3 Tips for Avoiding Boring Writing and Making Your Life Easier

Whether you write fiction, scifi, romance, or fantasy; boring writing is one of the quickest ways to lose reader interest and attention. These are three writing tips to improve your writing abilities! Tell better stories, write faster, and become a great author by investing in your stories, characters, and plot.

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[badlie]

"you might want to delete a scene that you like if it doesn't fit in the setting and is out of place"
Leo Tolstoy: let me describe this huge oak tree real quick

[BlackXSunlight]

6:51 Weirdly enough I’ve been calling this “Tell Don’t Show.” When the exposition is only relevant to orient the reader but would drag down the story if it takes center stage, it’s okay to just mention it happened.

I wrote a scene of my characters sneaking into the luggage car of a train. Good scene! There’s tension, a little danger, a little magic, the effort prompts these characters to trust each other a little more, there’s a bit of magic, a sweet reveal that peels back another layer of my protagonist, some sprinkling of worldbuilding bc the protagonist’s stepfather invented the locomotive engine in this world…

I did not want to write a subsequent scene of them sneaking off the train. There’s nothing new that scene could offer that the Sneaking Onto the Train scene already gives. So, I wrote them already in the city they were heading toward, and tossed in a couple lines about how the part of the tracks they rolled onto to sneak out was walled in, so this is their first time seeing this new location in full. That’s one less headache to cure for the rewrites 😩

[x-snipo]

thanks for the effort of diving into snow to prove a point!

[oldguyinstanton]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! My YT feed offered up this video at precisely the right time. I'm a first-time novelist, and I'm writing a science fiction novel (The Voyage of the New Beginning) where I've just finished the mid-novel crisis/resolution (attack by space pirates, no less!). And I have *exactly* the problem you describe here.

Your advice has helped gel my often-confused thoughts on the matter, now that I'm writing the next chapters. It has also alerted me to go back to old chapters I've written (this is a multi-year project) and look for boring scenes using the POV presented here.

Again, thank you. Subscribed and upvoted. You are now my favorite writing-advice source. So, off to look at your other videos!

[deedaceopondo]

Just finished a second rewrite, cutting 30k words just by following this similar advice. Earned a sub

[jackholloway]

I'm not a writer and have no idea how this ended up on my feed but I subbed just off the back of the intro

[void]

No way you only have so few subscribers. Very high quality

[tahutoa]

~5:00 this duct tape gambit is also an example of "tropes are tropes for a reason" The friend _always_ picks the protagonist up after the bully whacks them. It doesn't have to be that literal - sometimes they can meet during the aftermath. Perhaps the friend notes the black eye and comes right over, thus setting framework for the friend being a compassionate person. Or, perhaps this is a fake friend or a bad one, and this is an opportunity to get in good with a pawn.

Writing that made me realize there are probably many times where simplicity in itself breeds ideas. Viewing a person's actions from one character's perspective, which can't read other people's minds but only guess, can allow us the writer (who sees through those same eyes) to also imagine all sorts of ways to develop whoever they're looking at.

[kashe]

the ai generated images😭 what's with writers only being against ai when it affects them, if our industry gets ruined, yours will be next!

[Hursimear]

This just makes perfect sense! It gives me confidence to learn these things even though I’ve never written a book before…just starting now for the first time

[ricky.t.]

In my opinion I don’t think every scene in a book or movie has to bring important info, I think many times, in order to tie everything you have constructed to that point, you could add some Maa intention which contrary to what is expected, can relentizise the rhythm of the story if it’s too fast, gives the reader fresh air from action and can give introspection to the normal interactions, characteristics and, in general, the characters existing by themselves without a storytelling role to fill, also it can provide of the ambience and character from the world so the reader can directly enjoy it. It also can naturalize the nuances of the story that otherwise could pass under the radar. Good uses of this, in my opinion, can be found in the majority of video games where many time of it is just the player exploring and interacting with the characters. And if we wanna take an approach more audiovisual I can think of Made in Abyss where there are many Interarchs chapters dedicated to the main characters exploring the Abyss and basically having day to day experiences (Riko cooking, Reg smelling Nanachis scent, Faputa reacting to noises etc), I can also think of many sitcoms and comedies that use this technique in a more humoristic way to create that genres characteristics. In general it naturalizes the story and let’s the world exist by itself which can give a very cozy and vibrant energy, the point is knowing how to use them in moderation and, most importantly, WHERE TO PUT THEM IN THE STORY, basically bc a cozy moment like put in a bad moment can destroy your whole novel, this hapens for example in JoJo part 5: golden wind where IN THE LAST EPISODE they introduce a super random arc that destroys the rhythm, climax, cohesion and ambience of the ending (JoJofans know what I’m talking about). Oh my god I think I extended a little to much, sorry but I enjoy storytelling a bit too hard 😜

[SainanAnimates]

This channel is so underrated, its insane because the quality of your vids are really good

[ppmaqchannel]

How can you make a video with tips for writing while using Ai art lmao

[Fig_Faerie]

The type of writing you're describing at 1:15, often referred to as "the flow state" is a flavor of maladaptive (or excessive) daydreaming.

It's thought to be a coping mechanism developed (mostly) in childhood, sometimes related to trauma.

For me, learning about why I tell myself the stories I do (and what I'm getting out of them) has been life-changing, especially paired with the advice in Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down The Bones.

[acrellama]

Are you using ai images as a creative?

[hellopumpkin]

Your intro felt like a fun opening similar to Bill Nye the Science Guy. 😂

[KaranSingh]

Not a writer, but I loved the video on making stories interesting. Really fascinating stuff!

[YanickFilipe]

Just by the intro, I could tell this video was the real deal.That's a genius way of getting people intrigued to a video just by the intro.

[DraidtheSpacePirate]

Just found your channel and I'm subscribing over the intro. I can tell you care about what you're talking about and the way you approach it. ❤ Looking forward to more content from you.

[RedWizardFox]

I agree, but sometimes I like the fluff. Character development is the most important, but I do agree that sometimes a 6 page thing could simply be a page or 2.