Looking at the routines of famous writers, both historical and modern day, as well as the routines of not-so-famous authors I encounter online, I've noticed a couple things that crop up again and again. 1. Writing for 3-4 hour blocks, usually in the morning, followed by some activity that doesn't require a lot of mental focus. Often they'll come back and write more after a few hours break. No one writes for 8 hours straight! 2. Walks. So many writers go for walks! Some do it as a regular part of their routine. Others do it when they get stuck in their writing, struggling with a plot beat, or maybe just a problem paragraph or bit of dialogue. As their mind wanders and they "zone out" during their walk--blamo!--the solution comes to them. I think any kind of menial task that allows your mind to wander can be really helpful. Housework, for example. But walks provide the extra benefit of improving your mental and physical health. Sadly, walks don't get your floors clean. 😭😆
@@ComedorDelrico absolutely. Also that they made their routines fit what seemed to be their natural rhythms of energy which will help with creativity. So often we force ourselves into a stereotypical 9-5, successful creative people seem to be able and willing to do something different.
Walks are magical for me. I could sit and spend any number of hours obsessing over characters and storylines, but a good walk beams great ideas in from the cosmos. Truly amazing.
@@MatejaDesigner but what words they were! The essence of dreams and world created with just a turn of phrase. May he always have peace in the black desert under the endless night.
@@fizzing_lizbee my neighbour (the original house was split just before WWII) is writing a history of the house. He discovered where Dickins got the idea in the book to give Tiny Tim a turkey. Dickens was stuck at Reading station and saw a food cart outside selling cooked chicken. He got out, bought one and headed up the hill to his friends house (this house). The lady that had the house built wanted it to be a retreat for writers. Coleridge and Wordsworth also used to stay here to write. And here's me struggling to write my first book! lol
Harry Lloyd who played Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones is a direct descendant of Charles Dickens. He did an excellent narration of Great Expectations which you can get on Audible.
Oh wow! I had no idea! That's so cool! That also makes me a little sad though that he didn't play Dicken's in The Man Who Invented Christmas! Missed opportunity!
I love these writing routine videos! Would you ever consider doing C.S. Lewis' routine? He talks about it in Surprised By Joy, and it's fascinating because he was also a student during that time
1. Your glasses are really neat! 2. I had to laugh when you started talking about your keyboard sound because I had JUST thought to myself, "Wow, that is a really thocky keyboard!" LoL I, too, have gone down the keyboard mod rabbit hole. You really lucked out with that keyboard, it sounds great!
Yes! To have the luxury of being able to take that much time to just walk and not feel pressured to cut it short because of chores or a job would be the most amazing feeling.
As someone who has always wanted to read Dickens despite my initial doubts and limitations, I just got 'Bleak House' for my birthday this month and I am loving it so far!! You can definitely feel Dickens' life throughout his works.
If you’d like a recommendation for your next Dickens, Great Expectations is *perfection*. It’s one of my favourite books. It’s very accessible - compared to some of his lengthier books - and the story and characters will stay with you.
So many little things made this vlog relatable. The steam out of the dishwasher, the hunt for the water bottle, the challenges of starting a new project. It was all so familiar. ❤ Thanks for sharing this routine with us! As a stay at home mom of four, I definitely can't do five writing hours plus 3 walking hours although it sounds like paradise:) but I really enjoyed getting to see the routine. I love getting to see how different people throughout modern history have gotten their books written (which if you think about it...5 hours of handwriting still isnt necessarily that much work done, depending on how you hand write).
Goodness it was so nice to hear that you also struggle writing sometimes, especially after starting my zero draft of my work and feeling like it’s all trash
The sound of your keyboard was so wonderful that I finally bought one myself and it made me giddy to hear the sound of it in person. Thank you for introducing it to me!
