3 Steps to Master the Art of Writing (The 3rd Step is the Key!)

🔥 Why Watch This Video?
• Are you tired of aimlessly writing without seeing real improvement?
• Do you want to go beyond just publishing a manuscript to becoming a masterful writer?
• Are you ready to cut down the 10-20 year journey to mastering writing to just 5-8 years?

📚 What Will You Learn?
• Micro-Skills Mastery: Understand that writing is not just one skill, but a combination of multiple micro-skills. Learn how to identify and focus on them.
• Deliberate Practice: Discover the concept of "Deliberate Practice" and how it can accelerate your learning curve.
• Feedback is Gold: Learn why immediate, actionable feedback is crucial and how Story Grid’s systematic approach can provide it.

🔗 Additional Resources

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[feruspriest]

Cool to see the subs on this channel go up ~1k since you started these videos.

[JoelAdamson]

Quite often in a writing group you'll get the same level of feedback you'd get giving a manuscript to your mom.

[RghHgr]

Came here from Scrivener (Literature and Latte). And I'm glad I did!

[PhoenixCrown]

Thanks for the video! Love the analogy with the guitar, and yes it's very hard to get feedback--most of my friends won't even read my book!

[WritingfromAnywhere]

Thank you, this is what I have been searching for.

[Fortaker]

3:39 It requires focused attention . . .

Youtube: Lemme interrupt you right there with a commercial . . .

[SL]

"So... how do you get quality feedback if you can't afford it?"

"That's the neat part! You don't!"

[Jam]

Conscious practice has made all the difference for me and SG is SO good to level up, thanks Tim!
I would absolutely get coaching for feedback however I pay in AUD and it’s just not affordable at this point 😞

[agnesandersen]

Do you also offer training to become a mentors for german langueage writers...?
Or to ask it otherwise: I write in german and have a wiritng group in german and would be interessted to become a mentor. AND also to get mentor feedback from a storygrid trained mentor in german language.

[jasongallagher]

I do have to say honestly that I just don't think the guitar analogy holds. After teaching piano for ten years, people do not notice when they play wrong notes, and even the most talented students will still happily play some real clunkers until you point out that the composer did not write what they are playing.

Regarding deliberate practice, how is this different from revision? Do you expect writers to judge the writing as it's being composed (similar to Dean Wesley Smith's advice)? I'm not really understanding how deliberate practice and revision are different.

[aix]

Unfortunately it sounds like most of us are stuck between useless feedback and inability to pay considerably for something before it can produce return.

[joanapatriarca]

It's easy to talk about deliberative practice. But no one talks how to create a plan for one. Not everyone has 4k, 5k, 6k in their pocket to enter such interesting mentoring program like yours. Self-discipline and a clear plan are crucial for lone wolfs, sorry, writers that improve on their own (and I'm talking about sitting and getting the work done - I know feedback is important, but that is after). Yet, just the idea of creating such a plan is overwhelming. For such writers who use your really incredible resources (your youtube channel is one those to get back to over and over for me), how could they structure such deliberative practice? It's like you said somewhere: you can write everyday and not really improving. So, how to level up the writing practice?

[kaeleena]

Does StoryGrid already have its own accepted list of the micro-skills involved in writing, and if so will you make a video on them? If not, do you encourage us to make our own list as a part of the learning process?