I’ve had my novel notes sitting on my desk for many a month. I have a clip full of index cards and more index cards, disorganised and loose, just kicking about. This disorganisation reflects my mind and it can get stressful and put me off working on my novel.
So during this quiet period between Christmas and New Year I’ve decided to get myself organised with my novel in progress. For a lovely hour I worked on organising my notes and it was so therapeutic. It’s not complete but already I feel inspired, I’ve come across ideas I’d forgotten about and just getting everything in a logical system makes me motivated for the writing to come. My mind has become clearer.
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.