hey guys today we're talking about how I went from no book no author platform and
no writting friends to becoming a full time writer completing a draft and a
half of my debut novel and building a platform of over 2,000 writing friends
in one year first of all if you're new here welcome my name is Brittany Wang
I'm an author of an upcoming why a fairy fantasy series and on this channel I do
videos about author platforms writing tips writing community and my author
journey just like in this video so if that sounds good to you definitely
subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss anything well it's officially 2019
you guys and like many other author tubers I was going to kick off the year
by sharing with you my 2019 writing goals but since I recently passed my
one-year mark of joining the online writing community I asked a bunch of you
on instagram if you would like to see me sort of go through the highlights of
this past year to show you exactly how I got to where I am today and a bunch of
you we're really excited about it so I decided to hold off on sharing with you
my 2019 writing goals until next week probably and first do a sort of year in
the life of writing my first book and building my author platform I also
wanted to do this because I know for myself that I can get so future focused
and quickly move on to the next thing without fully appreciating where I've
been so I'm really excited to take you through some highlights on my bullet
journal and also my Instagram account to not only meditate for myself and all the
things I can be thankful for but also share my story and hopefully inspire
some of you guys at the same time okay so let's get started first of all I just
want to show you my two different bullet journals this is from last year and this
is gonna be 2019 and I'm gonna be showing you everything that is in this
bullet journal so far in next week's video when I talk about my 2019 goals
but inside this well-worn one is going to be my story from this year so let's
break into it alright so let's start at the beginning if you didn't know already
this time last year I had a part-time job but I was also getting really
excited about delving back into the fiction world and
writing my first book so in December I decided that I was going to start on
Instagram and get connected to some other writers particularly my friend
Bethany Atazadeh who I had found on there and we actually met while we were both doing
music in college and so that was like so many years ago and now to find each
other online again both sort of starting to pursue writing careers was just so
uncanny and so cool and she has started doing a Instagram challenge around the
end of December beginning of January and I was like okay you know what I think I
need some friends I think I just need some support as I start in this journey
so let's do this and so that was my first post on Instagram and then I got
really inspired by Bethany and was like you know what she's created such a cool
community by doing an Instagram challenge and there seems to be a lot of
writers here on Instagram so I'm going to create my own challenge and I created
a month-long challenge called the hashtag clutter life challenge it was
all about plotting your novel in a month so I started off that got a bunch of
people excited really tried to just DM people and get to know them a little bit
and invite them to do the challenge with me starting in January but I started
sort of announcing it and talking about it on the 29th and we'll get to more of
what that turned into in a bit then on the 31st I decided that my word of the
year was going to be brave and that the word brave was really going to catapult
me into finishing this work-in-progress that I had sort of been playing around
with for years but had just started getting serious about and it is a fairy
fantasy for young adults and you guys I'm gonna get into more of where I've
gotten to with that but I literally at this point maybe I have like a chapter
and that chapter isn't even in the book anymore
so yeah I've come a long way so I'm excited to show you how it's sort of
taken that word brave and it really has infested itself throughout the year then
January hit and I started the plotter life challenge officially and through
that I started to meet so many writers that I am dear friends with to this day
including Bruna who is the writer's journey on Instagram she has actually
become one of my CDs and so has Bethany so it's just so cool to see at the start
of last year how these friendships have grown and how vital they have been to my
progress as a writer which we'll get into then on the 6th I did my first
Instagram livestream and I was just really inspired by seeing other people
do live streams and getting a bunch of people to chat and engage not just on
the comments of posts but to really have a lot of fun in real time and actually
do a lot of live streams on this channel as well now I did like live streams all
the way I think from like the end of November to December this past year and
that was super super fun it's just a really amazing way to get to know people
and to build community and so I started doing weekly live streams for the plot
or life challenge and we got to really chat about all the different daily
challenges and how we were doing with our plotting and it was just the best
and again I just have so many friends that are still with me to this day
because of hosting this challenge then on the 18th I got my first post to get
