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Writing Tips & How To Structure Your Writing

teacher avatar Bohlokoa Thamae, Poet & Author

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:16

    • 2.

      10 Writing Tips You Need

      0:56

    • 3.

      Be a Word Nerd

      1:56

    • 4.

      Avoid 'Awesome'

      1:38

    • 5.

      Ask For FeedBack

      1:29

    • 6.

      Find A Mentor

      0:53

    • 7.

      The Art Of Not Giving Up

      0:30

    • 8.

      Story Structuring Part 1

      5:55

    • 9.

      Story Structuring Part 2

      3:04

    • 10.

      Story Structuring Part 3

      4:19

    • 11.

      Ending Your Story

      16:38

    • 12.

      More Ways Of Ending Your Story

      8:05

    • 13.

      NoteWorthy Tips

      14:31

    • 14.

      Conclusion & Class Project

      0:18

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In this class, teacher, author, and Poet Bohlokoa Thamae shares important tips when it comes to Proper Structuring Of Your Storyline.

In this course Bohlokoa focuses on building a solid foundation of confidence and efficiency when writing, traits that you can use regardless of your creative medium. She Breaks down the most important tools you need to know to help your story be more intriguing and help capture your audience's attention.

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1. Introduction: Hi everyone. My name is but forgot my, and I am based in risotto. And today's course we're gonna be talking about ten writing tips, how to structure your writing. And we're gonna be talking about writing that emotional scene. 2. 10 Writing Tips You Need: First, before we begin, let's talk about the ten writing tips that you're going to need. But if you have probably mentioned before, but you need to I in the mouth. So like I mentioned, you have to make sure that you write every day. Like I said, practice makes room for improvement. So the more you write, the more you become better at what you're doing, the more you become way, way better than you were before. And I'm going to have to join. I don't know, find yourself, surround yourself with people who are writers to join our Writers Circle workshop or a writing can perhaps anything just surround yourself with people who are doing something that you already doing, that we are going to be easily motivated. You're going to learn a lot more easily in the first row. So just make sure that you have people who are doing what you're doing around you. 3. Be a Word Nerd: Be a word, Ned. Okay. With this one. This is what I do. I I'm currently reading a dictionary. That's what I would do it. So for my dictionary, every day, I take five words from all of the alphabets in the dictionary words each day. And I made sure that I advise them, I have them. I tried to put them in my work somehow find words that are meaningful for my, my work. And that way it helps me with not repeating the same words in my writing over and over again. In other words, that you type. And then when you read, you figured out that this word is just so much in my writing, it's starting to bother me. You understand, that helps you out with just avoiding that mistake. And make sure that of course, if you're a writer, you don't just write. You read. And by we, I mean you read more than you actually even right? But do not abandon your own work because of other people's work. So the more you read, so simply going to lead you towards becoming better at what you do. And you're learning from other people's craft and that way, come on. What else? You are improving yourself as a person. So read and read and read and read as much as you can. But still remembering that you don't just read. And then now you lose interest in your own work because you're so focused on what other writers are doing because trust me, reading is amazing and it definitely distracts you from so many things. So make sure that you know that you have a limit to what you're reading and you have a limit to what you're writing. Don't consume too much and end up forgetting your own work, right? 4. Avoid 'Awesome': This point is simply just close to the last point I just mentioned, are weighed Awesome. And what I mean by that is figure out which words, you know, you, you, you, you like you write on the most. Figure out which words you repeat on a daily that are starting to boil you a little. Dealt with just what? Challenge yourself to come up with. Extra, extra ordinary words, new words that you find really difficult. One thing about the dictionary is that it gives you a word, its meaning, and they help you construct a sentence. Just write below, so that will be very easy for you. Just make sure that you guys find like extra ordinary which to use in your writing to avoid what I call awesome. Awesome. By that I mean awesome is everybody moves that word. So avoid those mistakes and make sure that you describe the Monday. Find things in your everyday life that that interests you, that you look forward to every day you wake up. Things that trigger you to become a better person or not even a better prison. Things that just make you lose interest in the things that you love. Just pay attention to your surroundings and the smallest details you get. Hope you just create that motivation for where you're going with your IT and it's going to definitely give you a lot of ideas. 