To the window, to the wallll- oooo bad prom flashbacks there yikes. The real talk at the end though... you know what Kat I’m proud of you. I’ll be first in line at your book signing, okay? Go freakin get em girl.
Hey everybody! I'm sure that Scrivner (is that how you spell it??) is fantastic, but if you're broke like me, I found a great tracker that works similarly to the one Kat mentioned early on in the video. It's called WriteTrack, and you can set your own deadline and gives you a word count to meet each day until your deadline, and adjusts automatically as you wrote more or less. It's completely free and I've been using it for my first novel since NaNoWriMo ended! (It also lets you combine your word count during NaNo as well!) *I do not own, nor is this sponsored by WriteTrack*
I haven't been feeling like writing lately (just came off a much needed break), but this video has me wanting to sit down at my computer and start working... Or at least reread everything that's already written. I love that you do these. Thank you! Congrats on adding 9k words! (Also, just like that summary but better is such a writer motto.)
SECOND I'M SHOOK! Yay it came early! I'm honestly getting happy goosebumps knowing that one day all three of you (you Christine and Jesse) will be published authors GAH
Kat I'm so proud of you for pushing through the last 3 years and getting here to this awesome and positive mental state. Can't wait to hold your book in my hands one day. Keep working hard and doing what you love! It's so much fun watching you have such a good time.
I just started revisions on my book that I’m writing and it has been....overwhelming. These videos help me calm and get inspired. Seeing how excited you are reminds me why I started a book in the first place ❤️ thank you 😊
Placeholders are one of my favorite things to use during the drafting part of the process. I don't always enjoy them so much when I go back to edit, but they are super helpful! Great video, Kat! :)
love seeing revision work, knowing what’s coming at me after i finish this draft makes me feel way better prepared😂 the way you work really jives with me so it’s wildly encouraging to watch🥰
Seeing you so happy to be working on Book is the most amazing thing 😊 Also really inspires and motivates me. I just recently began outlining with your three act method!! I usually don't outline stories, but this one is a historical mystery novel - totally opposite what I usually write - so I really need to outline to make sure I don't give up on the story. I'm so excited to work on it after this video!!
procrastinating writing by watching kat write is my mood rn. i've realised when i'm first drafting i wish i was revising and when i'm revising i wish i was first drafting....
these videos inspire me a lot and actually made me write half a draft of a book so thank you (also i'm so jealous of your wall i love tangled and i'm pretty sure thats a scene from it so yeah i want that)
Omg thats so cool! I'm gonna try the brackets ( I cant believe I've never done that before) and sticky note thing next week. Hopefully that will keep me on task, and not on the internet.
👏 👏 👏 Look at you! Chipping away at Book, keeping up with the video upload schedule you set for yourself, actively participating in the group live shows. You go, Kat! I know you do these for accountability and motivation for yourself, but I think it's really cool you're sharing the whole writing journey.
I have the opposite problem with my revisions. I tend to write very long books so the point of revising is trying to take things out. For example, in the last one I wrote, that now is draft 2, it had 165k words. I wanted to take 40k, but I only managed to take 7 without feeling that I was taking important bits of the story . Now I'm letting people read it so they can tell me what they think, and guide me in what to take out, so we will see.
I opened TH-cam because I felt like a pile of garbage and was gonna rewatch a random old video of yours BUT THEN THIS WAS THE FIRST THING ON MY FEED AND I DIDNT HAVE TO SCAVENGE FOR A VIDEO TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER okay I love these videos keep it up way to be productive I’m calm now
AAAAAAHHHH! I don't know what else to say other than I love you I love your videos and I am SO EXCITED for BOOK! These updates are just so great and so fun and I'm so glad you're still having a good time! I just hope that one day I can be as awesome and with my goals as you are (though I'm working on it and now that the holidays are over its easier to get back on track) and I hope that we can all have the success and happiness that we deserve because WE DESERVE IT, BUT ESPECIALLY YOU!!!
