Writers Only Have To Know These 5 Basic Voices - Jack Grapes

I love listening to this guy and it would be awesome to have him as a teacher (unfortunately, we don't live on the same continent). But regarding these 5 "voices" he's talking about, he makes it seem like that's all there is. I always get a bit skeptical when people say "follow these simple rules and you will be SUCCESSFUL" and "if you don't follow these rules your work will be CRAP". There has to be a little more to it than that, right? Other styles, techniques, voices etc... /Amateur writer, picked up writing again last year and loving every moment of it

Such a useless análisis. I dare you to find a use for it.

This fellow seemed a little too into selling his books.

I internally referred to myself as a method writer less than a week before finding this video.

I thought i had an original idea when i thought that why hasn't anyone tried to combine lessons from acting into the writing process.
I'm so happy that I found this video. It's clear he has been thinking about writing for a long time and i like his approach to put creativity at the forefront instead of structure.

Oh. Wow. The Beethoven anecdote at the end. I love this guy. He’s top three material. He has a lot Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks in him too.

The living incarnation of the God Mercury

😂😂😂 BRILLIANT 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾

Ya confusing. Google figurative language and parallelism. These are just writers techniques I teach my GED students. much like a musician knowing his or her chords - writer’s techniques are not voices.❤

Great teacher!

That Beethoven story though!

I think there is a sixth voice. The formal voice. Purely informative and technical. Of course, one could say such a voice lacks tonality but it's still a voice writers use when writing stories.

I really hate when people desecrate the English Language with "UhM," I hate it, i hate it so much. I cannot continue listening after 2 minutes. I just cannot value anything that person is saying, i just cannot believe they have a clue as to what they are talking about. I don't know who this guy is, never heard of him, but i will never read anything that has his name simply because of the first 2 minutes of this video.
I read some 30 years ago: "Some people only read classics, as if classics were the only thing worth reading." I think it was Mark Twain. For my part, this is why we only read classics; i have read Les Miserables, 5 times, and The Grapes of Wrath 3 time, The Count of Monte Cristo 3 Times, and The Three Musketeers twice, etc. I will read Les Miserables again, rather than any garbage this charlatan has penned.

Very interesting stuff

i comeback to this gem everyonce in a while...this time it just dawned on me that this is why social network is a masterpiece, they go back n forth between college straight talk and a more professional voice in the deposition...when timberlakes character comes in tone shifts slightly to seduction as a secondary tone. its just...insane. i'm going to dissect more of my fave movies using this system

Academical - can I have my billion dollars please

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Is Franz Kafka’s voice the same all the way through?

The ' straight voice should be it's own catagory. The chit chatty voice, I prefer The 'flutter' voice, is another. Eg, Jessica Tate of Soap fame. Another eg, one of the woman in Girls. That ex makes one extra.Jack, I'm open to any cash delivery systems. I'll settle for a copy of your book

Pleasure o make the acquaintance of Jack Grapes and his ideas.

I really don't need college screenplay 101 here, where analogy is about a teacher's "Glory Days". Like this guy, but this episode gives me an existential feeling, nothing more.

He didnt really answer the last question?

cracking up with the Beethoven joke

Here's a story for you: this guy learns to love Jack Grape.

A good example of a protagonist who does stream of consciousness as his voice is Naked by Mike Leigh. David Thewlis gives a powerful performance and for my taste, it's one of Leigh's stronger films.

I just love listening to masters talk about their craft with passion

خمسة اصوات للكتابة:
الاول: الكلام العادي، اي المحادثات الطبيعية.
الثاني: شِعري وهو يكون بلاغي اكثر.
الثالث: التكرار، يكثر في الكتب الدينية والحوارات السياسية حيث يتم تكرير الجملة بإستمرار للتأكيد وبث روح للكلام.
الرابع: الروائي الغير واضح، مثل الفن التجريدي حيث يكون كلام بدون معنى لمُجرد ايصال المشاعر او المحاكاة.
الخامس: صوتُك الخاص.

هذه هي كل انواع او اصوات الكِتابة على الإطلاق.

I just love this man and I just burst out laughing when he talked about Ludwig taking his class. Even with a perfect German impression.

Greetings from Germany! :)

Thank you for this interview.
Unfortunately, echoing back to Proust, Faulkner, etc is not helpful.
My education is grounded in classics, this is NOT what I need from a screenwriting instructor.

Duh duh duh daaaaaaah

I wonder if I naturally switch. The way he explains it makes me feel as though I do switch things depending on scene

Thus guy is confusing oratory style with voice.

Oratory style steamed from the Greeks and Romans who would be commended for their power to persuade the listener to their cause.

Voice is a term distinctly to do with writing style.

Alas this guy is very confused

I can see all five of these forms in my writing; very interesting I had no idea what 'voices" I was using yet I've written two books and a few screenplays and plays and a few hundred songs.

His beethoven story was nice

Shameless self-promoter. Just tell us what you know. Then, he uses this informal, vague language which means we need him to explain to us what words should have. And, this is a wordsmith?

Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

Jack needs to put his books in the ebook format. I’d pay for an ebook copy.

This guy is a gem.

I was fascinated by how he spent several minutes describing rhetoric without using the word 'rhetoric.' 😂 The repetition he referred to is a rhetorical device.

WOW! thank you!

Drama is in the tonality. Such wisdom. Thank you.

I love the exitment on his face when he pulled out the cards, it touched me deeply - the way he is passionate about teaching, making his students "love it" as he said

Where is the AI voice, like Hal from 2010?

I will hinge on this video when i launch my game. Thankyou film courage i will credit you if u make it big

I've finished the first draft of chapter one. I'm training with a short novel before trying a script. I swallowed Film Courage in a few weeks. This video was among the most useful. Write more and watch less of these. It's enough!

Does anyone happen to know if this guy has a book that he would like to sell?

Thank YOU...SO much for this deep insight into the wonderful world of word application.....Language as an ArtForm.... Deep learning....

"Foundation is very important" — Jack Grapes