I really need to rewatch "The Man Who Invented Christmas" (the story of how Dickens conceived and wrote A Christmas Carol) - I loved it the first time around 😊
I’m the opposite, I can’t write on a keyboard-it’s pen to paper with me, I enjoy the scratching sound-I have good penmanship and favorite pens; one being the pilot precise V7 rollerball pens. Walking is great-I can walk all day. I enjoyed watching your video.💙.
This is entirely unrelated to this specific video but I remember you recommending “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” and I finally started it…I’m absolutely obsessed!!
We are just getting autumn weather in the UK and I'm so motivated to get back to having a morning walk. This summer has been harsh, and I found your channel while looking for vlogs to motivate my writing habit. Thanks for sharing ☺️
As a chronically ill disabled person myself, I probably would have felt like throwing my phone into an abyss if I had been listening to that podcast with their very black and white ignorant ableist views. Just wow. But that aside... lovely as always to see a video from you, Christy!
Sounds like the Huberman Lab podcast to me. He has a lot of takes like that and most of it seems to come from being an academic who mostly talks to other academics and business owners. I'm a grad student without children and I certainly have more control over my day than others and I can make time for five hours of exercise a week. He's a professor with some other random business ventures who seemingly only hooks up with people and doesn't even have a stable relationship. Of course he has that time. Cal Newport is similarly annoying to listen to. Perhaps even more annoying since he has a wife and 4-5 children and refuses to accept that his wife being a stay at home and him paying for housekeeping helps him enormously in being able to be productive while parenting. They also promote this kind of health and wellness scrupulosity that seems to trigger OCD like behavior in some of their audience because the advice they give is so rigid. Cal will even give all of these dire threats and warnings for if you do something imperfectly it will basically ruin your entire day and therefore your whole month and probably the rest of your life.
Pleeeease, do Shirley Jackson. I don't know, I really think it suits you. It's also an old writing routine. Not very old to be honest, but old enough. ❤
I have just recently found your channel and now I am binge watching everything. These routines are my favourite! Your videos definitely help me to manage my anxiety and I love to play them in the background while illustrating/painting. Keep up the amazing work!
The sound of your keyboard is so satisfying (I liked the older one too). The best thing about the mechanical keyboards is that you can change the switches to your liking :) I've loved this video as always, and you make me wanting to go for walks more frequently. Next it would be nice to see J. R. R. Tolkien routine!
I’d love to see authors that have more realistic routines from before they had the privilege of writing from home without another job. I commute 2 hours each way to my 40 hour a week job, so writing is always an “if I have energy on the weekend after my house is clean and I’ve meal prepped for the week” activity. If I had to add 5 hours a week of exercise into that, oof! 😂
I've been trying to start a novel recently and I've been struggling in terms of starting, stopping, chucking thousands of words in the bin, etc., and it really helped to hear that your process is similar. I'd been feeling guilty and inadequate as a writer, so thank you for sharing your process with us
As someone with a similar writing style to yours (often starting over several times and struggling at the beginning) this feels validating. In that I may actually be a writer, which sounds silly but... I worry about if this thing I love is something I'm wasting my time on. And seeing that someone else who I see as succeeding in writing is doing a similar thing feels validating in my own pursuits. Also, I have built my own keyboard and it is an addicting business. I love my keyboard... and want to build a new one so, stay out of that as long as you can XD
Great video! I tried to write 4 hours at one time, but I ended up procrastinating and going on Instagram instead. Now, I write only 200-300 words a day, and I am happy with that for now. I think the most important thing here is consistency!
Noticed how nice the new keyboard sounds… I might have to add this to my wish list for Christmas… had to go back a few vids to hear the old keyboard … it’s really not that bad. Sounds normal. But the new one sounds amazing
I think it would have been so interesting to write by hand, I find it becomes such a different creative project that way! That being said I completely understand your reasons for not doing it 😂
I write by hand obsessively, including sometimes for drafts, but my thoughts flow so rapidly that I often need to migrate to the computer before I run out of enthusiasm. I do almost all editing on the computer.
