The thing I like about being in Australia is that these summer videos will still be here ready for me to watch again whenever I'm ready when it is summer, plus the bonus of seeing how other people's summer went to learn from for mine
I unplugged from the internet for more than a year. Came back because I needed help with writing my book. To be honest, I forgot about this channel and searched on youtube for help. I got ideas yet still lead me not very far. Because I was subscribed to your channel, YT recommended this video today, and I was so excited! You helped me start writing in the first place. I am thrilled to see you go through the OG stages again, as I am currently there now. Also thrilled to hear where you have been over this past year and what you've accomplished so far. Congratulations are surely in order, yes writing several books has got to be refreshing, yet your still doing the hard work. Much Love as your the best channel for writing advise on UA-cam, ~*Shana, family of 5.
I love that you address teachers. Ive tried quarterly planning, but it always gets messed up by the school year. Instead, this year, I've decided to plan in trimesters. Summer, fall semester, spring semester. It makes the year nice and neat.
I was thinking that your trimester planning would work soooo well for anyone who has someone in school as summer life is so different from the rest of the year... even our bed times are different. And college life really changes from semester to semester as some classes require more outside classroom work than others. 💖🌞🌵😷
@suzisaintjames The thing that I've found is that the quarters feel weird to me. July 1 is the middle of my off time, not a beginning feeling. Jan 1 is still a beginning feeling because of the new semester, but may is an ending and August is a beginning. The thirds work well for planning things like holidays and shopping too. It didn't make sense to me to split my summer in half.
@@dianawelch399 , sarra always says take what works for you and leave the rest. After college, I always worked in accounting which revolves around taxes (quarterly business taxes). So quarterly business planning totally works for my mind. But with school out for summer, it just wasn't meshing. After reading your comment and thinking back to a time when things were meshing, trimester planning is where I'm going for my personal life. Thanks, you made a difference. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourself and each other 😷.
@@suzisaintjames hearing her say that was the first time I felt I had the freedom to break away from "typical" planning and make my layouts work for me. It blew my mind!
My very first (finished!) novel is with my editor (me! Having an editor!) but I have been quietly cooking up a second in the last few months. This is my push to move from plotting to writing! ❤ thanks so much!
Thanks for providing such a useful summer writing resource! I just downloaded the HB90 goal planner from Etsy, so I'm learning how to use that, and will also print this. General question for the whole class lol: does anyone know of any great black gel ink refills for the Simply Gilded pens like the one used here?
Yay, thank you!! My family and I loved using your Summer planning guide last year. My kiddos' last week of school is next week and they were just asking when they get to fill out their Summer Wish Lists. Its so much fun to sit down and Plan together as a family 🥰
Can't wait for your future videos! Could you do one on how you choose your titles for your series and also the titles for each book in the series? Thank you for developing this writing community, It's amazing!!! :)
Summer plans are to finish my current 150k W.I.P and get it to my editor by the 22nd of July. I'm going to be cutting it fine, but I will be using hb90 to plan and help me get it done in time. x
I'm a huge fan of Wreck this Journal. Many Years ago when it first came out I did a Hello Kitty themed Wreck this Journal and posted it on Flickr. I met a lot of great people doing that. I even had a friend who did a wreck this journal birthday party which was a lot of fun. I think you and Andrew will love it :)
I love these planning videos! They're so motivaing to me! I hope you do a plotting video for mirror of shadows🤞-I love your plotting series, but am struggling to plot short stories, like a novella. Thank you for the fantastic content Sarra!🍒
wreck this journal! yes do it! it is so good! I am working on my ^M$L workbook tonight and may redo HB90 this next go also. I will check out this workbook it might be more what I need to not feel so overwhelmed right now with too much. A nice short summer plan! Thank you !
I’m very excited for Vanessa Shaw! I’ll definitely order a hard copy and have a friend from the US bring it over for me when we meet in Europe later in the year. Good luck with the edits, beta readers and publishing. 😅 My writing goals: 30k by End August, and intend to write 2000 per writing day July and August.
I plan on writing a novel based on the feedback from 3 beta readers who said my short story should be a novel. I’m so excited. I’ll have to leave the mystery series I’ve written in hopes I can obtain a book deal with the novel. Thanks for the summer workbook 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I would love it if you could do a video on how you decide on the titles for your novels. I see that you know the titles years in advance of finishing them in many cases. I am working on the third act of my first novel for self publishing (and yes, I took the Publish & Thrive last year and will be reviewing it again in the coming weeks) but I still don't have a title for my novel. I have a list of six or seven potential titles but I'm not in love with any of them. How do you figure it out? I'd love a deep dive video on this topic. Thanks!
At the beginning of Q2 my main project was to finish my rough draft. Now I honestly don't know if its going to happen, especially since I'm having an unplanned knee surgery in the middle of the month, but laying it out like you do in this video did gives me some hope that maybe I won't complete my project exactly when I was hoping I will still be able to make good progress. Thank you so much as always for being a rock star! Also, are you running P&T in July? Or did I get that wrong?
