exposing my FIRST DRAFTS because you’re too afraid to ✍ (ep. 2) @rachelwritesbooks

rachel writes | exposing my FIRST DRAFTS because you’re too afraid to ✍ (ep. 2) @rachelwritesbooks | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
FIRST DRAFT APOLOGIST

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Excerpt 1: resisting the urge to edit
7:30 - Excerpt 2: humour & transition scenes
11:55 - Excerpt 3: typos, flashbacks, details
16:04 - Outro

RELATED:
- Last first drafts vid: youtu.be/a9mQSjK-KOo?si=GRWba4BxahY8NOu4
- All about Seventh Virtue: youtu.be/qR9xV__XOK4?si=SFFFG2ZJjbQqHof6

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ABOUT ME

Hi y'all! I'm Rachel, a 22-year-old writer from Toronto. I've been writing for ten years and hold a BA in creative writing (with specialties in fiction and poetry). On my channel, rachel writes, I document my writing journey and try to post once a week (usually on Fridays).

DISCLAIMER:
I'm only one writer, and approach each video from my experience/expertise. While I make content like writing advice videos on this channel, it's important to me that my viewers ultimately write in the way that best resonates with them. :)

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A micro dive on VERBS (verbing nouns, adjacent verbs, verb overuse) | Double Spaced Podcast Ep. 1

$My BEST Writing Year Yet | a ✨chill✨ reading A video where I read my favourite things I wrote this year! We have pretty prose! We have chaotic dialogue! We have embarrassment, exhaustion, princes & more! CONTENT WARNINGS: these excerpts deal with topics such as mental illness, gore, trauma, child neglect, religion, mentions of suicide, and domestic violence so please tread carefully if these are sensitive topics for you. All projects are intended for adult audiences! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:15 - The Sun Only Drowns Us (adult litfic) 0:41 - Excerpt 1: Eva & her mother 1:33 - Feeding Habits (adult litfic) 3:05 - Excerpt 2: drunk Harrison churchly chaos 4:49 - Excerpt 3: drunk Harrison churchly chaos CONTD 7:26 - Excerpt 4: is this pining or are we just sitting on a cliff 12:23 - Seventh Virtue (adult contemporary fantasy) 13:07 - Excerpt 5: early-riser god complex 14:18 - Excerpt 6: 8AM confrontation 16:39 - Excerpt 7: never have I ever walked through the woods with my bestie after embarrassing myself at breakfast 17:43 - Excerpt 8: never have I ever been held at knifepoint by my future bestie 18:53 - Excerpt 9: is this a new... friend? 19:50 - Excerpt 10: explorations of Darrens man cave & dreams of a prince? 21:00 - Excerpt 11: Fosters lecture & the appeal of renaissance art 21:52 - Excerpt 12: Foster & Harrison are actually really adorable 23:25 - Excerpt 13: never have I ever broken into a library with my bestie 23:58 - Excerpt 14: THIS IS NOT A BINGO MOMENT 25:26 - Excerpt 15: this is just cute 26:18 - Excerpt 16: meow 26:50 - Excerpt 17: not a morning person 27:54 - Excerpt 18: is this a dream or am I actually burning in the fires of hell with my ex??? 29:40 - Excerpt 19: Lonan & Reeve meeting each other for the first time 38:21 - Excerpt 20: if you and your bestie arent a little chaotic are you really besties? 40:20 - Excerpt 21: Lonan & Reeve flashback 41:51 - Excerpt 22: Darren and Reeve flashback (everybody crying pt. 1) 44:51 - Excerpt 23: Harrison has... feelings? (everybody crying pt. 2) 46:30 - Excerpt 24: Harrison & Suzanna flashback 47:30 - Excerpt 25: Darrison bait 49:50 - Excerpt 26: when was the last time Reeve saw Lonan? 50:35 - Excerpt 27: is this... ROMANCE?? (raven otp) 54:02 - Excerpt 28: never have I ever danced with a... prince? CONNECT WITH ME: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachellwrites Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelxwrites/ Website: https://bit.ly/3rq2vz5 Tumblr: https://bit.ly/3BhAtK3 Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2qdKsyM ALL MY PUBLISHED WORK: https://bit.ly/3CYT7Y1 MY STORIES: → The Species is Dead in Minola Review: https://bit.ly/3wEnkqE → Mama Lives in My Mouth in Young Voices: https://bit.ly/3yRzBKg → Primary Organs in The Malahat Review: https://bit.ly/2Tl0yWu & read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/3fzSQR1 → The Wolf-Antelope Will Not