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@studiomoonfall 11 сағат бұрын
Thanks for the visit!
@creativewritingcorner 11 сағат бұрын
@@studiomoonfall Always a pleasure!
@duruiz 14 сағат бұрын
Laughs in Jose Saramago 😂
@chelseyummali 17 сағат бұрын
Dostoevskys White Nights is wonderful
@creativewritingcorner 15 сағат бұрын
Yes! Dostoevsky is one of my favorite authors, EVER. His characters, settings, and themes wrap me up in his story worlds and refuse to let me go. If I could write with a fraction of Dostoevsky's charm, pathos, or insight into the human condition, I'd be quite pleased with my work.
@Khatoon170 18 сағат бұрын
How are you doing mr Luke . Happy Independence Day in advance. Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American KZfaq channels. I have great news I want to share with all channels Iam subscriber to . Iam going to be English teacher in academy improving plan for weak students , I passed written exam , but remains for me only oral interview to be officially employed. This achievement due to your efforts, you encourage me to read and learn . Since Christmas 2019 when I began to subscribe to British and American KZfaq channels, I learned so many things and , Iam still learning. Yes I found out that punctuation is very important in writing because, fills our writing with slient into nation . We pause stop , emphasize, or question using comma , period , exclamation point or question mark . Correct punctuation adds clarity and precision to writing, allows writer to stop , pause , or give emphasis to certain part of sentences. There are great channel called Oregon state university school of writing, literature, film . Content of channel grammar rules and literary guide . I learned which called Oxford comma, or serial comma , Harvard comma is final comma in list of things . Most powerful punctuation is full stop is strongest punctuation mark , making definite pause ( in reading aloud or silently) when used at end of sentence. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
@SOOH27 Күн бұрын
holy shit my favorite writing channel is back this is a topic I end up coming across a LOT while interacting with people online or just in workshops. it's incredibly important that a story reads like you want it to be read, and a lot of people miss that when they're sounding everything out in their heads, but not really going back to re-read what they just wrote to see how it sounds.
@creativewritingcorner Күн бұрын
@@SOOH27 Yessir! 😄 Absolutely, the sound of your writing has a huge impact on how it's received by your reader, and punctuation plays a big role in building that musicality.
@FulcrumMason Күн бұрын
A few comments have mentioned the need to not just provide a list of names...yet still people are providing just a list of names. If I was to list the names people have written there would be too many to possibly even think about venturing into WITHOUT EXPLAINING WHY THEY ARE MUST READS!! the MORE names Listed the HARder it BeComes! LIST WHY!!! how else can it be said? put more effort into it please !!!
@micheallove8177 2 күн бұрын
All could be use if done right and doesn't throw away any investment. Matrix is a dream but a dream everyone is in making it reality.
@creativewritingcorner 2 күн бұрын
@@micheallove8177 True! There are no "rules" in writing, and every writing guideline has its exceptions.
@micheallove8177 2 күн бұрын
@creativewritingcorner Admittedly, this is hard (for me) to do that without copying and pasting ideas, but if done is VERY rewarding
@IC-XC_NIKA 6 күн бұрын
This is great. I love it, even though I’ve read this material before.
@creativewritingcorner 5 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@SetInStoneNow 12 күн бұрын
The best way out of writer's block is...write about it. Works every time for me. Just keep pushing through until you're back in rhythm.
@ArabWalaairr 16 күн бұрын
OH MY GOD THANK YOUUUU!!! All the other videos are too long and have unnecessary details but you got straight to the point, thank you!!!
@The_Nixie 18 күн бұрын
So often - even in the comments here - one sees lists and recommendations. 'Every writer should read". But when presented as nothing but a list, the info is meaningless. Your video - addressing *why* they should read, *what is special about the piece that they can learn/learn from - is genuinely *useful. Thank you! (And: immediately shared with my writing group) I've read the Twain piece a hundred times - and will read it totally differently next time. Being told "this is a special and unique piece that everyone should know" is unhelpful. Being told *why it is special and unique fosters learning - about that piece and beyond. Your students are lucky to have you!
