How to Get and Develop Killer Story Ideas

Рет қаралды 46,833

13 жыл бұрын

John Brown and Larry Correia at Life, the Universe, and Everything at BYU on February 18, 2011.
John Brown is the author of Servant of a Dark God. Larry Correia is author of Monster Hunter International, and other books.
www.johndbrown.com
larrycorreia.wordpress.com/
Thanks for watching. If you like the stuff on my channel, I'd love it if you bought my book: The Demigod Proving, available as a Kindle eBook at Amazon.com: amzn.to/nXMRbO.
Thanks!

Пікірлер: 28

@TheNewtraditions 12 жыл бұрын

These two gentlemen provided far greater insight to creative writing than I've seen in one place at one time. Thank you so much for sharing this video. I've wanted to write but had no idea whatever how to start. NOW, i do, and I'm going too. Again, thank you.

@sysprog999 7 жыл бұрын

Eight mysterious oddball travelers trapped together by a massive snowstorm in a haunted mansion in the middle of Wyoming. Don't disturb me, I'm busy writing my acceptance speech for the Oscars. Signed, Quentin.

@jayking4181 11 жыл бұрын

Very entertaining guys! This has given me a new outlook on storytelling. My ideas have a new lease of life now. Rather than getting bogged down in and fretting about details for one story I'm constantly searching out and generating ideas for my notebook. Thanks for sharing.

@jamestowell5818 10 жыл бұрын

"My gosh! What is going on in Wyoming!?" I love it. XD Great ideas, man.

@KuiperDesu 11 жыл бұрын

Search KZfaq for "How to Write a Story that Rocks" for John and Larry's earlier presentation.

@HezekiahKidron 12 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@NickH6100 10 жыл бұрын

Love the presentation.

@Quakeball7 12 жыл бұрын

He is referring to "How to write a Story that Rocks" which is posted on this very channel. It's a 12 parter giving you basically the same information as this video. It's just longer and has longer lists.

@ottooldenhardt 6 жыл бұрын

Finding a good idea is fairly easy. It's quite another thing to turn the idea into a fonished piece of fiction. I come up with plenty of good ideas that I don't have the skill to write successfully. Stephen King talks about this. He got the idea for Under The Dome when he was in high school, but didn't have the skill to write it until he was elderly.

@mariasmith2198 4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Ideas aren't the issue. Its structure that is difficult.

@Gorboduc 22 күн бұрын

List & Twist method explained at 12:00, starts at 20:00, characters at 34:00.

@DavidBankson 12 жыл бұрын

This is exellent, found it on John Brown's blog...is there a copy of the two-hour presentation that he mentions at the beginning of the video?

@MegaUsturoi 10 жыл бұрын

Some guy yelled COPS and it sounded like COC*S, one of the dudes was : what was that ?

@amazingvipul8392 8 жыл бұрын

Very informative session. Is character creation the first activity in story writing or deciding on the main theme?

@xandredarium4209 7 жыл бұрын

I typically start with the world and setting, as that is usually my favorite thing about stories haha. I first create a world, then i populate it....Seems like a logical way to go about it....Of course, this probably wouldn't work for genres t that have little to no focus on the actual world (for example stories that focus on romance or i dunno, crime mistery).

@amazingvipul8392 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Xandredarium. Seems like a good approach.

@DGreen951 12 жыл бұрын

Great Video, I learned alot. lol Oh and I think Larry meant to say Samuel l Jackson Or Morgan Freeman instead of Denzel Washington. Denzel doesn't play side kick roles.

@mariasmith2198 4 жыл бұрын

Really the tropes have changed. Now we have the black characters can do not wrong and never die tropes.

@flyboymike111357 10 жыл бұрын

Thought the stuff about Bakersfield was interesting, my uncle works at that prison and he never told me anything like that.

@RivalKeys 5 жыл бұрын

"Hi, I do COBOL".

@HezekiahKidron 12 жыл бұрын

If there is, I don't think I made it.

@teodormarkov6787 7 жыл бұрын

This should be named "Killer McGuffin generator" I don't think this is enough for a quality story.

@claire-qp8hm 7 жыл бұрын

Summary: Come up with an idea E.g. A girl and a boy fall in love in highschool. then twist it A psychotic girl and manipulative boy fall in love in a highschool full of murders, blackmails and scandals. :)

@rikurikukallio1867 9 жыл бұрын

Lots of talk not a lot to say. Don't understand how they managed to spent so much time for such a simple message.

@C.Church 6 жыл бұрын

Rikuriku Kallio . For me I thought it was a great exercise. The 2nd guy talking over other speakers with his little side jokes was too much. But it was less just making a point, but more an exercise to grease the gears