Forget novels, try writing a decent, quality short story and see how hard that is. The advice is true, you have to just keep moving things along and spend the time at the desk, and eventually you will finish. But it is not easy.
the elves only show up when you take large doses of Psilocybin mushrooms. But Neil Gaiman seems to have an already expanded mind so drugs are probably useless to him.
I've only ever had the opposite kind of elves. I'd go to sleep after writing something brilliant, amazing, something that would change the world! I'd wake up with a lot of crap on the page and an empty bottle of whiskey. The elves ruined my work! $#@%)*$@% Elves...
This is a great advice. And you know what I discovered? A broken heart, nowdays, is printed in various novels and awarded with literature awards. It's interesting, my opinion.
@SupportRonPaul2012 Get the fuck out of here retard. 99% of you Paulbots haven't even read the constitution. Ron Paul relies on the support of a huge number of ignorant, politically misinformed kids that get their political education from YouTube documentaries. One of my favorite things to do in the world is approach a Ron Paul supporter and say, "Name six of the founding fathers." And you know what? They never can.
@SupportRonPaul2012 This is a video where Neil Gaiman is giving advice for writers. Most of us writers and artistic nuts are politically indifferent. So fuck off, and let us be our nerdy little selves.
There are now 10 that didn't like this video. I don't see why there some good advice there but sometimes it's so difficult to find what to write about.
@JeffersonDinedAlone It isn't crap. It's the truth. If it sounds a little shopworn, it's because the truth apparently can't be repeated often enough, when there are always people looking for magic alternatives.
@impartialSanity I concur. I am one of the rare I guess you can say. Imagination is a great thing to have when writing. Yet, as I imagine worlds and characters, I also feel the suspense, humor and etc. when I do write as well. Even my publisher is amazed at how I can think and have feelings and emotions towards what I write. And how I write that into my book or poetry. Don't get me wrong though. I do agree with what you said. You do have to live in order to write. And write in order to live.
I don't need to write to write. I got a muses scroll and se gave me the ideas but then i didn't feel like writing them down so i made a pact with shakespeare so he got all the ideas but i got half the credit. I tried getting the elves to help me, but I wanted plays, not songs, and sonnets not free verse. I don't know why modern elves are so fond of free verse, but they are, so I have a muse and a bard instead of a night-elf.
@redeemerslove You cannot write about feelings convincingly unless you've had them. This doesn't mean he WANTS you to experience loss of any sort, or to go find ways to hurt yourself in order to write, but that he wants you to LIVE. Being an active participant in life gives you such a rich pool of experience to draw from; being passive, not really risking anything or trying anything, often leaves you empty. Some people get by on pure imagination, but they're very rare indeed.
@ImpartialSanity He said to go out and get your heart broken. As a certified counselor, I can say that is sadistic. You WANT someone to get their heart broken? I WANT them to have a good, peaceful life. There is alot of sickness in some writers.
@redeemerslove I would hope that a certified counselor would be capable of distinguishing between a literal command/suggestion and an illustrative thought. Beyond that, your idealism is...stomach turning. Unless a person has underlying issues, a broken heart is little more than a short pain and an educating, strengthening experience. You can sit there and be afraid of deeper emotions but, for the sake of your patients, I would suggest educating yourself further regarding their importance.
@redeemerslove Sounds to me like the response of someone backed into a corner. Was it the jab about being capable of distinguishing between something literal and something illustrative? Or was it the idea that you're swimming in the shallow end of the vast and infinitely deep psychological pool? How about I go to the local University and ask the resident psychologists and psychiatrists about it, as well as your basic lack of understanding regarding the meaning of sadism?
@redeemerslove How ridiculously literal you are. Yes, I know you're a therapist, and wearing it on your sleeve as advertising, but "SADIST"? The man means you can't write what people want to read unless you have a depth of feeling that comes from intense emotional experience. If you read much -- you do read? -- you'll see that the majority of literature is not about happy experience, but sorrow, anger, disgust. Why, do you suppose, people want or need to read that? Go think about it.
Finally somebody who knows something. I don't read this man's work but he knows what it means to be a writer and that is "to live." Go out and live in the real world. Then you have something to write about.
@MckyMseNTarotCrds If you haven't read any of his books yet I recommend Coraline. It is one of the most chilling books I've ever read that left me reeling days after returning it to the library. It was that amazing.