5. Ask For FeedBack: Most importantly, make sure that you are, You asked for feedback. This is very important. And like I mentioned in the last video, that a lot of us are afraid of criticism. And so as a writer, you have to be up for criticism. Anyway. Whatever criticism you're getting, ticket to hide. Try to understand where your critique is coming from and try to do better. Only if the critique is making sense. Because there are some people who will just criticize your work and not even understand where your work is coming from or what's the point in the view of your work. So first, be competent with your work and then make sure that you are able to handle critiques, okay? And then take risks. Take risks. That is important. Because come on. Try new things. Just explore with your writing. Explore, find different genres of writing, a setting, another type of character. You never know what will happen, perhaps you know, anything can happen. So don't stay in your own zone. Don't get too comfortable in your element. Go out of your element, reach out, try new things, challenge yourself and try new possibilities, because trust me, you'll never know what will happen. 6. Find A Mentor: One another thing that's important is try to find a mentor. Because honestly, a lot of things you just do and then you don't know much about. But when you have someone who's guiding you and who knows way more than you do, that makes work easier for you and it's very helpful. So make sure that you find a mentor. You know, they're going to give you tips and they're gonna definitely motivate you because when you surround yourself with someone who knows who's been where you're starting. Trust me, they know a lot more than you do and they're going to boost you so much. They're going to make you want to continue with that because you're going to see where they are in your head. You're gonna be thinking, Oh my god, I also want to be there. So make sure that you find a mentor, someone who just guide you throughout your writing. 7. The Art Of Not Giving Up: Remember, do not give up because this one is very important for me. I want you guys to be very strict with yourself when it comes to this one. Do not give up, okay? Because even the famous offers who are doing amazing work took them years and years and years and years to evolve and to actually become great. So whatever you do to not quit, okay. 8. Story Structuring Part 1: So moving on to your story structuring now. I like this one. We have a story or you have a story. And you just have all of these ideas in your head. You don't know where to start, what to do. First. Begin with your main character. That way you're introducing your readers to your main character, immediate. And you are what? You're, you're driving them into what? To wanting to find out more about this main character that you have, okay? And trust me, starting your, your story with your main character mixed things so easy because that way you gain like you gain more confidence to actually continue with the writing because the main character is obviously the one that has all of your ideas and your ideas, most of your ideas are focused on your main character. And so that makes it so fun in so easily. And it definitely makes it fun for the reader to show the MCV is normal world while you are at that makes sure that ensure the MCs normal world, the life that they've chosen to leave, their life, their normal life, the things that are comfortable with, the things that are constantly doing, which is reasonably comfortable in or she is reasonably comfortable. It just makes sure that you give your readers your main characters usual way of leading or doing things before you can actually change to anything about your main character, like fill them in, fill them in with everything that your character does. That way it helps them understand your character better and actually develop a relationship with your character. And then show the MC, show the MC curve in a characteristic moment. Yeah. By this I mean, okay. Let me give you an example. Probably a dog once a bone? Yeah. Less than a dog once a bowl. So what what can be more characteristic than that? I'm going to continue in that idea for you guys to actually understand the law. But also start with movement. From the first moment we see the dog. It's I don't know, this is me just trying to give you an idea of what we can, what I mean by show the MC in a characteristic moment there. When you when you first talk about a dock and bone, obviously you know that a dog gets very excited when he sees a bone, it will jump up and down, run around, you bark and move its tail around. That's like its movement, right? It's, it's the doc, showing excitement for whatever it is you're going to give it, but in this case, it's the bone, right? So yeah, include only necessary information, right? As we, as writers have like a habit of just dumping all of the ideas that we have on writing. We don't actually develop a way of mingling every idea into something that's going to interest the reader. But at the same time you're sharing all of the information you have, right? So it's like making sure that you don't introduce any extra characters while you're still in the beginning. To avoid confusing a reader, like a lot. In one chapter, make sure you have at least two characters in one chapter. Don't make it four or five that way you have, you have your reader thinking, Oh my God, I'm only at the beginning of this book. By the time I reached the end, how many, how many characters am I going to like? How many characters am I going to engage with now? It's like it's a lot for the reader to take in and make sure that the backstory, my backstory, I mean, of course that your character your character is you have, you have, you have a whole plan of how you want to unfold your character's life, right? Start with the life they lived before, the one that you want them to actually tap into that, okay? That way, that way you are having the reader remembering, Oh my God, this person was actually like this before they turned out to be like this. And then as exciting, the readers perhaps lending from from your characters what behavior and character? I don't know. Yeah, something like that, something like that. Give readers a reason to care about Joe Mc. Not that is very important because that is what carries your book, your entire story or whatever. But make sure that your readers care more than enough about your MC and the away interested into your MC. Okay. And oh my god, MC. Of course you can, you can understand that I'm talking about your main character, right? So as soon as he started hearing me saying mc, I'm talking about your main character. 