over a hundred likes so I'm gonna be telling you a little bit yeah about my
writing journey but also my author platform journey so this is where I
really started to get like traction right off the bat especially by hosting
a challenge and really building into the writing community and so that was super
encouraging and then on the 27th I just want to highlight that I shared the
first lines that I had written for my work in progress and I just noted here
that they're totally different now but it was such a big step for me to take
those first lines that I was working with and share them and get some
feedback and it was just a really cool then on the 29th I started the plotter
life writers Facebook group because our plotter life challenge was finishing up
and I didn't want to say goodbye to all these people or lose contact so I
actually started a Facebook group that is
going on today and I'll tell you how that is going and what cool things are
coming up as we go on but the plotter life writers Facebook group has just
been amazing this year and I'm so glad that I started that as a continuation
after January and I just want to add in here this is something that I'm gonna
probably say at the end and really emphasize as well but you guys one thing
that I have so learned on this journey is that it takes a village to write a
book and it really it takes a village to be a writer because it can be so
isolating so one of my big takeaways has definitely been that you need writing
community to really enjoy and make the most of this writing journey and there's
a ton more that I'm going to show you so let's keep going then February came
along and on the 4th I did the word sprint challenge with Bethany which I
just continued to sort of engage whether I was hosting a challenge or doing
someone else's challenge again community was so so important and so so
encouraging on the 26th I actually started being involved in the author
influenced course which is a course by out of the backs who is also on YouTube
but also on Instagram and she created this fabulous course for writers that
really wanted to stretch their influence particularly on Instagram so I actually
took a lot of her advice and started doing more flat lays on my Instagram and
creating like a theme and a consistency and got started to get over like a
hundred likes and a bunch of engagement on each post that I made which is crazy
so if you guys are looking for help with your platforms specifically on Instagram
I would definitely check out this course and I'll link it below so that you can
check it out next on the 28th I decided I was going to engage in camp Nano for
the first time and with that I decided to create another challenge and I
created hashtag camp Nano boot camp and so that was a really really fun and so
in March we started camp Nano boot camp and I actually ended up hosting a cabin
in the plotter life Reuters Facebook group since I didn't really like
format of having the cabins on the official website I really wanted to have
as many people in this cabin as possible and not have a limit so we did that and
that was really fun I have a few things in here too that are just fun like on
the 14th I started reading the Harry Potter series for the first time and a
bunch of you are probably gonna be like what are you crazy you've never read it
but I've seen all the movies and I loved the movies but I had never read all the
way through the book series so I started doing that on that day and then I also
started sort of looking more into plotting and different things so I had
back here had really gotten a good chunk of my plotting done for my work in
progress but I was still working through a lot because my book is sort of turning
into at least a duology and it has a lot of main characters so a big cast and
just a lot of complexity so it was taking me a while to really get it
plotted so I started learning about the save the cat beat sheet here and through
sort of talking about this and being involved in my camp Nanna boot camp and
stuff like that I started getting connected to people on
Instagram like RGD writes and Carlie buck cook and against these ladies are
some of my closest friends now so it's again just communities so important you
guys the 26 I started reading six of crows which was one of my favorite books
that I've read this year and around that same time I also went to New York to the
teen author festival where I got to meet Kim chance who is being featured there
as well as Megan Lacroix and Ameri authoress who is on Instagram in my
friend Micah and it was just so cool got to really visit with these ladies and
engage in person and so if you guys are finding community online great but I
would also really really suggest that you invest in going to some of these
live events because literally the connections I've made at these things
have been life-changing these women are amazing and I just am so glad I got to
meet them in person and then at the end of the month I actually decided that I
was going to be a beta reader for the first time and started being Bethany's
beta reader for her sequel pearls number and that was just a funny
and I was sort of back and forth a little bit about it just because I was
like well I should be focusing on my own book but I really felt like I learned a
lot by being a beta reader and it also helped me prep so that when I'm going to
be doing beta readers actually hopefully in a couple months I have that
experience of being one so I knew what to sort of explain to my beta readers or
how to bring them through that process so that was super super valuable and so
