Oh my gosh please do Jane Austen next! Walking in gardens, plucking away on a piano for inspiration, writing snarky letters to your siblings talking shit about all your neighbors 🤣. Plus you can reuse your quill!
@@KateCavanaugh I've actually done Austen's routine as an experiment of my own. It's really interesting. From the routine I compiled, it feels like an oddly relaxed, yet busy day. There's even recipes online of her (apparent) ink recipe she used, so you could give making it a try. She also hand bound her own journals to write her drafts in during certain periods of her life. Really, it is so interesting to look into.
Next Halloween, you should do a Mary Shelley writing routine and lock yourself and some friends in a cabin to write spooky stories together (and just to be clear this is mostly a joke, though it does sound kind of fun lol)
Many of the people who dislike Shakespeare dislike it because they're dragged through it in high school instead of seeing it performed by people who are GOOD at it. I was lucky, For anyone who can, if you're in range of people who do specifically Shakespeare professionally (Ashland, OR, for instance), it is REALLY worth it. The physicality of a good actor conveys sooo much that the disconnect many people have with the language is vastly minimized and the pain reduced or erased. For a really excellent movie verseion, and if you are okay watching a horror movie, try Sir Patrick Stewart's version of MacBeth.
100% I hated Shakespeare's until my drama uni degree and that's because I only studyed it in English class. Shakespeare isn't meant to be read. It's meant to be heard. Shakespeare didn't write books, he wrote plays.
@@myadultlife220 This was one of the most frustrating things in school. So many of my English teachers would say his plays are meant to be seen not read and then continue to force us to read them. Like, yes absolutely give me his sonnets, but leave the plays to the drama department or supplement the play reading by showing us performances as well
@@tgrebnesor glad it wasn't just me. My English a level had me write about how I would stage a play... Why is that on the curriculum? I was fine as I also took drama but I felt sorry for those who hadn't studied drama before or that have never seen a play. Leave plays with drama! 100%
I actually drastically prefer reading Shakespeaere to watching people act it out lol. The reason why I like Shakespeare is because I read it it my Lit class in A Level and I had a great teacher and class. Maybe it's because I haven't watched the right people (though they were professional actors, and one was with Patrick Stewart) but I honestly had way more fun reading it. Watching it was just kind of overwhelming.
As someone with a masters in Shakespeare Studies I really appreciate this!!! And he definitely collaborated a lot on his works, like parts of Macbeth were [probably] written by Thomas Middleton!
Wow, this is a very hard routine - I get up at 5:15ish for work and I need a nap by, like, midday most days. Could not do a 4:45 wake up sustainably! But when I think of Shakespeare, the first thing that comes to mind is "chaos gremlin" because all of his plays (especially his comedies) that I have read are so insulting to everyone and everything. It was my favorite thing to learn about him. Also - I've read a few of his plays as straight printed plays and graphic novels, and always loved the graphic novels more. Second only to performing it!
Being from England myself there's no way he was working by the "morning light" at that time! I think the BBC are lying to us. It's so dark. With our constant rain, cloud cover and one whole week of summer I'm surprised Twilight wasn't set here 😅
Maybe it's climate change lol but the 4 years I lived there (2016-2020) the spring and summer were actually pretty pleasant and the summer was even kind of unbearably hot. There was light by pretty early but def not consistently enough for it to have always been his writing routine.
@@Lisa_Flowers I’m a weakling when it comes to the cold 🤣 the only thing I find unbearable here is the humidity. I definitely belong on a tropical island and would probably still find it too cold haha Yeah sunrise is early in the summer and generally starts getting light about 4am but right now (as an example) it’s currently 6:50am for me and the sky is only just lightening outside and it’s cloudy and drizzling. I think if I was around in those times with this dark and dreary weather plus living in a drafty house, I’d have to hibernate lol
I live not far from where Shakespeare lived and in the summer it's light by 4am but not really light in Nov til 8. Much easier to do morning light in the summer
During quarantine, a bunch of my theatre friends got together and we read every single Shakespeare work over Zoom- all the plays (including Edward VI, which might be his but maybe not), all the sonnets, and his two narrative poems. I got to play Hermia from Midsummer and Rosalind from As You Like It, who were already dream roles, but Paulina from Winter’s Tale turned out to be my favorite! …but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Shakespeare is “God, I Hate Shakespeare” from Something Rotten. It’s instantly stuck in my head.
That's a stunning pen. I'm impressed with your dedication to stick to the challenge and write by hand all day. I'm not convinced that morning beer is a bad idea, how could it be! (This may be my Irish genes talking)
Many people in Victorian time had biophysics sleep. Where they would sleep during the night for about 4-6 hours and then get up for about 1-4 hours before sleeping for another 2 hours. Leaving 17-12 hours in the day to get your other work done. It's supose to be more efficient.
Wait... mild confusion. Victorian refers to the reign of queen Victoria, 1840ish-1901ish. (Those are just the dates off the too my head.) Shakespeare was 1600s. Queen Elizabeth loved his work. Just wondering. Sorry if I'm reading this as you mistaking the dates when she might have mentioned the victorian era or sleeping patterns or something. I'm only halfway through the video.
Shakespeare was also an actor. This assumed writing routine would have been for when he was in the country with Anne, not when he was in London. A London writing routine would have had to include rewrites (all plays get rewrites once they're in rehearsal for the first time), rehearsal, and performances. Fun fact, Shakespeare originated the role of Hamlet's father's ghost.
I would love to see you get some more quills or drip pens. Though I would recommend getting a better one since espacially later on it will be really worth it. We here in Germany were forced in primary school to all get a fountain pen and to learn and write with it and it does take a little bit of time but if you suffer through that first bit and really stick with one pen the tip of the pen slowly adjusts to the way that you are holding it and it gets really smooth and soft to write. I really couldn't imagine not having my fountain pen. I think I've been using it for nearly five years now and I've written all of my examens with it. What I am personally using is the Lamy AL star foutain pen out of metal, becuse it's just less likely to break than if you get a plastic one and the price is also more on the affordable side and when you really take care of your pen it holds you a long time and is really worth it!
When I was about eight years old, my mother took me to see a local community college production of, A Twelfth Night or What You Will. After the play, an older man who was sitting in the row in front of us turned around and thanked my mother for bringing me. He told her he knew when to laugh just by listening to me. For years we would take groups down to Ashland for the Shakespearian Festival.