9. Story Structuring Part 2: And that with the MC wanting something, I've already mentioned that a dog once a bone. So start with your MC wanting something. For instance, maybe they want to achieve something by the end of a period, like the time at time. At time period. Yeah. So like make sure that your your reader is out to get something. Do you understand me like that where you have your readers fascinated into finding out how this character is going to achieve all of these things they want for themselves. How they are going to get there? What obstacles are they going to meet while trying to get there? So you already have your reader's mind trying to figure out so many things about this character, but makes sure that you make it easy and enjoyable. Don't make it difficult and boring because that way you're going to have your reader just leave that book right there and just forget about it, okay? Make sure that once you're done with all of that, you end the first plot point, okay? By that, I mean, your first chapter per say your first two pages of the book that you actually, you're actually done with them with the first plot point. The dog, the dog, while the dog is trying to eat the bone, it gets irritated by something. I don't know. Probably. Your kit comes along and tries to eat the bone with the dog and it gets really irritated. Now, you live in your reader at the edge, at the edge trying to figure out, Oh my god, is that they're going to bite their head. Are they going to share the bone? So you see, you have your readers still interested and still trying to wipe, trying to see where this book latest story is actually going to go. Okay? But when you end things like that, tab amine trip your main character in a spiral of events outside of his character. By that, I mean, just create problems, create trouble for this. Does create a lot, lot and lots and lots and lots of trouble for this, for this character. That way. You're also giving yourself enough length for your book. Giving yourself enough time to think about more ideas that have to go with the story. As what, as you give your character like a lot of trouble, you're figuring out so many things. How are you going to tap out of that trouble? How are you going to make it exciting for the reader to keep going on with the book or the story. 10. Story Structuring Part 3: So make sure that you also force your MCs main goal to act out of his reach? The dog is running the poll. Okay? Now as the dog is trying to eat the bone, it gets trapped by something. Now they can reach the bone. They can reach where the bone is. You see? Now the dog is frustrated. It's trying to understand it once the bone, but still at the same time, it wants to get out of this trap. So you see, you're making it very difficult for what? For your main character to actually reach its goal. Now it has another goal you understand. So do things like that, do things like that while you structure your story, makes sure that you have like you have everything planned out in your head. And as soon as you put it on writing, it tends out great. And give the MC and new goal. Yeah, a new goal. By new goal, obviously now the dog is trapped, right? It's new goal is to get itself out of that, out of that one, out of that trap. The bone is still their main priority. But for now they have one thing to focus on, which is to what? Get out of the trap so that they can walk. They can actually get that boom, right? So give your readers exciting things, give you he does things to, things that they would want to like. Really, really, really, really keep reading on. Okay. Yeah. And at the midpoint, because the MC to make a decision that shifts him from reacting to their antagonist and to what? To figure out a plan. Get out of this trap they are in. Just make your character think, think, and while it's thinking, make you think of things that are so far beyond them actually getting out of this trap that way you're making one. Remember, you're writing length is still increasing. You're giving your readers what Interesting, interesting. You're giving your readers and interesting storyline. And they're going to, they're going to want to continue reading, right? So make sure you do things like that. Don't easily get, don't easily give your readers the easy way out. Don't easily give your character the easy way out. Like that dog be trapped for so long and so frustrated. It doesn't even know which idea is like its way out now, have it confused, Okay? That way you, trust me, your readers are going to be interested. They're gonna be so interested in trying to figure out, Oh my God, When is this dog like finally going to get out of this trap and actually get that bone instead. But at the same time, don't make it. Don't don't drag that for too long. Don't track it for too long because as soon as you drag it for too long, it's going to start