A lovely routine, but like you say, it's just not feasible on a daily basis. I'm lucky that I get to work outside, I couldn't imagine going back to working in a building 😅
Hi! I'm so glad you mentioned struggling with spelling and having all of the markers for dyslexia because I'm in that same boat. I've been told by several that I should avoid a writing career. Regardless of that, in addition to currently working on creative writing projects, I do have multiple degrees and currently teach language arts. So all is well, but it has been quite the internal struggle throughout my life. Perhaps you'll see this. Perhaps you won't, but if you do, please know that the passing statement you made about spelling and dyslexia meant a great deal to me as a writer as I do consider you to be a pretty put together writer.
Thanks for this Christy, you’re amazing the way you present and do these! Charles Dickens is one of my favourite authors alongside, CSLewis, Enid Blyton and May Gibbs! Fun Fact from reading a biographical book about him - Dickens was meticulous in his planning and spent time walking to work out his plot lines because he had monthly deadlines ie The Pickwick Papers were published monthly and so he did not have a lot of time to edit. His first drafts had to be well prepared, written and then published. His walks were work apparently! He also gained inspirations from the current life going on while out and observing. But apparently his walks were detrimental to his work. I’d love it if you could do the writing routine of a popular contemporary Australian Author like Richard Flanagan, Tim Winton or Liane Moriarty!
I just stumbled onto your channel and have been binge-watching your videos. I love learning about your writing journey and all the work that goes into it. As an avid reader and someone who dabbles in writing herself, learning the routines of different authors is super intriguing. I also love the sound of your keyboard. What kind is it, may I ask? I'm looking forward to seeing your other videos on the writing routines of different authors.
This is such a nice routine! Yes that's a stupid comment from the podcasters. I'm a doctor and have many patients who couldn't physically do anywhere near that. It's a great aim, but people should be encouraged to do what they can within their abilities, time pressures and responsibilities. I do think UA-cam has helped massively though as people can work out at home, for free 😊 I'd really like to see Hillary Mantel's writing routine 😊
First of all, I hope that all of the stuff that is currently causing you stress is getting better soon. It sucks when everything seems to come down at once without any relief. Second of all, in a weird way it's quite calming to know that you seem to have trouble with getting into Spiegeltent. I'm also in a bit of a middle project after finishing the one that I'm querying with (although I've decided to rewrite that again as well lol) and even though I'm heading towards the end, the first 80.000 words were like pulling teeth. I don't know if it means that the story has a bunch more layers that I'm going to discover when rereading it for draft 2, but it's exhausting. But at least I can say: Keep at it, you never know what the story turns into.
it has become clear to me that rich writers have different schedules than non-rich writers. and another theme emerging is that exercise, as you say, is just as important as setting and keeping writing times. devotion to your art is rewarded just as much as devotion to each other in a marriage.
Maybe she should do the writing schedule of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, back when he created Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was constantly having to scrimp and save in his previous medical practice, and according to the biography of his that I read, his eye doctor practice was a failure. Fortunately, he invented the greatest detective in crime fiction history (or at least the most enduring one), and the rest, as they say, is history.
Delightful as always! I’m pretty sure you haven’t done these writing routines yet, so I’ll throw ‘em out there: Margaret Atwood and/or Joyce Carol Oates? 📝 Cheers!
My writing style is writing with pen not typing on computer, when I was married my husband had to move to another country and I still alone with a little daughter so I have much time for me, so I started writing at 7:00 P.M. after my daughter going to sleep and i wrote until 3:00 A.M. so I didn't surprised that this style still work, I feel passion writing with a pen 🖋️.
I share a birthday with charles Dickens, so I love his works. My favourite book by him is David Copperfield. Also, I recently went for drinks in his old bedroom. I'm not joking. One of the Inns in Lodnon where he used to write, the room has been made into a function room. The bed is still there: facing north.