A Midsummer's Night Dream was the only Shakespeare play that I LOVED reading. Romeo and Juliet was fine. Macbeth was fun. Much Ado About Nothing made me want to rip my hair out lol. But Puck's closing monologue from A Midsummer's Night Dream is and will always be one of my favorite parts.
I was the nerd who took the Shakespeare elective in high school. I know that Julius Caesar was one of the plays we studied because that's what I wrote my final paper on.
Idk about Shakespeare, but when you started diving into the minutiae of how you wanted to phrase a thing (“a friend” vs. “best friend”), I was 50000% in. More of that, please!
Such a great video! Im norwegian, and we werent forced to read Shakespeare in school, so I found him by myself. Ive read all but his historical plays. My favorite is The Tempest, his last play. I think students shouldnt be foreced to read his plays, rather I think they should watch movies like Baz Luhrmans "Romeo and Juliet", because they will understand him better that way, and not end up hating him. He didnt write novels, he wrote plays, and they are two different things.
Definitely. I went to the same high school as Baz Luhrmann! I like his R+J version, it helps people appreciate Shakespeare. We need more Shakespeare films with that energy.
I think one of the most incredible thing about Shakespeare is that we know so little about him in any way, apart from what Jonson wrote about him in the first Folio (and that he left his wife his second best bed), and unlike his contemporaries, I‘m looking at you Kyd, Marlowe and Spencer, he could write so politically but stay out of trouble. As for who should you write like next, I think you should try Glasgow Noir legend Ian Rankin, there is a BBC Imagine documentary from the early 2010s called Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective which follows him as he was writing Standing in Another Man‘s Grave. I watch it at least once a year and the last few times I have thought to myself, Kate should do this! Even if you don‘t it‘s absolutely worth a watch.
I was never forced to read Shakespeare in school, which I’m thankful for. I came across his works by accident and I fell in love with them. I think it’s so cool you tried his routine! 😍
Omg sincerely was not expecting that shoutout lol. (This is my real comment haha) I think the perspective on writing plays as a “popular” format can change a lot on a person’s given experiences, obviously plays are a huge part of my life since I’ve done so much theatre & had my start in playwriting. It makes sense that so many others wouldn’t value or think of plays as still such a large part of the writing industry especially if you’re accustomed to writing novels & short stories! It’s interesting to see that there can still be that divide between the two literary formats when they’re a lot more similar than people think. BUT onto Shakespeare haha I loved this video and waking up at 4 am both terrifies me and excites me lol. Great job!! And my favorite Shakespeare play is Henry VI Part 2. I will die on the hill that Shakespeare should be seen and not necessarily read like it’s been taught in a lot of English classes - theatre is always the more effective art form for Shakespeare!!
I brought a feather quill pen this week for my own writing. It arrived on Monday just gone and so pretty. Looking forward to the weekend which will be my first chance to use it properly.
I love Shakespeare, and am a shameless nerd - I was that kid in high school who'd already read the complete works four times by the time Romeo and Juliet came up in English Lit class. Honestly, one of his best plays is Richard III - Richard is probably the best villain in any Elizabethan play, and there are wonderful scenes where the women of history get some truly get features. Heartily recommend! Love this video, you are incredible and motivate me to write even when I'm too exhausted to sit up!
Ahh!! It's the breakfast beer! As far as the Quill and ink... That little ink pot brings so much anxiety! I've spilled mine, accidentally put my pinky in it, and got the ink all over my fingers. Worst part, it never comes out. From last year, I spilled ink on my pants... The spots are still there. Memories, though, memories. lol
I had to read one of his plays each year of high school. Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Macbeth, in that order. (I hated The Taming of the Shrew so much. He wrote some great plays, but that one is better off forgotten.) Hamlet was my favorite by far. I also enjoyed Macbeth. My junior year, my English teacher was also my drama coach. That play, my character was only in the first act, so I just hung out for the second act of rehearsals. During a second act rehearsal, I was reading Hamlet. I was like a week ahead of the rest of the class because I was enjoying it so much. I came across the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. I had heard it referenced before, but I had never put together that it was about suicidal contemplation. I immediately asked my teacher if I was reading it right and she confirmed it. This soliloquy was so powerful for me. I have struggled with mental illness since childhood and by this time had been thinking about suicide for years. It was the first time I read a classic work that had a character with this struggle. I don't know exactly why, but it just made me feel less alone. I went on to memorize the soliloquy and still recite it from time to time. Hamlet was one of the books I had the most positive experience with in high school. Maybe that fact just proves how dark my mind is😂
This was awesome! Waffles and beer for breakfast 😂As a comic book inker, my days used to be spent with brush and quill. I was constantly trying to scrub ink off my fingers. India ink is labeled permanent for a reason…lol!
Loving this video!! When I think of Shakespeare, I think of a show I did in high school theater. We did a Shakespeare version of the Hunger Games and it was so fun! We got to compete at a festival in D.C. at the Folger Shakespeare Library and I actually won an award for one of my monologues.
When I think of Shakespear, I think of me sitting in our cherry tree, reading Romeo and Juliet during summer vacation. Enjoying school required reading for the very first time.
Honestly Romeo & Juliet always pops in my head when I hear his name. My mother bought me a "kids" version of that play and a A Midsummer's Night Dream when I was a child, and I only read--skimmed-- through Romeo & Juliet. Lol! While this was very fun experiment to watch, and I enjoyed the quill, (good luck reading your handwriting later) I missed the clicky click of your computer lol! But as always, I enjoy these videos and can't wait for the next one!
Do you happen to have a link to your fabulous pen/inkwell? I've been using one when I am having trouble getting excited about the writing because it just makes me happy, and I've been on the lookout for new inks/pens to add to my collection. I love changing things up a little bit to shake me out of a writing rut. :)
When I hear Shakespeare, I think A Midsummer's Night Dream. It was the first ever Shakespeare play I read in English, and it was suuuuper hard to understand for someone who had only ever been in contact with modern English. Seeing the film when I had finished a first read-through of that play helped me understand a lot more, and I gave it another read afterwards. Good times.
