LINGUISTIC ECOSYSTEMS🌿 writing technique to improve voice, atmosphere, theme, & more!

Your understanding of storytelling is so advanced and well-articulated > goals ❤

an entire video on linguistic ecosystems!! thank you ❤️❤️ i fell in love with the idea when you briefly talked about it a few years back and immediately used it in one of my best poems to date... it was even published & won the poetry award from that magazine. your advice has been so helpful and i'm ecstatic to have a video devoted to this! thanks again

As someone who also adores paying attention to word choice--huge fan of your advice on specificity!--this video is a TREAT

Love this concept and the term "linguistic ecosystem"! Great examples, too. Thanks for sharing! :)

This was just as educational as usual. 5:07 That one was a code being cracked for me: letting the words do the work. I sometimes forget that readers cannot read my mind. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are my bread and butter. But prepositions are my tuna casserole: I fill up a surprising amount of space with staging. Whenever I lose track of a character in a scene's first draft, I just stage the scene again in the next paragraph. This leaves Editing Adam with plenty of confusion at times, but nothing we can't handle.

This was my favourite point in your 10 tips for writing a short story video and it absolutely blew my mind that this is actually a thing! Loved hearing about it more detail. You really are a master of this art and I really hope I will improve my skill over time with this!

As someone who's watched quite a bit of your videos (very helpful !!) :Finally, your ultimate geek out vid 😂😂😂

the video we were all waiting for is HEREEE!! 🙏🏻✨🌱

knowledge of this concept is something i didn’t know i have been missing!!! i love it!!! you are brilliant, thank you 🤍✨

When I write, this is probably the element I most focus on … especially during the editing process, both word choice and rhythm.

Thankyou thankyou thankyou so so much for this video. You're such a blessing on this field

This is by far the most interesting and best piece of writing advice I've ever seen.

Thank you so much for that. This is a facet of writing that can so easily be forgotten as plot issues tend to steal an author's attention. If I may offer some advice in return, I felt like you were in a hurry, as if you had to finish this post within a short time span. It's particularly notable when you read your word choices but also the pace throughout felt relentless like jogging on a treadmill. If you stop to take a breath now and then, the gentle and natural pause gives viewers a chance to catch up. We are having a moment of quality time together. Imagine we were having a conversation over dinner. I like the section headings, the title text. That did a lot to help distinguish the different parts. Thank you again. You've given me so many helpful bits of advice over the years. I know I'm a better writer because of you.

YES I have been waiting for this video. 😍😍😍

This whole topic is like being treated to a steak dinner.

So useful! At this point you're basically my writing masterclass. Maggie Stiefvater does atmosphere & linguistic ecosystems really well too, I think.

Hey Shaelin! I love your videos, and I just wanted to thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us ♥ I need to preface this by specifying that I really don't want to come off as pedantic or pretentious. That being said, as someone who studied Linguistics and is used to people's misunderstanding of what it is, I would offer as slight correction to your newly-coined term: LEXICAL ECOSYSTEMS🌿 Hopefully as a writer, you may appreciate the specificity 😅 Linguistics is essentially a meta-analysis of language and its structure. It includes the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics and semantics. It's descriptive and never prescriptive. Linguists largely ignore written language. It has very little to do with word choice or English specifically, and much less about literature. However, this is such a common misconception that it's become sort of a meme in the field. Professors typically start the first lecture of the Intro to Linguistics course by stating this outright. What you talk about in this video falls neatly under the lexicon of a language, in my opinion, hence my suggestion. I sincerely hope this helps! It can be hard not to come off as aggressive through anonymous online comments.

Wow I love the comparison to ecosystems. Like ecology makes sense, "voice" is vague af

Oot, but lately your video covers have been so great-looking. Whoever makes them is a design genius.

This is a great video!! Thanks for making this!