I appreciate the real talk. Sometimes I feel like the difficulty must mean I'm not cut out to be a writer and I have to consciously remind myself that writing IS hard and I CAN do it and it will all come together at some point.
There’s this Teddy Roosevelt quote (I had to look up the exact wording) that says, “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” In my words, if it wasn’t hard it wouldn’t mean anything! Writing is so SO hard, some days more than others, but the fact that we (that YOU) keep turning back to it means that you are a writer, no questions asked.
Hi Natalie! Great video and you are so brave to be so vulnerable about your anxiety and your struggles with your writing. There are a lot of us writers that struggle with those moments when we have tons of ideas and we want to write but when we sit down nothing happens. I totally get that. I've had a lot of life altering events happen over the course of the last year, from becoming homeless to having to have emergency surgery while being homeless, and dealing with chronic pain issues from both Rheumatoid Arthritis and a bad accident I was in about 7 or 8 years ago and getting back to a point where I felt like I could actually write given all of that took a lot longer than I would have liked it to. The world does need your stories so keep pushing through those hard days. Also you sound like you might be experiencing chronic fatigue but I'm not a doctor so I'm not sure but it sounds like a possibility. I don't know how they can check for that but maybe something to consider. Really liking getting to know you through your videos. Take care of yourself!
Thank YOU for sharing so much in this comment! Sometimes it’s just nice to know that other people get it 😅 I’m sorry you’ve been through so much but I’m grateful that you are here to share your story with me. ME/CFS is a possibility. There’s actually no tests for it, and diagnosis is unlikely because doctors don’t want to say it’s that and have it be something else that they didn’t look for 🤷🏼♀️ It’s an ongoing health journey!
When l was 13 years old , l wanted to write a book about politics and already wrote over 20 or 30 papers but in the end l stopped because l was not know the internet or how l can publish my books to the public to read them but now thank for you especially and to everyone who give us tips to write book , l hope some day to write digital book in the pdf format and design and develop website for my book to sell it but l am afraid that no one will buy the book , in the end , thank you so much for your videos ❤😊 l already love the youtube channels that publish benefit information and in the same time they want to earn money 😊 thank you again and all respect to you
As a member of the chaotic writer club, I feel this vlog deeply. It's so hard when you show up and do everything right, but the words continue to evade you. Best of luck starting your new job! You got this! WE got this!
Aww I felt for you so hard in this video. You WILL finish this project!!!! I hope your adjustment to the new job goes well, I have felt that sense of dread starting a new job in the past :/ hope you can find a balance that still allows you to be creative ❤ thanks for the vulnerability it is appreciated
Thank you 💛 New job is definitely so much more time consuming than I’m used to, but I’m making it work as well as I can! Glad people are enjoying the vulnerability 🥹
This was all so relatable!! From the “do I eat-yes-no-yes” to the “I wanna write-where the words at?” I really enjoyed how candid you were. We all go through this but not everyone shows it
Aww thank you! I feel like this was the first blog where I was like, yeah I’ll just not edit out my crazy 😅😂 It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who does these things lol
I love your vlogs. You're so real about struggling with writing. I struggle with the same things. I often get demotivated, procrastinate, have trouble writing my scenes, and mostly my brain being empty and not very creative. Glad I'm not the only one struggling. Also, thank you for reminding me to drink water 💧🥤
I love the other authors on this platform who have aesthetic vlogs or who write 10,000 words in a day… but that’s just not me. (I wish it was lol) and I know that there are lots of writers out there who are like me too, and who need to see that you can STRUGGLE and still make the thing happen 😊 AND YES DRINK YOUR WATER
@@nataliejaneshields For real, I'll never understand how people write so much in one day. Writing 2k in a day is a task for me and I usually write 500 or 800 words, 1k if I'm just really in the flow. But I'm still making progress. That's the important part! We'll all achieve our goals one way or another.
Definitely agree 💯 with you, since three years I have the idea of my debut novel and I put the title and make the cover but I can't start why ? Maybe my brain 🧠 storming isn't yet prepared and the ideas are not coming easy so I am waiting but I did eight children stories until now which a great success to me and a great mission to accomplish, I have many struggles in my life too as I am an author employee worker outside writing and my job is taking all the energy as I have and when weekends comes I turned burn out, tired, exhausted and above all I started my TH-cam channel but due to many reasons that faces me I could not upload or film, rarely doing this unfortunately, I am really burn out I don't know when I will take my vacation to reset and start my love for writing again. Good luck with your book, hope to see it soon.