much fun then in April I started my first camp Nano so that was really
awesome and then I also started my Twitter account I had spent a few months
on Instagram and I knew that there were also a bunch of writers and also
literary agents on Twitter and so I felt like I had really established a lot of
great friendships and a lot of great community here and I wanted to sort of
start branching out and I would really suggest that for any of you who are
starting out as well that you would really take like one platform and really
build yourself into that community and then you can branch out to others then
also during April there was a micro story contest going on on Instagram and
this is another great thing that happens on Instagram from time to time and
writing Laura Ferrari and Ricci were hosting this one and I was doing camp
Nano but I was sort of frustrated and just needed a break so I decided to
enter this micro story contest I think it was like a hundred words or something
you can find it actually on my books page on my website because I ended up
winning this micro story contest which was crazy and such like an encouragement
and even if I hadn't had one I really had a lot of fun writing this micro
story so if you ever need like a break from what you're doing in order to
breathe new life into your writing process just take like a hundred or 200
words and say I'm gonna write a short story right now and I swear it like
breathes so much life into my creative process during that month then I just
noted a couple other things like I took my first official author headshot which
is the one that is currently active right now by my brother and matted
pictures who is amazing things back and then I just also wanted to note that I
started reading children of blood and bone which was also a best read of this
year and really influential in my writing as well in addition to six of
crows so I just wanted to note that and then I also
read To Kill a kingdom which I absolutely loved as well these are like
three like major highlights of this year for me
and then while I was reading that I was on vacation in Florida which I wanted to
note because I went to a Harry Potter world and it was amazing you guys I have
a whole highlights on my Instagram dedicated to my trip if you want to take
a look but it was so so much fun and just got me that much more excited about
finishing my book all right now let's move on to this second page in May and
the first thing we have here is that while I was reading children of blood
and bone I actually invited the rest of my plot or life writers Facebook group
to join me in reading it and we did a book club and it was so fun because we
were not only sort of explaining what we liked about it but what we thought about
it as writers and the craft of writing and I actually have a series coming up
about story structure and it's going to be a collaboration with one of my dear
friends so I'm really excited about that you guys but doing this book club was so
so much fun and I felt like I really learned a lot as a writer by doing it
that I just wanted to know that on my Instagram I was just celebrating that it
was my three-year anniversary with my husband Ben and if you guys haven't seen
all of my videos or my posts Ben is just so so so important and I hadn't even
gotten to this place yet where I had become a full-time writer because I was
still in this place where I was working my part-time job but he has always been
such a great support and is the biggest reason why I've been able to go to
full-time writing and with his support I decided to start my author tube and this
was something that I was doing a ton of Instagram lives and people have started
asking me hey do you have an author tube or you should start one and I had
thought about it for a while and I just knew it was gonna be a big commitment
but then I said yes I'm going to do it and it's been so fun
obviously I'm still here and at this point I've grown to over 800 subscribers
which has been crazy and I'm just just blown away so thank you guys so much for
supporting my channel and being a part of this journey with me next I put up my
other two trailers so that's how I started my author tube
and then I just noted I started reading save the cat officially for the first
time so over here I had just sort of looked up the beats online but you guys
the book had it so so much more in it and then there's also another book that
I'm gonna I think I know at some point later that I started reading save the
cat writes a novel which was just like the next tier of just so focused on
novel writing and so revolutionary you guys if you haven't picked it up you
definitely should but I started reading that as a novel craft book and then on
the 24th I posted my first writing help video which was all about writer's block
so if you guys have any trouble with getting through writer's block my first
two videos on this channel ever besides my trailer is all about that with all my
tips so that's actually sort of funny they like go back and watch it year
later and be like oh my gosh then on the 26th I participated in my
first ever pondering writing retreat which was started by a huge group of
writers but particularly by Bruna who I mentioned over here the writers journey
on Instagram and you guys it is a free writing retreat that happens over the
course of like a day or a couple days over the weekend periodically throughout
the year and this was the very first one they had and I was so honored because I