@creativewritingcorner 17 күн бұрын
Thank you! I'm so happy to hear that. 😁 And thanks for watching!
@user-ms9cv3lo1q 20 күн бұрын
Women are the best muses a poet can have....I have written thousands of poems because of women and will continue to do so.....
@creativewritingcorner 20 күн бұрын
Cannot argue with that, brother. Neither could Shakespeare.
@user-ms9cv3lo1q 19 күн бұрын
@@creativewritingcorner I don't know if i'll ever be as good as Shakespeare, but at least I'll have fun trying 🙂
@ifz5680 22 күн бұрын
All of Anton Chekov 😊
@creativewritingcorner 22 күн бұрын
For sure!
@mortimer2469 23 күн бұрын
To many words.better fast going to the point
@andrewbrendan1579 Ай бұрын
For great short stories I recommend Alice Munro and Louis Auchincloss and Joyce Carol Oates.
@ElenaCowell-2511 Ай бұрын
Ah, yes, reading like a writer😅 About nine months ago, when I had just graduated Grade 8, I started writing... stuff. Ideas. And in the midst of a few ideas, I informed myself that I could never write sci-fi, because I don’t have the brains. Lol, I immediately started working on a sci-fi story, universe, and so on. Within two months ish, I had seven WIP, none of which were the same genre. I have some minor form of DID. Those seven WIP are now nine, but I have managed to make myself work on only one at a time, so I've recently made a lot of progress with a romance novel - that is, that particular WIP contains 30,000 more words than any of the others,and I'm kind of proud of myself. Back to my original point... reading like a writer: I am mildly ashamed to admit that I haven't read ANYTHING in months... maybe even a year. I used to read everything, but now I pretty much only read my own writing (editing, blahhhh) and... that's probably not improving me as a writer. There. That's my two cents. This podcast is amazing! Honestly, it's the first writing podcast I've ever watched (was listening to it while I wrote last week) and I've never learned so much! So thank you, obviously😊
@creativewritingcorner Ай бұрын
You're welcome! I'm so glad to hear about your progress. I go through phases of reading and writing, myself. Sometimes, when I'm in "reading mode", I'll devour half a dozen books while barely writing a word. Then I'll dive in on a new writing project (or get lost in the weeds of multiple WIPs - a bad habit I can't seem to break), and I might not pick up a book (outside the ones required to teach my classes) for months. If you're actively writing, I wouldn't worry too much about reading. Do it when the itch strikes, when the inspiration well starts to run dry, or when it's time to learn something new. When you're already in the writing habit, you're doing the most important part of the job. Reading, though crucial, is only there to support that main function. Thanks for watching/listening, and keep up the great work!
@N0B0DY5i1 Ай бұрын
get rid of repetition words such as (and, i, it, but, or, as) if there are more add them below another tip avert(avert defined: try not to use) from using complex words, you want a reader to be digesting the scene as it develops if the reader needs to google a word because of its complex definition then you will surely lose the readers attention span and or mental image music does so well because it avoids using complex words as well as avoiding a lot of the (if, and, or, buts) as well as (i, it, because...etc) don't mind the punctuation or grammar errors. fix them if you must, find your sense of coherency in the incoherent.
@renatajd7758 Ай бұрын
While thwtvis all fictional. I dont want to write anything I have not experienced.
@creativewritingcorner Ай бұрын
Creative nonfiction is a great genre. Short stories, despite being fiction, can still help with nonfiction writing - particularly narrative nonfiction, like a memoir or personal essay. Many of the same techniques apply to both fiction and nonfiction narrative writing.
