how to write and publish a poetry book
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- feel free to tell me about your own poetry!! share some in the comments or tell me a story 💕
both of my poetry books--Youth and Screaming Sweet Nothings--are available for $18.00 CAD at www.peachpiles.com/poetry
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0:00 intro
0:17 my books
2:34 actually writing poems
5:30 how to get inspired
7:41 writer’s block
11:14 the paralyzing future
12:27 traditional vs self-publishing
16:58 marketing
17:17 final thoughts
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as someone who has read 'screaming sweet nothings', I would absolutely love a video where you talk about the poems. I loved this poetry book more than I could ever explain
also! (sorry commenting as I watch lol) I completely agree with using music as inspiration to write. currently writing a novel and I spend hours just closing my eyes and listening to music. I got some of my favourite scenes that way. so wonderful what music does for us and our imagination!!
@@matildasjournal that’s great to hear! 💕 and yesss that’s so amazing. i love doing that too
@@NicoleMae love this tutorial, I just havent seen your work, can I see one?... Sorry I should just go buy your book xD nice video thnx
@@mistermelancholy7698 hahaha you can see examples at peachpiles.com/poetry
It seems like your writing has been extremely cathartic for you & that you have learned how to express your emotions through it. Good for you & may you have a plethora of success in your future endeavors!! God Bless.
it really has! thank you so much!
This is an older video but I just came across it. I have loved writing my whole life but I have been insecure my whole life. I am now 54 and stumbled across my passion for writing again during some recent therapy sessions. I want to write so I started searching and your videos popped up. You are so very easy to listen to and have invaluable information, Thank you for posting on UA-cam for people like me. I don’t care if I ever make money, I just want to publish some books to share with family and friends and to say I did.
I’m glad this helped you out! I bet your friends and family will love your work 😊
i've always looked up to poets cos i never really understood how articulate they are so hearing you speak about writing a whole book of poems (TWO books in fact) was very very intriguing 🙌🏻 you go girl!
ahh this means the world to me 🥰🥰🥰 thank you
this is incredible! Love the title of "Screaming Sweet Nothings"
I appreciate that a lot!!
I’ve been watching tons of these kinds of videos, and this was one of the best. I really appreciate how you speak so authentically and present things to consider that I haven’t heard from other writers. This video helped me introspect about certain elements I’d been stuck on a bunch, I appreciate you for making this! I need to check out your books!
I’m so glad this helped! Good luck with your writing journey! 🌟
Feels cool to know that I’ve had the privilege of seeing you go through the process of writing both ❤️
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Thank u so much for this Video. I always loved writing poems and slems but i stoped writing them two years ago because many people told me no one would read poetry books now days. Some time ago i started writing them again but i still thought i could never publish them. But u gave me so much Joy and hope with Ur Video that i will trie again. 😊
aw you’re welcome ❤️ I wish you luck
Sending good vibes, I'm getting ready to start writing I have many books within me of many kinds I appreciate your positivity 💜🙏
amazing! good luck!!
Thanks for the video and diving in deeper than most! I'm going to check out your books 💗
Aw thanks 💜
Your books look gorgeous 🥺 I would love a video on you reading your poems 💕
awe 💕💕 i appreciate that so much 😊
the cover of your second book is so incredibly beautiful. even though i haven’t read it, just by looking at it i know what it’ll feel like. i think i’m going to pick that one up, especially hearing about the contents!
Aw, thanks so much
Thanks for this video, I enjoyed listening to your journey regarding your poetry!
I also self published my first self poetry book a while ago!
thanks 😊 and congrats!!
All my poetry has never been a planned write for the most part. My best work has always been a spontaneous inspiration placing a flow of words in my head that I absolutely have to set free on the page, grabbing anything around to scribble the words on
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Yes please do the video about your poetry!
I mayyyyy 👀 haha 💕
This is so amazing congrats girl wow!!!
aw thanks so much 💕💕💕💕
Great Video!! You have a comforting spirit ❤
Thank you so much!
This was extremely helpful and encouraging. Much appreciated my friend😊
You’re welcome! 😊
such a great video! I just found your channel and am in love with your videos 🌿✨
awe 💚💚💚 thank you!!
The most genuine piece of content
aw ❤️ thank you so much
i would love to hear u read and explain some of the poems in your second book as i have read both and loved them
Aw thanks so much! I do havé a video in that: ua-cam.com/video/XbumZI_5LIA/v-deo.html ❤️
We care!!!! I’d love that!