Would love to see a day in the life of you again! Do you still juggle a full time gig? If not, what's changed? You are a big inspo to many fellow aussie writers!
Hi Christy! I love your channel and your writing routine videos! I am brazilian, so I would love to see you trying the writing routine of our most renowed writer: Paulo Coelho. That would be a good one ❤️
Well, as a novice writer, I would be very happy if you could make a video of your routine for us (like famous writers). Besides, I think the elevator’s door signs are poorly designed. It’s not your fault. Because I have pressed the wrong buttons too many times.
You’be been working on project teacup and im looking at an ad right now as im watching your video for a movie called Teacup 😅 im sure it’s completely different and unrelated…can’t wait for your book to come out!!! Best wishes!!! im back after watching the trailer and no thank you very much i’ll pass ✋🏼
Looking at the routines of famous writers, both historical and modern day, as well as the routines of not-so-famous authors I encounter online, I've noticed a couple things that crop up again and again.
1. Writing for 3-4 hour blocks, usually in the morning, followed by some activity that doesn't require a lot of mental focus. Often they'll come back and write more after a few hours break. No one writes for 8 hours straight!
2. Walks. So many writers go for walks! Some do it as a regular part of their routine. Others do it when they get stuck in their writing, struggling with a plot beat, or maybe just a problem paragraph or bit of dialogue. As their mind wanders and they "zone out" during their walk--blamo!--the solution comes to them. I think any kind of menial task that allows your mind to wander can be really helpful. Housework, for example. But walks provide the extra benefit of improving your mental and physical health. Sadly, walks don't get your floors clean. 😭😆
@@ComedorDelrico absolutely. Also that they made their routines fit what seemed to be their natural rhythms of energy which will help with creativity. So often we force ourselves into a stereotypical 9-5, successful creative people seem to be able and willing to do something different.
@@AmsNl2BcnEs So true!
Walks are magical for me. I could sit and spend any number of hours obsessing over characters and storylines, but a good walk beams great ideas in from the cosmos. Truly amazing.
Sometimes even writing 200 or 300 words a day is enough.Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, on average. Consistency is key!
@@MatejaDesigner but what words they were! The essence of dreams and world created with just a turn of phrase. May he always have peace in the black desert under the endless night.
Gosh, I currently live in a house where he wrote A Christmas Carol. He used to stay here with two other famous authors.
That's really cool!!!
@@fizzing_lizbee my neighbour (the original house was split just before WWII) is writing a history of the house. He discovered where Dickins got the idea in the book to give Tiny Tim a turkey. Dickens was stuck at Reading station and saw a food cart outside selling cooked chicken. He got out, bought one and headed up the hill to his friends house (this house). The lady that had the house built wanted it to be a retreat for writers. Coleridge and Wordsworth also used to stay here to write. And here's me struggling to write my first book! lol
That's one of the coolest things I've ever heard. A Christmas Carol is my favourite story. Good luck with your book. :)
Omg that's so incredibly cool!!
This is wonderful! I hope that Dickens sprinkles a little literary magic on you… and inspiration strikes! ✨ Good luck with writing your first book, x
They really were just out there strollin' in the 1800's.
Harry Lloyd who played Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones is a direct descendant of Charles Dickens. He did an excellent narration of Great Expectations which you can get on Audible.
Didn't know that (I love Harry Lloyd in GoT), thanks!
@@lagadema16 ua-cam.com/video/N6NB2TNMtxs/v-deo.htmlsi=neBtuOo735VfLlk3
Oh wow! I had no idea! That's so cool! That also makes me a little sad though that he didn't play Dicken's in The Man Who Invented Christmas! Missed opportunity!
