This is a video of my favourite reads from 2018. It’s better late than never, right? It includes four works of fiction and one memoir.
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This is a video of my favourite reads from 2018. It’s better late than never, right? It includes four works of fiction and one memoir.
Click the video to find out more.
If you're looking for ideas on how to fill your journals and notebooks I am sharing a journal flip through to show how I fill mine. My journals are often messy but each one has a definite purpose.
I use one journal as a writing bullet journal to track and log my writing and creative projects. I use another to plan my writing and creative tasks. I have others for particular writing projects such as my book proposal, essays and YouTube scripts. Then I have some simply to journal and to free up space in my head.
In this video I share each notebook I’ve used in the last six months. There’s a completed journal, a couple of new notebooks and I also share how my notebooks (and writing) have been affected by the recent pandemic
Instagram is the main way I engage with my audience. I also love the creativity of it. So I'm sharing how I incorporate Instagram into my daily writing life. It actually, with a bit of practice, doesn't take up a lot of my day - but I also see it as an essential part of my writing business.
Instagram is part of my writing routine. I love the app but I also see it as an essential way of growing my author platform. It can be used in a natural way as part of a marketing plan for writers. If you're looking how to market your book or how to use social media as an author but want to be authentic then this might be the way for you.
At the beginning of every month I create a fresh start for my writing and creative projects. I have a little brainstorm, reset my task board, and take note of all the relevant stats for the previous month.
Click the link to see the video that shares how I go about doing it so I’m inspired and motivated for the month ahead.
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.