@EeveelutionStorm Is it a novel or a graphic novel? If I'm thinking of the same person, I actually mentioned this guy to my gf shortly after viewing this clip and leaving my comment. She knows all the "new" writers. All I ever seem to read are people that have been dead for twenty years. I'm thinking I remember her telling me Gaiman writes graphic novels. Is that what Coraline is? Yes, of course I could just look it up online; but you brought it up, so tell me, haha.
@MckyMseNTarotCrds It's both. It's a novel AND a graphic novel. I've only read the novel but it is amazing. It's hard to find though. Check the lcoal libraries. He writes a lot of stuff. Kids, books, teens books, graphic novels, horror novels ect. Basically anything goes with him.
@EeveelutionStorm Thanks. I do read a lot of short stories by living authors but I could probably count on my hands the living authors I've read entire books by. (King, Murikami, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, a few more I guess). I'm an avid reader, but it always seems to be the old stuff. Oh, the Jonathons, Lethem and Foer. I do like both of them. My gf got me to read some book called The Corrections by some "hot" writer, and I hated it. I'll check this guy out, though.
@MckyMseNTarotCrds "Hot" Writers also tend to be the ones writing teenage wangst that is horribly written. I also tend to read titles and authors not many people have heard of. If you like unusual books authors I recommend are definietly Neil Gaiman, Neal Shusterman and Rick Yancy. (The Monstrumologist is incredible!)
@sauske772 Yep! It was finished recently just last month. The second and third books are called Everwild and Everfound respectively. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL books!
Obviously, the nine people who dislike this are the elves that come in the night and finish people's stories for them. There aren't many of them, they're working their asses off and they can't help everyone. Still, they would like to receive *some* acknowledgment.
Just letting everyone know that I am a first time published author. My book Rasciss tells the story of Hollowawk a man who literally defied death and now must face the wrath of petty gods. Come onto my channel and check out the promo video I made for Rasciss, leave a comment and if you like what you see than please pick yourself up a copy and let me know what you thought about it!
Ive read American Gods and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and I was blown away what's the advice Stephenie Meyer giving to young writers write your dreams?
Neil Gaiman just donated another $500,000.00 to Scientology in 2010 through his business partner Mary Gaiman who received a “Gold Humanitarian Award” for contributing to Ideal Org, MN.
Mhm.. I am a young writer who writes short stories and full novels of which I have had some of my short stories published to small teen magazines. And other times have been pushed away. for I know at the time my Grammar wasn't the best (It still isn't the best) I have a dream, and that is to continue on writing. I take classes to better my skills, I take a lot to hoist myself high above. I really truly love his mythological novels the best(American gods, and The anansi brothers)
I'm a college student and I developed a website--chainwrite, a collaborative writing website, to try and promote writing creativity for all people in a fun way. I hope for it to bring out the great imagination that lies within all people. Especially the ones who are ashamed to show it.
so true. I have just finished an MA in creative writing and most of my classmates, were potentially good writers but had nothing really interesting to say because they hadn't lived a lot.
Neil and all his works have been my inspirations to be a writer. to seek that individual power to create beautiful worlds with wonders sentients, and by that same token, destroy them.
@jerrynog Roll up a Neil Gaiman novel and plug up that distended bile duct. Just kidding! :) Yeah you are soooooo right. Preach! I , like you, am simply transposing my own insecurities via the intertron. Love to love you.
You hear that little beeping noise near the begging of the interview? That's someone getting a text on their mobile and it interfering with the sound waves of the camera's microphone.
Just curious : I'm sure that it's not easy to write / publish a book , but what would be an average amount of compensation that a travel writer would make from writing one ?
@weichiang Absolutely. I still obsess over his short story "A Study in Emerald". That took more than just good ideas. That could never have been achieved without truly amazing skill, work and minute attention to detail.
I hope he makes a sequel to Neverwhere or some story connected to American Gods, like what he did with Anansi Boys.
I'm currently reading The Graveyard Book, and I have to say, Gaiman's literary works never cease to amaze me. May it be children's books or graphic novels.
"A Study In Emerald" was one of the best (if not the best) Sherlock Holmes pastiches I've ever read,
I kinda wish ASIE could be made into
some kind of a short film but that would really be impossible due to the plot twists and the story structure that IMHO just really couldn't translate to a film.
