I like to look for treasures on YouTube.
It's a bit like looking for treasures at the dump. The amount of junk one must sort through is appalling. Thank heaven for decent search engines.
I want to share with you now some of my favorite YouTube goodies that I found in the last month.
1. Howard Tayler on 'Who Needs Talent?'
This is only the first part. But watch all four parts. It completely changed the way I think about writing, 'talent', and what I have potential to do.
2. Dan Wells on 'Seven Point Story Structure'.
This is an AWESOME seminar that helped me a lot. I'm a budding outliner (I used to think I was a freewriter, but I think I'm changing with age) and having only ever freewritten my entire life, I was lost as to how to begin. This helped me through. First of five parts.
3. The Definition of Steampunk
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
4. World's Fastest Gun Disarm
Because maybe one of your characters needs to be able to do this. There are tutorials, but I'm fairly certain most of us can't be as fast as this dude.
Speaking of gun tutorials: do you have a character who needs to know how to intelligently use a firearm?
5. This guy has a channel with, like, 900 videos on how to shoot a gun, for newbies. He's got stuff from the difference between smoky and smokeless powder, to reasons why not to put your thumb behind the slide on a semi-automatic... which is what the next video is about. If you want details, this guy will give you details.
Hope something in this grab bag of a post was useful to you! Tell me about it in the comments, if you did.
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