The Bad Guys Are Closing In...(also I passed 60K in this draft!!)

[@KateCavanaugh]

This video was completed in advance! I'm still on my ~KZbin hiatus~ so I'll be back to respond to comments on the 31st. Thanks for sticking with me, y'all! Also the first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare!: skl.sh/katecavanaugh01211

[@HannahTheHorrible]

The keyboard is everything

[@stoppickingurnose7852]

Right? ASMR channels could never.

[@marywockenfuss-thecraftypl6461]

13:47 "Have fun storming the castle!"

[@ABookIsHobSession]

Watching this while deep cleaning/ re-arranging my room. Your videos are so great for both active and passive watching.

[@randomlymandy6780]

Not the bf accidentally shading you by bringing up your procrastination skills😭🤣but hey that actually sounds like a good idea, I would love to see what you do when not writing!

[@wordswithtaylorleigh]

okay but your kitty snuggling up with your pups. ADORABLE.

[@craftblend]

I'm all for doing the videos showcasing your "procrastination projects" lol! Mostly because I do it, too. Between working and writing and finishing school, I love to craft and I enjoy doing videos on those random pieces. My only issue is making sure I have time for all of it! Phew. Still getting the hang of that part.

[@sydney2802]

I'm so glad you're excited about reaching 60k! I get that way when I reach 50k (product of doing NaNos, I believe), but everything after feels almost unreal but I get excited every 5k or so. As far as writing craft, I don't tend to use any until I've written the first draft because I want to get the story out and then order it. I can't think of any callbacks right now, bu goodness do I feel you when I just can't get that one line to go right and it messes with the whole scene. So frustrating, but when you finally figure it out it feels like every god imaginable has smiled upon you, lol. In the meantime, I stick in some brackets, what I want the line to feel like or what I need it to bridge and then keep on trucking. And my recent procrastination-yet-still-productive hobbies are crocheting and, like you, embroidering.

[@stargirl099]

I love your new keyboard, Kate! :)

[@vampireassassin4750]

I am writing a zombie apocalypse novel that I can't seem to get outlined for nothing I am thinking about just saying screw it and just go for it and then reread and outline than this will be the first novel I have pantsed since I was in my early twenty everything I have written has always had some kind of outline so this will be interesting I am using Save the Cat in the back of my mind while writing this novel but not actually outlining if that makes any sense I am a little over 20,000 words into it and so far I have yet to hit a wall without an outline so maybe I can do it although now that I have said it more likely than not I am probably going to run into a problem soon dang it Wish me luck I am going to need it

[@lolaa538]

To be honest, if you do end up publishing Project Death I am going to sprint to it to buy.

[@lunickiwrites7256]

I haven't gotten around to circling back yet, but my opening scene alludes to an arrest that isn't revisited until about halfway through. I'm stuck in the meantime, not without progress, but drawing it out more than I planned.

[@TheHexedLibrary]

Kate: At 60,000 words. Jess: At 14,000 words. Oh no.

[@lynea7782]

You've got this Jess! I'll see you in the discord Januwrimo sprints this weekend

[@karakurie]

I used to read them before outlining, or after outlining a bit and also using Save the Cat. But then I would write it and if I got stuck I'd look up my issue and read any writing craft book related to my problem. Take a weekend to read it (or less) and using those tips I'd fix it. However, this process left me in a bubble of my own brain and I forgot that writing was a form of communication, so everything I wrote was dull or unclear because I wrote it thinking about structure, but not readability. So now I ditched the books and now I read or watch stuff I like, if there's a scene that gives me emotion I copy it and deconstruct it, then try writing like they did. It helps me figure out rhythm and how to make stuff exciting and fun. I also keep note of what I didn't like and why and try to avoid that in my writing. Its all quite hard but its a learning process.

[@marahsoore6452]

Congrats on getting to 60k! So I use craft books during my different stages accept for drafting. I'll use 'Save the Cat' for my outline then jump to editing books for when I need to clean stuff up. My favorite call back from my current series is... ugh it's so good. My main character is from a country who has been colonizing other countries int he world. But he has made friends with a forgiener who's country is the first one to stand up and defeat the colonizing country. The first time they talk they agree 'we should be friends, for he betterment of our countries'. and this is a constant thread I bring back up when they bond. That with them there is hope that their people can heal and learn. Sadly some stuff is about to happen to the forgiener so I'm going to hope they get another moment or I'm going to cry so hard.