Yeah, I think it's something that really wouldn't work- at least not as well- if it were done in any other way than the way he does it. If that makes sense...
i have kind of a curse, i'm not particularly good at narrative, and i don't usually have the patience to write it well, but i can write dialogue realistically without any effort. when it comes to narrative, i'm too tempted to just be excessively blunt and to the point, because i don't like getting descriptive when i don't have to be. kinda wish i had neil's mad narrative skills. X3
@whackadoodlydoo Hey, just wanted to mention that adding an occasional cuss word or two in the climax of the story adds more suspense, but I try not to do it that often.(It doesn't take much to offend people these days.)=P
i dont have any problem with offending people or cussing. i dont believe in "bad words." and if they get offended, they can get over it. it's a book. they didnt have to read it.
it doesnt take that long to write a novel if you just keep chipping away at it every day. 500 words a day over 3 months and youve got yourself the 1st draft of a novel!
Yes, I wrote things when I was 15 as well, things that I like to keep buried where they remain hidden from the light of day.
Writing isn't like music or painting which are built primarily upon technical skills and what is aesthetically pleasing. Writing requires a level of introspection which comes with years and experience, something which I quite frankly don't believe can be simulated.
Look back at your stuff in a couple of years, I think you'll see what I mean.
Congrats on your accomplishment, but I disagree saying that what he is saying is a rip-off. Think about this, his advice obviously does not apply to you. Many people aren't gifted to write 500 page debut's at 15 based purely off imagination and skill. Evidently, you are gifted. If you possessed so much "skill" I would assume you would know you obviously are good at writing for a 15 year old and also be aware that not everyone can do what you can. IF what you are saying is the truth.
It seems from looking at advice from writers is you really just have to sit there and get to work. There is no magic pill. I need to start doing this instead of procrastinating and saying I'll do it when I get inspired.
He is a very good writer. I hope to reach his level of success one day. I'd also like to meet him. He's right, though. You have to just write and write from your heart. Anyone that has a good story can write a bestseller. The words will come naturally as you go along.
Hello. Yes, I do write. I've written three novels, the first of which is being published. What kind of paper are you talking about? A High School paper, a college paper? I do mostly pieces of fiction, but I've learned to edit essays.
ok, how on earth somebody can be so gifted? I mean he's handsome and he's talanted these two things don't go together very often. And oh, the way he nods in the end... there's something noble about it. So precious... or is it just me?
The elves came...
FalseProphet501 5 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
damn elves never show up...
rumbler227 1 week ago
-_-
i never got any imformation
TheTherandom911 2 months ago
Forget novels, try writing a decent, quality short story and see how hard that is. The advice is true, you have to just keep moving things along and spend the time at the desk, and eventually you will finish. But it is not easy.
spd13062 2 months ago 5
WOW YOU SO CRAZY
slmtutorials 2 months ago
the elves only show up when you take large doses of Psilocybin mushrooms. But Neil Gaiman seems to have an already expanded mind so drugs are probably useless to him.
ManifestPanda 2 months ago 4
I've only ever had the opposite kind of elves. I'd go to sleep after writing something brilliant, amazing, something that would change the world! I'd wake up with a lot of crap on the page and an empty bottle of whiskey. The elves ruined my work! $#@%)*$@% Elves...
meripen 2 months ago 19
My elves were is not connected enough to my family name, so I is left out. What you do about this fucked kid, eh?
JollyMunkie 3 months ago
Thanks Neil
838vuks 3 months ago
This was extremely special needs kind of stupid
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mlucero09 4 months ago
Scientologist scum. :'(
seanmatthewrosen 4 months ago
It's true that the most important thing is to begin and the then continue to do the hard work.
AuthorsBroadCast 4 months ago
It's true that the most important thing is to begin and the then continue to do the hardd work.
AuthorsBroadCast 4 months ago
I... I think I love him.
GaladedridDamodred 4 months ago
"The Elves that Come in the Night and Finish Your Stories For You."
I think I just found Neil's next Doctor Who episode.
TheRob5 4 months ago 3
Damn...that was good advice
ChurchOfMe93 4 months ago
damn! i trusted those elves
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Neil Gaiman's career has been bought for him by Scientology! Gaiman is a lying cult member.
