10 Mistakes New Writers Make

That intro reminds me of Abbie emmons 😂

The section on over description to convey character emotion made me smooth my skirt, that is divided for riding, to stop me tugging at my braid.

Research is so important. Some of my best ideas have been while reading for research!

Are there writers who don't read??? Dude, literally 80% of what I know about storytelling is from reading and observation!

I have researched a whole bunch of indie and trad publishing process and I came to a conclusion that I don’t want to do either of them. Or at least both options aren’t really good for me for different reasons. Instead my goal has become to learn book binding and eventually bind my own book. It just sounds very cool.

When I was a teen I came to the realization that I needed a better grasp of psychology to write my characters better, which was very intimidating, and kind of paralyzing at first, but I kept writing, and have since developed a natural interest in the subject, so I'm always learning more about psychology, even when it doesn't relate to something I'm writing. I've spoken to my therapist about some of the research I've put into the psychology of my characters, and we both got very excited talking about it haha Sometimes I've found that researching a subject ends with me realizing that I dont have to be so stressed about accuracy. One example being when I was researching military rankings and structures throughout history, which led to me coming to the conclusion that I didn't need to strive to hard for accurate military ranks in my fantasy novel, because there have been many different systems of varying complexity throughout history, and this story isn't set in "basically just medieval europe" either (I wouldn't equate it to anything specific really, the magic system has changed a lot about human advancement, and I dislike the idea that another world would follow all of the same cultural trends and technological advancements as on Earth, especially with magic being a factor).

I think head hopping is okay. Frank Herbert does it effectively without giving everything away. Instead we get a sense of paranoia and understand where each character is coming from.

I’ve never been so happy to be a psych major, because you’re SO right about the psychology of characters!!! You can tell so quickly when someone just plastered an archetype husk of a person rather than an actual human.

I love your definition of head-hopping! I often use omniscient narrator in my works, but I at least wait to hop into someone else's perspective by starting a new paragraph and doing it where it feels natural, y'know? At least people who write in first POV don't often have this problem, lol.

Themes are very important to me when I start writing a book. And even themes characters embody help me not only with their personalities, but also their character arc. My story's main theme is grief and healing and my two MC's theme is just that. It's about what grief can do to a person, how it broke them and are they willing to heal that wound. It's more of a fun exercise on how different people react to grief. It's something I wanted to explore so that's a driving force. Even the trilogy is separated into core themes: book 1 is about showing how grief can damage someone when not approached in a healthy way Book 2 is about healing, trying to find peace ect And book 3 is more about how it's not a linear process. The five stages of grief don't happen in the order we know and regression can happen. Idk if any of that made sense😅, but knowing the themes I'm going for solidifies lots of things for me and just helps the process to run more smoothly.

Plotter: Don't neglect research. Also Plotter: This is the definition I had in mind. I don't know the official defintion, like the Google. Me: Ah, yes. Truly a writer.

You help and inspire me so much, thank you Char! Without you I already would have given up on writing!

I was definitely doing the over show instead of inner monologuing😂. It’s just a thing that everyone gets overwhelmed by when new to writing😅. I think it’s over used and feared is all.

Welcome back to youtube! although I'm new here, I already like your content in Instagram! I'm so looking forwards to what you're going to post next. Good luck! and Keep going!

My love for reading made me want to write 😅

For the research and characters I have a solution for the character psychology. I love MBTI and researching it (if you dont know it’s a personality type indicator). I always give my characters an MBTI since it explains nearly everything about their personality. If I’m unsure if an action is something they’d do I refer to their MBTI.

10:54 I like to describe clothing if the characters style changes over time or if the clothing is important to them like if it was sewn by a family member or affects their corse of action.

I am a Wattpad writer, and one of my books is kind of the trope my best friend‘s brother, but instead of the brother being the love and trust, it’s the best friend cousin who is love interest and the main plot of that book is that the main character Lily she becomes a famous actress and Felix becomes the famous baseball star. Haven’t had really contact since she left Oregon where they grew up together romance if I am not mistaken, there is no prologue is a little flashback. OK to start it off because everything happens like the comfort really starts on Lily‘s surprise 16th birthday party because that’s where they that’s why she sleeps with him And she end up getting pregnant her single mom with her daughter and and two years later they meet up at a gala dinner obviously with somebody else and she was just a fling to him, but Lily still has a soft spot for him so but then she realizes that she he’s dating his head coach daughter Who has a bad record and so her father basically is putting up the guys for for illegal like drugs like they ever take these drugs basically and it makes him into more robotic arms and so basically she date to get close to the coach and to save the one man she’s ever loved and to make up with her best friend who she betrayed by sleeping with his face by sleeping with her cousin is that a good plot and development?

The constant actions thing was a problem I used to have with my own writing too 😂 It works in other mediums but it can be a bit annoying to read.

This was so good. Love it. Thank you!