Being a writer AND being everything else in life too (employee, family, friend, etc etc) can be so hard. Sometimes there’s just no time for writing, or we have no more creative energy at the end of the day to pour into our stories. I totally get it. I hope you find some rest & relief soon so you can start your story! Remember that any progress is progress, you just have to start!
Found your video by accident. I've been writing for 34 years. My first book 282k words took ten years to get right. My last book 130k has taken so far four years. I have written 35 books so far and have about ten more left in me or so. Writing takes time. I have a full-time office job. I write every day. TOP TIP. Protect your hands. Get the BEST gear. Keyboard/computer, screen, mouse. But most important is your chair too. (I almost deleted this message as I re-read it and thought I sounded too serious) I'm not. I'm smiling. Plus, look after your health. I've spent 10000's hours ALONE. It can crush you if you let it. (Spend time outside AWAY from your screen helps too) I've had my best ideas while walking. Best of luck. Simon :)
I’ve drafted, made reverse outlines and am on my 3rd rewrite. But it helps to talk to myself and record myself (5 mins videos on Loom with the ability to pause multiple times) helps. And letting my mind percolate allows my Subconscious figure it out while I’m doing something on autopilot. Like my drive home from the market today! I realized a couple plot holes, but I will get through those scenes tonight! 🥳 Good luck with work & writing! 🍀👍🏻 I’ve been working on my teleplay since spring of 2020. You’re not alone. 🩵
Making these videos, and occasionally journaling through more personal things, has definitely helped my story and my creative process. Thank you so much for the encouragement, best of luck to you as well! We can do this! 💛
I appreciate the real talk. Sometimes I feel like the difficulty must mean I'm not cut out to be a writer and I have to consciously remind myself that writing IS hard and I CAN do it and it will all come together at some point.
There’s this Teddy Roosevelt quote (I had to look up the exact wording) that says, “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” In my words, if it wasn’t hard it wouldn’t mean anything! Writing is so SO hard, some days more than others, but the fact that we (that YOU) keep turning back to it means that you are a writer, no questions asked.
@@nataliejaneshields Such a valuable reminder!! ❤
Hi Natalie! Great video and you are so brave to be so vulnerable about your anxiety and your struggles with your writing. There are a lot of us writers that struggle with those moments when we have tons of ideas and we want to write but when we sit down nothing happens. I totally get that. I've had a lot of life altering events happen over the course of the last year, from becoming homeless to having to have emergency surgery while being homeless, and dealing with chronic pain issues from both Rheumatoid Arthritis and a bad accident I was in about 7 or 8 years ago and getting back to a point where I felt like I could actually write given all of that took a lot longer than I would have liked it to. The world does need your stories so keep pushing through those hard days. Also you sound like you might be experiencing chronic fatigue but I'm not a doctor so I'm not sure but it sounds like a possibility. I don't know how they can check for that but maybe something to consider. Really liking getting to know you through your videos. Take care of yourself!
Thank YOU for sharing so much in this comment! Sometimes it’s just nice to know that other people get it 😅 I’m sorry you’ve been through so much but I’m grateful that you are here to share your story with me.
ME/CFS is a possibility. There’s actually no tests for it, and diagnosis is unlikely because doctors don’t want to say it’s that and have it be something else that they didn’t look for 🤷🏼♀️ It’s an ongoing health journey!
When l was 13 years old , l wanted to write a book about politics and already wrote over 20 or 30 papers but in the end l stopped because l was not know the internet or how l can publish my books to the public to read them but now thank for you especially and to everyone who give us tips to write book , l hope some day to write digital book in the pdf format and design and develop website for my book to sell it but l am afraid that no one will buy the book , in the end , thank you so much for your videos ❤😊 l already love the youtube channels that publish benefit information and in the same time they want to earn money 😊 thank you again and all respect to you
As a member of the chaotic writer club, I feel this vlog deeply. It's so hard when you show up and do everything right, but the words continue to evade you. Best of luck starting your new job! You got this! WE got this!