ExcaliburofLight 5 months ago
sweetness! XD this could really help me out with the book im writting... i just hope it turns out great
darkestnights77 5 months ago
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loverofbooks111 5 months ago
Neil is not gay man
W6S0A4 5 months ago
Oh the elves.
insiyak 5 months ago 31
This is a great advice. And you know what I discovered? A broken heart, nowdays, is printed in various novels and awarded with literature awards. It's interesting, my opinion.
teanicolae 6 months ago
I'm waiting for those elves. They shown up. I think they are on strike.
finmagik 6 months ago 46
American Gods. Read it.
TheChrisJackAttack 6 months ago 2
This man is a God.
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SupportRonPaul2012 6 months ago
@SupportRonPaul2012 Get the fuck out of here retard. 99% of you Paulbots haven't even read the constitution. Ron Paul relies on the support of a huge number of ignorant, politically misinformed kids that get their political education from YouTube documentaries. One of my favorite things to do in the world is approach a Ron Paul supporter and say, "Name six of the founding fathers." And you know what? They never can.
TheChrisJackAttack 6 months ago
@SupportRonPaul2012 This is a video where Neil Gaiman is giving advice for writers. Most of us writers and artistic nuts are politically indifferent. So fuck off, and let us be our nerdy little selves.
TheDaftCaptain 5 months ago
There are now 10 that didn't like this video. I don't see why there some good advice there but sometimes it's so difficult to find what to write about.
jetrules2005 6 months ago
Excellent advice! The secret is: keep writing!
avaloniarising 6 months ago
Well it's about time someone took the time to BELIEVE in the brilliance of young writers! Thanks for sharing, Neil!
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CalebBreakey 7 months ago
I am currently writing a story,I just suck =( Its Basing on my life
JohnAlthani 7 months ago
Ah, Neil Gaiman: my muse.
PinkorpseForever 7 months ago
Blah-blah-blah. They say the same crap. Read. Write. Submit. What of it? We all know this.
JeffersonDinedAlone 7 months ago
@JeffersonDinedAlone It isn't crap. It's the truth. If it sounds a little shopworn, it's because the truth apparently can't be repeated often enough, when there are always people looking for magic alternatives.
manthasagittarius 7 months ago 3
@manthasagittarius If you want to do something, you do it. Pretty self-explanatory. For anything.
JeffersonDinedAlone 7 months ago
@JeffersonDinedAlone Perhaps for you, on good days. Ever teach writing?
manthasagittarius 7 months ago
i would really like to meet this man =)
Necronomiconer 7 months ago
@impartialSanity I concur. I am one of the rare I guess you can say. Imagination is a great thing to have when writing. Yet, as I imagine worlds and characters, I also feel the suspense, humor and etc. when I do write as well. Even my publisher is amazed at how I can think and have feelings and emotions towards what I write. And how I write that into my book or poetry. Don't get me wrong though. I do agree with what you said. You do have to live in order to write. And write in order to live.
Bigrlboi1 7 months ago
Thank you, Neil <3
ayeletkessel 7 months ago
I don't need to write to write. I got a muses scroll and se gave me the ideas but then i didn't feel like writing them down so i made a pact with shakespeare so he got all the ideas but i got half the credit. I tried getting the elves to help me, but I wanted plays, not songs, and sonnets not free verse. I don't know why modern elves are so fond of free verse, but they are, so I have a muse and a bard instead of a night-elf.
xandycoleman 7 months ago
Go get your heart broken?!?!? What a sadist.
redeemerslove 7 months ago
@redeemerslove Actually, he's completely correct. Something like that helps stir up emotions and give experience and such.
sauske772 7 months ago
@sauske772 Look up the term utilitarianism. USING feelings to write? He is a sadist.
redeemerslove 7 months ago
@redeemerslove You cannot write about feelings convincingly unless you've had them. This doesn't mean he WANTS you to experience loss of any sort, or to go find ways to hurt yourself in order to write, but that he wants you to LIVE. Being an active participant in life gives you such a rich pool of experience to draw from; being passive, not really risking anything or trying anything, often leaves you empty. Some people get by on pure imagination, but they're very rare indeed.
ImpartialSanity 7 months ago
@ImpartialSanity He said to go out and get your heart broken. As a certified counselor, I can say that is sadistic. You WANT someone to get their heart broken? I WANT them to have a good, peaceful life. There is alot of sickness in some writers.
redeemerslove 7 months ago
@redeemerslove I would hope that a certified counselor would be capable of distinguishing between a literal command/suggestion and an illustrative thought. Beyond that, your idealism is...stomach turning. Unless a person has underlying issues, a broken heart is little more than a short pain and an educating, strengthening experience. You can sit there and be afraid of deeper emotions but, for the sake of your patients, I would suggest educating yourself further regarding their importance.