Agreed, I'm a big fan of his and his narration is fantastic
I had the biggest crush on him in the Robin Hood BBC show when I was a kid - he has a great voice for narration
I love these writing routine videos! Would you ever consider doing C.S. Lewis' routine? He talks about it in Surprised By Joy, and it's fascinating because he was also a student during that time
Yes please🎉
1. Your glasses are really neat! 2. I had to laugh when you started talking about your keyboard sound because I had JUST thought to myself, "Wow, that is a really thocky keyboard!" LoL I, too, have gone down the keyboard mod rabbit hole. You really lucked out with that keyboard, it sounds great!
thocky is a great word! lmao, i had the same thought that the keyboard sounded magnificent.
Honestly, three hours of walking would be such a dream
Yes! To have the luxury of being able to take that much time to just walk and not feel pressured to cut it short because of chores or a job would be the most amazing feeling.
As someone who has always wanted to read Dickens despite my initial doubts and limitations, I just got 'Bleak House' for my birthday this month and I am loving it so far!! You can definitely feel Dickens' life throughout his works.
If you’d like a recommendation for your next Dickens, Great Expectations is *perfection*. It’s one of my favourite books.
It’s very accessible - compared to some of his lengthier books - and the story and characters will stay with you.
@@pimmspimms5462 Thank you for the recommendation!! I will definitely put it on the Christmas list.
@@pimmspimms5462reading that right now
He's so entertaining and edifying. I love him. I'm not a thick-book reader.
@@pimmspimms5462agree
His writing routine is close to mine. Two hour walk in the morning. Then breakfast and coffee. Then writing in two hour blocks.
So many little things made this vlog relatable. The steam out of the dishwasher, the hunt for the water bottle, the challenges of starting a new project. It was all so familiar. ❤ Thanks for sharing this routine with us! As a stay at home mom of four, I definitely can't do five writing hours plus 3 walking hours although it sounds like paradise:) but I really enjoyed getting to see the routine. I love getting to see how different people throughout modern history have gotten their books written (which if you think about it...5 hours of handwriting still isnt necessarily that much work done, depending on how you hand write).
Goodness it was so nice to hear that you also struggle writing sometimes, especially after starting my zero draft of my work and feeling like it’s all trash
03:15 the time lapse of the city with the construction cranes looks amazing! for some reason I am mesmerized by the moving cranes 😂
It was so interesting to see an older writing routine in the modern day!
Yes! Absolutely!
absolutely loved this christy! please never leave a video without your cooking or making tea, i really loves those parts of your videos!
The sound of your keyboard was so wonderful that I finally bought one myself and it made me giddy to hear the sound of it in person. Thank you for introducing it to me!
I really need to rewatch "The Man Who Invented Christmas" (the story of how Dickens conceived and wrote A Christmas Carol) - I loved it the first time around 😊
I can't express how much I love the sound of your keyboard, it;s so satisfying. I love watching you while I write
I’m the opposite, I can’t write on a keyboard-it’s pen to paper with me, I enjoy the scratching sound-I have good penmanship and favorite pens; one being the pilot precise V7 rollerball pens. Walking is great-I can walk all day. I enjoyed watching your video.💙.
Adelaide is a great place. Enjoy your time there. Visit the botanical gardens when you get time. Great place to write
Oh my goodness, the sound of your keyboard is just delightful. Thank you for sharing your writing journey!
I love these routine videos, the context, and your approach to them 😊
This is entirely unrelated to this specific video but I remember you recommending “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” and I finally started it…I’m absolutely obsessed!!
We are just getting autumn weather in the UK and I'm so motivated to get back to having a morning walk. This summer has been harsh, and I found your channel while looking for vlogs to motivate my writing habit. Thanks for sharing ☺️
I would love to see Ray Bradbury's!
I can't believe! You're back. You make my morning Sunday better 🇧🇷
As a chronically ill disabled person myself, I probably would have felt like throwing my phone into an abyss if I had been listening to that podcast with their very black and white ignorant ableist views. Just wow. But that aside... lovely as always to see a video from you, Christy!
