Reading brought me immense joy as a child, but I truly fell in love with crafting stories. With an overactive imagination and inflated ego from complimentary school teachers, I thought I was going to be a bestselling author in no time. If my (then) lord and savior J.K. Rowling could do it, I was definitely capable. I just had to write the novel. A piece of cake, right?
Nope. Big ol’ nope. As it turns out, you need more than a pockmarked plot, a large cast littered with expended tropes and the matching lineup of A-list actors to succeed as a novelist. Contrary to what it seems, that first novel is a behemoth of a roadblock on the winding path toward achieving “author” status. You see victories whenever you pass a bookstore or open up Amazon, but those pages don’t describe the tale of tenacity and recurring failure it took to reach the final destination.
The worlds of writing, editing, and publishing are an enigma — but I’m learning from others without having to leave my desk. YouTube is a great resource for knowledge and this is especially true for writing that first novel. The platform contains a multitude of other writers and authors keen to take you along on their journey from project to published. In particular, these six channels are home to a wealth of tips in every aspect of the process. If you take their advice and wield it mercilessly, your debut novel might be the next success story.
In my opinion, you have to learn from the best if you want to become the best. As a result, Camera Panda’s channel is a fantastic first stop on search for writing know-how. While the creator of the channel isn’t a writer themselves, they were generous enough to upload an entire lecture series of Brandon Sanderson, a New York Times bestselling author. Most known for his “Mistborn” series, Sanderson has penned over 20 works of fiction in his writing career. In addition, he moonlights as an adjunct creative writing lecturer at Brigham Young University.
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