ImpartialSanity 7 months ago
@ImpartialSanity You comments have no psychological merit.
redeemerslove 7 months ago
@redeemerslove Sounds to me like the response of someone backed into a corner. Was it the jab about being capable of distinguishing between something literal and something illustrative? Or was it the idea that you're swimming in the shallow end of the vast and infinitely deep psychological pool? How about I go to the local University and ask the resident psychologists and psychiatrists about it, as well as your basic lack of understanding regarding the meaning of sadism?
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redeemerslove 7 months ago
@redeemerslove How ridiculously literal you are. Yes, I know you're a therapist, and wearing it on your sleeve as advertising, but "SADIST"? The man means you can't write what people want to read unless you have a depth of feeling that comes from intense emotional experience. If you read much -- you do read? -- you'll see that the majority of literature is not about happy experience, but sorrow, anger, disgust. Why, do you suppose, people want or need to read that? Go think about it.
manthasagittarius 7 months ago
Neil Gaiman's comic books... -3 He's the most amazing author! ^___^
Aragalinna 8 months ago
Practical advice for writers, I think.
ACBwrites 8 months ago
I actually have a staff of elves working for me.
jakejamieson33 8 months ago
i <3 him. best author ever.
loverofbooks111 8 months ago
@loverofbooks111 ...dude... i dont think i said anything against Neil Gaiman... i think you replied to the wrong person O_o
darkestnights77 5 months ago
@darkestnights77 i did i did i did and im so sorry! thats why i removed the comment! im really sorry! :( total mistake i swear!
loverofbooks111 5 months ago
@loverofbooks111 haha, that's ok :) just be more careful next time ^_^
darkestnights77 5 months ago
@darkestnights77 will do :)
loverofbooks111 5 months ago
Finally somebody who knows something. I don't read this man's work but he knows what it means to be a writer and that is "to live." Go out and live in the real world. Then you have something to write about.
sexytubes 9 months ago 3
Neil Gaiman is creepily and hilariously awesome...
sarahthewriter1 9 months ago 3
I've met those elves, they are mean.
Sirchud68 10 months ago
I've never read anything by this guy, but I'd say that's all excellent advice. I may have to pick something by him up now. He seems cool.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 10 months ago 3
@MckyMseNTarotCrds If you haven't read any of his books yet I recommend Coraline. It is one of the most chilling books I've ever read that left me reeling days after returning it to the library. It was that amazing.
EeveelutionStorm 8 months ago
@EeveelutionStorm Is it a novel or a graphic novel? If I'm thinking of the same person, I actually mentioned this guy to my gf shortly after viewing this clip and leaving my comment. She knows all the "new" writers. All I ever seem to read are people that have been dead for twenty years. I'm thinking I remember her telling me Gaiman writes graphic novels. Is that what Coraline is? Yes, of course I could just look it up online; but you brought it up, so tell me, haha.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 8 months ago
@MckyMseNTarotCrds It's both. It's a novel AND a graphic novel. I've only read the novel but it is amazing. It's hard to find though. Check the lcoal libraries. He writes a lot of stuff. Kids, books, teens books, graphic novels, horror novels ect. Basically anything goes with him.
EeveelutionStorm 8 months ago
@EeveelutionStorm Thanks. I do read a lot of short stories by living authors but I could probably count on my hands the living authors I've read entire books by. (King, Murikami, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, a few more I guess). I'm an avid reader, but it always seems to be the old stuff. Oh, the Jonathons, Lethem and Foer. I do like both of them. My gf got me to read some book called The Corrections by some "hot" writer, and I hated it. I'll check this guy out, though.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 8 months ago
@MckyMseNTarotCrds "Hot" Writers also tend to be the ones writing teenage wangst that is horribly written. I also tend to read titles and authors not many people have heard of. If you like unusual books authors I recommend are definietly Neil Gaiman, Neal Shusterman and Rick Yancy. (The Monstrumologist is incredible!)
EeveelutionStorm 8 months ago
@EeveelutionStorm Fuck yeah Shusterman. I'm convinced the best thing he's ever written is "Unwind". It's such a great book.
sauske772 7 months ago
@sauske772 Unwind is such an awesome book! Shusterman also wrote the epically awesome Skinjacker Trilogy.
