HOW I BECAME A PUBLISHED POET & FULL TIME ARTIST - advice for young/unpublished writers
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- My story from my humble beginnings in rural Australia to now living my dreams in London embedded with some advice I wish I had been told. / Head to squarespace.co... to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DAKOTAWARREN
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Dakota x
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I’ve had this idea for a while (but mentioning it now prompted by this video) to somehow create a platform with prompts and a curation of submitted art of various mediums (not just written!) to help provide a space for exposure and leverage for young/underground artists and also just a safe space to consume art from others, but this is a baby idea, and I need to brainstorm a hell of a lot more regarding platform, logistics, potential for print editions, etc. If you have ANY advice, feel free to reply? Dakota x
i LOVE that idea!
love that idea as a young author
I tried something like this with my publishing house and website, Long Shot Books. With the opportunities on the internet, there are a few ways to go about it in a relatively easy/cost efficient way, depending on how you choose to go about doing so. For my own writing and creative projects, I just use public Google docs anymore but that isn't nearly as fashionable presentation. Personally, I think a website like your own but with the content native to the site would be the most efficient approach.
Oh yes!
this is an insanely creative & innovative idea & I’m absolutely intrigued. I think I’ve possibly got a few ideas I could list off that may be of value!
• Creating an app of some sort that could host this amazing type of space & content with areas of submission, communications… absolutely anything your going for, I feel like there would be some lovely tech savvy entrepreneur that would love to help you with something like this!
• Have a place on your website (or even a new website) for people to submit their art/media & have them published into newsletter or magazine form each month or so… (this could be downloaded or made into physical copies & either free or sold, either which way)
• Maybe hosting mini art showcases or pop up galleries? Whether that be in person or done online/virtually!
• Art trading & swapping is something fun & interesting that also comes to mind, this could perhaps be an additional feature you could add to a platform but still an idea nonetheless!
Woww I’m so in love with this idea, I cannot wait to see where this fruitful journey may lead! A safe platform for young/ underground artists to use & grow with, hosted by the one & only Dakota Warren, now this sounds like an absolute dream & we are all here for it. ❤🥂
I love it so much ❤❤
living for her active era
I am a 50 year old father of two daughters, an avid reader, a writer myself and just an all around art nerd. I found this video incredibly inspiring! In my late twenties I sold a screenplay and I assumed fame (didn't really care about that) and fortune (really wanted this, for freedom) were just around the corner. And then... it just never happened. I walked away from my creative passions to build my family and my career. I don't regret it, not at all, but I've recently come back to my first love and feel invigorated. I published a novel in 2020 and wrote a screenplay which was eventually made into a short film that has won several international awards. The reason I mention all of this is because in this video you say something about "if you're 40, whatever, write that book!" (pardon my poor paraphrase), but that is EXACTLY what I want people to take away form this video--as yet created art doesn't expire until YOU do! Life gets in the way--all the fucking time--so live it and then come back to the page (or the canvas, the studio, the kiln, the celluloid...) with no shame. We all have to deal, and that responsibility can inform and shape your voice and your output. Listen to it. Thank you for this video, I think it is vital.
Thank you for sharing! I'm so happy you've been able to continue pursuing your passions, congratulations and thank you for showing others that it can happen whenever :)
Hello Dakota, as a 15yo boy i may not be part of your main demographic, but its really nice to feel part of a community with similar passions for poetry and literature (barely anyone in my school could give a single care about books anymore). Though i'm not a very confident nor popular person this video has given me courage to start getting my work out there (even if its just on an instagram account for now). Thank you for being an inspiration.
- a young aspiring writer with big hopes (and now thanks to you a liitle courage also)
I believe in you😤 keep it up
what's your Instagram account? i'd love to check it out.
You've got this!!! dont let anyone stop you from writing
Sending you sooooo much support! You got this!!!!
Could you share your insta please? I’m also a poet and an artist seeking my audience and success in this field. I feel like I’m in a very similar position to yours right now. Non of my friends from my school are interested in art of any form, and that makes me extremely sad. Creating a helpful network of other creatives is extremely important to stay in this field long term.
In the middle of this video is a clip of me in Dublin, drunkenly infodumping on Dakota about the under-appreciated beauty of physics. I was so lost in the sauce (the sauce being red wine and the kind of borderline-religious fervour that consumes the average mad scientist) that I had no idea I was being filmed. Thanks for immortalising my little rant, I had such a magical night (though we won't talk about my hangover the next day)
Could you timestamp??
