Top 25 YouTube Channels For Creative Writers | Web Design Relief

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Top 25 YouTube Channels For Creative Writers | Web Design Relief

Updated 11/19/21

An online video platform with over two billion users each month, YouTube has become one of the most powerful information tools available today. Whether you’re looking for instructional videos, entertainment, or philosophy, there are videos posted on YouTube channels for every subject—and that includes writing advice! As always, the Internet experts at Web Design Relief have done the research for you and come up with the 25 best YouTube channels for creative writers to guide, accompany, and inspire your writing.

Must-Watch YouTube Channels For Creative Writers

 

Short YouTube Videos For Writers (<10 Minutes)

Perfect for the writer on the go, these bite-sized, ten-minutes-or-under videos offer pearls of wisdom without any extra padding to get in the way. Watch these short videos when you have some downtime throughout your day, and you’ll be brimming with creativity when you’re ready to write!

Terrible Writing Advice. This channel is exactly what it says: terrible advice to ruin your stories. Sci-fi author J.P. Beaubien sarcastically endorses all the most common pitfalls of writing to give you a clear idea of what NOT to do.

Tyler Mowery. Mowery is the creator of PracticalScreenwriting.com, and his videos dissect the characters and structure of film and television media. However, his focus on narrative structures and devices allows any writer—not just screenwriters—to take advantage of his intelligent insight.

Ellen Brock. As a freelance novel editor, Brock offers valuable advice about how to edit your stories and what sorts of writing errors editors often see. She aims to help you make your book both narratively successful and professionally appealing. Brock has been inactive recently, but she has an impressive eight-year backlog of helpful videos.

Vivien Reis. Reis’s career as a young adult fantasy author is just starting, so she has a lot of useful insight for beginning writers. She occasionally shares writing techniques, but she focuses more on the writing process—from organizing your ideas to changing your lifestyle to support your writing.

Self-Publishing with Dale. Self-published bestselling author Dale L. Roberts shares his insight into the self-publishing industry to help new writers understand the do-it-yourself process. He offers his fair share of useful advice, but his best videos simply break down the terms and systems you’ll be expected to know about when you start self-publishing.

Jorden Makelle. Founder of Writing Revolt, Makelle is a very successful freelance writer, and she wants to share that success with as many writers as possible. Her videos focus on the business of freelancing and how she was able to turn her writing into a business that brought in $5,000 per month.

Chris Fox. Fox is now a well-established science fiction and fantasy author, and he creates videos about any and every part of his writing process. His hefty backlog covers a variety of topics from writing techniques to editing, marketing, and mindset.

Bookishpixie. Young adult author Gabe Cole Novoa shares his experience breaking into publishing. His videos mainly cover the writer lifestyle, from managing burnout to setting expectations for success, as well as advice about plotting and publishing.

Mid-Length YouTube Videos For Writers (About 20 Minutes)

When you have a little more time on your hands, these YouTube channels will offer you more context along with the advice. These videos are perfect for enriching your lunch break or providing a buffer between when you finish a draft and start editing.

Overly Sarcastic Productions. This channel covers a range of historic topics, especially relating to ancient mythologies. The systematic breakdown of how these iconic stories developed over time is useful both as inspiration and as a guideline for organic world building. Plus, it’s pretty interesting! They also have a series called Trope Talk that gives the same treatment to common story tropes.

Lessons from the Screenplay. While clearly focused on film, Michael Tucker’s channel provides detailed analysis of the narrative elements that drive some of the most successful stories of the modern age. These elements are easily adapted to any kind of writing, and Tucker’s analysis is deep enough to provide a full, versatile understanding of the subject.

Cinema Therapy. Therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright team up to psychoanalyze what’s going on with your favorite movie characters beyond what you see on the screen. Their videos are excellent studies in character depth and development as well as the evolution of character arcs, and they also have a few life lessons to share.