EeveelutionStorm 7 months ago
@EeveelutionStorm It's a trilogy now? I remember hearing about the second book, but I never read it. I didn't even know there was a third.
sauske772 7 months ago
@sauske772 Yep! It was finished recently just last month. The second and third books are called Everwild and Everfound respectively. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL books!
EeveelutionStorm 7 months ago
@EeveelutionStorm Hmm. I'll look 'em up!
sauske772 7 months ago
@sauske772 I guarentee you'll enjoy them if you were curious of what was after Everlost.
EeveelutionStorm 7 months ago
@EeveelutionStorm I am curious. Can't wait to pick them up.
sauske772 7 months ago
@sauske772 You'll love them then. Neal really out did himself from Everlost with the next two books.
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iceman91321 10 months ago
Reminds me of Alan Rickman for some reason.
stratocaster1986able 10 months ago
personally i didn't find this video helpful lol but hey i like him as a writer, except for the fact of the nasty topics.
FlairesTears 10 months ago
@FlairesTears The world isn't all flowers and rainbows, my friend. Nasty things are much more common.
sauske772 7 months ago
I met Neil Gaiman and I asked him since he was the Dream King whether he could cure my insomnia. He just told me to write more if I couldn't sleep.
TeenAuthor 10 months ago 3
listen to the man-go get your heart broken.
yayad1nonly 10 months ago
Obviously, the nine people who dislike this are the elves that come in the night and finish people's stories for them. There aren't many of them, they're working their asses off and they can't help everyone. Still, they would like to receive *some* acknowledgment.
BanjoChick 11 months ago 46
So down to earth and eloquent!
CosmoShidan 11 months ago
I liked Neil Gaiman but the thing that I can't stand is that when he writes about masturbation.
085665372 11 months ago
Just letting everyone know that I am a first time published author. My book Rasciss tells the story of Hollowawk a man who literally defied death and now must face the wrath of petty gods. Come onto my channel and check out the promo video I made for Rasciss, leave a comment and if you like what you see than please pick yourself up a copy and let me know what you thought about it!
theabominationuknow4 11 months ago
Gaiman funds Scientology.
ExcaliburofLight 11 months ago
Darn you lazy elves!! God i love neil gaiman so much. what kind of idiots would dislike this?!
14597ojai 1 year ago
@14597ojai I liked him but I really wished he wouldn't write about masturbation and things...
085665372 11 months ago
It's true. As an artist and a writer, I procrastinate a lot! It's a very bad habit that I need to get rid of.
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Wow. He is tremendously well-spoken.
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damn he reminds me of snape
Yunero 1 year ago 9
@Yunero id call him the anti-snape. physically and audibly like him in every way, but incredibly nice
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@Yunero yeah hes so alan rickmans little brother lol x
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JeffersonMills 1 year ago
Ive read American Gods and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and I was blown away what's the advice Stephenie Meyer giving to young writers write your dreams?
anubhavize 1 year ago
Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Stephenie Meyer all giving us writing advice. Hilarious.
HardforJesus 1 year ago
@HardforJesus Well, they're all getting paid, so their advice can't be completely without merit.
CaeFromMidnight 1 year ago
@CaeFromMidnight Sort of like a hooker telling us how to avoid VD.
HardforJesus 1 year ago
who are these 8 wankers who disliked this?
TheGreyhoundBoy 1 year ago 74
@TheGreyhoundBoy wannabe writers who don't like having their hypocrisy exposed
chiohchan7 1 year ago
@TheGreyhoundBoy ppl who want to hear something unique.
thomj87 8 months ago
@TheGreyhoundBoy The same one who disliked what you said.
redeemerslove 7 months ago
@TheGreyhoundBoy Let's hope it's only due to the poor quality of the video.
TheFabledDenial 7 months ago
@TheGreyhoundBoy ... Perhaps they, the illiterate.
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ExcaliburofLight 1 year ago
Mhm.. I am a young writer who writes short stories and full novels of which I have had some of my short stories published to small teen magazines. And other times have been pushed away. for I know at the time my Grammar wasn't the best (It still isn't the best) I have a dream, and that is to continue on writing. I take classes to better my skills, I take a lot to hoist myself high above. I really truly love his mythological novels the best(American gods, and The anansi brothers)
VKQueenVamp 1 year ago
coraline was creepy and awesome SO HE WIIINNNSSS! yay
lifeXXrocks 1 year ago
I'm a college student and I developed a website--chainwrite, a collaborative writing website, to try and promote writing creativity for all people in a fun way. I hope for it to bring out the great imagination that lies within all people. Especially the ones who are ashamed to show it.
