My Top 12 Writing Tips! | Advice That Changed How I Write

about artistic incongruity. This was one of those things that she put into words exactly what he was looking for. I think it's just a term he invented, but he always talked about that's where the interest in

writing

comes from, artistic incongruity, so things that don't make much sense or not, but are unexpected or a little twisted in a way. ingenious way. He had us do this exercise where we wrote down a bunch of nouns and then we wrote down a bunch of adjectives that we would expect to go with the noun and then we had to make it cleverly incongruent and there's one that I always remember: the example was an An innocent baby is not cleverly incongruous because obviously a baby is innocent, so it made him an intelligent baby, and I really liked that. a baby who knows Finding artistic incongruity I always thought was a really cool concept.

I've been better for it. So my final

advice

, um, I don't think this was something I heard at any specific time, but it's just something that, when I realized, was the basis of how I approach

writing

, and it's the question you need to ask yourself. . in every aspect of your writing is: how can I make this more interesting? in terms of detail, like when you pick a detail and ask, "Can I make this more interesting? When you're creating a character, can I make this more interesting? When you're writing a scene. Can I make this more interesting?

You don't have to ". Never letting that go or sacrificing that, I think, in my own work I really don't want to let go of a scene that has a utilitarian purpose but isn't interesting, I don't want a single scene that isn't at least compelling. from my perspective. I don't want a paragraph that only serves a utilitarian purpose but isn't interesting. If I have a moment like that in history I wonder how I can make it interesting. Ultimately, the reason I find this so impactful as a philosophy behind craft writing is because I think that in terms of your story being enjoyable to read, that's the most important thing.

I'll read pretty much anything as long as it's interesting. I think that is the most important quality that writing can have, being interesting, because the opposite is not being interesting and I don't see the appeal in that. I think that's a guiding question that I always ask myself during the brainstorming phase, during the writing phase, during the editing phase. How can I make this more interesting? Sometimes it's both changing the setting and putting the characters in a more interesting environment. giving the scene a more convincing look that I don't know in all aspects. I have a very old video on how to make your writing more interesting, so I'll leave it below because it's very, very old.

So those are the 12 writing

tips

that

changed

the way I

write

, all of these

tips

I can trace back to a specific moment or at least a significant period of time when that started to become clear to me. These are things that I find really interesting and compelling and that make sense to me, they articulate something that I want to articulate, like artistic incongruity, which says what I want to say, is the perfect term to express what I want to express or were things in which I had an aha moment and when I first read the

advice

or was told the advice, I was like, “Oh, very interesting.” I don't know why they left an impact on me, of course I would love to hear what your favorite writing tips are in the comments and I also want to say that if there is a writing tip that you don't like, That's totally fine, in every craft video someone doesn't like some aspect of what I say and there is rarely right or wrong if a tip doesn't fit your personality. philosophy or it suits your style or your goals, then you don't have to implement it, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad.

All of these things have positively impacted me, but that's okay, if they don't work for you, you certainly don't have to apply them and you also don't have to go on a long rant about why you hate it, that's okay. , writing tips is rarely universal... um, it's actually very personal and I think writing tips is about selecting your own set of rules and guidelines and tools that make sense to you and that you like to draw on, and these are all things that I really like to turn to because they make sense to me. Alright guys, that's all for this video, thank you very much for watching.

If you have any questions, you can always send me a question on Tumblr and I'll see you in another video.