Sarra I love your content I need a bit of advise about editing. Is Beta Readers or Ream good place to start when starting to start have my next book edited professionally. I'm on a tight budget but would like an editor to proof read it and go over the story to make sure that it based accurately of as it is written based on and around when we had lockdown because of COVID. Thank you in advance for your help x
❤ my writing goals this summer: finish book 1 draft and keep working on book 1 first draft/transcribe it to my pc) hopefully can also start book 2 "outline"/zero draft😅
I just recently found your channel and love all your planning videos. Actually found you through your Notion tutorial which was AMAZING!! I’m tempted by HB90 but the website says it’s geared toward writers. I’m not a writer so would I still get a lot out of it?
The thing I like about being in Australia is that these summer videos will still be here ready for me to watch again whenever I'm ready when it is summer, plus the bonus of seeing how other people's summer went to learn from for mine
I unplugged from the internet for more than a year. Came back because I needed help with writing my book. To be honest, I forgot about this channel and searched on youtube for help. I got ideas yet still lead me not very far. Because I was subscribed to your channel, YT recommended this video today, and I was so excited! You helped me start writing in the first place. I am thrilled to see you go through the OG stages again, as I am currently there now. Also thrilled to hear where you have been over this past year and what you've accomplished so far. Congratulations are surely in order, yes writing several books has got to be refreshing, yet your still doing the hard work.
Much Love as your the best channel for writing advise on UA-cam,
~*Shana, family of 5.
I loved Wreck This Journal! "To create is to destroy" is one of the best and most freeing things I've ever heard.
I love that you address teachers. Ive tried quarterly planning, but it always gets messed up by the school year. Instead, this year, I've decided to plan in trimesters. Summer, fall semester, spring semester. It makes the year nice and neat.
I was thinking that your trimester planning would work soooo well for anyone who has someone in school as summer life is so different from the rest of the year... even our bed times are different. And college life really changes from semester to semester as some classes require more outside classroom work than others. 💖🌞🌵😷
@suzisaintjames The thing that I've found is that the quarters feel weird to me. July 1 is the middle of my off time, not a beginning feeling. Jan 1 is still a beginning feeling because of the new semester, but may is an ending and August is a beginning. The thirds work well for planning things like holidays and shopping too. It didn't make sense to me to split my summer in half.
@@dianawelch399 , sarra always says take what works for you and leave the rest.
After college, I always worked in accounting which revolves around taxes (quarterly business taxes). So quarterly business planning totally works for my mind. But with school out for summer, it just wasn't meshing. After reading your comment and thinking back to a time when things were meshing, trimester planning is where I'm going for my personal life. Thanks, you made a difference. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourself and each other 😷.
@@suzisaintjames hearing her say that was the first time I felt I had the freedom to break away from "typical" planning and make my layouts work for me. It blew my mind!
@@dianawelch399 , just remember there's no planner police. There's no consequence... You have absolute freedom for you to be you! 💖🌞🌵😷
Writing goals: to finish my book within the next few weeks, be done with editing this summer, and publish in time for the holidays! 🦄
Even though it's not summer here I still love watching these planning videos. Every time it motivates me to get organised.
This is SO awesome - thank you, Sarra!! Can't wait to kick off Q3 in Bootcamp; this is great prep work for that process. Thanks for sharing!
I'm excited! It was so fun to spend time with you last week!
@@HeartBreathings You did an amazing job - and you give GOOD HUG! 💕
I started adding the stories of my 2 pen names on Ream Stories, and I love it. I'm following you over there. Can't wait to see what you have planned.
So fun!
You're exactly where you're supposed to be ❤ it's inspiring how you always move forward and reset! Thank you for sharing yet another free resource
Thank you, Sarra! Here’s to a fun and feel-good summer for us all! 🙌❤️🌞🍉⛱️😎
I did “Wreck This Journal” with my grandkids one summer. I keep it next to my desk with other books. Such happy memories ❤️
Thanks again Sarra! 25k words, 85 days * 3.5 hr per day = 298 hrs for the winter! Woop
thank you for the workbook! I'm so excited to fill it out and to attend my first bootcamp next week!
My very first (finished!) novel is with my editor (me! Having an editor!) but I have been quietly cooking up a second in the last few months. This is my push to move from plotting to writing! ❤ thanks so much!
I ❤️ your summer writing plans! It's what got me started writing 5 books ago! 🍒
My summer writing goals: finish the rough draft on my current WIP, do the read-through, and start revisions/ second draft. Also, take P&T!
Excited to learn about Ream and your approach to it!
Thanks for providing such a useful summer writing resource! I just downloaded the HB90 goal planner from Etsy, so I'm learning how to use that, and will also print this. General question for the whole class lol: does anyone know of any great black gel ink refills for the Simply Gilded pens like the one used here?
Yay, thank you!! My family and I loved using your Summer planning guide last year. My kiddos' last week of school is next week and they were just asking when they get to fill out their Summer Wish Lists. Its so much fun to sit down and Plan together as a family 🥰
Plus I'm super excited for the release of the Disappearance of Vanessa Shaw🥳!💜🍒💜🍒📚💜
Excited for the book AND the Ream subscription!
DOVS sounds so amazing! Very excited to read it! 💙💙💙
Thank you so much!!!
