The Hardest Piece of Writing Advice (Kill Your Darlings) | Writers Start Here

[@sarahalbert6833]

Love this channel. Thanks for sharing 🤩

[@PaulRWorthington]

Great production value in that opening! And really good writing advice in the rest. Thanks!

[@scb-z9u]

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch is the perfect pseudonym. It gives, "Mr. Writer Pens Sitting."

[@markbechtold7372]

This is fantastic advice. Thank you. Also, great opening sequence.

[@eldritchbidoof]

"Sir Arthur Quiller Couch..." Me: ohhh he's memeing on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name, lmfao that's great "...was a prolific author at the turn of the 20th century..." Me: ....oh.... it's a different person and that's his real name 😶

[@Writing-Theory]

If only intentionally-funny me was as hilarious as unintentionally-funny me

[@V_2077]

One of the best writing tubers

[@DaCapybara]

Thank you for this series! I'm beginning my first draft of a novel and just realized I have some double dip scenes thanks to this! Also, I came to the comments and am shocked that your channel has only 3k subs. It won't be like that long, you have quality content!! 😊

[@Rood543]

Thank you! I'm currently editing my story and I met this video at the exact right time.

[@conan2766]

Love your content ! Very informative and reflexive (is it even the way you use this word ?)

[@psychoalice6800]

Drawing art also uses this. It's a great revision for all artwork for sure.

[@scb-z9u]

The SJ Maas universe would be 50% smaller if the solo scenes and double dipping were edited out. She's constantly doing that to remind us about her character's pasts to the point it's hard to get through sometimes.

[@nikoletta_]

Thanks so much! Exactly what I'm struggling with these days. Been looking for advice on that topic for so long! Any tips on how to figure out the target audience of our story? (I'm writing a screenplay but I don't think this makes any difference)

[@Writing-Theory]

I agree that script vs novel doesn't make any difference. It's a good question for how to figure out the target audience of your story, but I think that it starts with you, the writer, and your intentions for the story. There's a field of writing called Technical Writing that breaks audiences down into Primary Audiences, Secondary Audiences, and Tertiary Audiences. The Primary Audience is the audience who will interact with your story most directly. For example, your script is meant to tell a story that will be presented most directly to a viewer. The Secondary Audience, an audience who interacts with your story in a less direct way, maybe the cast and crew who work with that script. The Tertiary Audience, the audience who is exposed to your script in more unintended ways, maybe students who look to your script to learn. These audiences can change based on what you want your story to do. If you are writing to market, a concept in writing where you look at trends in media and try to create a work that capitalizes on that trend, then your Primary Audience may not be a viewer, but an agent or production house. If you are writing a story that comes from your love of a certain genre, then your Primary Audience may be people like you who appreciate, know, and love that genre. Whatever the intention of the writer, and whoever the Audience is, you may include different bits of content within your work in order to connect with that Audience. If writing for science fiction lovers, you may include popular tropes in the genre or purposefully subvert those tropes. Also, you can consider your audience to be as specific as you want to be. If you really want your script to be made by a certain production house, then maybe you look at their past productions and include elements in your script that are unique to their kind of stories. I don't think it's unheard of to have a perceived audience influence your work. If anything, it's just a guiding star to work towards that influence decisions you make as you write. What are your thoughts?

[@nikoletta_]

@@Writing-Theory Your answer really gave me food for thought! I’ve never thought of it this way before. All your suggestions were helpful and I’ll certainly give each one of them more thought. I absolutely agree that trends play a huge role when marketing your work, but unfortunately the feedback I received so far is that the audience for my script (primary audience/viewers) might be way too specific due to the amount of specific references and inside jokes it has and that I should figure out a way to widen the audience and make the film appeal to more people. But most importantly that I should be as specific as possible about the target group (ie. age, background, gender, etc). That seems like a lot for me to handle and decide. So I guess I’m in the position of trying to appeal both to the producers’ demands/expectations (that is, if I want to give my work a chance) and to the demands of an imaginary target group whose preferences/wants I cannot really predict and fulfill. Thanks once again for your answer! 😊😊

[@WritingAdviceUA]

5:40 of course more, Gancho