My first thought when hearing Shakespeare is Midsummer Night's Dream (which is surprising considering I have a WIP that is loosely based on Romeo and Juliet!). The routine looked super fun if exhausting and I have to agree with Wallisimo, do Jane Austen!
this was such a fun experiment! But i dont think i would want to wake up at 4.45am to write...i cant even wake up at 5am...so kudos to you for getting up so early XD :)
Lolol you know what, I actually tried. I tilted my laptop and everything and was like "someone would have to work reeeaaal hard but it could be done." Then again, I didn't think about how atrocious my handwriting truly is bahaha
This looks like so much fun! Congrats to finishing your first chapter/prologue. My introduction to Shakespeare was when I won a prize in a writing contest as a kid. It was a collection of his work, but written for ages 8 - 12. I loved reading Hamlet the most. It's still my favourite play.
EEK THANK YOU. It was so nice getting to write that bit out and made me even more excited for the story bahaha. And omg that sounds like such a cool contest and reward! That's awesome!!
Much Ado About Nothing is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Shakespeare. I remember in high school English class, we all had to memorize the prologue to Romeo & Juliet, and I was the only one who could recite it in front of the class with only one help from the teacher. I still remember bits and pieces.
I want a breakfast beer!!!! Ahh the Bard! I also did A Midsummer Nights Dream in school, and now I am writing a crossover of Dream and Pirates of the Caribbean called A Midsummer Nights Piracy... so I guess you could say I'm a bit of a fan 🤣😂
Taming of the Shrew is my favorite Shakespeare play. I loved reading it in high school. I loved watching the movie (starring Elizabeth Taylor and her then-husband Richard Burton) after reading it. And I loved seeing the Broadway play Kiss Me Kate which incorporates Taming of the Shrew. I just love how Katharina makes Petruchio think he’s won. Also, I wonder if Shakespeare got that morning light around the summer solstice and had to put up with candlelight the rest of the year.
I hear Shakespeare and instantly think of my performing arts high school lol so many sonnets and monologues! The first play that comes to my mind is Hamlet. 🎭
Honestly, my memory of Shakespeare is a mix of theatre class (we did The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)) and English class. I'm a big fan of Hamlet (the line "screw your courage to the sticking place" in Beauty and the Beast makes me smile every time). As long as what I'm reading has a modern English version on the opposite page, I love Shakespeare!
I have a theatre degree, and my love for nonrealism started with Shakespeare. I have nothing but love for the bard 💖 Also gonna use this opportunity to rec Tessa Gratton's high fantasy retellings of Shakespeare plays. I've read The Queens of Innis Lear and have Lady Hotspur. Queens is one of my favorite fantasy books ever, and I'm sure Hotspur is going to be the same. Bonus points for stand alone fantasy novels tbh
My first thought is Romeo and Juliet because that was my mother's idea of a bedtime story. My favorite is either Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh version is amazing) and Midsummer's Night Dream because magic/fairies. What I personally find interesting about BBC's routine is that they don't mention (at least at one point) he had a 'day job' which probably effected his routine. Maybe that took into account with all the walking. I haven't tried to write a play but I've thought about it although if I knew anything about music I rather lean into a musical. If you like the feel of the pen but don't want the mess, switch it a cartritge or chamber (i can't remember the actual name) pen. They are less messy except when you need to fill it. That's what I use and it is great.
Either a midsummers night dream, or the paper I wrote my freshman year about how his sonnet "shall i compare thee to a summers day", is proof on why he was at least bisexual. I got an A on that paper.
I love Shakespeare, and didn't even mind reading parts back in high school, even though I was (and mostly am still) terribly introverted. Of his plays, I think The Tempest and King Lear are underrated - those who don't want to read Shakespeare's King Lear can always read Jane Smiley's version of it in A Thousand Acres, which is also terrific - but I have a particularly soft spot for his Sonnets. The Shakespearean/Elizabethan sonnet to this day remains my favorite type of poem to read and write.
I read Rome and Juliet and Macbeth in school, performed a speech from King Lear for my Acting A-Level, and have performed in Hamlet and Twelfth Night on the stage
I remember my junior year HS English teacher LOVED Shakespeare. We spent a whole quarter on King Lear, watched a movie adaptation, everything. My personal favorite play is Much Ado About Nothing, after reading it in college. I've seen several of the adaptations, but my personal favorite is the staged version with David Tennant and Catherine Tate (100% biased due to my previous love of Doctor Who)!
Oh man, Willy Shakes! Just got the chance to catch up with the vlog and OOOOOF - that beer hurt ME. I did a lot of Shakespeare, considering I was a theatre major in undergrad AND my university has a Shakespeare festival every summer, but I have to say - Richard III man, it's so so so good. I will def say, do NOT read Shakespeare if you can - even reading it out loud is better for enjoyment. Like it's meant to be performed, so go see your local Shakespeare in the Park! As works, they can be quite rewarding in that way. But it definitely helps to see it rather than to read it. Also, thank you for the shout out!!
i love this video and he first thing that pops to my head when you say shakespear i immeditly think of remo and juliet. its my favriout work by him. i had to do macbeth for my gcses and i ahted it but hes an amzxing play write and poet
Ooo cool video! I might have to try his routine to get inspired for my Shakespeare retelling! I LOVE Shakespeare! I'm doing a A Midsummer Nights Dream for Nanowrimo! 😀
What an imagination the BBC has! Henslowe's diary is the best source for how playwriting really happened in that era. Primary source documents establish only that William Shakspere of Stratford Upon Avon was a 1/8 owner in the Globe and a bit player in some plays but "Shakespeare" or "Shake-speare" was a pen name. Works by many writers were printed under that name. For example, in 1599 William Jaggard, who would go on to print the First Folio in 1623, printed 'The Passionate Pilgrim'. It was a collection of 20 poems, of which only 5 are now accepted as being "Shakespeare." Thomas Heywood, who had written some of the 15 others, complained that his work was being misattributed but Jaggard and others persisted in selling known authors' works under the pseudonym "Shakespeare".
Good morning, Kate. So I kind of write like William Shakespeare. I can write lots of short stuff during the day but the novel stuff doesn't come til early evening. I am usually up aroun 5 a.m. but by 8 p.m, my head is on a pillow. lol You could have drank 'rootbeer' lol. Thanks for sharing your experiment Creative Blessings
We're currently preparing to perform Shakespeare's As You Like It with our theater group. I really enjoy it since there's so much fun confusion in this xD
I love Shakespeare's comedies. They are always so full of mistaken identity and ridiculous misunderstandings. If you like As You Like It, I bet you would enjoy Twelfth Night. It's one of my favorites :)
@@bunny_0288 our group actually performed twelfth night too^^ without me though, since I was on an exchange during most of the process, but I did watch the performance. It was great xD
Since you did Shakespeare, does that mean you might try Edgar Allen Poe's routine in the future? I love his work and would love to see what his routine would look like.