boring your reader. I mean, imagine now you're talking to your friend. They're sharing your story. They keep repeating the same event over and over and over and over and over again. It's going to bore them. It's gonna, it's gonna boil you a lot, right? And you're simply just going to get tired of even trying to figure out what was the next thing that happened from the story. Because now you're sober. You're thinking, Oh my God, if I listen to this person, I actually continued to give them my time. When they get to a certain point, they're still going to go back to the same point again and try to tell me and tell me and tell me the same thing over and over and over and over again. We don't want that. We do not want that. Share your ideas in a way that you want to make them really interesting and you want to drag them, but have a limit. Don't overdo it. Okay. Everything has a limit now, we all know that, right. 11. Ending Your Story: And bring your MC to a new understanding of Himself, particularly the lie he believes, Okay, and now it needs to become someone better to defeat his antagonistic. Okay? So the most powerful stories are those in which the MCQ obtained like physical, physical victory, right? You know, when you're fighting with someone, you can afford to lose a fight. You cannot afford to lose a fight? Not that I've seen anyone fighting. Well, I've been in any fights, but when you're in that moment are fighting, the only thing you're thinking of is I can not get injured. I am not the one who's going to get injured. So no, no, no, no, no travel. Like give you a reader that that power of them wanting to defeat this, okay? Like they want to defeat this so bad they cannot afford to see themselves becoming the loser. Okay? That way is it's going to look like I keep going back. It's going to give your reader more interest in reading further. What's going to happen next? You know, you're leaving your reader at the edge trying to figure out what's going to happen from year or my God, let me turn this page and actually try to find out. Okay. So now you stretch your MC your MCs, what resolve? Physically, mentally and Murray, just stretch it. You know. Like you're better than never easily one, they are never easily want. So keep your readers in doubt of the Euro that keep them in doubt of the hero. Batman. Batman, batman is everyone's favorite hero, isn't it? So that men doesn't always solve all of his mysteries, right? Sometimes, maybe he does, but not all of them. And it's not it's definitely not easy for him to stop. He has to go through some trouble before you can actually say this matter is resolved. So do that. Same thing for your main character. Just keeps going back to keep creating more trouble and more trouble and more trouble. Your main character. Remember, tension makes things a lot more interesting. Because like I told you, this world that cannot be an interesting place without the villain, okay? So we also need the bad guys and the good guys make sure that you always, always make sure that you have both of those and you can balance them really good, even if you don't balance them, just make sure that you have your readers wanting to continue with your work day and at the same time you're able to work, you're able to handle the idea that you have for yourself a new story. And you're gonna be able to structure it really, really good so that you cannot just continue with an idea. And then when you get to the middle of it, you've run out of more ideas on how to continue with it. So the only thing that's going to make easier for you to actually do that is to definitely make sure that you just keep creating more trouble in trouble because we've trouble comes with a solution. So the more trouble you create, the more solutions you're going to have to find. Okay? That's a good thing. It's a good thing. So what we write the MC at the last moment, okay? Now, I love drama, okay? I love drama. Make it dramatic. Just, I don't know. Give your main character something, something dramatic, something traumatic, something very, something that's very, very, very traumatic. Your reader is going to wonder, oh my God, when things get here, they're going to go back to what? To reading. The last page that they were reading, just to go back and try to find that, Oh my God, what happened from here? Not because they are confused, but because they're actually enjoying this drama so much speed, they are not understanding what really happened. Okay. They were they were reading. They were reading, yes. But it's like they were not really reading. So make sure that you give them drama that's going to make them want to what bounced back and actually tried to retrace your main character staffs and it's going to bring them back to the same place. And that way what you read it is drawing your story, structuring, okay? Yeah, and do that and just make sure that you force your MC to respond in a unique way. Every treble that your MC faces, make sure that they have like a unique way of bouncing back from it. A very, very unique way of bouncing back from it, okay? That way. Remember, your main priority is what your reader, all you want is for your reader to what? To keep reading your story and to keep enjoying your story, okay? Yes. And remember that they don't just have to keep reading. After reading, they have to tell everyone about your story. 