@darkengine5931 2 ай бұрын
I strongly favor and likely abuse asyndeta. It's not for intended effect in my case -- although I take the effects into account as a bonus -- so much as a natural habit and reflection of my speech patterns. I've always been an extreme improviser in my speech and likely to a fault. Planning what I want to say in advance often gets me completely tongue-tied if I make any small mistake or if external circumstances deviate from my plans. I'm far more comfortable completely speaking off the cuff, not even anticipating what sentence I'll say next (let alone a complete sentence in many cases as I begin a new one). I tend to stumble a bit due to my lack of planning, but it's easier for me to make a rapid and smooth recovery when I lack any plans to disrupt in the first place. Yet my unrehearsed nature initially had me favoring the child-like polysyndeton with "and, and, and": a barrage of afterthoughts with no anticipation of where my list is supposed to end in advance. So it was through some discipline and slowing myself down that I largely replaced my child-like use of the polysyndeton with the more controlled and rhetorical asyndeton (albeit still often lacking the foresight to see when I've reached the last item in the list to include the preceding conjunction). I tend to favor it most when reflecting in a sentimental fashion: "[...] the silver glow of moonlight, the silver lining in the clouds, the silver streaks in my wife's hair." That was probably really cheesy and cliché (I'm a complete neophyte to creative writing and often feel hopelessly out of my depth when I attempt it). Yet this type of sentimental writing and speech often seems more naturally expressed without the formal syntax of the list, as the less spontaneous nature of the formal list seems to detract from the genuineness and reflective quality of the sentiment from my perspective.
@jinglecat3678 2 ай бұрын
“In dreams begin responsibilities”-Delmore Schwartz
@creativewritingcorner 2 ай бұрын
I'm not familiar with that one, but I just looked it up. It's on my soon-to-read list. Thanks!
@tommygr 2 ай бұрын
"The Wall" by Jean Paul Sartre and Hemingway's "The Killers" are great ones.
@creativewritingcorner 2 ай бұрын
Excellent picks! I'll be teaching "The Wall" in my Existentialism in Literature and Film capstone course next year. I'll have to reread "The Killers." Can't wait!
@Summer_Dream3r 2 ай бұрын
Speaking of King, I've read part of "On Writing" but recently, after reading a bit of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel, "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" I realized that Dick relies on things that other writers, like King, as well as some writing channels, say makes a person's writing "weaker." This is stuff like a)using adverbs, of which Dick uses a lot, almost several each paragraph. Ex. He said sharply. b) He also uses words that other authors and writing channels say are distancing language by using words like feeling or realized. Example, “Okay,” he said, feeling bitter and resentful. c) and he tells a lot as well in his writing, as that example of feeling bitter and resentful shows.He tells feelings instead of showing them in scenes, frequently. His novel is so chock-full of this stuff that it's basically his writing style. Yet, while reading it, I still enjoyed it and was immersed in the story. My question is: is the writing advice from others regarding all this stuff just nitpicking? Are these things simply stylistic preferences? I get that showing at the right moments in a story is important, but the rest of it I'm not quite sure. Philip K. Dick is a legendary writer and seeing him employ these things frequently in a novel that was nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula award makes me wonder if what I heard from other writers is really true that writing this way makes one's writing "weaker." For a sort-of-newbie writer like myself, this stuff gets a bit confusing. What's your opinion about this? Cheers. :)
@creativewritingcorner 2 ай бұрын
It's absolutely possible for one to make up with imagination and storytelling what one lacks in style or other writing skills, and Philip K. Dick is a prime example. I love his work, and while he's hardly the prose master Ray Bradbury or Harlan Ellison is, he's every bit the visionary.
@Summer_Dream3r 2 ай бұрын
@@creativewritingcorner His approach breaks some of the popular "no-nos" in modern fiction writing, and he makes it work. On the other hand, I've read books where the writing chops were on point (lots of showing, subtext, hardly any adverbs), yet found the prose tedious. Funny how that works.
@creativewritingcorner 2 ай бұрын
@Sky_flying2024 Amen! There are guidelines that GENERALLY apply, but there are too many exceptions to call those guidelines "rules".
@stephenwalker2924 2 ай бұрын
Favourite quote of all time from the great King man: “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
@creativewritingcorner 2 ай бұрын
So simple, yet so true.