The main thing I remember about reading Shakespeare plays in school is that when we read Romeo and Juliet our teacher had us doing so out loud with each person taking a role pausing for discussion every so often. Let's be clear, no one was happy about this, next to no volunteers so casting was a pain and things kept shifting due to absences or whatever. Long story short I wound up reading for Juliet opposite someone I could barely stand at one point. Awkward.
Macbeth and the debate of if he really wrote it (was forced to debate this in middle school) are what popped into my mind. I totally feel tiredness in my eyes (even when I’m not wearing my contacts).
Wow I don’t think I could do 4:45am to 10pm even for just one day 👀 💤 This video was so much fun! I’m not sure if it’s your normal handwriting or if it’s the quill, but the quill-shots make your hand writing look so old-style and pretty!
Did you find writing by hand with a quill changed the length of your sentences, or your word choices, or the deliberation you put into your words, given that the process is physically slower and errors are not so easily undone?
I didn't find it too much slower than normal handwriting except for having to dip the quill in the ink, but I'd definitely say it allowed me more time to think through the words as I wrote. It probably would give me cleaner Zero Drafts than I currently write but also take maybe twice as long total (compared to typing??).
The thing that immediately pops into my mind when I hear William Shakespeare is the dead of having to read all of his "books" in high school. I hated it and honestly think there needs to be less focus on it in English classes. There are plenty of other books, actual book not plays printed into books, that we could have read. Either way, this was a fun little experiment. Kudos to going all out with the feather pen, I would have made an even bigger mess trying to write with that thing, haha. I do love all the walking and outside time mixed into his routine. I often take a walking break when I feel stumped at a particular scene.
I really liked all the walking too!! It makes me actually want to try my hand at gardening for an hour or so a day. Just out there with the plants and my thoughts bhaha. Right now I have a black thumb though so..... And I feel you on that! It made me hate Romeo & Juliet honestly bahaha. I can't separate being forced to read that several times (including all of us doing it in a circle with different parts) and what I might actually think of the piece.
@@KateCavanaugh Highly recommend doing some gardening, you may have a black thumb now but you can work your way up to a green thumb. Plus digging in the soil can be great for this time you need a break or some brainstorming time. If it wasn't cold and snowy here I would be gardening, but alas that activity has been put on hold until next May.
I was forced to read Romeo and Juliet in 8th grade, and then the next time I read it was in 11th grade. However, by that time, I'd properly gotten into writing and reading, so I could appreciate Macbeth. Also, though the Hollow Crown, I got into it, and I've been so amazed by his brilliance because just imagine if you could write as well as him
In regards to your what do you think when you hear the word Shakespeare question, In Junior year, we were reading Macbeth. The script we read from mentioned a song called "Dark Souls" plays as the witches exit. The teacher asked "Ok who wants to sing Dark Souls?" One kid, the class clown type, stands up and starts beat boxing.
Okay, so I've only read Romeo and Juliet, because of high school, but when I was 14, I was in community theater and played Juliet in a play in which all of the women from Shakespeare's plays were spending their afterlife in a psych ward. So that was something...
The thought of getting up and starting to write at 4:45 makes me feel like dying a writing failure would be a more reasonable thing to do lol (I am clearly not a morning person)
Other "I TRIED WRITING LIKE" experiment videos:
Brandon Sanderson: th-cam.com/video/EJfldHXFKk8/w-d-xo.html
Maya Angelou: th-cam.com/video/sFpDoKhr3PQ/w-d-xo.html
Haruki Murakami: th-cam.com/video/uwyTm-QxsPs/w-d-xo.html
Nora Roberts: th-cam.com/video/j7O0OVgkC78/w-d-xo.html
And the whole writing experiment playlist here: th-cam.com/play/PLaxU2rtP-LED5pgNiLhKdZL0Jaf0Roxiy.html
My favorite takeaway from this video. Kate rewards herself for reaching writing goals with more writing. May I one day be so motivated.
You should try writing like Sylvia Plath
Oh my gosh please do Jane Austen next! Walking in gardens, plucking away on a piano for inspiration, writing snarky letters to your siblings talking shit about all your neighbors 🤣. Plus you can reuse your quill!
OMG YES WALLIS. IMMA DO IT. MY DREAM.
@@KateCavanaugh YAAY!!! So hyped!
@@KateCavanaugh I've actually done Austen's routine as an experiment of my own. It's really interesting. From the routine I compiled, it feels like an oddly relaxed, yet busy day. There's even recipes online of her (apparent) ink recipe she used, so you could give making it a try. She also hand bound her own journals to write her drafts in during certain periods of her life. Really, it is so interesting to look into.
@@tabithadeskins2071 Now I'm imagining a collab with Sea Lemon!
@@KateCavanaugh excited for this!!! eek
Next Halloween, you should do a Mary Shelley writing routine and lock yourself and some friends in a cabin to write spooky stories together (and just to be clear this is mostly a joke, though it does sound kind of fun lol)
"Now you must write.....OR DIE!!!"
That is something I would do. Not lock my friends In a cabin. But, doing a Halloween writing retreat.
Many of the people who dislike Shakespeare dislike it because they're dragged through it in high school instead of seeing it performed by people who are GOOD at it. I was lucky, For anyone who can, if you're in range of people who do specifically Shakespeare professionally (Ashland, OR, for instance), it is REALLY worth it. The physicality of a good actor conveys sooo much that the disconnect many people have with the language is vastly minimized and the pain reduced or erased. For a really excellent movie verseion, and if you are okay watching a horror movie, try Sir Patrick Stewart's version of MacBeth.
100% I hated Shakespeare's until my drama uni degree and that's because I only studyed it in English class. Shakespeare isn't meant to be read. It's meant to be heard. Shakespeare didn't write books, he wrote plays.
@@myadultlife220 VERY good point. YES.
