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Your writing is bad but I'm gonna help you fix it! 📚✨
Whether you've gotten crickets from beta readers or disappointing reviews on your first published book, this is your safe space to learn and grow as a writer. Remember: it's NORMAL for your first book to need work.
🛑 FIRST, have you planned out your author career with a series? Get my free workbook, One Book to Bestselling Series, here: http://kelseyhumphreys.com/writing
🖋️ Submit your writing questions: kelseyhumphreys.com/writing
👋 If you’re new here I’m Kelsey—rom-com author, stand-up comic, and mom of six. I make real-life rants about writing, creating and staying delulu with our creative dreams. I am a lot. Subscribe for weekly humor, heart, inspo, motivation and zero perfectionism.
"Kelsey Q&A" street cred: I have published over 12 novels, made six figures in just over a year from book sales, have thousands of reviews and over 33 Million Kindle page reads.
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🔗 JUDGE ME
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⏱️ CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:48 First Books Are Usually Bad
1:41 Kelsey's Special: BANTER ahhhhhhh
2:35 Cut the Adverbs
4:10 "Show Don't Tell"
6:27 Flowery Writing
8:18 The "Said" Problem
10:22 Point of View Switching
11:31 Your POVs
12:50 Info Dumping
15:02 Opening Scenes
16:42 Character Names
17:43 My big tip for Better Dialogue
19:38 Reusing the Same Emotions
20:35 Passive Voice Problems
21:24 Make Dialogue More Realistic
22:26 Don't Let Characters Say Everything They Think
24:07 Drone On vs. Get to the Point
24:36 Break Up Long Dialogue Blocks
25:24 Don't Over Explain
26:08 Tell Backstory in Few Words
27:25 Avoid "Suddenly"
28:56 Internal Monologue Issues
33:30 Formatting
34:51 Create Great Art for Your Readers
36:40 Trust Your Readers
38:47 You MUST Rewrite Your Work
40:43 Stay Delulu - Submit Your Questions
🛑 FIRST, have you planned out your author career with a series? Get my free workbook, One Book to Bestselling Series, here: http://kelseyhumphreys.com/writing
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