Thank you for this video💞🌸
Thanks for watching!
@@NicoleMae Hey!!🩷 I'm working on a book myself and am struggling to find the right way to copy right my work. Do you have any tips?
hi!!
decided to share my story here since i found your video while trying to understand if me and my poems were good enough. i'm a 20 year old girl from russia. i was born in siberia and spent my entire life here, trapped in an industrial city. since childhood, i've had two passions - english and writing. my mom is a professor of english at a local uni, where i study now, and naturally she wanted to teach me english when i was a kid. i was little of course, but not too little to be forced into doing something i didn't want to do. it came to me so naturally and quickly that i genuinely can't recall any of the learning process. after all, mom is a great teacher. she gave me the power to use another language with freedom and fluency at times comparable to my mother tongue. not without difficulties, cause i'm still out of the english-speaking environment, but it's the closest it can probably get. she gave me the whole world. and since i loved writing, sooner or later i started writing in english. i created the first original poem when i was 16. at that time i was mostly writing in russian, but i wrote some occasional english poems till the end of 2022 when i got into taylor swift and started immersing into english more and more. almost all of my writing switched to english. i felt it was easier for me to write in english rather than in russian because my english wasn't as contaminated stylistically with slang and filler words and it really helped to deliver imagery and express ideas. i also did most of my reading in english as well. but everything changed in september of 2023. i was ill and messing around when i got a random idea and started writing what later turned into a life-changing poem. i was kind of heartbroken at that time and had nowhere to vent all the different complicated things i was feeling. and then i found poetry. it was like... the ultimate therapeutic tool. i was letting this terrible weight fall off my shoulders, putting it into words, but i was also creating art. this process of turning my pain into magic really changed the game for me. i started writing almost all the time and i never stopped until i felt i reached the closing point of a certain chapter of my life. and i needed to conclude it. i knew i was making a collection of poems. i knew i was going to publish it. so in january, when i felt the deeds were done, i started gathering all the material i had and considered publication-worthy - 62 poems. probably could've been more if i waited a bit, but i just KNEW that new year's day was that closing point, so it had to be it. i published it through a russian self-publication platform called ridero. it really put my patience to the test, but i got a free ISBN and ordered a small issue to give out to friends and family. if you're ever interested, it's called "sunday hindsight diaries" and can be found on amazon as an e-book. the interesting thing about my poems, though, is that i applied a rhythmic and syllabic structure, usually used in the russian poetic tradition, to them. i've rarely seen this being done in poetry nowadays. it's mostly all free verse. i like it when the language flows. when the words not only speak, they sing. that is one of the reasons i am so concerned that my poems might not be good. there are so few people who might be interested in them. i'm not delivering a global message. i'm not being particularly meaningful. i'm writing directly from my heart, about my experiences and struggles as a very young and tragic adult. all of my dreams and fears wrapped with a rhyme. and the fact that all of those poems are written in english and published in russia (as you may know, we don't have any possible access to foreign publishers right now) makes them hardly relatable to native speakers and completely unavailable to most of my fellow compatriots. i don't really care if anybody notices this collection as long as i have the support of my parents, friends, my professors at uni and as long as i'm proud of myself for fulfilling my dream of writing a book someday (even if it's only 44 pages long) and making such a great achievement. i hope this is far, far away from the end of my creative journey. i wanna thank you for posting this video and sharing your experience of creating poetry. seeing you talk about what a way of dealing with emotions poetry is to you really warmed my heart and inspired me so much. i like feeling so connected to other artists. it's like i'm a part of a huge, diverse family. i appreciate your honesty and enthusiasm! i hope you have plenty of inspiration and do the things you are passionate about!
p.s. really sorry if there are typos. it's 4 am and i'm writing this from a new laptop i'm not yet familiar with so there might be some mishaps :)
That's really great! I hope you keep on writing and finding people within the community
I want to publish a poetry book so this video rlly helps !
amazing! good luck !!
this is sooooooooooooooo useful
I’m glad!! 😊
Very interesting, thanks for this video
i'm glad you enjoyed!
haha - as a baby poet myself, and someone who follows a spiritual path in life that differs greatly from the norm, I am super scared that by the time I end up wanting to take my book to a local publisher, they simply wont want to publish it in fear of how certain groups may come after them for it..and for the record given the history of how people who follow my spirituality were treated in history, I wouldn't blame them.. most if not all of my poems are about and related to my spirituality which again is not mainstream.