@migalorsdarwin1930 3 ай бұрын
Cool interview: Who is this woman sitting there?
@creativewritingcorner 2 ай бұрын
That's Phil's wife.
@theindian2226 3 ай бұрын
Thanks Hugely informative
@wyrdpink2549 3 ай бұрын
The fact that you read only one demographic of author; mostly white, all male, will give you a limited ability and limited empathy.
@creativewritingcorner 3 ай бұрын
If that were a fact, I'd agree with you. But I read a wide variety authors. These are only five of hundreds of short stories I might recommend writers to read. I happen to teach these regularly, and chose them for the reasons I state in the video. Also, Langston Hughes is black and Kate Chopin is female, so I'm really not sure where your comment is coming from.
@anthonycotts2451 3 ай бұрын
A&P by Updike. For how to make the details of a scene relate to the theme of the story.
@RevJ7 3 ай бұрын
Holy shit was that Hills Like White Elephants short stupid as fuck. So boring and nothing happened and it wasn't thought provoking. Like what even was that.
@user-sj2hi5fn4m 3 ай бұрын
A loty of snobbery here. Stephen King is a master short story writer, and has many of them.
@creativewritingcorner 3 ай бұрын
Big fan of Stephen King. My most recent video is on his writing advice. Thanks for watching!
@stevengrapes3874 3 ай бұрын
This is my favorite poem. I screamed when you said the title. Good taste.
@creativewritingcorner 3 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it! What's that they say about "great minds"? 😉
@hark4e78 3 ай бұрын
“Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff. The ending of the story still haunts me.
@ammarbezanjo208 3 ай бұрын
sir please upload videos on essay writing. please
@creativewritingcorner 3 ай бұрын
I can do that; I teach essay writing all the time in my literature classes. I don't address it here much, though, because this channel is dedicated to creative writing, and essays (in English class, anyway) tend to call on expository, argumentative, or analytical skills, rather than one's creative side. That said, creative nonfiction is a valid (and popular) field of writing, and some of the greatest literary works have taken the essay format (see Montaigne, Swift, Twain, etc.). So it's certainly worth making a video about. I'll start prepping one. Thanks for the suggestion!
@danakerjbam 4 ай бұрын
"Araby" James Joyce - perfect capture of first love, and therefore first shame "The Vane Sisters" Vladimir Nabokov - sweet and simple, until you realize what's going on in that last paragraph. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" Raymond Carver - best dialogue that sounds realistic at first, and then seems like the purest poetry, then seems like both "Born of Man and Woman" Richard Matheson - the saddest scariest two pages you'll ever read "Half a Grapefruit" Alice Munro - the best still living. There's Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Munro. And she's probably the best even amongst them. Thanks for the list, have much to read this weekend.
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
Great list!
@Blimpie1000 4 ай бұрын
The only problem I had with "War and Peace" was it was too short! As for short stories: Poe, "The Purloined Letter"
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
I know, right? And only 500 or so named characters! Tolstoy was slacking. Ah yes, the dawn of the detective genre! So good.
@c0284 4 ай бұрын
The Monkey's Paw by Saki?
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
Great one! Excellent use of situational irony.
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
I am glad the jail decided to use the Team Edward beanies for body scrubbies. Steven King books. Those are some short ones that will work well for shank armor. If you are running from a guard with a rifle, better stuff a "The Stand" in your shirt. Satire! On the more serious note, whenever I get to the end of a project I get nervous or something, and a lot of times I abandon the project and start another one. That is how I have Two half finished short stories that should have been done already. However I am now 62,500 into a novel and I have it in my head it has to be completed before I do anything else. Plus I can't wait to get into the editing part. That for me is fun.😊
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
Excellent! Keep it up. I have the same issue with nerves and self-doubt overtaking me as I approach the end of a project. I'd say it's a universal struggle. My copy of The Stand got all shanked up, I'm afraid.