@@myadultlife220 This was one of the most frustrating things in school. So many of my English teachers would say his plays are meant to be seen not read and then continue to force us to read them. Like, yes absolutely give me his sonnets, but leave the plays to the drama department or supplement the play reading by showing us performances as well
@@tgrebnesor glad it wasn't just me. My English a level had me write about how I would stage a play... Why is that on the curriculum? I was fine as I also took drama but I felt sorry for those who hadn't studied drama before or that have never seen a play. Leave plays with drama! 100%
I actually drastically prefer reading Shakespeaere to watching people act it out lol. The reason why I like Shakespeare is because I read it it my Lit class in A Level and I had a great teacher and class. Maybe it's because I haven't watched the right people (though they were professional actors, and one was with Patrick Stewart) but I honestly had way more fun reading it. Watching it was just kind of overwhelming.
As someone with a masters in Shakespeare Studies I really appreciate this!!! And he definitely collaborated a lot on his works, like parts of Macbeth were [probably] written by Thomas Middleton!
Wow, this is a very hard routine - I get up at 5:15ish for work and I need a nap by, like, midday most days. Could not do a 4:45 wake up sustainably!
But when I think of Shakespeare, the first thing that comes to mind is "chaos gremlin" because all of his plays (especially his comedies) that I have read are so insulting to everyone and everything. It was my favorite thing to learn about him.
Also - I've read a few of his plays as straight printed plays and graphic novels, and always loved the graphic novels more. Second only to performing it!
Being from England myself there's no way he was working by the "morning light" at that time! I think the BBC are lying to us. It's so dark. With our constant rain, cloud cover and one whole week of summer I'm surprised Twilight wasn't set here 😅
Maybe it's climate change lol but the 4 years I lived there (2016-2020) the spring and summer were actually pretty pleasant and the summer was even kind of unbearably hot. There was light by pretty early but def not consistently enough for it to have always been his writing routine.
Yes especially in the 17th century
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I’m a weakling when it comes to the cold 🤣 the only thing I find unbearable here is the humidity. I definitely belong on a tropical island and would probably still find it too cold haha Yeah sunrise is early in the summer and generally starts getting light about 4am but right now (as an example) it’s currently 6:50am for me and the sky is only just lightening outside and it’s cloudy and drizzling.
I think if I was around in those times with this dark and dreary weather plus living in a drafty house, I’d have to hibernate lol
I live not far from where Shakespeare lived and in the summer it's light by 4am but not really light in Nov til 8. Much easier to do morning light in the summer
During quarantine, a bunch of my theatre friends got together and we read every single Shakespeare work over Zoom- all the plays (including Edward VI, which might be his but maybe not), all the sonnets, and his two narrative poems. I got to play Hermia from Midsummer and Rosalind from As You Like It, who were already dream roles, but Paulina from Winter’s Tale turned out to be my favorite!
…but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Shakespeare is “God, I Hate Shakespeare” from Something Rotten. It’s instantly stuck in my head.
You have cool friends ^-^
@@iiiiitsmagreta1240 I really do!!! We had scheduled readings twice a week and it was so much fun.
That's a stunning pen. I'm impressed with your dedication to stick to the challenge and write by hand all day.
I'm not convinced that morning beer is a bad idea, how could it be! (This may be my Irish genes talking)
Many people in Victorian time had biophysics sleep. Where they would sleep during the night for about 4-6 hours and then get up for about 1-4 hours before sleeping for another 2 hours. Leaving 17-12 hours in the day to get your other work done. It's supose to be more efficient.
Wait... mild confusion. Victorian refers to the reign of queen Victoria, 1840ish-1901ish. (Those are just the dates off the too my head.)
Shakespeare was 1600s. Queen Elizabeth loved his work.
Just wondering. Sorry if I'm reading this as you mistaking the dates when she might have mentioned the victorian era or sleeping patterns or something. I'm only halfway through the video.
You mean "biphasic" - as in two phases. It's a lot older than the 19th century - it became less common once we had artificial lighting.
Me: *Is three hours late to a new Kate video.*
Also me: "Tis is but a scratch!"
"my breakfast beer". Best Quote from the video :D
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Shakespeare was also an actor. This assumed writing routine would have been for when he was in the country with Anne, not when he was in London. A London writing routine would have had to include rewrites (all plays get rewrites once they're in rehearsal for the first time), rehearsal, and performances. Fun fact, Shakespeare originated the role of Hamlet's father's ghost.
I would love to see you get some more quills or drip pens. Though I would recommend getting a better one since espacially later on it will be really worth it.
We here in Germany were forced in primary school to all get a fountain pen and to learn and write with it and it does take a little bit of time but if you suffer through that first bit and really stick with one pen the tip of the pen slowly adjusts to the way that you are holding it and it gets really smooth and soft to write. I really couldn't imagine not having my fountain pen. I think I've been using it for nearly five years now and I've written all of my examens with it.
What I am personally using is the Lamy AL star foutain pen out of metal, becuse it's just less likely to break than if you get a plastic one and the price is also more on the affordable side and when you really take care of your pen it holds you a long time and is really worth it!
When I was about eight years old, my mother took me to see a local community college production of, A Twelfth Night or What You Will. After the play, an older man who was sitting in the row in front of us turned around and thanked my mother for bringing me. He told her he knew when to laugh just by listening to me. For years we would take groups down to Ashland for the Shakespearian Festival.
A Midsummer's Night Dream was the only Shakespeare play that I LOVED reading. Romeo and Juliet was fine. Macbeth was fun. Much Ado About Nothing made me want to rip my hair out lol. But Puck's closing monologue from A Midsummer's Night Dream is and will always be one of my favorite parts.
I was the nerd who took the Shakespeare elective in high school. I know that Julius Caesar was one of the plays we studied because that's what I wrote my final paper on.
Macbeth... Always that Macbeth
I had to read it 3 times in my school days but I used the phrases from it fairly often as well
THREE TIMES!? All in different years or did y'all out on a production of Macbeth or something?
@@KateCavanaugh over 3 years. Felt like groundhog Day every year
Idk about Shakespeare, but when you started diving into the minutiae of how you wanted to phrase a thing (“a friend” vs. “best friend”), I was 50000% in.
More of that, please!
OOOOOH SHAKESPEARE I’m commenting this so I can watch later but I’m excited for this!
I WANT TO SEE YOU TRY but while writing a play instead bahahaha.
