Act 3 - resolution/resolution should be resolution/the end.
@amoureusezi86382 күн бұрын
Gosh i miss her
@hazellawrence20624 күн бұрын
I’m here in 2024, and you can tell I’ve watched this video multiple times coz I can quote it😂😂
@travelerandseeker36184 күн бұрын
How did you estimate 15 pages out of 3,000 words? @Katytasic
@Csshizu13 күн бұрын
Kat please come back!!!, 😢😢😢
@kimmyyyk15 күн бұрын
Hi Kat❤
@Gorboduc19 күн бұрын
Your zero draft sounds a lot like a film treatment, or more so what's called a "scriptment", which has more descriptions and dialogue.
@ellax5125 күн бұрын
im so excited to read your books, kat!! ❤️
@jcfdzyepez51726 күн бұрын
Miss your book videos.
@captainnolan5062Ай бұрын
I see that point 19 is different than in the other video, Here it is listed as "Calm Before the Storm", in the other video you have it listed as "TRIALS." See: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMtjmNKVsazDhaM.html. I have combined the two and summarize as follows: "19 Calm Before The Storm (not so calm as we build up pressure and tension), then there are More Trials and finally: The Hero finds a solution, but now must overcome doubt, or some other complication." Any comments?
@captainnolan5062Ай бұрын
I see that point 19 is different than in the other video, Here it is listed as "Calm Before the Storm", in the other video you have it listed as "TRIALS." See: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5p2YJaLm6mueqs.html. I have combined the two and summarize as follows: "19 Calm Before The Storm (not so calm as we build up pressure and tension), then there are More Trials and finally: The Hero finds a solution, but now must overcome doubt, or some other complication." Any comments?
@captainnolan5062Ай бұрын
Thanks for posting this!
@gracischomaker2706Ай бұрын
Miss your videos, Kat! I use your 27 chapter structure as the initial outline for all my writing projects, and I’m so thankful that you shared that tool with us. Hope you’re reading lots of good books.
@mariapaganmusicАй бұрын
I need to do this. I have too many books I’ll never read again (and some I’ll just never read, period) sitting on my bookshelves gathering dust and taking up scape. Need to clear up so I can get more books 😅.
@retroverdriveАй бұрын
So, she's done with KZfaq?
@milssaarts8193Ай бұрын
This looks awesome and makes me excited but I can't wrap my head around it 😭
@milssaarts8193Ай бұрын
Is this in a pdf or doc. Somewhere?
@Shaaydiia07Ай бұрын
This video was so much help, you having an actual example is what made is far more helpful than any other videos of the 3 act story structure. I find it very hard to have an idea how to outline my story when one is a fantasy with a side of romance while a few others I’m trying to work on happen in our earth and are pure romance, usually the acts make far more sense for books like the hobbit/the lord of the rings, so this example help me shape this 3 Act Structure into how I want my book to look. Thank you! 😄😊🤍🤍
@cnj1220002 ай бұрын
i come back to this outline roughly every 6 months!!! pls never delete it!!!
@ganeshnikumbh90782 ай бұрын
i m using this method for writing my theatre story😁
@SmallTownSpells2 ай бұрын
4 years later and this is still such a bop 🙏🙏
@merciful_king42422 ай бұрын
Thought of you today. Hope you're okay
@user-nm4cq7dg3t2 ай бұрын
Super tips. Thx
@neatflair2 ай бұрын
Absolutely the best video on "How to outline a story/novel?" Thank you!!!!❤
@WillN2Go12 ай бұрын
This is great. I think this is how story tellers grow and learn and how stories get made. Couple of points. First, I finished most of a first draft several years ago and had the computer voice read out a hundred pages or so (while I cleaned house). Sounded like many books I've listened to as audiobooks. Good, I thought... but it wasn't quite what I was after. What this taught me is that a lot of books, movies and stories we like, including some of our favorites are really not great, but more than good enough. I was after more. Hmmm So I kept working and reading. The best work was taking apart books like how I'd like to be able to write. Some writers can just start typing out a book they like and after a while they just switch and start working on their project. When I do this, I learn a lot, but I just keep typing. What's always worked for me is in the evening I'll read 50 -100 pages of my ideal book, go to sleep then wake up at my usual time (no distractions no one around) and immediately sit down to write. And what I want to write, different from the example, just starts pouring out. It's like my brain works on it all night. I think if anyone can figure out my inspiration they won't think I've just copied. Now I can find scenes I wrote last year in the middle of notes on aspects of my story. (historical novel so a lot of notes.) Wow, but 'did I really write that?' I'll google parts and if nothing comes up -- it's me. I like that you've gone to the next level in with this. I find the basic structure is really helpful, gives me something to hang my ideas on and the direction of the story. But here's the rub: Who watches a movie or reads a book and if the "Push" or Plot Point 1 occurs a bit early or a bit late finds themselves bored or confused? The comedy writer/director Preston Sturges in the 1940s I think had a four act structure, maybe five. He just jammed in more acts, more complications and more laughs. It moves along so quickly audiences just hang on. In The Lady Eve the two main characters finally connect on the ocean liner as it's coming into New York and cut to the middle of some specific problems in the chaos of a wedding day. Weeks later. I think there are scenes in Preston Sturges' movies that we remember (I've seen them all several times) that aren't in the movies. The opposite of this is a scene takes place because it has to at that point in the story and it's predictable. ( A college professor showed us a moderate budget movie that we were supposed to analyze. The apples on board were temptation? He wanted something simple, but it wasn't simple, it was tedious. Cast Away is simple but not tedious.) Structure like other elements of story is a tool that is based on expectations. Little kids want to hear the same story over and over again, grown ups like to be surprised. I like action movies, but most of them end with 'the big final battle' that just goes on too long, is completely predictable -- tedious. It's not writing, it's filling in a form. The other thing I noticed is that when I do go looking for these key points in really good work, I often find many things going on. Subplots working around the main story, hitting their plot points (hero has a problem, antagonist has a success, an FBI guy gets on a plane.) I watched Gone Girl again last week with a Beat Sheet someone made. Yes those beats are there, but they are not spots, it's a tapestry. The detectives don't arrest Nick, but information is learned that compels them to take a harder look. It's as though your personal plot point is not when the police knock on your door and arrest you, it's while you're setting up for your party, the police leave the station to drive to your house, (readers know this, but you don't), But that's not enough, your nasty mother in law arrives early and demands to know about your teenage arrest record. You explain they let everyone out the next morning, not a big deal.... But that's not what she's talking about. She's waving a piece of paper that says drugs, lewd behavior and demands to know if you were a prostitute. You feel completely blindsided, it's not you, but as you begin reading her 'evidence,' The police tell you you're under arrest. Your maid of honor let them in. So first draft might be simple, but then complicate it in ways that seem unavoidable.