Sounds like the Huberman Lab podcast to me. He has a lot of takes like that and most of it seems to come from being an academic who mostly talks to other academics and business owners. I'm a grad student without children and I certainly have more control over my day than others and I can make time for five hours of exercise a week. He's a professor with some other random business ventures who seemingly only hooks up with people and doesn't even have a stable relationship. Of course he has that time. Cal Newport is similarly annoying to listen to. Perhaps even more annoying since he has a wife and 4-5 children and refuses to accept that his wife being a stay at home and him paying for housekeeping helps him enormously in being able to be productive while parenting.
They also promote this kind of health and wellness scrupulosity that seems to trigger OCD like behavior in some of their audience because the advice they give is so rigid. Cal will even give all of these dire threats and warnings for if you do something imperfectly it will basically ruin your entire day and therefore your whole month and probably the rest of your life.
Would love to see an L.M. Montgomery writing routine if there's enough info out there! Her work is some of my favourite:)
Can you do a video about Franz Kafkas writing routine? :)
Pleeeease, do Shirley Jackson. I don't know, I really think it suits you. It's also an old writing routine. Not very old to be honest, but old enough. ❤
I have just recently found your channel and now I am binge watching everything. These routines are my favourite! Your videos definitely help me to manage my anxiety and I love to play them in the background while illustrating/painting. Keep up the amazing work!
I love your writing routine videos, they always give me inspiration and motivation in my writing journey 😊
The sound of your keyboard is so satisfying (I liked the older one too). The best thing about the mechanical keyboards is that you can change the switches to your liking :) I've loved this video as always, and you make me wanting to go for walks more frequently. Next it would be nice to see J. R. R. Tolkien routine!
I always get excited when you do a new video in this series! Thank you for the time and research you put into these videos 🙌
My favorite UA-camr and writer Christy Ann Jones ❤
my favorite youtuber! 💖💖🫶🏻🫶🏻
I’d love to see authors that have more realistic routines from before they had the privilege of writing from home without another job. I commute 2 hours each way to my 40 hour a week job, so writing is always an “if I have energy on the weekend after my house is clean and I’ve meal prepped for the week” activity.
If I had to add 5 hours a week of exercise into that, oof! 😂
I've been trying to start a novel recently and I've been struggling in terms of starting, stopping, chucking thousands of words in the bin, etc., and it really helped to hear that your process is similar. I'd been feeling guilty and inadequate as a writer, so thank you for sharing your process with us
I love this type of videos from you. Writing routines are my personal favourite, especially because you do them so well. Keep up the good work! ❤
I would love to see Gabriel García Marquéz's writing routine! 🤎
These are my favourite videos!! Ahhh can't wait to watch
As someone with a similar writing style to yours (often starting over several times and struggling at the beginning) this feels validating. In that I may actually be a writer, which sounds silly but... I worry about if this thing I love is something I'm wasting my time on. And seeing that someone else who I see as succeeding in writing is doing a similar thing feels validating in my own pursuits.
Also, I have built my own keyboard and it is an addicting business. I love my keyboard... and want to build a new one so, stay out of that as long as you can XD
Her videos validate me so much
Great video! I tried to write 4 hours at one time, but I ended up procrastinating and going on Instagram instead. Now, I write only 200-300 words a day, and I am happy with that for now. I think the most important thing here is consistency!
@ChristyAnneJones Thank you for linking the keyboard! I ❤ the way it sounds while you’re typing 😊😊
Noticed how nice the new keyboard sounds… I might have to add this to my wish list for Christmas… had to go back a few vids to hear the old keyboard … it’s really not that bad. Sounds normal. But the new one sounds amazing
I think it would have been so interesting to write by hand, I find it becomes such a different creative project that way! That being said I completely understand your reasons for not doing it 😂
I write by hand obsessively, including sometimes for drafts, but my thoughts flow so rapidly that I often need to migrate to the computer before I run out of enthusiasm. I do almost all editing on the computer.
