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Great insight and inspiration. Ive started my first so this was very helpful to motivate me further. Thanks! Keep writing ! : )

But, but, but! I was going to watch your new video first and then read the book!☹️

I should start tracking time too. I track word count (I always put each draft in a new doc so I can still see the word count climb as I go) but some days I have to brainstorm or do research or whatever so then the word count doesn't change much. I'm curious to know how much time I spend doing it though

Darn good talk.

That's a great idea, to track your writing/editing time and on which projects. Nice to have a visual snapshot of your progress. Congrats and well done! On my end, I'm six chapters, 23 pages, and 8,407 words into my WIP, Project LB. Between journalling, drafting a personal essay, blogging, and starting Project LB, 2024 is shaping up to be my year of writing :)

You're so organized! I don't use a lot of spreadsheets, so this is impressive to me haha. It's so exciting that you're so close to querying. I need to start writing all of my ideas down. I have a bad habit of keeping them in my head (saying I'll circle back to them) and then forget. 😅

I’ve never wrote 3000 words or more a day. I’m lucky to get 1000.

Your progress has been so inspiring to watch! As for me, I'm still working on editing draft 4 of my fantasy novel. I did fall off the wagon in May & June due to illness, trying to submit a short story somewhere, and other stuff, but I'm diving back into the editing trenches during July! I'm hoping to query sometime in August, but if need be, I can push that back to September or October. Fingers crossed for us both! <3

one of the better videos I have seeen

I've spending the last 6 months planning my fantasy project between classes. Im almost done writing my latest short story/novella.

Your videos have a very certain vibe- a positive, hopeful, artistic vibe. Sometimes I just need that feeling, so thanks for the videos.

i thought you're writing every single day, every single awake hours lol im not a writer but i love watching authortube. so im confused lol. do you have a full time day job? is that why tou had like 15 minutes of writing for some days?

I liked hearing about where you are on your writing journey and how you track your work. Draft seven is impressive. I do not think I have ever done a piece of writing where I put in more than two or possibly three drafts. I do not think I have the patience for that. I am sure that your careful drafting and rewriting will pay off for you.

Oooooooh a palate cleanser! Happy time!

Omg I was about to watch one of your older uploads while I put away groceries, but you updated while I was gone!! What a lovely surprise 😂

That is really cool that you track your work in such an organized way. I traveled a lot also in May and June and can see my progress slowed because of it. I'm very excited to get back into long spurts of deep dive working in July. All the best as you wrap up draft seven! Your other projects sound really cool as well!

"I see time as a funnel, the good ideas stay, the bad one's pass through the net."

Morning from Hawaii wow you did good in your writing for 6 month and love your goal for 2024

Beta reader read the first 19 chapters** the first day she had it (not pages, oops)

Good morning, Sara and happy 1st day of July. I've missed seeing you and watching your vlogs, so I was happy to see this new one and hear about what you've been up to lately with draft 7 of DE, not to mention another project that you've started brainstorming. I guess great minds think alike because I have to with a children's book about a fox and his adventures in the meadows. Have a lovely day and happy editing or hiking today. ❤

I highly recommend not working on book 2 or 3 of DE until you sell the first one because you will make so many more changes to the first one with an agent and editor. Also, there is no guarantee you will be able to sell 2 and 3 as many publishers are hesitant to pay for a series until there is proof the first one will sell copies, especially for a debut, so I would recommend querying the first book as tho it can stand alone but that it could become a series and then brainstorm how it would look as just a duology and also as a trilogy as sometimes publishers will only buy a second book but not the third. I’m not sure how much research you have done about the inside of traditional publishing but I HIGHLY recommend finding traditionally published authors on TikTok and RUclips to hear how it goes so you’re going into it with the right mindset to set you up for success. I don’t say this to be annoying, but because I have many many friends that are traditionally published authors and there is so much to know besides how to write a book if you want traditional publishing success. If you aren’t already following Liselle Sambury and Lindsay Puckett and Michelle Schusterman here on RUclips, please do. Even some of Alexa Donnes old videos are a great start.

It's always nice to have a pallet cleanser between books. Have you ever thought about writing the first draft for books 2 & 3 back to back?

Honestly thank you for this, as someone in the worst writing slump she's ever been the first 6 months of the year I need to hear someone else's really good editing and drafting numbers to motivate me 😅2023 I spit out a first draft in 6 months and then I started uni and it's all gone downhill- within the next 6 months I hope to get the first draft of my project HTWWE close to being complete

I'm excited to see how the plotting for the next two books go. I'm not a plotter either though I've done more and more the more books I write.

Ahhh, so happy to hear your progress! ♡ Even though you weren't able to write every day, it's still impressive how much you got done 🥹 All the best for the rest of the year!

I’ve been unintentionally doing his early writing routine. Where he would do it while working a night shift at a hotel. Something I’ve been doing for months now and a year into this new job. I also don’t get up until about noon ish. Either 10-12 depending on the day and the sleep I got. Then I have about a couple hours before I head into work at 3

Was literally doomscrolling instead of rereading Malazan lmao

I'm very curious as to what "writing group" looks like in practice. Is it similar to a book club, but split into a productive/independent writing portion, and then a discussion portion?

Girl, I'm writing a book too! When r u gonna publish yours???

I opened YT for background noise as I do my homework that’s due tomorrow, and have been scrolling for almost an hour 😭 thank you so much

I think you mean sleep

I was planting radishes how did I get on yt shorts I don't even remember sitting down

Wasn't reading a book. But honestly thanks for telling me

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how did u know-it’s sitting three inches away from me, open to page 459. Thx m8

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This was the sign i needed 🫡🫡🫡 logging off!

Called right out😂

😵‍💫 welp-

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Been reading on AO3 until I got distracted - Im gonna go get food now lmao

I agree with what you said 100% now I am going to do the exact opposite!

But what if I'm scrolling through the outlines of my book on my phone?

Don’t call me out like thaaaat🥲 but thanks lol I’ll stop scrolling now😝

My brain has been rotting for 2 hours now, thank you I love you for this

Not me feeling sooo called out 😂😂😂

Thank you!!

Sorry babe, I know you are caught up in your book but Sara has this awesome short video you need to see. It will take less than a minute.

Literally did this yesterday! Thanks for the reminder! 😁

How did you find your writing group? I need this in my life!