🥪 Writing and Publishing Advice - Youtube Channels and Videos 🥪
Brandon Sanderson
While his channel usually acts as a platform for communicating with fans about his published writing and other projects, there are occasionally very helpful videos for those seeking writing advice. Those can be found in a playlist here. There is also a series of videos where you can watch lectures of his entire creative writing course at BYU. The courses cover introductions to character writing, plotting, magic systems and worldbuilding, dialogue, and how to get your finished book edited and published.
Recommended videos:
- The Three Pillars of Storytelling
- Ten Things I Wish I'd Known as a Teen Author
- How do I write someone who’s smarter than I am?
- BYU Creative Writing Course Lectures - 2020 (playlist)
Lecture series from previous years:
- BYU Creative Writing Course Lectures - 2016 (playlist) – [Mirror Link]
- BYU Creative Writing Course Lectures - 2014 (playlist)
- BYU Creative Writing Course Lectures - 2013 (playlist)
- BYU Creative Writing Course Lectures - 2012 (playlist)
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Hello Future Me
A channel with a strong focus on analyzing the worldbuilding of books, TV shows/films, and video games. Topics cover how empires rise and fall, fictional history and religions, magic systems, and how geography affects human societal developments. There are also videos covering redemption arcs, villains, killing off characters, and more.
Recommended videos:
- On Writing: Redemption Arcs
- On Worldbuilding: How Class Systems Work
- On Worldbuilding: How Class Systems Fall
- On Writing: hard magic systems in fantasy
- On Writing: soft magic systems in fantasy
- On Worldbuilding: Mountains in Fantasy Maps
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Abbie Emmons
A channel that gives writing advice with easy-to-understand explanations and examples. Abbie tackles questions with the idea that there is a science behind good storytelling—a way to quantify what makes a story well-crafted.
Recommended videos:
- How to Find Your Character's Misbelief (or Fatal Flaw)
- The Most Important Part of Your Story (The Aha Moment)
- Editing your novel (playlist)
- How to Write a Strong Female Character...who isn't toxic and annoying
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Diane Callahan
Diane fills her channel with tips and advice for writers. Topics like writing better dialogue and plotting your novel are covered, as well as issues like finding motivation and defeating writer’s block, and much more.
Recommended videos:
- How to Build Your Writing Vocabulary
- 4 Plotting Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
- How to Show, Not Tell: The Complete Writing Guide
- 10 Common New Writer Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
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Ellen Brock
Ellen provides writing advice from the perspective of an editor with over 10 years of experience. She has a series of videos that offer insight and advice toward the four different types of novel writers, and many videos about story structure, characters, and plotting.
Recommended videos:
- Why you can't stick with a single novel (and keep starting new ones)
- The Four Types of Novel Writers (playlist)
- Advanced Story Structure (playlist)
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Miscellaneous video links
Here I will put links to miscellaneous videos that I’ve found helpful, regarding the topics around writing and publishing advice.
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I have also compiled the above resources into a single Google document, if you would prefer to browse through the lists that way. The link can be found here: Sandwich's Writing Resources Compilation Link