26:38 !@@SheDrawsSometimes
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I told my english teacher about you when we talked about Australian upcoming authors. Maybe one day I'll be the next Australian girl poet reading my poems out to a crowd like you
keep writing and one day u will
You can do it!!!
DO IT!!!!
I feel so disparaged
hey dakota, you probably don't care but I'm a 15 year old girl who's finalizing the last draft of her debut novel. I've been both watching you on youtube/tiktok and writing my coming of age book since I was 13 and you have no idea how much of my writing has been shaped by your beautiful, haunting poetry. I used to think i would never write poetry because it was so 'old' and 'boring' but when 13 year old me came across your instagram something in my brain changed, and I was officially in love with you and your writing style. i got your book way back last year and forced my best friend to read it (who also claimed that poetry was 'boring') and now i haven't seeen this book in months because she's keeping it at her house😭 i come back to it every few months, memorising the words and going over my favourite lines. i guess my novel is a lot like your poem 'girlhood', to put it simply. this sounds so awful and cliche but you have given me a lot of inspiration to pursue my writing, and i owe it to you that i finally have my own writing style. thank you for this video
Oh my god I'm 15 too and that's so impressive I would love to read your novel one day
This is so sweet. I wish you soo much sucess :))
good luck!!! i hope i get to read your novel one day!!
Holy shit that's incredible! I hope you are immensely proud of yourself, I wish I was at least the tiniest bit of cool and committed you are when I was your age.
I love being a beta-reader so if you're looking for any I would be very excited and glad to do so. :) Best of luck to you, you have a fantastic future ahead.
This video was beautiful, and rekindled in me a hope that I could be a writer. I’m 22 myself and a student, but I’ve realised that I’ve been burying my love of writing. For a long time, I’d kinda shut down the idea as silly and frivolous, everyone telling me that being a writer isn’t a sensible career path and that I should do it as a side thing to a real job, and I really took that in. I’m studying business, not for love of it but because it seemed sensible, practical and respectable. But after listening to your story, I really just sat down and thought about how I got here and why I’m doing this. I want to be like you, creating and sharing with people, performing and truly being myself, not just some stuffed suit spitting out business theory on demand. Your story made me realise that I actually can, it’s something I could genuinely pursue and not just another dream to bury in the garden. Thank you so much! ❤ Even if it doesn’t work out, I’ll be happy in knowing I tried.
she's actually such an inspiration
Things you said in the video deeply resonated with me, I’ve written poems, dark ones, since around first grade. I wanted to start writing for someone other than myself, and begin to publish as a teenager to help my application to college one day soon. This video inspired me very much to pursue my dreams, thank you very much. Like Virginia Woolf, Priscilla Presley, Sylvia Plath and others i can just tell you are one of those women whose presence will demand admiration universally and eternally. Thank you for all the content you push out!!!
I think I might post one of my poems on tumblr now, thank you for giving me the courage
would love a history channel by dakota. i feel like she would teach history so well and cinematically
Makes me happy that you shouted out 40 year olds. Never to late to do what you want in life
I've recently completed an internship with a literary agency in America, and I have found - at least with my particular agency - that following the format requested by the agent is soo important. If pitches are sent by email, for example, and something as small as the subject line is not formatted correctly, your pitch may not even be considered. Whether fair or not - I don't know - but it is an easy way of narrowing down the many, many pitches that an agent must sift through.
I know this sounds daunting, but normally guidelines are pretty straightforward; you just need to take the time to read over them. Your chances improve IMMENSELY if you give the agent the format they want.
Thank youuuuuu
also, i'm 25 and i really appreciate the bit you mentioned about starting at any age -- i am so inspired by young writers and i don't feel like i'm too late/running behind 💞
Are you saying 25 is old? What?
@@fabianacontreras8227 not at all lol
I love Dakotas vibe. Always super welcoming yet kinda drenched with articulation
I remember finding your tiktoks in 2021 and absolutely falling in love with you. I was in year 12 and you reignited my passion for literature and writing and I chose to peruse it at uni. I remember preordering ur book on Christmas Day and being so excited when it arrived. Truly you have been such a catalyst for my art and I’m so appreciative of you 🫶🏻
This is so amazing and inspirational 😍👏 I've written about 80 poems and 2 novels. All I want to do is be a writer in Edinburgh and Dakota you motivate me so much. If I ever do publish my poetry or novels I will leave a special dedication to you ❤
Your poems give me goosebumps! Can't wait for your novel!
