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Hello, writerly friends~ ♥︎

My Writing Advice Masterpost is back! Now featuring the best questions and answers from the last three years, along with all of the videos from my writing advice YouTube Channel!

This post will be updated every week with new writing advice videos, playlists, and responses! So, make sure to bookmark THIS page and follow my blog (maxkirin.tumblr.com) so you don’t miss a thing!

Writing Advice Compilations

• The NaNoWriMo Survival Guide
• Writer’s Life Vlogs (Newest Episode: Saving Story Ideas)
• WRITERS UNITE! A book of writing advice, inspiration, and tips! Written with the help of 248 Tumblr authors. FREE DOWNLOAD!

Writing Exercises & Prompts

• Virtual Writing Academy (Newest Episode: Human Characters)
• Daily Story Seed
• Daily Weird Prompt
• Daily Character Question
• Your Writing Horoscope (Retired)
• “Can I publish a story based on one of your prompts?”
• Did you know that I have published a book of Story Seeds? Sounds interesting? You can learn more about it HERE! c;

Motivation & Inspiration

• Daily Writer Positivity
• How to Regain the Motivation to Finish Your Novel (Video)
• The Truth About Talent, NaNoWriMo Pep Talk (Video)
• Overcoming Your Inner *Perfectionist* (Video)
• How to Finish Your First Novel (M. Kirin’s Origin Story)
• M. Kirin’s Top 3 Tips for NaNoWriMo
• The 7 Cardinal Rules of Writing Life
• Neil Gaiman’s “Make Good Art” Speech
• Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
• Elizabeth Gilbert’s Inspirational Speech on the ‘Genius’
• What Confidence Is and Is NOT
• “I’m afraid writing is a waste of time”
• “I’m half-way through this book and I’m stuck”
• Stop Trying to Impress People
• Stop Trying to Make Your Parents Proud of your Writing
• Your Parents Disapprove of Your Writing?
• You’re Not The Worst Writer In The World
• English Not Your First Language? Neither is Mine
• Are You Worried Nobody Will Take You Seriously?
• Dealing with Hate and Harsh Criticism
• Why You Need to Develop a Thick Skin
• Feeling Down About Your Writing?
• “I am not as good as other writers” (and other lies)
• Be A Little Delusional

Planning, Outlining, and Getting Started

• How to Plan Your Novel (Video)
• The Best Distraction-Free Writing Software (Video)
• Best Apps for Writers: Evernote (Video)
• TOP 5 TIPS for Writers Using Evernote (Video)
• The NaNoWriMo Survival Guide (Video)
• TOP 3 TIPS for Getting in the Mood to Write! (Video)
• How Much World-Building is Enough? (Video)
• The *Right* Time to be Critical of Your Writing (Video)
• Overcoming the Fear of Getting it “Wrong“ (Video)
• The Story-Idea Test
• M. Kirin’s Click-n-Drag Story Generator
• Which outlining method is the best?
• “I want to write a book but I have no idea where to start”
• M. Kirin’s Secret for Starting books, and Finishing Them
• M. Kirin’s Top 3 Tips to Start Writing and Never Stopping
• Tips for writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Paranormal
• M. Kirin’s #1 Tip For Improving Your Writing
• Let’s Talk About: Show VS Tell
• The Difference Between Character & Plot (The Marcy Rule)

Dialogue

• TOP 3 TIPS for Writing Dialogue (Video)
• The Art of Writing Dialogue Tags (Video)
• M. Kirin talks about authentic dialogue
• The grammatical side of dialogue
• How do I write numbers in dialogue?

Editing & Revision

• M. Kirin’s Top 5 Revision Tips
• How to Love and Care for Your Beta Readers
• M. Kirin’s (subjective) secret recipe for the second draft
• When is the best time to edit a story?
• M. Kirin Talks About Editing, and Speeding Up Your Story
• M. Kirin Uses Evernote to Revise Books
• “Kill Your Darlings” VS “Cut What You Love”
• Writing Killer Plot-Twists and Mystery Novels
• “How long is a Rough Draft compared to the Finished Draft?”

Hot-Button Issues

• Let’s Talk About: Titles! (Video)
• Let’s Talk About: Filler (Video)
• Let’s Talk About: Purple Prose (Video)
• Let’s Talk About: Pacing (Video)
• Let’s Talk About: Deus Ex Machina
• Let’s Talk About: Coincidence in Writing
• Realism is a dirty word
• Racist & homophobic language in fiction
• Inaccuracy in Fiction (Video)
• M. Kirin drops a few bombs on ‘creative vocabulary’
• “I want to write but I don’t have the time”
• Is it bad to have too many LGBTQIA or POC characters?
• “My antagonist is POC/LGBTQIA, is this bad?”
• “All my characters are LGBTQIA, is this bad?”
• When to let go of a story
• Is it rational to be afraid of what people will think of you?
• Let’s Lightly Talk About: Plagiarism & Copyright
• Writing About Things You Have Never Experienced
• “Do you need to go to college/university to be a good writer?”
• My book is similar to something already out, what do I do?