Thank you Cody! I think we need club t-shirts 😂😂 “Semi-Proud Member of the Chaotic Writing Club” lol
@@nataliejaneshields Yes, please! or "I'm Neurodivergent and I'm Proud! ... wait. what were we talking about?" lol
Aww I felt for you so hard in this video. You WILL finish this project!!!! I hope your adjustment to the new job goes well, I have felt that sense of dread starting a new job in the past :/ hope you can find a balance that still allows you to be creative ❤ thanks for the vulnerability it is appreciated
Thank you 💛 New job is definitely so much more time consuming than I’m used to, but I’m making it work as well as I can! Glad people are enjoying the vulnerability 🥹
Chaotic vlogs are my kind of vlogs! You’re awesome and I’m proud of YOU for doing the hard things. Congratulations on your new job! 🎉❤
Thank you 🥹💛
This was all so relatable!! From the “do I eat-yes-no-yes” to the “I wanna write-where the words at?”
I really enjoyed how candid you were. We all go through this but not everyone shows it
Aww thank you! I feel like this was the first blog where I was like, yeah I’ll just not edit out my crazy 😅😂 It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who does these things lol
I love your vlogs. You're so real about struggling with writing. I struggle with the same things. I often get demotivated, procrastinate, have trouble writing my scenes, and mostly my brain being empty and not very creative. Glad I'm not the only one struggling.
Also, thank you for reminding me to drink water 💧🥤
I love the other authors on this platform who have aesthetic vlogs or who write 10,000 words in a day… but that’s just not me. (I wish it was lol) and I know that there are lots of writers out there who are like me too, and who need to see that you can STRUGGLE and still make the thing happen 😊
AND YES DRINK YOUR WATER
@@nataliejaneshields For real, I'll never understand how people write so much in one day. Writing 2k in a day is a task for me and I usually write 500 or 800 words, 1k if I'm just really in the flow. But I'm still making progress. That's the important part! We'll all achieve our goals one way or another.
I love how real this is 😊
Thank you for saying that! I try not to "edit" myself too much for social media, i think it's important to see the ups and the downs.
I'm so happy I discovered your channel! Really needed that little pep talk at the end. Also your dog is SO CUTE!
Thank you and WELCOME! Sometimes you just need somebody to hype you up 💛
Definitely agree 💯 with you, since three years I have the idea of my debut novel and I put the title and make the cover but I can't start why ? Maybe my brain 🧠 storming isn't yet prepared and the ideas are not coming easy so I am waiting but I did eight children stories until now which a great success to me and a great mission to accomplish, I have many struggles in my life too as I am an author employee worker outside writing and my job is taking all the energy as I have and when weekends comes I turned burn out, tired, exhausted and above all I started my TH-cam channel but due to many reasons that faces me I could not upload or film, rarely doing this unfortunately, I am really burn out I don't know when I will take my vacation to reset and start my love for writing again. Good luck with your book, hope to see it soon.
Being a writer AND being everything else in life too (employee, family, friend, etc etc) can be so hard. Sometimes there’s just no time for writing, or we have no more creative energy at the end of the day to pour into our stories. I totally get it. I hope you find some rest & relief soon so you can start your story! Remember that any progress is progress, you just have to start!
Yes it’s so hard!!! I just completed my novel outline and am stalling on the start. Eeeeek
JUMP! You gotta dive in-the hardest part of anything is starting 💛
Found your video by accident. I've been writing for 34 years. My first book 282k words took ten years to get right. My last book 130k has taken so far four years. I have written 35 books so far and have about ten more left in me or so. Writing takes time. I have a full-time office job. I write every day. TOP TIP. Protect your hands. Get the BEST gear. Keyboard/computer, screen, mouse. But most important is your chair too. (I almost deleted this message as I re-read it and thought I sounded too serious) I'm not. I'm smiling. Plus, look after your health. I've spent 10000's hours ALONE. It can crush you if you let it. (Spend time outside AWAY from your screen helps too) I've had my best ideas while walking. Best of luck. Simon :)
Thank you for your comment! Your insight is so helpful, I hope your next ten books are your best yet.
Totally hydrated! Ha. 💧
I’ve drafted, made reverse outlines and am on my 3rd rewrite. But it helps to talk to myself and record myself (5 mins videos on Loom with the ability to pause multiple times) helps. And letting my mind percolate allows my Subconscious figure it out while I’m doing something on autopilot. Like my drive home from the market today! I realized a couple plot holes, but I will get through those scenes tonight! 🥳
Good luck with work & writing! 🍀👍🏻
I’ve been working on my teleplay since spring of 2020. You’re not alone. 🩵
Making these videos, and occasionally journaling through more personal things, has definitely helped my story and my creative process. Thank you so much for the encouragement, best of luck to you as well! We can do this! 💛