Come for Us in filling Sation: https://bit.ly/2UhCxjH → Where to Run When the Lamb Roars in The Temz Review: https://bit.ly/3GN246M → Fig in Fractured Lit: https://fracturedlit.com/fig/ → Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts,” in The Puritan, https://bit.ly/3mBsPDA → “Slaughter the Animal” in The New Quarterly, https://bit.ly/3BURVqb → “Eat Well” in CAROUSEL, forthcoming MY POETRY: → We sell skin on sale in Augur Magazine (poetry): https://bit.ly/3vBvQH3 → the drive-up microphone at burger king in carte blanche: https://bit.ly/3sm6RoE → A burial in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → The night my mother learns to use the bus in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → “What’s the difference between good and god” in CV2 https://bit.ly/3y9WXwT → “At night, I rest my limbs in water and search for my mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s tongue” in Augur Magazine, forthcoming → My Wolf Lives on the Windowsill in Grain Magazine: [print only] ABOUT ME Hi yall! Im Rachel, a twenty-year-old writer from Toronto. Ive been writing for eight years and am in my final year of my BA in creative writing. On my channel, rachel writes, I document my writing journey and try to post once a week (usually on Fridays). DISCLAIMER: Im only one writer, and approach each video from my experience/expertise. While I make content like writing advice videos on this channel, its important to me that my viewers ultimately write in the way that best resonates with them. :) ASK ME ANYTHING: https://bit.ly/34wRv7u Outro: This is not a joke by Monplaisir My equipment: → Camera: Sony ZV1 → Vlog mic: Rode Video Micro → Sit-down mic: Blue Yeti OR Blue Snowball iCE → Editor: Premiere Pro #authortube$ $4 MORE Misconceptions About Pantsing Novels In todays video, I discuss 4 more misconceptions about Pantsing novels! TIMESTAMPS: 0:50 - What is Pantsing? 1:23 - Plotting is too hard so you dont do it 3:14 - Pantsers dont follow story structure 5:53 - Outlining is the only way to get better at writing 7:25 - Pantsing is something you graduate from RELATED: - 5 Misconceptions About Pantsing Novels: https://youtu.be/AkDtp7MW0YI LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachellwrites Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelxwrites/ Website: https://bit.ly/3rq2vz5 Tumblr: https://bit.ly/3BhAtK3 Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2qdKsyM ALL MY PUBLISHED WORK: https://bit.ly/3CYT7Y1 MY STORIES: → The Species is Dead in Minola Review: https://bit.ly/3wEnkqE → Mama Lives in My Mouth in Young Voices: https://bit.ly/3yRzBKg → Primary Organs in The Malahat Review: https://bit.ly/2Tl0yWu & read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/3fzSQR1 → The Wolf-Antelope Will Not Come for Us in filling Sation: https://bit.ly/2UhCxjH → Where to Run When the Lamb Roars in The Temz Review: https://bit.ly/3GN246M → Fig in Fractured Lit: https://fracturedlit.com/fig/ → Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts,” in The Puritan, forthcoming → “Eat Well” in CAROUSEL, forthcoming → “Slaughter the Animal” in The New Quarterly, forthcoming MY POETRY: → We sell skin on sale in Augur Magazine (poetry): https://bit.ly/3vBvQH3 → the drive-up microphone at burger king in carte blanche: https://bit.ly/3sm6RoE → A burial in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → The night my mother learns to use the bus in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → “What’s the difference between good and god” in CV2 https://bit.ly/3y9WXwT → “At night, I rest my limbs in water and search for my mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s tongue” in Augur Magazine, forthcoming → My Wolf Lives on the Windowsill in Grain Magazine: [print only] ABOUT ME Hi yall! Im Rachel, a twenty-year-old writer from Toronto. Ive been writing for eight years and will be entering my fourth year of my BA in creative writing in the fall. On my channel, I document my writing journey and try to post once a week (usually on Fridays). ASK ME ANYTHING: https://bit.ly/34wRv7u Outro: This is not a joke by Monplaisir My equipment: → Camera: Sony ZV1 → Vlog mic: Rode Video Micro → Sit-down mic: Blue Yeti OR Blue Snowball iCE → Editor: Premiere Pro #authortube$