Such a great video! Im norwegian, and we werent forced to read Shakespeare in school, so I found him by myself. Ive read all but his historical plays. My favorite is The Tempest, his last play. I think students shouldnt be foreced to read his plays, rather I think they should watch movies like Baz Luhrmans "Romeo and Juliet", because they will understand him better that way, and not end up hating him. He didnt write novels, he wrote plays, and they are two different things.
Definitely. I went to the same high school as Baz Luhrmann! I like his R+J version, it helps people appreciate Shakespeare. We need more Shakespeare films with that energy.
I think one of the most incredible thing about Shakespeare is that we know so little about him in any way, apart from what Jonson wrote about him in the first Folio (and that he left his wife his second best bed), and unlike his contemporaries, I‘m looking at you Kyd, Marlowe and Spencer, he could write so politically but stay out of trouble. As for who should you write like next, I think you should try Glasgow Noir legend Ian Rankin, there is a BBC Imagine documentary from the early 2010s called Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective which follows him as he was writing Standing in Another Man‘s Grave. I watch it at least once a year and the last few times I have thought to myself, Kate should do this! Even if you don‘t it‘s absolutely worth a watch.
I was never forced to read Shakespeare in school, which I’m thankful for. I came across his works by accident and I fell in love with them. I think it’s so cool you tried his routine! 😍
So kind of you to post a video while you are in Disney nirvana! Hugs and hearts. have fun!
Omg sincerely was not expecting that shoutout lol. (This is my real comment haha) I think the perspective on writing plays as a “popular” format can change a lot on a person’s given experiences, obviously plays are a huge part of my life since I’ve done so much theatre & had my start in playwriting. It makes sense that so many others wouldn’t value or think of plays as still such a large part of the writing industry especially if you’re accustomed to writing novels & short stories! It’s interesting to see that there can still be that divide between the two literary formats when they’re a lot more similar than people think.
BUT onto Shakespeare haha I loved this video and waking up at 4 am both terrifies me and excites me lol. Great job!! And my favorite Shakespeare play is Henry VI Part 2. I will die on the hill that Shakespeare should be seen and not necessarily read like it’s been taught in a lot of English classes - theatre is always the more effective art form for Shakespeare!!
I brought a feather quill pen this week for my own writing. It arrived on Monday just gone and so pretty. Looking forward to the weekend which will be my first chance to use it properly.
Yesss I love these "tried writing like" styled videos!! Awesome ❤
I love Shakespeare, and am a shameless nerd - I was that kid in high school who'd already read the complete works four times by the time Romeo and Juliet came up in English Lit class. Honestly, one of his best plays is Richard III - Richard is probably the best villain in any Elizabethan play, and there are wonderful scenes where the women of history get some truly get features. Heartily recommend! Love this video, you are incredible and motivate me to write even when I'm too exhausted to sit up!
I love how specific he was! This was so fun to watch - and to learn more about his lifestyle back then too!
OH MY GOODNESS that quill is beautiful!
These "I TRIED WRITING LIKE" videos are always fun to watch
Ahh!! It's the breakfast beer! As far as the Quill and ink... That little ink pot brings so much anxiety! I've spilled mine, accidentally put my pinky in it, and got the ink all over my fingers. Worst part, it never comes out. From last year, I spilled ink on my pants... The spots are still there. Memories, though, memories. lol
I had to read one of his plays each year of high school. Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Macbeth, in that order. (I hated The Taming of the Shrew so much. He wrote some great plays, but that one is better off forgotten.) Hamlet was my favorite by far. I also enjoyed Macbeth.
My junior year, my English teacher was also my drama coach. That play, my character was only in the first act, so I just hung out for the second act of rehearsals. During a second act rehearsal, I was reading Hamlet. I was like a week ahead of the rest of the class because I was enjoying it so much. I came across the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. I had heard it referenced before, but I had never put together that it was about suicidal contemplation. I immediately asked my teacher if I was reading it right and she confirmed it. This soliloquy was so powerful for me. I have struggled with mental illness since childhood and by this time had been thinking about suicide for years. It was the first time I read a classic work that had a character with this struggle. I don't know exactly why, but it just made me feel less alone. I went on to memorize the soliloquy and still recite it from time to time. Hamlet was one of the books I had the most positive experience with in high school. Maybe that fact just proves how dark my mind is😂
This was awesome! Waffles and beer for breakfast 😂As a comic book inker, my days used to be spent with brush and quill. I was constantly trying to scrub ink off my fingers. India ink is labeled permanent for a reason…lol!
Loving this video!! When I think of Shakespeare, I think of a show I did in high school theater. We did a Shakespeare version of the Hunger Games and it was so fun! We got to compete at a festival in D.C. at the Folger Shakespeare Library and I actually won an award for one of my monologues.
When I think of Shakespear, I think of me sitting in our cherry tree, reading Romeo and Juliet during summer vacation. Enjoying school required reading for the very first time.
Honestly Romeo & Juliet always pops in my head when I hear his name. My mother bought me a "kids" version of that play and a A Midsummer's Night Dream when I was a child, and I only read--skimmed-- through Romeo & Juliet. Lol!
While this was very fun experiment to watch, and I enjoyed the quill, (good luck reading your handwriting later) I missed the clicky click of your computer lol!
But as always, I enjoy these videos and can't wait for the next one!
I love that you started another notebook upside down again. It's officially part of your brand now!
Do you happen to have a link to your fabulous pen/inkwell? I've been using one when I am having trouble getting excited about the writing because it just makes me happy, and I've been on the lookout for new inks/pens to add to my collection. I love changing things up a little bit to shake me out of a writing rut. :)
When I hear Shakespeare, I think A Midsummer's Night Dream. It was the first ever Shakespeare play I read in English, and it was suuuuper hard to understand for someone who had only ever been in contact with modern English. Seeing the film when I had finished a first read-through of that play helped me understand a lot more, and I gave it another read afterwards. Good times.
My first thought when hearing Shakespeare is Midsummer Night's Dream (which is surprising considering I have a WIP that is loosely based on Romeo and Juliet!). The routine looked super fun if exhausting and I have to agree with Wallisimo, do Jane Austen!
Nice! ♥️
Thank you!
Apparently, there’s good info about Kurt Vonnegut's writing routine. He wrote about it to his wife. It involves Scotch and Jazz.