@braidedgrasssinger2 ай бұрын
hiya kat :) i just wanted to comment to say that your videos really helped me feel a sense of belonging when i was a lonely and insecure teenager. i turned 23 last week, and to cope with the way the world is changing, i like to watch videos that remind me of simpler times. this one included! i found so much solace in books and in people who talked about them. i read a lot less now- i don’t need as much escape as i did back then (a good thing). all this to say, i hope life is treating you well and that you’re on exciting new paths :) i’ll always be grateful for the time you spent making videos and if you decide to again, we’ll be here to watch. lots of love
@CareenasAdventures2 ай бұрын
Why does the haunted tattoo story sound kinda legit tho 👀
@cindywutzke78622 ай бұрын
I would like to see more videos like this. This was fabulous.
@EmeryCreekWrites3 ай бұрын
Congratulations. Watching from the future 😂 2024 Was awesome to see your NaNo videos ❤
@mjolasgard25333 ай бұрын
The examples of passive voice you give are not passive voice - You're describing a past tense that uses auxiliary verbs. Passive voice is when the subject of a sentence comes after the object of a sentence. For example - "The dog was kicked by the spider." This is passive. To make it active, it would read, "The spider kicked the dog."
@Justapersonlovesbooksandbirds3 ай бұрын
Whos watching in 2024
@tmc13733 ай бұрын
THIS WAS EXCELLENT!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I LEARNT SO MUCH FROM YOUR VIDEOS!!!
@tmc13733 ай бұрын
WONDERFUL!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BREAKDOWN!!
@ShawnNewEarthCreations3 ай бұрын
Forgiveness. Love and Light.
@vermontmike98003 ай бұрын
Is this slide deck available?
@vermontmike98003 ай бұрын
Do you have this available in a printable chart?
@Oriansenshi4 ай бұрын
This is the only way that I can outline a book now, lol.
@kathleenkrikorian85834 ай бұрын
I have had writer's block for 7 years. I have struggling to finish an historical fiction for years. I have spent days searching for outlining methods that might help finish my "third act." This is it!!!!!! I just thought of my entire last third of my novel in minutes. I cannot thank you enough. I have sooo many new chapters to write. I've never been so happy!!! Woooohoooo! :)
@collinvickers23454 ай бұрын
It seems to me that this form of outlining leads the author to focus on what happens, rather than why it happens (which is to say, why the pro is doing what they're doing). Maybe I'm too smooth-brained to see things other people think are tacit, but I feel like a simple chain of scene and sequel, action and response, coupled with seven point plot structure as milestones, serves as a better option.
@mudshadowmoon24 ай бұрын
I come back to this time and time again! So helpful!
@stafar494 ай бұрын
Hope you’re well. :) I love your writing updates and overall life updates
@tearstoneactual97734 ай бұрын
Rian Doris fan confirmed. :D
@markuspfeifer84734 ай бұрын
Holy shit, 3k words per chapter… I guess I’m an extreme underwriter :D
@markuspfeifer84734 ай бұрын
Does it count as pantsing when done at the chapter level? Like, I know the purpose of the chapter in the overall story and how it needs to end to blend into the next scene, but I dunno what details I throw in there and I allow infos that I reveal in the scene to influence my outline and other stuff I have already written
@AdrienLuz4 ай бұрын
Missing your videos so was just passing by. A French fan ;)
@jacoblanoue16854 ай бұрын
I can't believe it's been 9 years bestie seen i started watching your channel
@nh-80144 ай бұрын
I'm going to try this technique for arranging my unplaced events into a proper structure - for a story I've greatly detailed characters and events of, but no timeline. Seems really useful for this sort of situation!
@Kawaii_Imani4 ай бұрын
I remember watching you all as the og booktubers back in 2015.. I haven’t been on booktube for a couple years now since high school so the community looks way different I don’t really recognize anyone … im 25 now and I’m not sure how’s it been 9 years but I really enjoyed your content and watching ur video was a bit nostalgic for me..thank you all for getting me excited to read books and explore my imagination especially when I was a loner around that period of my life as a Muslim girl who no one wanted to talk to. Things have definitely changed but your videos helped me get through that period without me even realizing 💜
@omegaminoseer45395 ай бұрын
I really like this method! As someone who started as a Dungeon Master, I'm more used to a flow-based structure, where the story doesn't have a predetermined ending, only a end situation. This actually plays into that, where the First "drafted," Act is 100% concrete and then develops naturally.