and say thanks. Please keep it up!

@DrCoeloCephalo 3 ай бұрын

I've actually mostly been working on jokewriting and worldbuilding to bother thinking about the beginning. Good to know I was on the right track anyway.

@hhowdy 2 ай бұрын

I aspire to be a movie director when I grow up. But I also have the story I want to tell in the movie too. It’s going to be Medieval fantasy. So I’m basically the writer but I’m not actually writing anything. People just call them the writer because well they’re the one making the story. I still use book writing advise bc it’s basically the same thing. My story starts with a knight being thrown out of a castle gate being scolded by a nobles man with guards pointing spears at him.

@kpop_mode_on 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video. I will try to remember the things you said.

@DJaycerOfficial 2 ай бұрын

You could also just do what I do and cook your story for 5 years before actually writing anything. I did write the first 7 chapters but I was in fifth grade and knew nothing about characters so one guy was just the cool main character. After 2 years I eventually refined the character into something of what he is today and further expanded him recently to make him a more likable character. I never changed the events of a story, only dialogue and character traits. It’s also in line with the tone of the game anyway.

@sebastianherrera6514 2 ай бұрын

I feel the pain of having to re write the beginning of a history after spending months on it… on my 7th te write right now, but I actually think it’s good enough… I think.

@TrinaTempest 10 күн бұрын

The King of Cold Corpses is the first chapter of my dark fantasy comic: A Saga at Realm's Rim. Note: wrote this on the fly, as the comic itself is obviously not written in prose. May be simplified but it covers the 6 sample pages It starts with the red, enraged eyes of a teen with a black crown, blood all around his mouth, a greatsword as large as he, and a banded war horn. He's perched atop the haunted and ruined Fort Mort, on the zenith of the Dread Mount. He stares at a golden town just on the other side of a small patch of woods. Coming to the realization that those bastards built a whole town while the last of his people, besieged, and beaten turned on eachother and feasted. Memories of his father, Stephen's, fear of the golden tide that swept away his very way of being. Memories of oaths made by a more gentle boy. The spirits of those who'd been closest haunt him, including his father: who wielded the same blade and donned the same crown. He screams, "YOU HONORLESS SLUGS!" And he blows on the Iron Lion's Banded War Horn. The birds in the tree tops, a hunter in the woods, a large woman in full golden plate in the training yard, scrambling soldiers in their barracks, what few walk the street this early, many denizens poking their heads out their windows, two purple skinned sycophants, a scarred and drunken prince, and a shadow and gold princess in a gilded cage all hear that war horn again for the first time in a year, and that day was called the Dread March. They all knew, that sound meant death was coming. Vord, the pale little king, leapt from the broken tower on the wall of Fort Mort, crashing to the snow, and tracing a circle around him with the massive sword. The hunter, knowing he's the son of the Iron Lion and seeing that he's something other than human, approaches qith her hands up and introduces herself as Luna: Royal Huntsman. He commands her to deliver a message to Caelor the Coward. “I AM KING VORD VALDIAL, SON OF STEFFEN, FIRST OF HIS NAME! MY MEN WILL OPEN THE FORT GATES UNTIL CAELOR THE COWARD FACES ME IN AN HONORABLE DUEL TO THE DEATH! I invoke the sacred rite of combat.” She writes his message out, ties it to an arrow, and sends it over the treetops, promising it will land where he'll see it. Kinda long, but it just includes the sample pages, so I felt it was all necessary. The rest of the story involves him falling off a cliff, being hunted through enchanted woods, having an Evil Dead 2 in the cabin type experience, fights several monsters, and battles a growing hunger along with a curse that gnaws at his humanity as he does what he must to survive. I'm gonna drop the fully colored and lettered sample of the comic on Bluesky and probably Behance tomorrow. Type my name in there and you'll find me!

@MintBunHunter 3 ай бұрын

1 view in 2 minutes, he really got up

@ScritRighter 3 ай бұрын

Hello, it's me, the popular guy. Back again with my famous catch phrase that I always say: "I'm takin' out the traash!"