General Advice

• M. Kirin’s Cure For Writer’s Block (and Life Block)
• Overcoming Writer’s Block: The First Sentence (Video)
• The Writer’s Tool Box (Video)
• 3 Practical Tips for Writing More (Video)
• Which POV (Point of View) is the Best? (Video)
• Getting to Know Your Characters (Video)
• Keeping the Plot Twist Secret! (Video)
• A [Strange] Tip For Writing More! (Video)
• #1 Tip for Writing Memorable Characters (Video)
• 1.5 Tips for Hard-Hitting Writing (Video)
• 3 Ways to Add Character to Narration (Video)
• Foreshadowing & Being Subtle (Video)
• Writing Advice from: The Walking Dead (Video)
• Writing Advice from: Aldnoah.Zero (Video)
• World-Building Tips: Dystopian (Video)
• World-Building Tips: Fantasy & Science Fiction (Video)
• World-Building Tips: Life After the Apocalypse (Video)
• World-Building Tips: Government & The Human Element (Video)
• World-Building Tips: Spicing Up The Real World (Video)
• Using Real People as Inspiration (Video)
• When Should The Book End? (Video)
• Writing Better Characters: The ‘Flawed’ Myth (Video)
• Writing Better Characters: Unlikable Protagonists (Video)
• TOP 3 TIPS for Writing a Large Cast of Characters (Video)
• Overcoming the First Sentence (Again) (and Again)
• Let’s Talk About: Pen Names!
• Let’s Talk About: Reactive VS Proactive Characters
• Let’s Talk About: Transitioning Smoothly From Scene to Scene
• Let’s Talk About: Writing The Climax (& Resolution)
• Let’s Talk About: Writing The End
• Let’s Talk About: Spies
• Let’s Make a Title (To A Story You Haven’t Finished)
• The 10-Minute Rule
• Making Boring Scenes FUN to Write!
• Stories are like children
• Let’s Talk About Titles (And Then Talk Some More)
• M. Kirin Reveals the ‘Secret’ Behind Style
• How much description/scenery is too much?
• How can I write faster?
• I want my readers to love my characters
• I think my book may be too short for my genre
• I killed one of my main characters by mistake, what do I do?
• M. Kirin’s Writing Advice for Fleshing out Romantic Relationships
• A warning about character names and meanings
• Past or present tense?
• Is swearing okay? And other muthafuckin’ truths
• “What emotion do you find hardest to write?”
• “What writing software do you use?”
• Communication, a must for collaborative works
• Researching illegal things, cousin? I got just the thing for you!
• Joss Whedon’s Top 10 Writing Tips
• M. Kirin’s Tarot Cheat-Sheet
• Writing Tips for Storytelling in Video-Games
• Fair Use In Novels (by thedancingwriter​)

Publishing

• Publishing Battle: Indie VS Traditional
• “How do I turn my book into an eBook?”

Writing Music & Playlists

• Top 10 Songs For Writers
• Writing In The Dark (Unobtrusive)
• Writing About Love
• Writing & Fighting!
• Writing About Horror
• Royalty And Noble Blood (Medieval/Fantasy)
• Digital Reality (Cyberpunk/Futuristic)
• Lost In The Wild (Survival/Nature)
• No Hero (Action/Anti-Heroes)
• Mermaid Magic (Mysterious)
• After The Bomb (Post-Apocalyptic/Dystopian)
• Sorrow (Sad/Despair)
• Upon Black Wings (Adventure/Dragons)
• Haunted Mansion (Horror/Supernatural)
• Childhood Friends (Happy/Uplifting)
• Music For Writers: Portal 2 Soundtrack (FREE)
• M. Kirin’s Favorite Music to Listen to While Writing
• M. Kirin’s Secret For Making Playlists

Miscellaneous

• M. Kirin’s 2014 AMA, Part 1 & Part 2 (Video)
• The Kirin Games! M. Kirin’s characters murder each other in this Hunger Games simulation~ ;p (Video)
• Max & Kitty Recommend: Top 10 Things You Should Read/Watch/Play Right Now! (Video)
• Finally! An Ask-Meme for Writers! 
• M. Kirin’s Philosophy for Running a Writing Blog

Last Updated: 05-15-15. Click HERE to see the latest update. Latest posts are in bold.