12. More Ways Of Ending Your Story: Now we have what is called image ending. Of course you can understand this one. Image ending is simply where you don't say anything, you just show. I don't think I even need to elaborate further on that one because literally the name says it way, way much more clearly right? Now we are going to help you writing that emotional scene. Okay? I like emotions. I like emotions so much. Like I enjoy emotional things. When writing that emotional person makes sure that no emotional words, please know your character isn't said. Okay, happy, devastated, in pain in we never scared or worried. Do not use those words. I'm sure you saw me trying to sleep right there because those words are worrying. Do not describe a motion with words. No, no, no, no, do not do that. Imagine you're describing imagine you're trying to write. You're trying to plot a line, and then you say, hello, It looks so devastated. Come on. Give us something, say something like describe exactly how devastated Hannah was. Okay? Because once you simply just give us words like devastated, happy, angry, worried, those words simply cut down on the heat of your story. And they definitely like that. Definitely way too hard for your reader to work to connect to. Because it's like Hannah was so devastated. Boom. That's it. You've just simply cut off your reader and that's simply the end to it. So we don't want that. We want you to elaborate further on why Hannah was devastated. In fact, don't even tell us that Hannah was devastated. Just describe Hannah's behavior that will simply show that Hannah was devastated. And that way you, what you have your reader connected to what to handle this situation in that moment, alright? And make sure, make sure that you use, actually use action. Instead of being angry, your character should scream, okay. They should have the fist tightly clenched and tremble. See what I did. Just take take the emotion, you know, take the emotion and thought of how to show it and use and use it instead, instead of just throwing words that describe the emotion they fled on, so that the reader can simply understand the situation that your character is in. Doing that adds like a little olefin. It's more, it's more one more seasoning to you. What do your work? And it has your reader what? A lot more interested, okay? Remember, I'll keep saying this over and over and over again. The only important thing we want for your reader to what, to be interested in what you are doing or in what you're trying to show them, where in what you're trying to share with them. Alright? Now, use perceptions. I love this one, I love it. Your character isn't said, know, your character is suddenly seeing things differently. I'm gonna give you. Okay. Your character is seeing that lover in a different way. They are trying to understand their lovers knew what new behavior and this simply just has them what? Losing what? They just have them losing interest in your lover, in their lover. Or they're not, they're not connecting with their lover like the way they used to connect before. That perception of what that person is changing or it has changed, right? Because what love tends to loss and what smiley now becomes Ts. Why? Because they are trying to understand their lovers characters so much, but it's simply just not making sense. And nothing is the same after the, after the emotional action hits. So you definitely need things like that. You definitely need lots of emotions that are going to work, that are going to season you're writing and you're sitting. Please use setting. Your character is happy. Happy. Yeah, no, they are not. Your character is noticing they're like the tiniest, tiniest, tiniest things in their, in their, in their lives. And they're just not making them happy. Dislike. Dislike. What? Just like when you, when you go and buy a new car, a new spot that it has a scratch on it. Get hit disappointed. You get really disappointed in your head. That way, your emotions about the car simply changed because of a little just that tiny scratch. Your whole, whole, whole view of the car is going to change. It's going to change. That's happening with what? That's what's happening with your elaborate. You'd like. You're noticing that the tiniest changes in them and you're simply just falling out of love with them. Okay. Because when you love something, you notice you notice more when it makes you said you understand. When you, When you're when you're absolutely in love or something, the tiniest things that they do that make you like. The tiniest things that are wrong that they do are what make you the saddest. Because the good that they do, it's okay. It makes you happy. But then the boat that they do, you're going to end up forgetting that there's even what the good that they once did. Okay? So make sure that you use setting. You setting and setting makes things so interesting because that way you get to compare things, right? You get to compare the good days, the bed days. And now you're wondering what happened, what changed, what what court is here. You understand and definitely go out of bounds. You know that how high emotion like often means. High emotions often mean the low ability. Ability of thinking things straight, right? Or even thinking things through. Again to make the character wonder, like wonder the borders. Like wonder that bothers doing like a highly emotional moment. Like they should ask themselves. For seeing this person like this. They have an explanation for this person that turning out to be like have them, have them wondering and asking themselves questions that we can't even answer themselves. Like have them and in that moment go out of bounds. Like have them scream, kick, or kiss harder, anything make them like knock some teeth, anything. I promise you it's okay to do that. And you are definitely going out of bounds. It's so important to make things interesting for your reader. Again, that's very, very important. 