Help me create next week's video!

When do you know. When your draft has entered the steps to become a final piece? (Doesn’t seem that hard but I want to know how you feeling about cutting scenes and what you consider not worthy of the Final Cut…)

What kind of scenes do you find the most interesting to write about?

Regarding world-building, where do you draw your inspiration for names and geographies for fantasy settings, especially for books like WWTWD (I'm reading it at the moment - its a welcome distraction frkm the hell this week has been after I got phonenapped)? Do you come up with ((at the very least) some language and linguistic rules (e.g. curses or common phrases uttered by the locals in a region. Just in case anybody is wondering what I mean by this, a good example of this would be in the Artemis Fowl series - particularly the fairy expletive D'Arvit (essentially 'f**k', though only in the negative expression - its not really flexible in the same way f**k is) in Artemis Fowl - the codes in Gnommish, Centauric (book 2 only) and the Eternity code (book 3 only) at the bottom of each book could also count as yoh have to 'translate' them into English (it may have also been regionalised) though they're technically pictographic substitution ciphers - while I'm not in either field nor am I an expert in them I find linguistics and cryptography are fascinating subjects, both IRL and their use in fictional media.

Do you world-building before you start plotting, or do you plot and then figure out how the world must work to accommodate it? Do you plot then write, or just write and see where it goes?

What are your favorite and least favorite parts of the writing and publishing process? Do you have any strategies for dealing with the bad parts?

How much of the background lore do you write before actually starting to write the scenes? For example, did you imagine the Pahuuda soldiers trust exercise before you were writing that scene? I always write too much lore and lose interest before i get to writing the scenes. So im wodering how you do it :) Thank you for everything you do :)

How do you bring yourself to edit/cut out parts of your rough draft that you really love, but for one reason or another should go? That part always kills the groove and I lose motivation to finish.

I just had my first children’s book published, and I am about to start writing my second one. In your opinion, poetry or prose?

I love to write. My problem is organizing what I write into chapters. How do you do it?

Here’s a good one, how do you stop from over traumatizing your characters?

I'm starting a story that will be based on a true story but idk how to make it to where the characters are not going to be identified in real life. Do you have any suggestions on how to do that without losing the essence of the characters?

As a murderino I am hoping you adress the 1890 something murder that happened because a man thought his wife was a changling

What are some tips for like fillers? Between the massive plot points and the big scenes?

i have trouble figuring out timelines, beginnings, ends, especially middles. I also kinda suck with figuring out how to plan/write books in general. There's also the question of writing things you're inexperienced in (neurodivergence, fight scenes, flirty scenes, stuff like that). ^^^ *ahem* advice ?? oooo, also sticking with it, i love my ideas and love at least trying to write them etc, but im so bad at sticking with it. Ive watched a ton of videos about how to and they all give ways that have never worked for me: schedules, just writing a little a day, etc, i dont know if i struggle with executive dysfunction or adhd paralysis (if i have adhd, still looking into that) or if i cant be asked to do it but sticking to a schedule and writing every day- i cant just- do that, even if i want to ;-; ^^^ again! any advice in terms of that ?? :^ (*cough* one more thing, how much filler is *too* much filler) answer what you want too i suppose tot, guess i kinda wrote a lot, soooorry :']

How did you strat writing?

My question: as someone who has a ton of ideas within a story world, how do you decide which side plots to cut and which to include

Do you follow the old writer’s trope of keeping a notebook next to your bed so you can jot down that stroke of genius that strikes only in the wee small hours of the morning?

Do you have a way of changing between names for a character cause I’m workin on drag queen characters and I don’t want people to be questioned by change

Where/how do you come up with your character names?

Do you write your books like a DM planning for a D&D campaign? Like the players that show up to the campaign?

Where do you start when you get an idea for a book? Do you build off the characters? Or world build first

I'm planning to write a book, but I can't seem to start have the important points and 2 characters at the moment. I feel like I have to have everything planned before starting but I'm a bit lost.

Are there differences between writing for YouTube vs. writing your novels?

I'm writing a semi fictional story about a guy of Latin descent that after losing his wife to an incurable disease and after he buries her he is visited in a lucid dream by an ancestor that tells him there's a way to reverse hus wife's death but he has to perform a ritual that was long forbidden by his Mexica shaman bloodline. In the failed process of the ritual he becomes imbued with the soul of Mictlan, the Lord of the Underworld, and is now the new Grim Reaper. My question is how can I craft the world building to be a mixture of modern life and parts of ancient Mesoamerica?

I've started doing some writing and I've done some non-dialog based things and that is much easier and I'm happier with it, but when I try and add dialog to stuff I just don't feel like I know what I'm doing. My instinct it to just write the dialog, but it feels really clunky, going from description to dialog and back again. So just a advice on a way to practice that kind of writing.

Short story writing advice

Have you have ever written any other genres that aren't Sci-Fi and Fanasty?

My problem is that when I make characters they're overpowered. How do you edit that down so that it's relatable?

I write a lot of poetry, and I've wanted to use your help service. Do you consider poetry fiction or nonfiction?

I'm making an AroAce character and I just wanted to ask if there is anything super important to know because I don't want to get anything wrong

One of my biggest problems when writing/gaming/cocktail creation is naming things. Do you have a process on how you go about naming characters or things?

I think it would be interesting if the crew especially JC interacted with another demon(full/half/quarter doesn't really matter whatever fits) that was the complete opposite of Eric not quite like Oscar but still practically Eric's opposite

I'd also love to see phoenixes or thunderbirds from suiox myths

My question is more on world building: Do you base your worlds off anything? Also how much is *too* much with world building? Like at what point is it overwhelming for the reader?

Will the pink teens ever return? Especially the nice one. I also would like to see some checz myths as there are plenty of checz in the Midwest

Which CafeFae Latte character do you most identify with? Who is your alter ego?

A video w/ Bigfoot as a customer

How do you get from plot point to plot point? Like creating the filler bits and details.