I really like your method of revising! Revising my last novel kicked my arse so hard I gave up because I put so much pressure on myself to fix those brackety bits (or just the bits that were totally wrong lol) and I never did! Good on you for having such a well thought-out plan :) All the best!
I can't even track revision word counts! I tend to focus more on time spent working on book than I do word counts otherwise it's so easy for me to get scared and run away leaving the pen and/or laptop behind!
Totally understand the multiple editing passes...I do it all the time (If I'm always in an editing loop, do I ever need to query? ::laugh cries::) To the window!....no...TO THE WALL! xD I spent a few years in a block too, but AuthorTube has slowly been pulling me out of it because I use it as an accountability tool :p Happy to see your update, and best of luck continuing on revisions!
I really like the bracket unpacking method. But, sadly, I can't adopt it. I use brackets for other very important things. lol! Maybe I can start using braces since I never use those. :3 Thanks for continuing these vlogs. Your energy's very encouraging. :D
I don’t know why, but I though that her book was a fantasy with two elves that were venturing some mountains 😂😂😂 idk why I had that in mind... but detention doesn’t fit in my idea so... I was wrong
Kat: thank you for this video. I am nearing the end of my first draft and this helps me to envision how to begin editing for my 2nd draft. (The post-its are striking and very pragmatic.) I know this is from 4 years ago. Hope all is well with you.
I always use brackets thinking, “I’ll decide what’s actually going here later.” And then Editing me comes back to it and is like, “wth? Why didn’t I just decide? I don’t know what I want to do now!”
I am so excited for you with your writing. You have shown me that no matter how hard it may be to begin with if you keep at it, it will improve. Thank you so much and good luck with the middle bit.
TO THE WINDOW.... NO WAIT .. TO THE WALL
I'd read that biography 🤓
[witty comment]
To the window, to the wallll- oooo bad prom flashbacks there yikes.
The real talk at the end though... you know what Kat I’m proud of you. I’ll be first in line at your book signing, okay? Go freakin get em girl.
To the window, to the wall, til the sticky's pulled off and falls, til all revisions crawl, to all my fans tweet, tweet... tweet, tweet.
these writing vlogs give me so much happiness. thank you for these!
Random. Our icons are almost identical!
i’ve literally never felt such intense motivation to write than i feel after watching these vlogs
Same :)
Hey everybody! I'm sure that Scrivner (is that how you spell it??) is fantastic, but if you're broke like me, I found a great tracker that works similarly to the one Kat mentioned early on in the video.
It's called WriteTrack, and you can set your own deadline and gives you a word count to meet each day until your deadline, and adjusts automatically as you wrote more or less. It's completely free and I've been using it for my first novel since NaNoWriMo ended! (It also lets you combine your word count during NaNo as well!)
*I do not own, nor is this sponsored by WriteTrack*
That sounds so cool imma check it out. Although scrivener also has like some other stuff that I cannot remember but there's videos
I haven't been feeling like writing lately (just came off a much needed break), but this video has me wanting to sit down at my computer and start working... Or at least reread everything that's already written. I love that you do these. Thank you! Congrats on adding 9k words! (Also, just like that summary but better is such a writer motto.)
SECOND I'M SHOOK!
Yay it came early! I'm honestly getting happy goosebumps knowing that one day all three of you (you Christine and Jesse) will be published authors GAH
Oh and also I WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT TO GO TO BED BUT NOPE
*takes a shot everytime you mention brackets* 😂😂😂
pls don't die
Kat I'm so proud of you for pushing through the last 3 years and getting here to this awesome and positive mental state. Can't wait to hold your book in my hands one day. Keep working hard and doing what you love! It's so much fun watching you have such a good time.
I just started revisions on my book that I’m writing and it has been....overwhelming. These videos help me calm and get inspired. Seeing how excited you are reminds me why I started a book in the first place ❤️ thank you 😊
aw that's so cool! good luck with revisions, you can do it! :)
Placeholders are one of my favorite things to use during the drafting part of the process. I don't always enjoy them so much when I go back to edit, but they are super helpful! Great video, Kat! :)
My girl is out here KILLING IT 🖤 what a queen
love seeing revision work, knowing what’s coming at me after i finish this draft makes me feel way better prepared😂 the way you work really jives with me so it’s wildly encouraging to watch🥰
This is just what I need after a stressful Sunday ❤️
Yeeeessss!!! I get ridiculously happy when I get a notification to your videos! 😍 You are amazing! ❤️
aw thank youuu
I love you spool much! You, Christine, and Sasha are the reason I finally started writing like I had always wanted to! So thank you!