13. NoteWorthy Tips: Definitely use dialogue. Use dialogue. By dialogue coming. You know, when people are just talking in poking and poking, just use those lines where you have Hannah token, you have Hannah's best friend poking or anything. Okay. So use dialogue. Angry. No. You said things are things that you recall and like you say things that you had and you don't mean when you angry, right? So when you said, you will hide the truth and you'll confess properly, use those human folds to advantage after your characters dialog, which was an ability to open up during highly emotional scenes. The priority they have is to like handle, it's like handle what they like, what they feel. So make sure that your dialogues are very, very interesting. Like make sure that your dialogues are engaging. Also, don't just have them interesting in the sense of you just want to get your dialogue heated up. No big, make your dialogue have sense, you know, make it, make it so easily for your reader to connect with. Okay, yeah, make it so, so, so, so very easy for your, for your reader to connect with and remember. For this thing to happen, you have to practice and practice and practice because it's not easy to master anything without practice. It's so not easy to master anything without practice. So you're definitely going to need to work to practice more and more and more and more. Alright. Before that, we're going to go back to what your story structuring. And I'm going to talk about a point where we said, stretch your what your MC your MCs resolve. Right. So I said that you should do that physically, mentally and Maureen, to the breaking point. Okay. Keep what keeps readers in doubt of your one of your reader's ability to work to Trump rate. So this makes your main character even way more interesting. It makes them what makes them have more things, like more and more and more things to solve and want to get into this way you work. You are still what, you are still keeping your reader what interested. You just have to make sure that whatever your main character is going through, make sure that you stretch it. Stretch it, stretch it, stretch it to the point where like there's gonna be a point and a point and another point on top of another point. That way it's just going to make things more interesting for you. Now. Let I mentioned, you have to make sure that you weren't you force your sees main goal to add up out of his reach, right? I go back to this point because it's very important. When you make things easy for your reader. You're giving them like they are now like a step ahead of you. You understand their step ahead of you in terms of in their head. When, when, when, when your reader is reading your book from whatever events you give them, they already have something else imagined in their head. Okay? So when you, when you give, when you give you your main character like a Limited, a limited number of ways to get out of a situation. You make it so easy for the reader to simply guess what's going to happen. And it's okay, sometimes it's okay. But what we want is for the reader to what? To keep flipping the pages. We don't want the readers saying, I know what's going to happen after this one. That's very boring. Like a storyline that has your reader. So sure about everything they already have planned out in their own head is like so boring. And it simply shows how much of her, how much of a lazy writer you are. Okay, don't be lazy writer. Do not be lazy. Vita. Go all out to share your ideas. Go all out. Like experiment, you know, like I said, before, you need to don't, don't stay in your comfort zone. Do not do that. Explore other generous, explore other characters and other settings that we want that way. Even when you're in your own element and you're very comfortable in your own element. You what, you have other things to fall back on. You have other you have other materials to fall back on or which is what? It's also what increasing your ideas and increasing your ways of what, of focusing on your own rating. And that's exactly what we need. We need you to stay motivated while you're still writing. And the only way to do that, the only way to do that is if you have so many things that are going to influence your way of thinking, the way of plotting your ideas, the way of structuring your story. And it's very important to have a well-structured story, okay, so like I told you before in the previous video, what I normally do is like before I actually right before I actually type my writing and put it in my laptop, what I do is I handwrite, write I write it down, and trust me, I write to complete the writing day, I write and I'm done writing with my hands, and now I can go to my typing rate. That way. What gives me, what it gives me a way of referring from here, where I first when I first had my writing rate into my laptop. Now when I'm writing in my when I'm typing on my laptop, I'm simply what also correcting what the mistakes I had here. Changing a few ideas that I had on this first piece, right? Because trust me, ideas change with time. The more you keep writing, the more you're going to want to go back and check and say, Oh my God, I shouldn't have put this idea like this. This idea shouldn't be on this chapter, it should be on another chapter, okay? And so that way you are simply what you're simply evolves in your writing and bombarding all of these ideas that you have into something huge and one, right? And that's what we want. We want you to have strong ideas, ideas that are strong, and ideas that you're very, very, very much confident in. Because the main thing we