With September comes the closing of the third quarter and my approach to meeting all my goals, y’all!
Evercrown is being written and edited — chapter 3 has been upgraded to draft 3 and chapter 17 has been upgraded to draft 2. Project Murder House is officially plotted out, all I have to do is arrange everything into chronological chapters (the first two are already planned in detail). So, for the remainder of the quarter I think I’ll spend it fine tuning Project MH and finally put down the first words of draft 1 between writing out Evercrown.
That’s pretty much all the news I have on the writing side of being an aspiring author, but on the advertisement side . . . I have made some progress — small, but it’s still progress. I’ve made two posts on my FaceBook page (which I never thought I’d do), I’ve been updating my bog semi-regularly (it’s better than when I first started) and I remembered I have an Instagram, so I’ve starting posting there again as well. I’ve gotten a few good eyes from it — nothing big, but I wasn’t expecting immediate attention anyway. And beside media, I’ve been telling everyone I can in person about my writing and goals as an aspiring author — I think people are starting to realize I’m serious about this author thing lol.
Aside from writing, the YouTube project I’ve wanted to do for almost a year has started to fall back into place. I’ll have to learn how to edit videos, but if I don’t do it then I’ll never . . . do it, y’know? So I just have to be brave and put myself out there — my face is already all over my Instagram and part of my FaceBook, so what’s different about it being on YouTube? * chuckles nervously * But in all seriousness, I’ve been working on making a podcast with some friends and it’s given me some practice in front of the camera (and what it’s like behind it), so I think it’ll be a little easier to make my own content in the near future. Then y’ll can see what it’s like up close and personal and I can even start sharing what I’ve learned on my brief journey and from others that are far ahead of me.
It may seem odd that I’m so passionate (driven?) about getting myself on YouTube, but that’s where I first learned that writers don’t have to be alone and isolated sufferers for meager profit. It’s where YouTubers like Jenna Moreci first taught me what to do/not do when writing. It’s where Kate Cavanaugh inspired me to write in the morning when I didn’t feel like it, because if she was just a normal person and still learning while being a writer then I had no excuses. It’s where I learned what people like to read, what it’s like to write full-time, what it’s like to write part-time. It’s where the first sprouts of the writer inside me grew and let me bloom into the creature I am today — an aspiring author and now-novelist who loves his craft.
So it may seem odd that I want YouTube to be a major part of my author-platform, but if I can inspire just one writer, if I can help impart some of my knowledge on someone who’s in the same shoes I was almost two years ago, then I want to do it. Us writers have to stick together because . . . we’re too weird for anyone else to understand sometimes lol.
Alright y’all, that’s it from me today! Remember that what you love matters, and even if you can’t do it for a career, never let it die . . . that’s a piece of yourself you’re letting go of, and you might not get it back. So keep writing, keep learning, and drawing, and cooking, and singing, and dancing, and being weird in the face of normalcy! Let yourself run wild and see where it takes you (so long as it’s within the law of course lol)! Bye!