Yay! Another writing vlog!! Good job Kat!!
- *SEES NEW VIDEO* - INSTANTLY STOPS EVERYTHING SHE'S DOING AND CLICKS.
I’m so glad to see you happy and making progress! Go Kat go!
Watching these writing vlogs is actually motivating me to write my book. Watching you work on revisions is motivating me to finish my draft.
Seeing you so happy to be working on Book is the most amazing thing 😊 Also really inspires and motivates me. I just recently began outlining with your three act method!! I usually don't outline stories, but this one is a historical mystery novel - totally opposite what I usually write - so I really need to outline to make sure I don't give up on the story. I'm so excited to work on it after this video!!
I seriously love these writing blogs, it’s soo cool to watch the process :)
Whenever I watch one of your writing vlogs, I find myself cheering you on, like, “yeah! You go, girl! You can do it! Crush that goal!”
I love watching these videos. They make me happy and always get me motivated to work on my own novel.
You work it gurl! Keep going!
procrastinating writing by watching kat write is my mood rn. i've realised when i'm first drafting i wish i was revising and when i'm revising i wish i was first drafting....
You've got this Kat!!!
thanks!!!
kat accomplishing her goals makes me so motivated omg
This videos are not just super entertaining to me, but they have also helped me to enter my wetting journey soooo smoothly. Thank you Kat 💛
“To the window”
“To the wall”
No, nope, not gonna continue with that 😂
Great writing vlog Kat!
ah this video just made my day! I needed this ❤️
these videos inspire me a lot and actually made me write half a draft of a book so thank you (also i'm so jealous of your wall i love tangled and i'm pretty sure thats a scene from it so yeah i want that)
These videos are so interesting and inspiring to watch! I want to start drafting a novel right now brb 💫
So glad this is out early! I just started my creative writing class at my college, so I'm pretty excited about all things writing right now.
From "everything's fine" to "everything's great!"... that's such a great improvement 😊
So proud of your progress so far! I hope you can sail through the rest of book👍👍
I agree wholeheartedly with your desktop screensaver.
I'm so happy you're loving BOOK so much! I have to go write now after watching this!
Omg thats so cool! I'm gonna try the brackets ( I cant believe I've never done that before) and sticky note thing next week. Hopefully that will keep me on task, and not on the internet.
[excited for book. enjoying these vlogs]
"What does the scouter say on her word count?"
"It's oVER 9000!"
You're doing so great! I'm glad you're still having such a good time with Book, keep going!
I literally just watched all of these today because I hate revising *hehehe*
👏 👏 👏 Look at you! Chipping away at Book, keeping up with the video upload schedule you set for yourself, actively participating in the group live shows. You go, Kat! I know you do these for accountability and motivation for yourself, but I think it's really cool you're sharing the whole writing journey.
I have the opposite problem with my revisions. I tend to write very long books so the point of revising is trying to take things out. For example, in the last one I wrote, that now is draft 2, it had 165k words. I wanted to take 40k, but I only managed to take 7 without feeling that I was taking important bits of the story . Now I'm letting people read it so they can tell me what they think, and guide me in what to take out, so we will see.
I'm so happy you're having such a good time writing! It's very encouraging to watch! Good luck with act 2 :D
I opened TH-cam because I felt like a pile of garbage and was gonna rewatch a random old video of yours BUT THEN THIS WAS THE FIRST THING ON MY FEED AND I DIDNT HAVE TO SCAVENGE FOR A VIDEO TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER okay I love these videos keep it up way to be productive I’m calm now
AAAAAAHHHH! I don't know what else to say other than I love you I love your videos and I am SO EXCITED for BOOK! These updates are just so great and so fun and I'm so glad you're still having a good time! I just hope that one day I can be as awesome and with my goals as you are (though I'm working on it and now that the holidays are over its easier to get back on track) and I hope that we can all have the success and happiness that we deserve because WE DESERVE IT, BUT ESPECIALLY YOU!!!