Chainwrite 1 year ago
Neil Gaiman is one of my inspirations. :)
DuchessAliana 1 year ago
Neil Gaiman is actually the Sandman.
kornflayx 1 year ago 78
@kornflayx So true!
GeonTheDayDreamer 5 months ago
so true. I have just finished an MA in creative writing and most of my classmates, were potentially good writers but had nothing really interesting to say because they hadn't lived a lot.
tzoyia1 1 year ago
i write horror/tragedy/fantasy kinda genre
the characters are alwais dramadic
NotoriousDudeable 1 year ago
Neil and all his works have been my inspirations to be a writer. to seek that individual power to create beautiful worlds with wonders sentients, and by that same token, destroy them.
zombieboy13 1 year ago
If the elves won't do it, can I pay the gnomes to? Elves...you stuck up bastards
t260y 1 year ago 5
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jerrynog 1 year ago
@jerrynog Roll up a Neil Gaiman novel and plug up that distended bile duct. Just kidding! :) Yeah you are soooooo right. Preach! I , like you, am simply transposing my own insecurities via the intertron. Love to love you.
fingerstothebone 1 year ago
nobody can't write a book, if he didn't read a book before
Elanhyer 1 year ago 4
he's awesome.
teethstainedred 1 year ago
build it word by word, that's a joke right? is he on about automatic writing
bryngOneOn 1 year ago
we found a reincarnation - pale house
palehousepress 1 year ago
build a what as big as bavaria...? A house? Out of matchsticks?
i can't hear what he sez there
natmanprime 1 year ago
1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Such good, and true, advice!
njmessmer08 1 year ago 6
@njmessmer08 ironically, the one who said that was originally Thomas Edison.
Who basically stole credit for what Nikola Tesla did.
thesideshowman212 1 year ago
You hear that little beeping noise near the begging of the interview? That's someone getting a text on their mobile and it interfering with the sound waves of the camera's microphone.
SamuelEllmer 1 year ago
Just curious : I'm sure that it's not easy to write / publish a book , but what would be an average amount of compensation that a travel writer would make from writing one ?
PrinceValiantThesnob 1 year ago
"Go get your heart broken and read some more"
grejsancoprative 1 year ago 8
Neil Gaiman is the greatest writer ever!
American Gods, Anansi Boys and Neverwhere are just superb books!
weichiang 2 years ago
@weichiang Absolutely. I still obsess over his short story "A Study in Emerald". That took more than just good ideas. That could never have been achieved without truly amazing skill, work and minute attention to detail.
arwenae 2 years ago
I wonder what his next project would be.
I hope he makes a sequel to Neverwhere or some story connected to American Gods, like what he did with Anansi Boys.
I'm currently reading The Graveyard Book, and I have to say, Gaiman's literary works never cease to amaze me. May it be children's books or graphic novels.
weichiang 2 years ago 2
Wasn't that an outstanding story?
"A Study In Emerald" was one of the best (if not the best) Sherlock Holmes pastiches I've ever read,
I kinda wish ASIE could be made into
some kind of a short film but that would really be impossible due to the plot twists and the story structure that IMHO just really couldn't translate to a film.
cha5 1 year ago
Yeah, I think it's something that really wouldn't work- at least not as well- if it were done in any other way than the way he does it. If that makes sense...
arwenae 1 year ago
@arwenae
Not to worry, It makes perfect sense :)
cha5 1 year ago
i have kind of a curse, i'm not particularly good at narrative, and i don't usually have the patience to write it well, but i can write dialogue realistically without any effort. when it comes to narrative, i'm too tempted to just be excessively blunt and to the point, because i don't like getting descriptive when i don't have to be. kinda wish i had neil's mad narrative skills. X3
whackadoodlydoo 2 years ago
@whackadoodlydoo Hey, just wanted to mention that adding an occasional cuss word or two in the climax of the story adds more suspense, but I try not to do it that often.(It doesn't take much to offend people these days.)=P
FragileEmogirl 2 years ago
i dont have any problem with offending people or cussing. i dont believe in "bad words." and if they get offended, they can get over it. it's a book. they didnt have to read it.
whackadoodlydoo 2 years ago
@whackadoodlydoo Yeah that's true.I like to add cussing at my most suspensful parts of the story.