was invited to do a livestream on there so it's a series of live streams on all
different writers accounts some of them are word sprints and a bunch of them are
like writing help topics and so that was really fun so I got to do one with Bruna
and we did our first plotter mastermind and the masterminds are basically a time
where we invite people to join us live to discuss plotting and also bring our
plotting issues that we're having our story issues and be able to help each
other and brainstorm together to get past our stuck places so this has been
really fun as well then we have June and in June I went to my second live sort of
read early write early event called book con in New York and it was epic as I
have written I got to meet Mandy Lin in person for the first time as well as Jo
willow and Kristen Martin but particularly I got really close with
Mandy after this and we ended up finding out that we
like an hour so away from each other so it's been really cool to just build
friendships with her and be able to do book book on with her was just a joy it
was so much fun this is definitely event I want to do again this year so if you
guys are going to book on definitely let me know because I think I'm gonna try to
plan some kind of meet-up especially for the plotter life writers Facebook group
people and just pick a time and a space sometime that weekend and say everybody
that is around like show up at this time and let's meet up and chat for a little
while during book on so let me know if you're deciding to go to that and then
next I have that I announced my second camp Nano cabin because camp Nanna was
gonna start up again so we hosted that again in the flower life writers
Facebook group which was great and then I started sharing about my series Bible
at this point and I have a video where I not only there's one video where I share
how I made my series Bible like binder sort of like a physical way and then I
have a second video where I show you how to create a digital series Bible that
you can take anywhere as long as you have like a phone or a computer or
something but the series Bible has been so pivotal in my plotting for my story
and again I'm still sort of in a plotting stage where I've written a
little bit during camp Nano I can't I didn't win camp during this part but I
did write a lot but then I was sort of reap lauding refiguring stuff out and
the series Bibles totally helped me out so I'll link those videos below if you
want to check them out and then I just put little markers in here like this was
my first time to get over 200 likes on Instagram so that was really fun and
then July hit and July is when the second camp Nano started this was where
I was like you know what I'm just gonna keep it really simple quote-unquote
simple and make my goal like 20,000 words and I actually ended up winning
camp Nano for the first time and it really was you guys because I had so
much support from the writing community the cabin in the plot early writers and
I just it kept me so motivated to see all the posts that were going on so that
was super fun and again I've written more this year consistently
than I've ever written in my entire life and it's literally because I've had so
much support and finding the writing community so that was awesome then as I
said before in my series Bible video and that video now has over two thousand
views which is crazy so I'm super excited about that so
obviously that's really helpful if you guys need to check that out and then I
started thinking about pitch horse at this point and pitch Wars was at the end
of August you guys so I don't know what I was thinking
but I just made this outlandish goal that I was going to enter pitch Wars
even though I didn't even have my first draft finish it was crazy but what it
did do you guys is I got farther on my project than I would have if I didn't
have like some kind of specific goal like that
so spoiler alert I didn't make pitch Wars this past year but I did make so
much progress on the 26 I started a new theme on Instagram which I just noted
and the power of themes you guys I have consistently gotten over 200 likes or
more on all of my posts since again starting the author influencer course
and sort of really delving into like developing a theme for my Instagram and
really making the descriptions engaging anyway I could talk about Instagram a
lot actually I did a collab video with I write early all about Instagram and
Twitter so I'll link that below as well but yeah so just noting little like mile
markers in my platform and then at that point I've also announced meeting and
surpassing my camp Nano goal and I also won a 50 page critique and a call with
an agent from Melissa hopes contest who is hopeful happenings here on YouTube
but also on Instagram and yeah so that was like super exciting I still have yet
to send Melissa my 50 pages to critique because I want to get it into a better
spot but that's that and then I did get that agent call as well and I'm looking
to do a video at some point to share with you guys what I learned through
that call with that agent cuz I just got to ask any questions I
wanted which was super awesome I also announced that my other website was
coming soon so this was sort of a point you guys we're in here I had decided
while talking to Ben and figuring out all the details that I was going to go
full-time as an author I really felt like I had made just so much progress
with my platform and with my writing and I just like was
so motivated that I was like this is what I meant to do my creativity had