I’ve been following you for a few years now, when I first started uni and I’m in my final year now, and I’m so proud of you. You’re a beacon of light and so inspirational. I took a module for creative writing because of you and it’s been so scary yet so rewarding. Thank you
I follow you for 3 years now and you bloomed over the years 💗 I was so admirative of your style, your literature knowledge and your hard work, love you
I love you Dakota!! As an emerging visual artist in Australia this was wonderfully insightful and such a generous history of your career and passions. Everyone take a sip of your red wine every time Dakota says, 'transparency is sexy' (because it is!!!!) xoxo
when the timing is just perfect. i was racking my brain over the last week because i really want to switch over from personal/journal writing to putting my work out there but i have a full time job and i thought to myself "i could never get this off the ground while working..." your story is so inspiring and you are a badass. transparency IS sexy, thank you so much for making this. i feel so inspired to keep going to make my dreams a reality with my writing. thank you beautiful soul 💗💗
This was awesome! I have been writing my first book since 2020, but have not had yet the courage to share any of my work with others. It really helps to know that you found an audience and a nice little corner on the internet. I am very much afraid of hate and of being a total flop, and you inspired me to get over that
Thank you - so inspirational!
This is really helpful and inspiring, thank you. I love your content on art and the artist's life and creative process.
i remember the last poetry reading in sydney. that night is so dear to me and such a lovely way to start of this year. i constantly try to come back it and you whenever i feel lost, remembering my roots, my true passions and my loves. thank you for being here dakota, just our girl who reads and writes 💞💞
i just sort of realized, based on the things you had to say, and especially watching the montages of you at the book readings and signings, that in order to be a writer who has their work seen by anyone at all one must be a HUNGRY person. hungry for recognition, for attention, etc. the longing to split oneself open in the operating theater of the public eye. it is not a bad thing to be hungry. it is not necessarily good either. but i can tell you it makes life a hell of a lot more interesting.
its not a pretty thing to admit, especially being someone perceived as female by most, and it can render one off-putting to many (in my situation, where writing is not and will never be my career, its hard for people to understand why i do this, why i continually prostrate myself before publishers and watch rejections roll in time after time, why i dedicate most of my free time to writing even when it sucks). i recognized this feeling in myself, was able to put it to words, while watching this video. so thank you. and best wishes to all the hungry people in the comments, i hope you are fed soon
You are the most inspirational and wonderfull poet! You truly make life seem magical... thank you a hundred times
i love to see you being more active on yt now❤ i'm studying actuarial sciences but i love literature and writing and i definitely want to release the 100+ poems i've written in the past year. this inspires me!!!
manifesting this for meee
i like your username :)
@@y0landa543 Thank you! :)
i love that videos like these are like talking to a friend or an older sister
Ooow yay another lovely video! 🥰 The rush of excitement from the little things, the synchronicity’s in life, it truely gets me every time. Seeing your new video has jump started my positive mood! Sending much love from Melbourne babyy! 🌹✨
Loved this video and I'm ecstatic to see a fellow poet doing so well. I noticed your poetry book is currently sold out to the rest of the world outside of Australia. Any news on when it will be restocked and will you be doing any further signed copies?
This video is such a godsend. I’m in the process of editing my final draft of my novel and witnessing your journey as a writer is a huge inspiration to just keep going❤️🔥
and a massive yes please to the tips on writers/creative block!
I love you, thank you for making this video. The encouragement and inspiration were much needed :( ❤
the actual excitement I got when I realised the video was 45 whole minutes 😍
been here since the first 4k subscribers
Dakota, I’ve been following you since 2021, you are my inspiration for everything I love literature and words and plan to get my short stories and poetry published, I mentioned you in countless projects for classes❤️
11:04 , pausing this to say that i'm about to cry because our stories are so similar its as if you're saying my thoughts.. this video is the motivation I need to detach myself from my work and let it breathe out there without just me
Thank you so much for sharing this! I have been enamoured by your work (and you obviously) for so long, since you were in Melbourne. You're doing such an amazing job and I am so grateful for you
Your journey is so inspiring ✨️
i love the modesty that you have and the confidence too
you inspire me so much Dakota! Thank you for this video :)
I need a video about technics!!! I aspire to be a filmmaker but creativity is such a coming and leaving thing, so I need to regulate myself how to be creative and not burn out
i've been following you since the 2020 passion tiktoks, i cant wait to see how you grow and how we change along side eachother !
i need more 45min Dakota Warren vlogs tbh
This background is everything ❤
I just sent off my poetry chapbook manuscript last night and this is so extremely comforting ♡
You are so inspiring! 💫❤️
a video on techniques on creative burn out would cure my soul
So needed this video. So grateful for you :)
Please write more books Dakota and I loved ur first book ❤
I love your channel darling!