She already did his writing routine, it was a great video!
this was such a fun experiment! But i dont think i would want to wake up at 4.45am to write...i cant even wake up at 5am...so kudos to you for getting up so early XD :)
I will never forget my first Kate Cavenaugh video: I tried writing like Sreven King. 😊😊😆😆
I loved the "obscuring vague spoilers" part. Like I could read your handwriting upside down and far away... LOL 🤣🤣🤣
Lolol you know what, I actually tried. I tilted my laptop and everything and was like "someone would have to work reeeaaal hard but it could be done." Then again, I didn't think about how atrocious my handwriting truly is bahaha
okay but I need the quill? That looks amazing!!!
This looks like so much fun! Congrats to finishing your first chapter/prologue.
My introduction to Shakespeare was when I won a prize in a writing contest as a kid. It was a collection of his work, but written for ages 8 - 12. I loved reading Hamlet the most. It's still my favourite play.
EEK THANK YOU. It was so nice getting to write that bit out and made me even more excited for the story bahaha.
And omg that sounds like such a cool contest and reward! That's awesome!!
Much Ado About Nothing is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Shakespeare. I remember in high school English class, we all had to memorize the prologue to Romeo & Juliet, and I was the only one who could recite it in front of the class with only one help from the teacher. I still remember bits and pieces.
Good job, highlighting even those smaller, never authors in your series!
I love these experiments, it makes me want to try more writing routines. I love fountain pens so I think I'd really vibe with this one!
I want a breakfast beer!!!!
Ahh the Bard! I also did A Midsummer Nights Dream in school, and now I am writing a crossover of Dream and Pirates of the Caribbean called A Midsummer Nights Piracy... so I guess you could say I'm a bit of a fan 🤣😂
Taming of the Shrew is my favorite Shakespeare play. I loved reading it in high school. I loved watching the movie (starring Elizabeth Taylor and her then-husband Richard Burton) after reading it. And I loved seeing the Broadway play Kiss Me Kate which incorporates Taming of the Shrew. I just love how Katharina makes Petruchio think he’s won.
Also, I wonder if Shakespeare got that morning light around the summer solstice and had to put up with candlelight the rest of the year.
I love that quill so much
Thanks. I had to pause the video and buy a quill pen and notebook, because how did I not think of this before?
I hear Shakespeare and instantly think of my performing arts high school lol so many sonnets and monologues! The first play that comes to my mind is Hamlet. 🎭
5 am light? I live in the UK, sadly. Currently it's dark at 7. lol. And wet. And rainy. All the time. :D
Honestly, my memory of Shakespeare is a mix of theatre class (we did The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)) and English class. I'm a big fan of Hamlet (the line "screw your courage to the sticking place" in Beauty and the Beast makes me smile every time). As long as what I'm reading has a modern English version on the opposite page, I love Shakespeare!
Einstock beer is the best! The toasted porter is my favorite.
I have a theatre degree, and my love for nonrealism started with Shakespeare. I have nothing but love for the bard 💖
Also gonna use this opportunity to rec Tessa Gratton's high fantasy retellings of Shakespeare plays. I've read The Queens of Innis Lear and have Lady Hotspur. Queens is one of my favorite fantasy books ever, and I'm sure Hotspur is going to be the same. Bonus points for stand alone fantasy novels tbh
My first thought is Romeo and Juliet because that was my mother's idea of a bedtime story. My favorite is either Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh version is amazing) and Midsummer's Night Dream because magic/fairies. What I personally find interesting about BBC's routine is that they don't mention (at least at one point) he had a 'day job' which probably effected his routine. Maybe that took into account with all the walking. I haven't tried to write a play but I've thought about it although if I knew anything about music I rather lean into a musical. If you like the feel of the pen but don't want the mess, switch it a cartritge or chamber (i can't remember the actual name) pen. They are less messy except when you need to fill it. That's what I use and it is great.
Either a midsummers night dream, or the paper I wrote my freshman year about how his sonnet "shall i compare thee to a summers day", is proof on why he was at least bisexual. I got an A on that paper.
I studied Othello for my A-Level English Literature course and it just cemented Shakespeare's place in my heart.
I’m impressed with how well that quill holds ink; I always have to dip too often to make it worth using.
You might have a bad nib or one that needs cleaned.
I love Shakespeare, and didn't even mind reading parts back in high school, even though I was (and mostly am still) terribly introverted. Of his plays, I think The Tempest and King Lear are underrated - those who don't want to read Shakespeare's King Lear can always read Jane Smiley's version of it in A Thousand Acres, which is also terrific - but I have a particularly soft spot for his Sonnets. The Shakespearean/Elizabethan sonnet to this day remains my favorite type of poem to read and write.
I read Rome and Juliet and Macbeth in school, performed a speech from King Lear for my Acting A-Level, and have performed in Hamlet and Twelfth Night on the stage
Romeo and Juliet. Is my favorite Shakespeare play.
INKY FINGERS SQUAD!!
You should absolutely get more fancy fountain and dip pens!!!!
DO IT DO IIT DO IT!!! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!!!!
I remember my junior year HS English teacher LOVED Shakespeare. We spent a whole quarter on King Lear, watched a movie adaptation, everything. My personal favorite play is Much Ado About Nothing, after reading it in college. I've seen several of the adaptations, but my personal favorite is the staged version with David Tennant and Catherine Tate (100% biased due to my previous love of Doctor Who)!
My favorite movie of all time is "much ado about nothing" wich is an adaptation of the play from Shakespeare ! I just grew up with is work 👏
Oh man, Willy Shakes! Just got the chance to catch up with the vlog and OOOOOF - that beer hurt ME. I did a lot of Shakespeare, considering I was a theatre major in undergrad AND my university has a Shakespeare festival every summer, but I have to say - Richard III man, it's so so so good. I will def say, do NOT read Shakespeare if you can - even reading it out loud is better for enjoyment. Like it's meant to be performed, so go see your local Shakespeare in the Park! As works, they can be quite rewarding in that way. But it definitely helps to see it rather than to read it. Also, thank you for the shout out!!
I did the same thing with my first handmade notebook. Started writing on the wrong side and upside down. No going back.
i love this video and he first thing that pops to my head when you say shakespear i immeditly think of remo and juliet. its my favriout work by him. i had to do macbeth for my gcses and i ahted it but hes an amzxing play write and poet
Ooo cool video! I might have to try his routine to get inspired for my Shakespeare retelling! I LOVE Shakespeare! I'm doing a A Midsummer Nights Dream for Nanowrimo! 😀
NO WAY! That's so cool, I'm so curious about how you'd retell that. Good luck on your NaNoWriMo project!!