I really like your method of revising! Revising my last novel kicked my arse so hard I gave up because I put so much pressure on myself to fix those brackety bits (or just the bits that were totally wrong lol) and I never did! Good on you for having such a well thought-out plan :) All the best!
Ya writing vlog. Good way to end my Sunday ❤️❤️
yay!
I can't even track revision word counts! I tend to focus more on time spent working on book than I do word counts otherwise it's so easy for me to get scared and run away leaving the pen and/or laptop behind!
Love your writing vlogs!! ❤️
it motivates me to get my own book done.
YAY! Another video!! As always a joy xD
I'm glad you're enjoying yourself while going through this process ^_^
Amazing Kat!! Im following u the whole way through. U got thisss
Totally understand the multiple editing passes...I do it all the time (If I'm always in an editing loop, do I ever need to query? ::laugh cries::)
To the window!....no...TO THE WALL! xD
I spent a few years in a block too, but AuthorTube has slowly been pulling me out of it because I use it as an accountability tool :p
Happy to see your update, and best of luck continuing on revisions!
Write on Katy!
I love these videos so much but also can I just say I love your nails and always look for what colour it is in each vlog
I can't wait to read this.
this inspired me to create a revision goal for my WIP! thanks Kat!
"I am having such a good time. Everythings Great!" oh my god it makes me so happy to see you in such a better place :')
um, now I'm seriously thinking about doing your post- it calendar 😂
9000 words in a week... HYPE!! I wish I could write that much
I really like the bracket unpacking method. But, sadly, I can't adopt it. I use brackets for other very important things. lol! Maybe I can start using braces since I never use those. :3 Thanks for continuing these vlogs. Your energy's very encouraging. :D
Yesss!! 😁😁😁 Ive been waiting for this
im so excited for when book comes out. Haha. When will it come out?
Congrats finishing Act 1! Time to get to my own revisions for the day lol
I love your writing vlogs so much! Keep up the great work! 😊
I love writing detention
writing queen
how do i preorder a book thats not finished being written tho HAHAHA
your desktop background is such a bi mood
Your new laptop background is the epitome of my bisexuality 😂
i love your background wall hanging where did you get it? I need it in my life lol
Honestly I was so distracted by how cute your hair looks in this video like omg
I don’t know why, but I though that her book was a fantasy with two elves that were venturing some mountains 😂😂😂 idk why I had that in mind... but detention doesn’t fit in my idea so... I was wrong
Congrats on all your progress, I'm so happy for you :D :D :D
YeSesesss😍😍
Kat: thank you for this video. I am nearing the end of my first draft and this helps me to envision how to begin editing for my 2nd draft. (The post-its are striking and very pragmatic.) I know this is from 4 years ago. Hope all is well with you.
Did I start to sing after "To the window, to the wall"? Yes, yes I did.
could u possibly tell us the genre of book that your book is in (romance fantasy or like mystery for example)
Using brackets when I'm writing is literally the only reason I finish first drafts 😂
Youre just awesome
I always use brackets thinking, “I’ll decide what’s actually going here later.” And then Editing me comes back to it and is like, “wth? Why didn’t I just decide? I don’t know what I want to do now!”
I am so excited for you with your writing. You have shown me that no matter how hard it may be to begin with if you keep at it, it will improve. Thank you so much and good luck with the middle bit.
Damn how'd I miss this??? :(
*sees video and stops editing story draft just to watch*
this is my probel with writing my first draft i always think has to be perfect thats why i never complete anything lol
Where’s that chocolate?? 🍫
At least your brackets are detailed. Mine are just {add more}
ok but did you finish chapter 13 tho
"finish" is such a strong word.......
U look soo cute
I want to write a book.. and date you, probably in the opposite order. Thanks