Merphy Napier. While she is a writer herself, Napier endeavors to share the reader perspective behind what makes a good book. In her Dear Authors series (which recently concluded but is still available to watch), Napier discusses the different techniques authors use and how readers really feel about them. After all, the best-constructed book in the world won’t sell if the readers don’t enjoy it!

Writing with Jenna Moreci. With videos on everything from writing tips to the writing lifestyle, Moreci is quick to tell you what you’re doing wrong and quicker to tell you how to fix it. As a dark fantasy writer, she speaks from her own experience in the industry, and with her punchy enthusiasm and reliable posting schedule, she is consistently ranked one of the top writers on YouTube.

Abbie Emmons. One of the most consistent YouTube writers, Emmons looks at the science and psychology behind storytelling in order to better understand the craft. She encourages studying successful books you love and trying to understand the elements that make them work in an effort to “Make Your Story Matter.”

ShaelinWrites. Remarkably young for her level of success, twenty-two-year-old Shaelin Bishop has written ten novels and is now sharing some of her advice. The topics of her videos range broadly, but she offers great advice about writing, editing, and balancing a writing lifestyle.

Grammar Girl. Better known for her podcast of the same name, New York Times bestselling author Mignon Fogarty uses her YouTube channel to clear up some of the many confusing aspects of grammar and the English language. If you’re unfamiliar with her podcast, you’ll find episodes archived on her channel.

Long YouTube Videos For Writers (>40 Minutes)

If you want to really sink your teeth in and learn about the craft, these YouTube channels produce in-depth videos that get to the heart of their subject matter.

Alexa Donne. Donne is a young adult thriller author soon to be releasing her fourth book. Her channel maintains a balance between helpful writing advice and dealing with the hard truths of the writing industry. Donne wants to help you succeed, but she won’t let you trick yourself into thinking it’ll be easy!

Creative Penn. Dark fiction writer Joanna Penn has made a long career of teaching other writers how to write successfully. Her videos discuss writing as a craft, as well as self-publishing and the business of writing. She also habitually features guest authors to ensure that her content is useful to any writer, no matter the genre.

Tamara Woods. Rather than instruct you on how to write, Woods helps you make use of the best writing teacher there is: practice. On her channel, Woods hosts long write-along streams and posts peaceful soundscapes to encourage you to get writing and help you hit your flow.

 

Variable-Length YouTube Videos For Writers

These channels create videos of many different lengths: Some of them create different series with different standard runtimes, while others simply record as long as they need to in order to convey their ideas. Either way, these channels create videos that are well worth your time.

Hello Future Me. Timothy Hickson is an expert on world building—specifically for sci-fi and fantasy. In his videos, he explains all kinds of successful world-building techniques and makes them accessible by basing his explanations in relevant pop culture media.

Brandon Sanderson. Sanderson is one of the most prolific fantasy authors working today. His shorter videos offer snippets of advice about the writing craft, and he also posts longer recordings of his creative writing lectures at BYU.

iWriterly. Meg LaTorre may be a novice author, but she has a wealth of insider knowledge from her time spent working at a literary agency. She shares her insights on craft topics, but mostly she explores the nature of publishing, both traditional and independent.

Self-Publishing Formula. USA Today bestselling author Mark Dawson explores every aspect of self-publishing and how you as a writer can make it work for you. He posts hour-long dives into specific topics, such as royalties or translations, as well as five-minute excerpts from his longer seminars.

WordNerds. With seven creators producing content, this channel has a little bit of everything, from book reviews to discussions of voice in narrative. You can follow your favorite “Word Nerd” or check out everything the channel has to offer!

ProWritingAidTV. ProWritingAid is an in-browser grammar-checker, but their YouTube channel wants to help your grammar evolve permanently. Along with videos on how best to use their program, ProWritingAid posts videos about how to use nuanced grammar structures and how to write professionally in a business setting.

And be sure to check out the Writer’s Relief YouTube channel for writing tips, advice, and more!

 

Question: What’s your favorite writing YouTube channel?

 

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