@AurynBeorn 4 ай бұрын
I've always taken the back seat on my life: everybody else was first. The itch to write has been there for as long as I can remember. Life has always found its way to make me change my priorities: I've never been one of them for myself. I've tried to change it, and signed up for some creative writing courses where I live. I've learned techniques, a lot about archetypes, character and location sheets, story beats... My mind, though, works the other way around. It likes to simply walk observing in wonder and take note of what it finds. Characters take my hand and show me their world. However, this ends up with a huge, unmanageable mess full of plot holes. I start so many stories, I have so many ideas. I get all my ideas from the small things in life. Whenever I go walking I'm always looking around. Graffitis for example, they hide stories. People that deviate from the norm in their looks. The person that nags a waiter because they're drunk, have an absolute view of the world and _need_ to feel that someone agrees with them, the nasty person that looks above their shouler feeling _more than_. The things that people throws on the floor instead of in trash bins. Why is that object there, why did someone throw that kind of object? In some occasions I've found journals from little ones. From kids. I've rescued them from the garbage they were thrown into. I feed myself from the memories of others. But the only thing I've never managed to learn is: so, how does all of this fit into a story that makes sense? Should I ever try, what am I telling exactly and _how_ do I tell it so _it makes sense for others_? Do I really need to stick to archetypes? Could structure beats somehow help me in deciding how the story unfolds? So far, I only have a bunch of raw material, many ideas, a few flash fiction stories, and nothing else. Whenever I try to write more than three pages, I get stuck. Even more than two pages is difficult. It's not the lack of ideas. It's perhaps not knowing how to structure my life around how to structure another life: the life of my stories. How do we go about that? Perhaps having my desk in a corner helps. Perhaps it's also a metaphor: make yourself unseen so no one will bother you when you need the time to write. Maybe, so?
@Drudenfusz 4 ай бұрын
For me roleplaying games are a great source of inspiration, playing living stories i the moment with friends around the table contributing and keeping surprising. Seeing characters blossom and the story being something that simply emerges there without having to make it happen is an absolute joy. And of course it is a great tool to simply try out ideas that are only half-baked in your head.
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
I have friends who do D & D and the like, but I've only played it once. It seems awesome, and if I ever find the time and the right group of people I'd love to try to make it a regular thing. But I have a similar problem with group storytelling as I do playing in a band: I'm more comfortable as a solo act. Still, I've heard some awesome storytelling coming out of RPGs, so it sounds like a hurdle I'll have to leap eventually.
@StrangerDanger491 4 ай бұрын
Great video, and great advice. You glanced over some of the best advice I ever got from my psychologist: "Get bored. Turn off your computer, put your phone away, sit in a chair somewhere, and get bored. The creative part of your mind is infinite, but if you want to create things, then you need to spend time there." My favourite quote is a simple one by Miyamoto Musashi: "It will be difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first."
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
Absolutely! Boredom is an absolute necessity for creativity. (Pretty sure I did a whole video on that topic sometime last year.) Love Musashi! The Book of Five Rings changed my thinking as a martial artist. Thanks for watching!
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
Your jailhouse tattoo artist did a good job freehand dying that white commissary T-shirt. Satire!
@MikeTomano 4 ай бұрын
Excellent. Thanks again. Very happy I found your channel.
@MikeTomano 4 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
When I put the money on your books, please get some hygeine and shave off that half a beard you have. It kind of says a lot that the warden let you wear his silk undershirt. But won't tell the other inmates that...for eight soups, five honey buns, and a deck of UNO cards, that is...Satire!
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
The warden insisted on the scruff. Won't even let me have a razor.
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
I started writng a short story that turned into a novel a little over three weeks ago. The secret is that I didn't write it as a Nanowrimo prompt, but on inspiration when it hit. I started writing it on Jan 16th or 17th and today I have 53,000 words. The best part of it is that if I absolutely had to rush complete it with a couple of summation paragraphs I could. The even better part is that I don't have to. I guess the whole point of Nano-wrimo is that if you write 2000 words a day, which is totally doable, nano-wrimo can get done. I guess the whole point of the spray-paint camo pattern you designed over your orange jumpsuit is to act as camoflage in the prison boiler room when you and the other jailhous boys go down to..."play' Satire!