want is for you to complete that story, finish it makes sure it's finished. That is your main priority. Okay. That's like the most important thing that you need to do, right? Yeah. And also have like your main character. Don't have your main character two isolated. Don't have your main character two isolated. And I know I said Do not bring up lots of characters within 11111 chapter of your writing. Okay, That's also part of stretch of structuring your work, right? You have to know the do's and don'ts of your writing, okay? So make sure that when you're writing, you have, you have your character in the highest wrench here on top. But at the same time, don't have them too isolated because you're scared that, Oh my God, I cannot, I cannot invite, I cannot invent too many characters here. It's going to have my readers confused. Truth is, it's the technique that counts. It's how you do it. If you're very much sure that okay, if I read three to four characters here, right in the sport, my reader is going to be able to get to have a relationship with them all. And up until we reach the end of your story, do that. Don't limit yourself. Like I said, bees, be comfortable. But at the same time, what? Remember the rules that come with writing, the rules and the tubes that come with writing. So make sure that while you're trying to become this good, good, good, right? Tau, or this good story. Good story. You want to structure your story in a good way. You do not limit yourself because now you're scared of what? Of the rules that come with writing. Remember, rules are meant to be broken or gay. That's come on. I mentioned this before. Roles are meant to be broken, but you cannot break rules that you do not know. So it's okay for you to know the rules, but at the same time, so careful you to break them. Okay. So break those rules if you have to, just make sure you break them in a way that it's not gonna be, it's not gonna be easy for your reader to recognize that something is off here, okay? Because trust me, your reader is very cautious. Reader is going to judge your, your, every step, every page they are reading, they are trying to find something. So make sure that you are very, very much quotient. You very, very much cautious when you write, you know, the things that you need to put, you need to put in this chapter and the next chapter and that chapter. And remember, do not bombard your reader with lots of ideas all at once. You can bombard your video with all of the ideas you have. What do I mean by Bomba is there's a way of introducing, introducing ideas, right? Sometimes we get like two what we get, we get carried away while we think when thinking that our writing is so good. You know, when, when, when an idea is so good in your head, and then you're enjoying it so much, you simply just start throwing in everything you had and you haven't putting it down there. That's not what we want. We want you to like. Okay, we get it. You have this great idea in your head. And it's amazing. Okay, We get that. But make sure you have like a proper way of sharing all of those ideas that you have, right? Do that and that way you're still keeping, remember, now we're trying to wipe, we're trying to structure that writing and trying to make it worth trying to make it. What I'm trying to make it, what we're going to work, what we're going to enjoy at the end, right? So make sure that you structure it in a way that, in a way that's so neat. So neat, you're going to even forget what your editor, okay? Because remember, at the end of everything, wherever you begin, you must end with an editor, you, or someone else. But for me, sorry, I simply advice that you actually find two to three people who are actually going to help you edit your work. Because you can be, it can be what? You can decide to actually edit your own work yourself, but then not end up editing it like so, so well or well enough. You should just find yourself someone who's willing to take, someone who's willing to invest their time into actually what, actually helping you edit that book and edit it without cheating, without trying to manipulate you into believing that they are. What advice is better than your vision? Okay? Don't, don't don't don't don't find someone who's going to help you with that. But at the same time, Who's going to, who's going to manipulate you into what, into believing that their version, that version of the editing is way better than your own. And like I mentioned before, that is only going to be easy. That is only going to be achieved if, what? If you are not confident in your writing? If you're not competent with what you have done, right? So first be competent with what you've done, and then now move to the other person. Alright? So remember that what is important in all of this, whether you are actually thinking of writing that novel, or whether you've not even started writing that novel, you're only planning on doing that. Remember, at the end of it all, what is needed for you as a writer, for you to practice, practice, practice, save all of those drafts that you have. Saved them and save them and save them. If you're not completing the work just keeps saving them. Save them and save them, and move on to new things. Move on to new things, move on to new things. Because what practise, practise opens room for what? For improvement here. So I've simply like you guys to do that. 14. Conclusion & Class Project: And so for today, I think that is all. I will just need you guys to simply follow every step that I give you every day. The ten writing tips that I gave, please try to look into them, try to follow them, and that is all for today.