@maokai09 2 ай бұрын

thank you

@lgc3904 2 ай бұрын

you are my hero

@KyokaiNoRuka 3 ай бұрын

I think medias res is a good trick to make an interesting beginning cause you're actually starting almost closer to the middle of the story, so stuff is alredy happening and the action is on the going; its easier to capture interest

@ScritRighter 3 ай бұрын

In media res is a great way to start some books, but in others it can leave the reader completely confused, or disinterested. I find the best way to open a book with In Media Res is to focus on how you're going to organically answer the most pressing questions offered by that starting paragraph. If we start the chapter with someone running away from something, by the end of the chapter we should know what they are running from why they are running from it, and how they feel about having to run away, basically.

@KyokaiNoRuka 3 ай бұрын

If the story has a lot of lore or has a big world to introduce, basically a lot of stuff to explain, then media res is surely not the best. But otherwise, i think that if you can still find spots to explain the contest or whats currently happening in the story, you can keep a good paste alternating action and narrative; still explaining the world or the story but with something interesting currently going on. Basically like tiktok videos with subway surfer and a speech going on at the same time and now that i've realized it im ashem im writing something like that XD

@KyokaiNoRuka 3 ай бұрын

Books for gen Z

@aliseotmane6112 20 күн бұрын

THE Like if you get the reference (Hint - its from a popular kitchen sink tool episode where he struggles to get his boating school homework off the ground)

@softestsoap 3 ай бұрын

this is all really good advice! great video

@aouyiu 2 ай бұрын

Great video

@petra4385 3 ай бұрын

I don't entirely think you need to know how your story goes along or end. Best example is a song of ice and fire. Grrm's entire writing style is not knowing what the fuck his characters are gonna do. But he made a compelling start nonetheless. So I think the first thing above all is making a reader or watcher have a hook of some kind and for you to start with that. Maybe change it later but you can start there. Which is kinda the point.

@edtheangler4930 8 күн бұрын

My story is super weird so no matter where I start it it's super weird and needs and hour to make sense

@ScritRighter 8 күн бұрын

I feel like that's not true. Even extremely weird stories such as Dandadan, Alice in Wonderland, Jojo, etc are able to establish the basic concepts in the beginning even if everything cannot be fully understood. Figure out the fundamental truths and concepts you need to introduce first and go from there, honestly.

@sierrad.7654 2 ай бұрын

I love your videos :)

@DAVEandmuffins 2 ай бұрын

Long live the Beg-inin

@MoroccoKindaCringe 3 ай бұрын

Why does this have a first video vibe? Is this the rewritten beginning of your channel?

@ScritRighter 3 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that be funny

@galvinvoltag 3 ай бұрын

I think I have to stop writing 5 paragraph philosophical works in the comment section and save my energy for the real work before burnout limit of the day. I'll start here.

@carlosiagnecz 3 ай бұрын

Maybe the beggining, could not be the beggining. In theory you could make a story that makes the jorney the more melancholic by showing their doom or show hope in a miserable world to remind that they have, even if a slightest chance a hope.

@senbiche 7 күн бұрын

What is your novel about?

@WafflerArt 3 ай бұрын

Ain’t no way I’m here 4 mins in

@maxbearington7565 2 ай бұрын

Endings are much harder.

@anthonywalker6268 2 ай бұрын

With a face like that, I might mess this up on purpose.

@StephenRansom47 3 ай бұрын

📑 🤔 this is the definition of Meta … and a verbal description of a tide lapping up and down the real estate; of coast; of sand; of the universe stuck between my toes … 🤔 🚮 📑 THIS VIDEO … 😁

@X-ite 3 ай бұрын

Not first

@net_lag 2 ай бұрын

So in conclusion..........

@FrootDeMoN 2 ай бұрын

2:56 meta

@Gokuknows 2 ай бұрын

I want it the way like "calm before disaster", but damn i thought it was easy, jit trippin, it wasn't, had my prologue altered 3 times. Make it worse, i can't even begin in the first chapter, dwud, it's been weeks, probably even months if i say so myself. Bruh, i am stuck after the third re-write from my prologue, and i'm still thinking about the first chapter in the actual story.

@Монс-й1ь 2 ай бұрын

2 years, beginning still not finished

@Gokuknows 2 ай бұрын

@@Монс-й1ь wow, that's real tough of you, well, as they say, the first step is the most difficult one, so let's keep going.

@symtrey 2 ай бұрын

How to begin your story? Just start. There's no better advice than just start. There will never be a good enough start to a story if you don't even begin writing. (Also, if you kept up with my comments, I finished a page of my manga while watching your stuff!!)