Writertoks to watch instead of writing

I think the most challenging thing that I come across when I'm going through manuscripts is when I find one with an excellent plot bestseller hook but the writing just isn't there and that's not to say it's bad writing it's just that the author has some room to grow in their writing journey and it's really hard for me to send passes to those projects because I see I see the potential but they're just like just not there it's much easier to find a manuscript that like meets a few plot tweaks but the writing is like beautiful gorgeous ready for production especially strange for me coming from an editorial background because in an agency space it's not your place to try to teach someone how to write and I just I wanna I wanna help them and I want to be on that Journey but you just have to kind of close the door and hope that they'll come back to the universe invites it if you're a writer and you're struggling to finish your first draft here's a little tip for you I will never stop banging this drum because I it's the only way I've ever finished a draft and it's the only way I was able to write a novel in three weeks instead of researching or editing as you write have a second document open while you write every time you think of something that you want to edit or research instead of writing your draft make a note of it in that other document don't go back and edit until you're finished with your first draft and then you have this whole document of things you need to edit things you need to research and you can get it done then you don't need to do it while you're drafting you really don't follow for more writing tips I'm always giving them I love it thank you [Music] [Music] thank you over this year I sort of able to finish my first draft by the end of April which is about 15 000 words per month a total of 60 000 words by the end of April so that would be 484 words per day for every day in January did not quite get there I got 960 words this week and I recalculated and for the rest of the month I have to write 585 words per day I think I was on chapter 12 at the beginning of this week and I am still on chapter 12. which is currently 1027 words long right now and my manuscript is at almost 27 000 words right now the main character has just recently been turned into a cyborg and that information was just recently revealed to her and so she's kind of just relearning how to move and that has been really difficult to write hopefully this next week goes better as I get past this post Christmas Post New Year slump and get past the hard part of this so yeah that's my week but I will stand with you between the heavens and the earth I will tell you where you are do you love me I love you [Music] from [Music] the moment I saw you trying to go over the wall I have loved you desperately I cannot breathe when you want not near I love you Charlotte my heart comes your name [Music] you ever seen a ghost I was over on the bench and I was over on the bench that was over on the bench I was sitting over on the bench I was over on the bench I made a salad with Craisins hello I'm chip mullaney I'm your father but sometimes he would be gay ever been to the goddamn zoo I used to smoke crack what's yesterday shut up you're all gonna die Street Snipes laughs boom orange juice that's life now I've thrown him off his rhythm give us some money stay down on the ground stay down on the ground you [ __ ] do my friends hate me or do I just need to go to sleep but why don't we just tell our relatives that I'm a four-year-old boy hey do you want me to kill that guy for you I am now gross and watch this putting wires into a board filled with holes to move the voices around hello my name is Danielle and I am looking for pizza readers I am looking for baked readers for the second draft of my first novel I untouched I untouched is a newer new adult what young adult fantasy novel um the Japanese story is 25 um over the course of the first book and she is a fey princess who discovers that she is immune to iron um her people have been falling sick to the touch of iron for a long time as they live on the ruins of humanity essentially and she's figuring out what she can do to help her people and how she can be a good Queen there's also a Sapphic romance subplot which I affectionately call idiots to lovers it's based on a lot of fairy folklore and uh myths and legends from the British Isles um and I'll put some of my Inspirations in here um if that sounds up your street please let me know I'm looking for a beta readers or second draft I have had some beta readers for the first draft with story has changed a lot since then and I'm just wanting to get a bit more feedback on the second draft make sure that everything's going in the direction it should be things like my protagonist story she's plus size and I want to make sure that comes across in the text and there is an enjoyable read um if you that sounds like something you might be interested in uh yeah please drop me a comment or DM me or I have a link in my Instagram which is on my bio which takes you to the sign up to be a bait reader but yeah thank you very much for listening and hopefully I'll hear from you soon this is an original poem I recently wrote no title yet pretty English adjective standard pretty is the weapon used against you since childhood be pretty like your sister or not as pretty as your friend fittingly pretty is a sharp word like two twin blades the t's mock me they tease like girls in the bathroom who cut their eyes towards you in the mirror and sends you scampering away from their Combs and compacts they are the pretty they own the pretty the p and pretty pops like the gum bubble of my old babysitter who is beautiful and normal and everything I was already convinced I should be at seven years old I prayed in bed that night God make me pretty when I grow up and after the blown bubble of the Pea the sticky sweetness of the word is stretched out on one finger to why and the Y makes me wonder what other adjectives ending in that letter well I spend the rest of my life chasing lovely happy Heavenly to the end of my days like the end of the alphabet and when the word and the way of life comes to an end well I realized that I wasted my time begging others to see something worthy and never noticing it myself so if Derek was a sophomore back then how old was he how old were you how old are you now not as young as we could have been but not as old as you might think okay that was frustratingly vague how old are you I'm 17. see that's an answer that's how we answer people 17 how you measure in years all right I'm just gonna drop it

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Length: 8min 29sec (509 seconds)

Published: Thu May 25 2023