You’d think with the bad press it gets I wouldn’t be recommending Instagram as a place to gain creative confidence.
But it has helped me enormously with my writing and creative confidence. It has also encouraged me to experiment with my writing, to have a regular writing habit and to write knowing people are reading. This really helps when you have The Writing Fear!
I've written a blog in one form or another for thirteen years, I've written articles and for online magazines and websites. I was an editor for a book review website. And nothing has helped my writing MORE than Instagram - in this video I explain why and also give my FIVE TIPS TO HELP YOU WRITE BETTER INSTAGRAM CAPTIONS.
If you are thinking about writing and don’t know where to start, if you are overwhelmed with the potential, if you want to find your writing voice - then Instagram can help. It helped me.
Over the weekend I sent out a newsletter which opened with a short anecdote about my YouTube channel. The subject of the newsletter wasn’t actually about YouTube at all but I received an email back from one of my lovely subscribers asking what had happened with my YouTube journey. She said: It feels almost like we followed you on your journey then when you arrived at the Emerald City, you left us outside the gates.
I completely agreed. I’d stopped talking about YouTube once I reached monetisation. I’d shared a lot of what I was going through including my analytics and how close I was getting on my Instagram Stories - but then just didn’t carry that narrative on.
My YouTube journey has dominated my life for a year. I was thinking about it a lot; anxious that I would not reach the relevant requirements and then, when I did, I was worried about being rejected and monetisation would not be allowed for my channel.
So I thought I’d explore why I stopped talking about my YouTube channel in this blog post, as well as looking at my YouTube journey so far.