A lovely routine, but like you say, it's just not feasible on a daily basis. I'm lucky that I get to work outside, I couldn't imagine going back to working in a building 😅
Hi! I'm so glad you mentioned struggling with spelling and having all of the markers for dyslexia because I'm in that same boat. I've been told by several that I should avoid a writing career. Regardless of that, in addition to currently working on creative writing projects, I do have multiple degrees and currently teach language arts. So all is well, but it has been quite the internal struggle throughout my life. Perhaps you'll see this. Perhaps you won't, but if you do, please know that the passing statement you made about spelling and dyslexia meant a great deal to me as a writer as I do consider you to be a pretty put together writer.
Thanks for this Christy, you’re amazing the way you present and do these! Charles Dickens is one of my favourite authors alongside, CSLewis, Enid Blyton and May Gibbs! Fun Fact from reading a biographical book about him - Dickens was meticulous in his planning and spent time walking to work out his plot lines because he had monthly deadlines ie The Pickwick Papers were published monthly and so he did not have a lot of time to edit. His first drafts had to be well prepared, written and then published. His walks were work apparently! He also gained inspirations from the current life going on while out and observing. But apparently his walks were detrimental to his work.
I’d love it if you could do the writing routine of a popular contemporary Australian Author like Richard Flanagan, Tim Winton or Liane Moriarty!
Glad to see another Enid Blyton fan. Still enjoy reading 'The Famous Five'.
I just stumbled onto your channel and have been binge-watching your videos. I love learning about your writing journey and all the work that goes into it. As an avid reader and someone who dabbles in writing herself, learning the routines of different authors is super intriguing. I also love the sound of your keyboard. What kind is it, may I ask? I'm looking forward to seeing your other videos on the writing routines of different authors.
You have such a great way of making our city look so pretty. I love Adelaide.
When you said "this is a very solid mandarin" Did you mean solid as in firm, or solid as in good? i must know the answer to this question .
Solid as in good 😊
This is such a nice routine! Yes that's a stupid comment from the podcasters. I'm a doctor and have many patients who couldn't physically do anywhere near that. It's a great aim, but people should be encouraged to do what they can within their abilities, time pressures and responsibilities. I do think UA-cam has helped massively though as people can work out at home, for free 😊
I'd really like to see Hillary Mantel's writing routine 😊
I would love for you to try Agatha Christie's writing routine!
New keyboard, new project! I'm excited for you ❤
I love these! So fun and interesting.❤
You are a joy to watch 🪶
First of all, I hope that all of the stuff that is currently causing you stress is getting better soon. It sucks when everything seems to come down at once without any relief.
Second of all, in a weird way it's quite calming to know that you seem to have trouble with getting into Spiegeltent. I'm also in a bit of a middle project after finishing the one that I'm querying with (although I've decided to rewrite that again as well lol) and even though I'm heading towards the end, the first 80.000 words were like pulling teeth. I don't know if it means that the story has a bunch more layers that I'm going to discover when rereading it for draft 2, but it's exhausting. But at least I can say: Keep at it, you never know what the story turns into.
I love your writing routines’ videos!
I find walking exhausting. I enjoyed your video and the sound of your new keyboard. All the best with your book, Christy!
I love this series!
I would absolutely love you to make another 1 hour of ASMR typing with that new keyboard, it sounds so pretty ^_^
it has become clear to me that rich writers have different schedules than non-rich writers. and another theme emerging is that exercise, as you say, is just as important as setting and keeping writing times. devotion to your art is rewarded just as much as devotion to each other in a marriage.
Maybe she should do the writing schedule of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, back when he created Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was constantly having to scrimp and save in his previous medical practice, and according to the biography of his that I read, his eye doctor practice was a failure. Fortunately, he invented the greatest detective in crime fiction history (or at least the most enduring one), and the rest, as they say, is history.
OMG! That Totoro mug is soon cute!!!!