Can't wait for your future videos! Could you do one on how you choose your titles for your series and also the titles for each book in the series? Thank you for developing this writing community, It's amazing!!! :)
These are videos inside my Publish and Thrive course but I will definitely consider creating something for you here too!
I love the new writing office makeover ❤
Sarra, I'd love for you to talk about what an Episode means to you?
Summer plans are to finish my current 150k W.I.P and get it to my editor by the 22nd of July. I'm going to be cutting it fine, but I will be using hb90 to plan and help me get it done in time. x
looking forward to the publishing videos! Would love to hear tips for self publishing when you don't have a large audience or building your audience
Hey Sarra! In South Africa we have three weeks school holidays (Jun/ July) so of course, the tips are also very useful for us! 😉 Thank you! 🍒
I'm a huge fan of Wreck this Journal. Many Years ago when it first came out I did a Hello Kitty themed Wreck this Journal and posted it on Flickr. I met a lot of great people doing that. I even had a friend who did a wreck this journal birthday party which was a lot of fun. I think you and Andrew will love it :)
Happy summer!
This format was the same type of plotting chart they had my cohort complete for writing our master’s thesis is grad school. ✍🏾
Wreck this Journal is amazing for thinking out of the box and self expression. The key is to have fun with it!
Thank you for this! I'm excited to get my summer planned out :) Your hair and makeup look great today!
I love this so so much!!!! Downloading papers now!!!!
Thank you for sharing so much with us, Sarra!
I love these planning videos! They're so motivaing to me! I hope you do a plotting video for mirror of shadows🤞-I love your plotting series, but am struggling to plot short stories, like a novella. Thank you for the fantastic content Sarra!🍒
We are already setting heat records in Phoenix. Hopefully, it won't be too bad when you are here!
My plan is to finish my current WIP. Yay, can't wait for TDOVS! Good luck with Ream. I'd love to see more craft vids - GMC. Have a great summer! ❤
wreck this journal! yes do it! it is so good! I am working on my ^M$L workbook tonight and may redo HB90 this next go also. I will check out this workbook it might be more what I need to not feel so overwhelmed right now with too much. A nice short summer plan! Thank you !
I haven't been this hyped for summer since I got out of grade school 😂 I wanna make GOALS!
Sidenote, your hair looks great in this video!
I’m very excited for Vanessa Shaw! I’ll definitely order a hard copy and have a friend from the US bring it over for me when we meet in Europe later in the year. Good luck with the edits, beta readers and publishing. 😅 My writing goals: 30k by End August, and intend to write 2000 per writing day July and August.
I definitely have been having less time to write and edit my books. So I’m looking forward to the summer where things are a little chill for me.
I plan on writing a novel based on the feedback from 3 beta readers who said my short story should be a novel. I’m so excited. I’ll have to leave the mystery series I’ve written in hopes I can obtain a book deal with the novel. Thanks for the summer workbook 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I would love it if you could do a video on how you decide on the titles for your novels. I see that you know the titles years in advance of finishing them in many cases. I am working on the third act of my first novel for self publishing (and yes, I took the Publish & Thrive last year and will be reviewing it again in the coming weeks) but I still don't have a title for my novel. I have a list of six or seven potential titles but I'm not in love with any of them. How do you figure it out? I'd love a deep dive video on this topic. Thanks!
pretty sure she has a video on it
Love this so much, thank you so much💗💗
At the beginning of Q2 my main project was to finish my rough draft. Now I honestly don't know if its going to happen, especially since I'm having an unplanned knee surgery in the middle of the month, but laying it out like you do in this video did gives me some hope that maybe I won't complete my project exactly when I was hoping I will still be able to make good progress. Thank you so much as always for being a rock star! Also, are you running P&T in July? Or did I get that wrong?
Sarra I love your content I need a bit of advise about editing. Is Beta Readers or Ream good place to start when starting to start have my next book edited professionally. I'm on a tight budget but would like an editor to proof read it and go over the story to make sure that it based accurately of as it is written based on and around when we had lockdown because of COVID. Thank you in advance for your help x
I'm also so stoked for the Disappearance of Vanessa Shaw!
very good
Ohhh July release… for my birthday! lol🎉
I'm trying my best to manifest a publisher and/or agent over summer and fall. Fingers crossed!
❤ my writing goals this summer: finish book 1 draft and keep working on book 1 first draft/transcribe it to my pc) hopefully can also start book 2 "outline"/zero draft😅
im planning to finally draft my novel this summer, mostly in july! this is the first time ive tried in like 8 years lol
Does anyone know if you’re able to go to inkers con for just the one day? I just want to see Sarra!
I just recently found your channel and love all your planning videos. Actually found you through your Notion tutorial which was AMAZING!! I’m tempted by HB90 but the website says it’s geared toward writers. I’m not a writer so would I still get a lot out of it?
Yes you would. A lot of content creators who are not writers use HB90 too but it also works for private or business stuff!
I use HB90 also for my regular day job, where a lot of thinking and business and process development is needed.
Can you do a video on how to find a legit editor
Wow first comment 🎉❤
This is great!