always been more music and writing lyrics I had also written a lot of
fiction when I was younger but I had just steered more towards music and at
this point I was just like this I'm having so much favor and so much fun in
what I'm doing that this is what I'm gonna go after and I'm
super excited and so I was like the next step is I need to be more established
and I want to put together an author website so that's why I announced there
and then I announced that I was stepping down for my day job at the end of August
and I was going to become an author full-time so so starting in December I
would never have guessed that by July that's where I would have been but
because of the writing community and because of parce I mean and because I
had talked to my wonderful husband who was like yes like basically we had a
deal that if I could find some way to work from home and make a certain amount
of money per month that we would be okay we worked out our budget and and I could
pursue writing and other side projects and yeah so that was crazy because in
August I got my author website live and started my newsletter so if you guys are
interested I always share a bunch of really great stuff in my newsletter and
that will be linked below but my author website went live and then I shared
wanting a writing coach on Instagram because I just had so much going on that
I was like I need someone to like organize my life so actually Jade yung
on Instagram reached out to me at that point and she was like um I'm a writing
coach if you want to work with me so I was like okay so Ashley have a
whole video about my experience with her and it was awesome and just super super
helpful and motivating all the tips that I have learned from
her I've been using to just make more and more progress so thank you Jade then
I just noted that I had another plotter mastermind at this point and Bruna and I
started taking on Carly book cook and sci-fi oh my who is Jamie on Instagram
and so yeah just collaborating I'm gonna show you guys later how many people have
collaborated with over this year so it wasn't even just being in the community
but actually collaborating with people and learning together and sharing things
together has been super crucial I also collaborated with Bruna in hosting
finished that draft on Instagram it was a challenge that we were just like dude
we are gonna finish our drafts if it kills us so we wanted to finish that
draft by the end of August and both of us did and a bunch of other people did
it with us which was great um this is the one downside I just wanted to note
but I didn't make pitch Wars but I did make so so so much progress which was
invaluable alright next page and I swear there's only this page and some of the
major highlights that I'm going to share at the end but in September I announced
that I finished my first draft and it was such a milestone you guys I couldn't
believe it I had made it from start to finish and it it had holes in it it
wasn't perfect but I did it and to actually say that I've done that like so
many people go out with that goal and never get there and so I was really
really excited and I'm so thankful to all my friends and the support that I
had from all my platforms and you guys on YouTube it was so cool to just
announce that in one of my videos and get all of you guys so excited with me
so thank you then I also hosted edit that draft with Bruna which was super
fun to sort of follow finish that draft with edit that draft and we're still
sort of in edit that draft but that's okay we're making progress and that's
what matters on the 7th I started hosting my own micro story contest with
Reed see oh my gosh it was forgot about that
yeah so Reed Z and hosted the contest that I won and then they had reached out
to me later and said hey would you like to host a contest on your platform so
that was really cool and really fun to like be able to give back in a way that
like had sort of blessed me earlier in the year so that was awesome and then we
started hosting some events in the plotter life writing community on
Facebook one of them being a CP finder event so a bunch of people were talking
about how they needed to find critique partners and so me and then my team that
I had started putting together for the plot our life writers group because it
had gotten so big and a little overwhelming for me to handle on my own
I had Natalie cam maverick and Alex all come on board with me and help me create
this amazing CP finder event where a bunch of people found their critique
partners and we're probably going to host another one so if you need a
critique partner at some point this year we will probably host this event again
and help you find your perfect critique partner so definitely consider joining
the Facebook group then in October prep tober began and in the plotter life
writers Facebook group we hosted some prep Tober events to help people prep
and I also noted that I think one of my Instagram posts reached five hundred and
twenty likes so again just sort of marking those different milestones and
then on the eighth we announced that we were going to not only host a cabin for
NaNoWriMo in the plotter life group we're gonna host a Harry Potter themed
nano house cup cabin which was super fun I have a video about that that I'll link
below too but it was just really cool because we split up into the different
Hogwarts houses and competed to see which house would write the most words
in the month so that was really motivating and I'll get to that in