I just love your videos, i'm also a writer here in brazil and its such a joy to watch and be inspired by you!
my writing routine is thinking about how much i should be writing until its 10pm and the whole day was spent on school, work, or youtube :/
Same, friend, same 😢
I love your clicky-clicky keyboard!
Delightful as always! I’m pretty sure you haven’t done these writing routines yet, so I’ll throw ‘em out there: Margaret Atwood and/or Joyce Carol Oates? 📝 Cheers!
Also Shirley Jackson ❤
I loved this video! I always love your writing routine videos.
Ha ha ha, I'm glad you had a nice chill one that you could enjoy ✨
I LOVE this series of videos ❤❤❤❤❤❤
That keyboard click 🫠
Dickens used what he saw during his walks to populate his books.
My writing style is writing with pen not typing on computer, when I was married my husband had to move to another country and I still alone with a little daughter so I have much time for me, so I started writing at 7:00 P.M. after my daughter going to sleep and i wrote until 3:00 A.M. so I didn't surprised that this style still work, I feel passion writing with a pen 🖋️.
Adelaide sounds so lovely. I'd love to visit one day!
I share a birthday with charles Dickens, so I love his works. My favourite book by him is David Copperfield. Also, I recently went for drinks in his old bedroom. I'm not joking. One of the Inns in Lodnon where he used to write, the room has been made into a function room. The bed is still there: facing north.
Wonderful!
Would love to see a day in the life of you again! Do you still juggle a full time gig? If not, what's changed? You are a big inspo to many fellow aussie writers!
First video of yours I have come across! I wasn't expecting you to say North Adelaide!! Fellow Adelaidian here :)
Hi Christy! I love your channel and your writing routine videos! I am brazilian, so I would love to see you trying the writing routine of our most renowed writer: Paulo Coelho. That would be a good one ❤️
Thank you for the realistic comments on some of these ridiculous expectations of fitness influencer type people
I actually miss the old key board. I loved the sound it made 😅
"You want to be a writer, but your handwriting looks like chicken scratch" is the joke I always got.
I love your new keyboard! What did you get?
edit: I could have just waited lol
I work in North Adelaide! So strange to see it in a youtube video, it is such a pretty area :)
Wake up wake up!!! Christy uploaded!! 🎉❤
Lol the steam 😂. I love your bobble cardi! And is that a pop keyboard? I saw those in JB Hi Fi, they feel so comfy. ❤
Oops, spoke too soon. You went on to describe it etc.
Omg my favourite
I also just got a new keyboard from the same company! I got the F99. Mine sounds a little creamier and it scratches my brain in just the right way.
Finally, u post. 💞✨
OMG! Where did you find this Totoro cup??? Pls i need to know :)
Hey Christy! Do you have weekly goals when you're working on new prose? Like a set number of words or hours. Thanks and I love your videos. ❤
I'm curious about your process for "throwing away" pages and early drafts - do you keep it somewhere? Do you mine it for anything later?
Well, as a novice writer, I would be very happy if you could make a video of your routine for us (like famous writers). Besides, I think the elevator’s door signs are poorly designed. It’s not your fault. Because I have pressed the wrong buttons too many times.
I'm going to try this. Thank you for the video. I'm trying to write my first book, and I get stuck all the time
I have the same keyboard, it’s sooo nice 😭❤️
after watching all of these routines, I'm wondering about your own routine, I don't know if there's a video about it
That keyboard sounds so creamy! Beautiful.
nice keyboard. where did you get it? :) im a new fan here!
That's a LOUD keyboard! 🤯
do you know where you got that cream and rainbow cardigan from? it's so pretty !!
It's from Princess Highway 😊💛 (I got it many years ago, but most of my jumpers are from there)
You’be been working on project teacup and im looking at an ad right now as im watching your video for a movie called Teacup 😅 im sure it’s completely different and unrelated…can’t wait for your book to come out!!! Best wishes!!! im back after watching the trailer and no thank you very much i’ll pass ✋🏼