@@KateCavanaugh Thank you! I'm telling it from Puck's point of view and its a science fiction/fantasy retelling!
I need this 😍😍
What an imagination the BBC has! Henslowe's diary is the best source for how playwriting really happened in that era.
Primary source documents establish only that William Shakspere of Stratford Upon Avon was a 1/8 owner in the Globe and a bit player in some plays but "Shakespeare" or "Shake-speare" was a pen name. Works by many writers were printed under that name. For example, in 1599 William Jaggard, who would go on to print the First Folio in 1623, printed 'The Passionate Pilgrim'. It was a collection of 20 poems, of which only 5 are now accepted as being "Shakespeare." Thomas Heywood, who had written some of the 15 others, complained that his work was being misattributed but Jaggard and others persisted in selling known authors' works under the pseudonym "Shakespeare".
Good morning, Kate. So I kind of write like William Shakespeare. I can write lots of short stuff during the day but the novel stuff doesn't come til early evening. I am usually up aroun 5 a.m. but by 8 p.m, my head is on a pillow. lol
You could have drank 'rootbeer' lol. Thanks for sharing your experiment Creative Blessings
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, 12th Night, etc. He's The Bard. Quill and parchment. So much jumps to the front of my mind.
I loved reading Shakespeare in high school. I first fell in love with his work in middle school with Romeo and Juliet.
“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears…” first thing that comes to mind.
We're currently preparing to perform Shakespeare's As You Like It with our theater group. I really enjoy it since there's so much fun confusion in this xD
I love Shakespeare's comedies. They are always so full of mistaken identity and ridiculous misunderstandings. If you like As You Like It, I bet you would enjoy Twelfth Night. It's one of my favorites :)
@@bunny_0288 our group actually performed twelfth night too^^ without me though, since I was on an exchange during most of the process, but I did watch the performance. It was great xD
Since you did Shakespeare, does that mean you might try Edgar Allen Poe's routine in the future? I love his work and would love to see what his routine would look like.
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Ego and Beer breakfast in the foreground. Clock encouraging you to consider a new career in the background.
The main thing I remember about reading Shakespeare plays in school is that when we read Romeo and Juliet our teacher had us doing so out loud with each person taking a role pausing for discussion every so often. Let's be clear, no one was happy about this, next to no volunteers so casting was a pain and things kept shifting due to absences or whatever. Long story short I wound up reading for Juliet opposite someone I could barely stand at one point. Awkward.
For me I wasn't forced to read Shakespeare. A couple of days ago I took out the merchant of Venice and the last time it had been taken out was 1999.
Macbeth and the debate of if he really wrote it (was forced to debate this in middle school) are what popped into my mind.
I totally feel tiredness in my eyes (even when I’m not wearing my contacts).
Wow I don’t think I could do 4:45am to 10pm even for just one day 👀 💤
This video was so much fun! I’m not sure if it’s your normal handwriting or if it’s the quill, but the quill-shots make your hand writing look so old-style and pretty!
There’s a line “it goes like fishing for trout or fishing upstream for trout or something like that that’s what I think of when I think of Shakespeare
Definitely think of Romeo and Juliet as soon as I hear Shakespeare. This was cool but i have to agree, how did he get up so early!?!
Did you find writing by hand with a quill changed the length of your sentences, or your word choices, or the deliberation you put into your words, given that the process is physically slower and errors are not so easily undone?
I didn't find it too much slower than normal handwriting except for having to dip the quill in the ink, but I'd definitely say it allowed me more time to think through the words as I wrote. It probably would give me cleaner Zero Drafts than I currently write but also take maybe twice as long total (compared to typing??).
The thing that immediately pops into my mind when I hear William Shakespeare is the dead of having to read all of his "books" in high school. I hated it and honestly think there needs to be less focus on it in English classes. There are plenty of other books, actual book not plays printed into books, that we could have read. Either way, this was a fun little experiment. Kudos to going all out with the feather pen, I would have made an even bigger mess trying to write with that thing, haha. I do love all the walking and outside time mixed into his routine. I often take a walking break when I feel stumped at a particular scene.
I really liked all the walking too!! It makes me actually want to try my hand at gardening for an hour or so a day. Just out there with the plants and my thoughts bhaha. Right now I have a black thumb though so.....
And I feel you on that! It made me hate Romeo & Juliet honestly bahaha. I can't separate being forced to read that several times (including all of us doing it in a circle with different parts) and what I might actually think of the piece.
@@KateCavanaugh Highly recommend doing some gardening, you may have a black thumb now but you can work your way up to a green thumb. Plus digging in the soil can be great for this time you need a break or some brainstorming time. If it wasn't cold and snowy here I would be gardening, but alas that activity has been put on hold until next May.
I was forced to read Romeo and Juliet in 8th grade, and then the next time I read it was in 11th grade. However, by that time, I'd properly gotten into writing and reading, so I could appreciate Macbeth. Also, though the Hollow Crown, I got into it, and I've been so amazed by his brilliance because just imagine if you could write as well as him
not me struggling to keep up with my NaNo word counts while being in a Shakespeare university class 😂
What comes to my mind is "it's hard to be the bard" from the musical Something Rotten 🤣
In regards to your what do you think when you hear the word Shakespeare question, In Junior year, we were reading Macbeth. The script we read from mentioned a song called "Dark Souls" plays as the witches exit. The teacher asked "Ok who wants to sing Dark Souls?" One kid, the class clown type, stands up and starts beat boxing.
Okay, so I've only read Romeo and Juliet, because of high school, but when I was 14, I was in community theater and played Juliet in a play in which all of the women from Shakespeare's plays were spending their afterlife in a psych ward. So that was something...
Don't you mean, "I tried writing like SIR FRANCIS BACON"?!?!?! j/K
I love these vids!!!
4:53 Shakespeare loved his waffles
I don’t think you had to blur the spoilers we can’t read your hand writing anyways haha😂 also writing with a quill seems so fun!
The thought of getting up and starting to write at 4:45 makes me feel like dying a writing failure would be a more reasonable thing to do lol (I am clearly not a morning person)
I have seen this video like 3 or 4 times just to see the beautiful quill. Lol :) Where did you buy it? Can you have an affiliate link?