FragileEmogirl 2 years ago
I saw the view count and just though "word count." That's what 5 digit numbers are to me right now.
atimholt 2 years ago
it doesnt take that long to write a novel if you just keep chipping away at it every day. 500 words a day over 3 months and youve got yourself the 1st draft of a novel!
nomadicsx 2 years ago
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nightmareutopia 2 years ago
how long did it take you to write the books?
the1revenge 2 years ago
Depends on which one...I rewrote them a few times, but overall, about two years. Why?
nightmareutopia 2 years ago
I was wondering what age you were when you started and I'm also writing so I wanted to compare my speed to yours
the1revenge 2 years ago
Again, it depends on which book. The one I'm getting published, I was 13.
nightmareutopia 2 years ago
Yes, I wrote things when I was 15 as well, things that I like to keep buried where they remain hidden from the light of day.
Writing isn't like music or painting which are built primarily upon technical skills and what is aesthetically pleasing. Writing requires a level of introspection which comes with years and experience, something which I quite frankly don't believe can be simulated.
Look back at your stuff in a couple of years, I think you'll see what I mean.
Chefodeath 2 years ago 2
And you've remained so modest and respectful. Good for you.
dysonlaz 2 years ago
Congrats on your accomplishment, but I disagree saying that what he is saying is a rip-off. Think about this, his advice obviously does not apply to you. Many people aren't gifted to write 500 page debut's at 15 based purely off imagination and skill. Evidently, you are gifted. If you possessed so much "skill" I would assume you would know you obviously are good at writing for a 15 year old and also be aware that not everyone can do what you can. IF what you are saying is the truth.
MDubBeezy 2 years ago
Of course, all this advice doesn't apply to older writers ;)
MomoTheBellyDancer 2 years ago
I'm currently writting a book, if anyone is interested in reading it you're welcome to it.
rottenification 2 years ago
I am! I'm 14 and writing a book!
zackfair73195 2 years ago
What's your book about?
rottenification 2 years ago
Hard to explain...been lazy about writing it lately lol...
zackfair73195 2 years ago
It's okay, can you send it to me in a message? I'll send you mine in a message.
rottenification 2 years ago
Send my story? It's only like 10 pages right now...inspired by Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts...
zackfair73195 2 years ago
So?
rottenification 2 years ago
It would be weird to read in a message, but whatever.
zackfair73195 2 years ago
what's it about?
the1revenge 2 years ago
Its about a bounty hunter that lost his memory and is trying to find th answers, I was inspired by american gods by neil gaiman.
rottenification 2 years ago
awesome! I'm waiting for my copy of American Gods to arive :)
the1revenge 2 years ago
Oh it's amazing, you'll love it. I super recommend it :)
rottenification 2 years ago
Sometimes Very Rarely do the Elves come and finish your work for you.
neoContraVo 2 years ago 2
I share the information on my channel that helped me become a published author. Go to my playlist and search for writing vids.
architectus777 2 years ago
It seems from looking at advice from writers is you really just have to sit there and get to work. There is no magic pill. I need to start doing this instead of procrastinating and saying I'll do it when I get inspired.
madmethod21 2 years ago
LOL i agree with that but watching these videos tend to keep me motivated and fresh in mind
deatheart360 2 years ago
What a pretentious hack!
Neil Gaiman is to writing comics what Rob Liefeld is to drawing them.
mhirtes12 2 years ago
He is a very good writer. I hope to reach his level of success one day. I'd also like to meet him. He's right, though. You have to just write and write from your heart. Anyone that has a good story can write a bestseller. The words will come naturally as you go along.
sirusbones 2 years ago
hey did you write?
lazarga66 2 years ago
I need someone to read my paper.
lazarga66 2 years ago
Hello. Yes, I do write. I've written three novels, the first of which is being published. What kind of paper are you talking about? A High School paper, a college paper? I do mostly pieces of fiction, but I've learned to edit essays.
sirusbones 2 years ago
ok, how on earth somebody can be so gifted? I mean he's handsome and he's talanted these two things don't go together very often. And oh, the way he nods in the end... there's something noble about it. So precious... or is it just me?
thanks for posting this! ))
PaulineRobillard 2 years ago
Here's some advice... stay away from Scientology boy here. Neil Gaiman funds the Scientology cult and lies about it.
Urkalla 2 years ago