Keep up the great work. ⭐⭐⭐
omg i was literally just wondering yesterday how you achieved your goal!! can't wait to find a copy of your book you really inspire me
love your channel 💞💞
This was genuinely helpful, thank you!
i was waiting for this video since you posted about it on your stories!
thank you so much for this video. i always thought i needed a huge following to get my start, but i'm just going to start showing up and seeing how things go while i publish my short videos and poems. ♥️ 21:41
I love you Dakota so much I appreciate you so much all hard work and devotion and unbelievable and incredible inspiration women ❤
45 minutes? you’ve blessed us.
If you have a clothing line, I would buy one! I like you style =)
thank you for answering my question!
Can you make a video on your techniques to combat burnout? I’m sure we’d all love to hear that.
Thankyouuuu!!! I wanna publish a poetry book one day
I've been writing poems for over 2 years. There's times where i write everyday for a whole week 2 to 3 poems ,and theres times i write 2 or 4 on just 3 days of the week.
And ive been thinking recently, and i would love to publish a poetry book or a series of poetry books, that would mean a lot.
Ive looking for this video as i want some advice in publishing, im also going to start more poems like Sylvia plath and Emily Dickinson
omg this is very helpful. thank u dakota ♡
love you Dakota!
You are most gifted and talented I love your poetry and art ❤
I really love your videos
"That's such a funny hate comment because, thank you for calling me pretty!" - I love this 😝❤️
❤ I'd love to know how you let go of ideas or change up an orginal idea/plan. I've always struggled with this but have lost content from my writing and also my art before and picking up those writing ideas again but with holes in has stopped me from being able to complete them as I cannot let go of the fact it won't be exactly how I obsessively lovingly invisioned and mapped it on paper now lost! ❤
Thank you for this video. You are an inspiration.
Greeting from Mexico! I love your videos!
thank you Dakota x
Waiting to grow up and meet u and then chaotically discuss literature with you ily
I NEED DOCUMENTARY I LOVE YOU
you are a legend
Have you ever read Witold Gombrowicz, Bruno Schulz or Witkacy? I highly recommend these authors ☺
This video was great! Thank you so much :) Oh, also, is On Sun Swallowing gonna be restocked anytime soon?
this is so helpful, thanks:))
oh my god i needed this
God I love risks , because God they pay off.
-Lady Warren 2023
loved this
Dakota your so inspiring
I truly believe dakota and i could be best friends
God why I am crying?
how young is too young to start thinking about submitting poetry (basically would you say 13 is too young to think about publishing🥺)
NO im 15 and writing the last draft of my novel that let's hope will get published soon!! so it's probably not too early, i was thinking abt this shit when i was 13 too
@@sashaz6109 okok!! ty for the inspiration
If you, as a 13 y/o, could compile a children's book of poetry and market it as "for a child, by a child" not only would it be iconic but I bet it will go so well with the public. There will be lots of parents eager to support young talent. If you've got a knack for rhyming poetry and an imaginative mind I encourage you to start with work geared towards a child, while You're young enough yourself to understand childrens' likes and use that opportunity to practice your poetry and writing skill. And then years down the line at 15/16/17 you can publish a more thorough poetry collection aimed at teens, having more tangible life experiences to allow you better self express. After all, to make more meaningful poetry you need to be a bit older - if you're seeking to make more serious poetry. In the meanwhile just practice your work and collect the poems you've got.
If you're gonna go ahead and make a children's book - poetry or not - I highly encourage using that tagline by a child, for a child and put it in a sticker somewhere on the front cover - what this is gonna do is make your work standout in a sea children's books written by adults.
Bro im not a girl but related a lot
This was absolutely helpful, but I have a question that has bugged me for a long, long time now: Is it possible to reach out to foreign publishers instead of the ones from one's city? If anyone has the answer to this, please enlighten me xx
Yes absolutely - a lot of things can be done remotely. Irish writers or writers from other European countries can be published in the UK and vice versa, for example - there’s nothing stopping you reaching out to publishers or agents who work in the genre/age group you’re writing for!
i am in love
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do you have any recommendations on literary magazines or competitions to submit to? especially for poetry, but short stories as well
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pretty cool
If you put your poems or any part of your writing here, I can tell whether you have both true passion and gift for the form of art or just love living fictionally and emotionally
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