All About My (FANTASY) Novel 🔮 | SEVENTH VIRTUE

$NANOWRIMO VLOG: My book is BORING? ✍️ | Week 2 Writing Vlog And NaNoWriMo continues... In todays writing vlog, I take you through my week 2 of NaNoWriMo where I discuss boredom while drafting, rediscovering lost character relationships, and balancing life & writing! QUESTIONS FOR YOU: 1. Have you ever rediscovered an old character? What was that experience like? 2. Whats your favourite relationship related trope? 3. How do you deal with exhaustion during NaNoWriMo? TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 0:22 - Week 2 recap & hello to new subs! 2:25 - Why is my book so boring? 4:34 - Surprise progress, pantsing success & action scenes 6:27 - Darrison & rediscovering character relationships 10:00 - Complicated timeline & staying ahead 11:31 - Am I falling behind? 12:17 - Reading you excerpts of my WIP 15:32 - Outro CONNECT WITH ME: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachellwrites Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelxwrites/ Website: https://bit.ly/3rq2vz5 Tumblr: https://bit.ly/3BhAtK3 Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2qdKsyM ALL MY PUBLISHED WORK: https://bit.ly/3CYT7Y1 MY STORIES: → The Species is Dead in Minola Review: https://bit.ly/3wEnkqE → Mama Lives in My Mouth in Young Voices: https://bit.ly/3yRzBKg → Primary Organs in The Malahat Review: https://bit.ly/2Tl0yWu & read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/3fzSQR1 → The Wolf-Antelope Will Not Come for Us in filling Sation: https://bit.ly/2UhCxjH → Where to Run When the Lamb Roars in The Temz Review: https://bit.ly/3GN246M → Fig in Fractured Lit: https://fracturedlit.com/fig/ → Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts,” in The Puritan, https://bit.ly/3mBsPDA → “Slaughter the Animal” in The New Quarterly, https://bit.ly/3BURVqb → “Eat Well” in CAROUSEL, forthcoming MY POETRY: → We sell skin on sale in Augur Magazine (poetry): https://bit.ly/3vBvQH3 → the drive-up microphone at burger king in carte blanche: https://bit.ly/3sm6RoE → A burial in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → The night my mother learns to use the bus in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → “What’s the difference between good and god” in CV2 https://bit.ly/3y9WXwT → “At night, I rest my limbs in water and search for my mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s tongue” in Augur Magazine, forthcoming → My Wolf Lives on the Windowsill in Grain Magazine: [print only] ABOUT ME Hi yall! Im Rachel, a 21-year-old writer from Toronto. Ive been writing for eight years and am in my final year of my BA in creative writing. On my channel, rachel writes, I document my writing journey and try to post once a week (usually on Fridays). DISCLAIMER: Im only one writer, and approach each video from my experience/expertise. While I make content like writing advice videos on this channel, its important to me that my viewers ultimately write in the way that best resonates with them. :) ASK ME ANYTHING: https://bit.ly/34wRv7u Music by Dan and Drum - Taste Like - https://thmatc.co/?l=85B8DCCC Outro: This is not a joke by Monplaisir My equipment: → Camera: Sony ZV1 → Vlog mic: Rode Video Micro → Sit-down mic: Blue Yeti OR Blue Snowball iCE → Editor: Premiere Pro #authortube$

The BEST Lessons Ive Learned About Writing ✍

$Outlining my COMPLEX fantasy novel | Writing Vlog #33 In todays writing vlog, I talk about outlining my novel as a Pantser, work on some short story edits, and create character profiles! TIMESTAMPS: 0:50 - Channel updates! 1:39 - Getting back to writing FINALLY & my summer writing goals 3:27 - What is my book Seventh Virtue about? & discussion 5:59 - SO MANY PUBLICATIONS & short story revisions 7:47 - Character profiles 8:33 - What Im doing with Seventh Virtue & the books HISTORY 16:42 - Showing you 2 of my recent publications 17:30 - Working in Scrivener (screen recording) 20:20 - Character profile debrief 22:06 - A chat on taking forever to write my books 25:44 - Outro RELATED: - Writing Vlog #1 (watch at your own risk lol!): https://youtu.be/3jaREx tV0 - Writing vlog where I talk about Seventh Virtue: https://youtu.be/KV_0InzyOIU LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachellwrites Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelxwrites/ Website: https://bit.ly/3rq2vz5 Tumblr: https://bit.ly/3BhAtK3 Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2qdKsyM ALL MY PUBLISHED WORK: https://bit.ly/3CYT7Y1 MY STORIES: → The Species is Dead in Minola Review: https://bit.ly/3wEnkqE → Mama Lives in My Mouth in Young Voices: https://bit.ly/3yRzBKg → Primary Organs in The Malahat Review: https://bit.ly/2Tl0yWu & read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/3fzSQR1 → The Wolf-Antelope Will Not Come for Us in filling Sation: https://bit.ly/2UhCxjH → Where to Run When the Lamb Roars in The Temz Review: https://bit.ly/3GN246M → Fig in Fractured Lit: https://fracturedlit.com/fig/ → Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts,” in The Puritan, forthcoming → “Eat Well” in CAROUSEL, forthcoming → “Slaughter the Animal” in The New Quarterly, forthcoming MY POETRY: → We sell skin on sale in Augur Magazine (poetry): https://bit.ly/3vBvQH3 → the drive-up microphone at burger king in carte blanche: https://bit.ly/3sm6RoE → A burial in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → The night my mother learns to use the bus in The Fiddlehead: https://bit.ly/3oMU7ID → “What’s the difference between good and god” in CV2 https://bit.ly/3y9WXwT → “At night, I rest my limbs in water and search for my mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s tongue” in Augur Magazine, forthcoming → My Wolf Lives on the Windowsill in Grain Magazine: [print only] ABOUT ME Hi yall! Im Rachel, a twenty-year-old writer from Toronto. Ive been writing for eight years and will be entering my fourth year of my BA in creative writing in the fall. On my channel, I document my writing journey and try to post once a week (usually on Fridays). ASK ME ANYTHING: https://bit.ly/34wRv7u Music by Little Boots - Out (Out) - https://thmatc.co/?l=6CC128A4 Outro: This is not a joke by Monplaisir My equipment: → Camera: Sony ZV1 → Vlog mic: Rode Video Micro → Sit-down mic: Blue Yeti OR Blue Snowball iCE → Editor: Premiere Pro #authortube$

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