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
Dude, that's epic. 53k words in a month is astounding progress. Keep it up! (And I can tell you're just jealous...)
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
@@creativewritingcorner I think I would do well in prison. Other than that not a joke-joke, thank you for the kind words. I want to clarify and give you context on this accomplishment. Although I can get full time work, I am spending most of my time every day on my writing. I wrote a novel's worth last year all of short stories. For money, I make 200 a week odd jobs as well as have a ten dollar a day undercover uber where I get this guy his daily beer. With going to the food pantry and being extra tight with my money, I make it work. And the suffering I feel for not having much material comforts is made up tenfold by me being able to write full time. I have a dog and I take him on walks every day for two hours. I write off a lot of my time online because I come up with jokes and material, (Like how I do with your platform. I make the same joke over and over again in different ways to sharpen my improv comedy chops, and I definitely got them). I am a little full of myself as an author, in that I know I am going to make it, one way or the other. Last year was practice, and also me learning this valuable lesson, "Don't waste your time promoting or formatting a book or even copy editing that hard, just write the material." My weak promotional attempts did nothing, just maybe garnered KZfaq views, where I read my work. I had self-publish pipe dreams, like it would be discovered right away and I would become a full time author really fast, you know, the usual delusions. I had the joy of pushing the publishing button several times with Amazon, but until I have the funds for a book launch or some marketing my work will stay burried. I jumped into wrtinng all of a sudden (Something I always wanted to do but never did til now) so I am just now meeting people. As I said, this was a short story that turned into a novel. I have had great luck at not having too many blocks, and am feeling good about the novel. No lie, out of 53,000 there are probably 8000 misspelled words. I am confident in the book enough to try trad this time. I made a lot of mistakes when I first got into this, including losing 700 dollars to scammer formatters. I still have books that have generic covers, which makes KU people think AI. I should have sent those stories off to contests and collections, and now since it is self-published trads and contests don't want them. So I am not worried about self-pub anymore. I can send anything off to anywhere I want now, and made a huge mistake self-publishing a recent 2200 word piece, I think one of my greatest. I can also self-publish if I get tired of rejections. At 54,000 now, and excited about querying trads. As I query I will go back to finish and write a few short stories while I query. It is going to work out, only a matter of time. If not I am going to write anyway and then I must have been before my time. Thanks for being a good sport. Satire!
@a.c.tavares 4 ай бұрын
This video inspire me a lot! <3 thank you so much!!!
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
I think you are going to need more than a spiderman logo painted on your jumpsuit with a sharpie to scale those vertical walls at the prison you are in. Satire!
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
That's why I'm gonna dig! (Some spiders burrow, right?)
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
@@creativewritingcorner Now all you need is a rock hammer as well as the Warden's secret bank accounts and a Rock Hudson poster on your wall, and then it's "Get Busy Living, Get Busy Dying of AIDS." (I am so already cancelled)😊
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
@momo_genX I think we've just written the next great screenplay. I'd cast Kurt Russell, Morgan Freeman, and the ghost of George Carlin.
@SteveJubs 4 ай бұрын
Peter park it in me
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
The pen, Indeed! Is mightier than the sword. um...how did you smuggle that microphone into prison? Satire!
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
Same way I got the pen and the sword in here. Duh. 😜
@momo_genX 4 ай бұрын
@@creativewritingcorner 😆
@momo_genX 5 ай бұрын
The Warden says you look so good in his wife's shirt that he left in his prison office. Satire!
@creativewritingcorner 4 ай бұрын
Ha! That actually IS a shirt my wife bought for me on my last birthday. I guess she thought I had a dearth of pink clothes in my wardrobe. She was right: I make that shirt look GOOD. 😜