November but additionally in October I also did a author coach giveaway with
Jade young so that was really great again for Jade to help me out so much
but then for me to also do a giveaway with her to bless somebody else with her
amazing help so that was really fun and then I also wanted to note that this is
where I started reading save the cat writes a novel because it did come out
in October and you guys again just GameChanger you need to read it then we
get to November and I swear you guys we are almost done thanks for sticking with
me if you're still enjoying this video and you're still here with me
thank you so much give this video a like if you're enjoying it and if you aren't
already definitely consider subscribing because I have so much more goodness
planned in 2019 but let's keep going through here in November on the first
NaNoWriMo began and you guys I have never won NaNoWriMo I've tried it in the
past again without writing friends without a lot of support and I could
never make it through but this year spoiler alert I did and we also had our
nano house cup going in the applauded life writers group and so that was super
motivating as well but NaNoWriMo began and I also I don't know why I did this
at the same time but I had been brainstorming how I could start helping
the writing community even before I had a book out in some way that was unique
to me and I realized that I had had a lot of
success with my author website and a lot of authors were really struggling with
their websites and at the same time I really needed to start making a little
side money so that I could help support our household so even though I didn't
have any books out and I couldn't be making any money off of them at the
moment I realized that I could help others with their author website so I
launched my services and if you are wanting to create your own website or
you need help improving yours or you would like me to create it for you I
have a bunch of services that I'll link below and this was really fun and
awesome I actually got to work with Melissa Hope and EC Woodham on Instagram
and create their websites and launched with their websites already created as
examples so that was awesome and then by the 29th I had announced that I won Nano
for the first time ever and that was during a live sprint that I did with
Bethany here on the channel so that was really fun so if you want to see me
actually the moment that I win NaNoWriMo and I sort of celebrate it's at the end
of this video so that was really cool and at this point I had already had a
first draft done of my work in progress so at this point I had written 50,000
words of my second draft but I was only halfway through the book so my second
draft is halfway complete at the end of November
then we're almost caught up this is December so just last month and on the
first I started hosting an author website boot camp for about 19 authors
that really wanted to learn how to create their websites for themselves so
that is wrapping up this week I'm super excited to do a video and show a bunch
of you some of the websites that these amazing authors have created and the
books that they are working on but that has been a whole project in and of
itself and at the same time I've been starting to share my chapters of the
first half of my second draft with my cps brunette and Bethany and so I've
been also critiquing theirs as they've been giving feedback on mine and me
doing some edits so you can tell them I'm very busy girl but it's all a bunch
of fun but there is going to be a level of me needing to focus a little bit more
on certain things in 2019 which I'll talk about in next week's video cool so
that is the full year and then I just wrote out a bunch of highlights that I
just really wanted to remember for myself without having to look through
all of this but these are all the things that I accomplished this year guys I got
to write my first draft and get it done for my writing sort of goals I got the
first half of my second draft done and I won camp NaNoWriMo for the first time
which was so I was so over the moon about that because I started sending
chapters to my critique partners for the first time which has been such a great
experience in and of itself and I might do a video on that later too I started
collecting beta readers and I have over thirty people interested and this is
because I really again built up my platform and made writing friends and
built up my newsletter subscribers cuz a lot of these came from my newsletter
recently so that was awesome and then I won a micro story contest which again
was just like a really cool boost in the middle of the year then for social media
and sort of my author platform overall I went from zero to one thousand five
hundred and ninety three followers and this is all by like December 21st so
they actually have a little bit more than that now in all of these but it
took me about twelve months to get to this point
for YouTube I went from zero to 805 subscribers in seven months so that's
been amazing thank you all and there's actually even more of you I think I'm at
like 827 today or something so thank you so much all of you that have subscribed
it really means a lot to me then for my Facebook writers group we're at about
five hundred and sixty four members in about ten months and this group has just
been again amazing love you all thank you all that are in here and there are
more things that we're planning for this group this year so get excited for
Twitter and that 475 followers in eight months and then I did a bunch of collabs