The thing is, I'm not in it for the money either, I simply want people to be able to read and love my poems even if they can't relate to them personally. I also worry that my poems are too same-y or rhyme-y for people, since I am writing free-verse couplets the format is pretty much "aa-bb- repeat".
It’s really up to you what you do with it! You don’t need to have every step planned out-start with editing things, sending it to some friends or a publisher, and go from there :)
I like the title, Screaming Sweet Nothings!
awe 💕 thanks so much, lovely
Hey thanks!
of course!!
Gorgeous ❣️
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I’d like a video on your poems.
awe 🥰 that’s awesome to hear
Nicole I wish to buy your book Youth. Where can I find it?
I'd be interested in the video!
awe yayy 😊😊😊
Feeling like you have to monetize any hobby/art as a creative person or that everything has to be “postable” is so real
For sure ❤️
Dude dont scrap ur idea. Your books look beautiful and from the little I've seen you are genuinely talented. Please do a reading video! Theres nothing better than the author themself voicing the poem. This was an interesting vid for me to listen to because I've always been told Im a good writer (general writing not poetry tho, poets are on another level lmao). I always wonder if I should be utilizing the skill but like you said, theres a lot of worry and self-doubt.
Do you think you would want to pursue traditional publishing in the future? I did an internship at this advertising agency and it just solidified for me the idea that shoddy products are popular just because of the way they get advertised. I am certain that (as long as you have a good product) marketing is the most important piece to this puzzle. Youre in luck because u have a good product lol. I will share ur book around whenever I get the chance. Publishing a book is such a huge accomplishment, well done!
wow i appreciate this comment a lot!
i get that self-doubt. if you think there’s some passion in you for it though, maybe just go for it! even if it’s messy-it could be worth the try!
i am going to do traditional publishing for my novels, yeah. i’m undecided with my future poetry books. but i will definitely do so for my novels since there’s so many more words and higher prices for self publishing. it’s more worth traditional for novels i would say.
@@NicoleMae Omg I'm excited to see u publish ur novels!! U should def do a vid about it I love booktube
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Hey Nicole, one of my styles is I write everything lowercase, I never use caps. Can I write my manuscript like that or should I use proper grammar before submitting to publishers?
You can submit the manuscript in lowercase, but make sure everything else going to the publisher has proper capitalization and punctuation. Many publishers want author bios, book descriptions, etc. Those should be written formally. But yeah, the manuscript itself can be in whichever style you'd like. Hope that helps!
@@NicoleMae helps a lot, thanks so much!
You had me hook at the intro..queen. Period.
LOL awe 💜💜💜
I write poetry and sometimes get writers block because I just feel like it's not good but everyone I share it with said there good so thanks because this just helped me get out of my head. Do you have any tips to get better?
no problem 😊 continuing to share with people will be helpful! and reading + writing as much poetry as you can as well. you’ll start to figure out what you like and don’t like and will fall into your own style. having that will help with confidence 😊 good luck!
I'm an aspiring poet and I've been through a few things and I related to this video. I'd like to know what happened if you want t explain the meaning behind the poems. X
I actually already have a video like that! ua-cam.com/video/XbumZI_5LIA/v-deo.html Thanks for watching
On the "actually writing poetry" section I agree with you 1000%! So many people think tumblr quotes are poetry when they are just tumblr quotes. Definitely reading your poems!
I appreciate this!! ❤️
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I write spoken word and I enjoy it but I really don't know If it is good.
That will always be a struggle
i think you need to start getting feedback from people then! find people online or a teacher or other writers and get their opinions. it can be difficult m because you really need to set your ego aside and take negative criticism the same way you take positive comments. but hearing people’s thoughts will help you. and eventually, you’ll be able to tell if it’s good or not without anyone’s help but your own :)
@@NicoleMae thank you so much. I am really shy about my poetry because I don't write it in my native language. And I also find it to be a little bit extreme, because I like to use it as my therapy as well.
How did you find people online? Are there groups, that you can recommend?
@@DanaM18129 that makes sense! i feel like it’s better than you think it is :) in terms of communities, you can find a lot on Tumblr honestly! maybe try posting some poems on there and making a blog for your poetry and see where that takes you! you can also feel free to message my Instagram and send me some of your work! i love reading poetry to any capacity so i can give you feedback too if you’d like 💕
@@NicoleMae (:
Awsome
thanks!
THAT INTRO 😭
LOL i do my best
ty for this 🤍 i have writers block right now. i have no inspiration right now but youve helped. im currently writing my own poetry book right now tyy
I'm so glad! Good luck with it all!