[@exploringallgenres]

I haven't figured out when in the writing process to use writing craft books. I enjoy reading them and gleaning all kinds of helpful information for them, but have yet to make that leap of using them during the process. So any hints on that would be helpful. The puzzle looks fantastic on your wall! Makes me want to put together my one and only puzzle, glue it together and put it above my writing desk.

[@underscoreella]

My favorite call back is each of my POV characters saying they feel like they’re slipping and need something to hold onto so at the ending they feel like they’re holding onto each other!

[@RKStumblingbear]

I like using outline structures after my zero draft is done and I am getting ready to revise. But that's probably because I write scenes out of order during the zero draft.

[@thelvey1]

Look at that candy keyboard!

[@crystalevere]

What are you using to stick that on your wall? For the love of god, I neeed to know, Kate, anybody?? Story short about wall hangings: I have been through hell.

[@Rec426]

Loved this! I’m actually working on my childrens middle grade manuscript which I’m nearing the end of which I’ve never completed a large project so it’s kinda surreal. I’ve got one last chapter to complete and then I’ve done with writing it. Obviously, not with the editing of it but I’ll focus on that later 😅

[@adrabloodstone6388]

Great video as always. Thoughts. :buffy: Oh heckin fluff she picked up the camera again, dont move. :Vin: I'm gunna sit here. :Buffy: really again am i a pillow? :Zelda: I'm gunna get Vin. :Looks up sees mom: Crap she caught me.

[@Devyn_leal]

Dialogue is extremely tricky I found, especially when I first started writing, but a trick that I’ve used is studying the dialogue from movies. Ironically, writing it from that sort of standpoint, where the rule is to always keep a sort of tension hidden between the lines, seemed to help a lot.

[@jeremyfee]

I also love when something comes full circle. Fun vlog!

[@azriel9499]

Just today I re-outlined a novel I'm working on using Save the Cat writes a novel, which was super fun. Lots of stuff came together and I think I finally figured the story out.

[@bunny_0288]

I generally use save the cat from the beginning, but I actually pantsed a novel for this year's NaNoWriMo. I used the Save the Cat beat sheet to push the story forward. I had no idea where the story was going, I just focused on working my way to the next beat I needed to hit. It actually worked out really really well. I have a lot of detail and subplots to add, but I was able to have a pretty clean first draft with a fairly cohesive story without doing any pre-planning at all. I'm actually amazed it worked as well as it did lol. I never got stuck anywhere because I always knew where the story was headed.

[@SelenicSoul83]

0:37 oh I have that shirt! okay now watching the rest of the video

[@madelinejameswrites]

I definitely outline first (I'm a hardcore plotter), but I kind of update my outline between drafts especially in the developmental revision phase 😁 also I love the puzzle you did! Looks great on the wall

[@bhsprinkle]

Thanks for taking us with you while you type out your project. Congratulations on such a big word count!

[@c-hwilliams156]

Another great vlog :) and yay for 60k!

[@reginaduke7451]

So nice to wake up to a new vlog!!! I hope your January experiment is going well. :D Good luck! Write like mad!!!!

[@its_just_iman]

Kate you need to start publishing your books like right now but it is your choice

[@daniwriting3794]

Congratulations on 60k 🎉🎉

[@KMort]

My current WiP is going hilariously well for some reason, prob cause it's more chill than my other one, which is complex. I started it in May and already have like 130k words, I'm also in uni so it is even more weird it's going so well🙃

[@marywockenfuss-thecraftypl6461]

How did you hang the puzzle once it was glued? Command strips? Also pet cuteness!

[@AbiofPellinor]

Omg congrats on the 60k words and I hope your hiatus is going well!!

[@MollyWobblesXOX]

Anyone know where she got the keyboard? It’s so cute! ☺️ I would love it.

[@mariavalente6304]

TB sounds amazing. How does a writer meet people?

[@Neil-writer-author]

I don’t have plants in my house because I know mr flint will eat them.

[@dubbytheapple7115]

Was someone listening to Johnny test???