with a bunch of great authors over these past 12 months and some of those have
been Melissa hope from hopeful happenings
Peggy Spencer mag Latour from I write early our duty rights
Mandy Lin Jade young Bethany out asada Bruna from the writers journey on
Instagram the pondering writing retreat karlie book cook sci-fi oh my writing
Laura Ferrari and read see and even more so this is again been just like a great
part of sort of getting together with other writers in the writing community
to help the writing community and these connections and these friendships have
been amazing so I just want to say a huge thank you
to all of you that have either reached out to me to collaborate this year or
agreed to collaborate with me and it's just been so much fun I love you all and
then last but not least I have my author website and my newsletter and I have
about five hundred and thirty seven subscribers in about five months and
then I have my author website services and just if anyone is looking to start
yeah some kind of side business in addition to writing books I was able to
make over two thousand dollars in just two months
I had three websites created and launched by the end of the year two
websites in the works three scheduled for next year and actually have a couple
more now and then I didn't hosted my boot camp I had about 19 participants
and so those are going to be launching very soon and then I had a bunch of just
consulting calls which are about an hour for me just helping others who want to
improve their website and I had about six calls for that so I'm just really
excited I wanted to have some kind of record and just highlight of this
incredible year you guys and I had a couple of things that I just wanted to
say we're like my biggest takeaways and so for you guys I really want to say
first like I said before start small like I started on Instagram
with just a couple months and really delving in to building relationships and
helping other people and taking an interest in what they were doing and
starting some of my own things and so start small and really build into one
community and sort of go from there and then in the beginning I said yes a lot I
really needed to experiment and figure out for my platform
and my writing and my writing process I did a video all about my writing process
so far and the things that I've learned that I want to continue doing and not
doing so I said a yes to a lot of different projects and a lot of
different it just endeavors so I needed to experiment I had a lot of fun with
that but it was a lot so this year I really need them to learn to say no a
little bit actually I think you just saw Kim has Kim chance has done a video on
saying no and so I'm not gonna say no to everything but I just know that I need
to narrow down so but in the beginning when you're first starting out with your
platform and getting to know other writers like feel free to say yes a lot
you won't know exactly where your niches or what you want to focus on until you
sort of experiment but then once you find your groove you gotta learn to like
narrow down and say no because you really need to keep writing first I
probably could have written and got a gotten farther on my book if I had not
done some of these things but at the same time I so needed this community and
I so still need to develop these relationships but now I think I need to
yeah it's sort of have writing be even more of the forefront and so don't
forget to keep writing first because at the end of the day like that's the
ultimate goal is to write the book and publish the book so keep writing first
but networking and making friends is priceless seriously you guys have you
taken nothing else away from this video I hope you take that away and always
keep learning being teachable the reason that I think
I've just done so much and like made so much progress is because I knew I
couldn't do it alone I knew I didn't know everything and I needed help and I
wasn't afraid to ask for help whether it was with writing and getting critiques
and getting feedback or it was with figuring out my other platform and what
the heck I was doing with that so those are my biggest takeaways that's sort of
a year in Review a year in the life for me going from again no book no writing
friends no author platform to all of this and I'm super excited to see what
happens next year I hope you guys had a ton of fun watching my journey
definitely let me know down below when did we get connected are we just meeting
right now or did you come into contact with me through one of the challenges or
one of my groups or how did we get connected I would love to have sort of
record of that in the comments as well in addition to this video that would be
so fun but I hope if nothing else that this inspired you that you can make a
ton of progress in a year with your writing with your platform and just with
these big takeaways of the building writing community I hope this was
helpful I'm super excited to share my goals next week and I have a bunch of
other great videos for you in the coming weeks including some bullet journal
videos and story structure videos let me know in the comments that there's
anything else that you really like me to talk about this year or focus on and if
you'd like to connect with me more obviously I have all my social media
that is down below as well as my website and my newsletter thanks again so much
for watching and for supporting my channel and until next week happy
writing
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