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How I Write: A Writing Vlog

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How to start a story?

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Why do we tell stories?

14:42

Reading the first story I ever wrote

9:27

How I find inspiration

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How I overcame creative burnout

Burnout is a sensitive topic and something that I've, unfortunately, lived through. It's especially painful to go through something like this as a creative person because it makes you feel a sense of apathy towards the work that you normally love. This is the story of how it happened to me and what helped me get through it.
My blog: alexkondov.com
My instagram: kondovwrites
My short story collection: brokenstatuesbook.com
Tao of React (the programming book I mentioned): taoofreact.com
Music I use: Bensound.com
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10:48

Learning to write through journaling

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I started journaling because I wanted to improve my thinking and have some place to store my thoughts. With time, though, journaling became the daily writing exercise that helped me improve the way I tell stories. If you can make up a tale about a mundane day where you went to the coffee shop, you can make a tale about anything. My blog: alexkondov.com My instagram: kondovwrites M...

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How I Write: A Writing Vlog

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This weekend I was working on my next programming book and decided to record a writing vlog. Here's what I do and think about on a regular writing day. I focus on keeping the pen moving to avoid writer's block and sit down with an idea in my mind that I want to put into words today. Here's my instagram: kondovwrites My blog - alexkondov.com And my short story collection - brokenst...

14:50

How to start a story?

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When I'm writing a story I never start from the beginning. I usually have an idea for a character or a scene or even an ending. Then I write the story chaotically and leave the beginning for last. The first sentence my readers go through are the most important because if they don't grab your interest or show you what the story will hold you will never reach the great moments I had in my mind wr...

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Why do we tell stories?

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Working on a short story got me thinking why we tell each other stories in the first place. And I think I got an answer, but I'll have to tell you a story first. Here's my instagram - kondovwrites My blog - alexkondov.com And my short story collection - brokenstatuesbook.com Music: Bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: WR3B7Y4CUOBSYCIG

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Reading the first story I ever wrote

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The first short story I ever wrote was an ambitious one - an anti-war story. In this video I'm reading a few pages from it and talking about what was going on in my head as I was writing this. Here's my instagram - kondovwrites My blog - alexkondov.com And my short story collection - brokenstatuesbook.com Music by Bensound.com License code: IGGCNQLOFLYBEROG

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How I find inspiration

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If you want to hear me ramble more about writing, there's a subscribe button right above this box. Inspiration feels great but if I rely on it I'd be writing every couple of weeks or so. This means it could take me up to a decade to write a book. But I wrote 3 in the last 4 years. Here's how. Here's my instagram - kondovwrites My blog - alexkondov.com And my short story collection...

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How programming made me a better writer

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If you want to hear me ramble more about writing, there's a subscribe button right above this box. I started writing my first novel when I was 9. It turned out it was a lot harder than I thought. 20 years later, and 3 published books, my biggest writing inspiration has been programming. Here's my instagram - kondovwrites My blog - alexkondov.com And my short story collection - bro...

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