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- The second half of my book 3 draft 3 journey, control Fing and all word based chaos times! Get the Better Together Paperback (my 2nd book) ► tinyurl.com/xt... . Hope you enjoy this newest installment of The Trials & Tribulations of Writing a Book! SUBSCRIBE ► goo.gl/a4Mqk7
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My name is Christine Riccio! I write books! And other things. Thanks for being here! I love comedy and reading fantastic books. I make what I like to think are funny videos every Tuesday and other days of the week too about books and book related pop culture stuff! Hence the channel name polandbananasbooks. I also have a comedy channel if you're into that kind of thing winky face it's polandbananas20. I'D LOVE TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS WITH YOU. ALSO COMEDY. ALSO TV. ALSO MOVIES.
I absolutely love these writing vlogs - also, the crying to Counting Cars is SO relatable! Sometimes a song will come on that I haven’t heard in YEARS and then it’ll just gut punch me
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Christine - I watched your videos all the time in high school; immediately after I finished a book I would look to see if you'd done a book talk on it, and it made me so excited to get to hear you talk about the book I had just read and was excited about. I fell out of the habit of watching youtube videos for quite a while, but I've come back to it recently, and I wanted to say - watching your book writing vlogs recently has felt like catching up with and old friend. I'm so excited about how far you've come, I can't believe you're just about done with your third book! congrats! It's nice to see you here almost a decade (has it been a whole decade? I think so!) after I started watching :)
this makes me so happy, thank you so much ❤️
i’m screeching right now!! so happy for you christine
thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Can't wait to know more about your third book!!! From your laughing out loud moments, I know I'm gonna love it!
yay!! i hope so 🤗❤️❤️❤️ thank you!!!!
I feel like every time I watch one of these writing vlogs I feel such a vast multitude of emotions - feeling nostalgic, especially seeing that girl with the Book Lion shirt (mine is still in my closet), so so proud of how far you've come, working hard to make your dreams a reality every day, always a little jealous (of your glorious hair obvi) but mostly just so freaking enormously inspired by you to sit down and write the damn book that's been living rent free in my head for years. So glad I mistakenly clicked on one of your videos years ago thinking you were Polish but deciding to stick around to hear your thoughts on Cassandra Clare. You've been a steady source of entertainment for me in various forms throughout my life - even my Dad recognises you by your voice alone since he used to listen to your 'screeching' coming from my room when I was a teen. Keep being you, Christine! I hope I get to go to a book signing of yours someday in England
thank you so much for sticking with me through the years 🤗❤️
Don’t we all love to screech😂
Christine the definition of an ENFP writer
lol i don’t know much about this i shall have to google
The title already has me 😂 Also love the episode - like editing ! ❣️
Also almost finished with act 2 of my draft :) Not actually sure if it fits a 3 act structure but that’s what I’m using as a guide.
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congrats on almost finishing ACT 2, THAT’S ALWAYS THE LONGEST STRETCH 🙌🙌🙌🙌
My bet was 110 500 words lol 😂 But this came at the perfect time to distract me from the constant panic of exam season ❤❤❤ thanks so much, your writing videos never fail to make me laugh 😘
OMG! This whole video is a mood! I'm also trying to get my word count down and it is not easy, lol, but I'm getting there. I love the book event onstage at the end of the video!
Christine WE NEED THE TITLE 😩
❤great christine upload day!
In need of a Stories I ate this Spring/Summer rn
i haven’t really been doing them since i talk about the stories i ate each week on the forking fangirls podcast 🤗
Ahhhh this upload just made my day 🥰🥰🥰
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I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm sure it's going to be a good one! Since I watched your last video, I broke out of a slump for 2k more words and you inspired me to work on two books at once! It's going great so far! Thank you so much for your hard work and for giving us all motivation to write :) ❤ I am so excited to see another video the moment I was hesitating to write! It must be a sign
❤️❤️❤️ YAY!! i’m so happy to hear that!!!!🤗
These videos motivate me to read and write so much. Thank you for being my favorite author and youtuber
thank you so much for watching and supporting my things 🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This weekend I decided I needed to touch a project I haven't worked on in three years. I've done 4 drafts on this project, but I decided I needed to completely change the story, so that's where I am lol
ou nice!!! i hope it’s going well!!!! GOOD LUCK 🤗🖤
IM SO EXCITED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK
🖤🖤🖤🖤 thanks Zena!! 🤗
haven’t seen you at the airport, but i did come across a paperback copy of again but better at my favorite bookstore in seoul when i spent a year abroad there! it was a nice (and thematic) surprise from home hehe
Hey I'm currently living in Seoul - would you mind sharing where your favorite bookstore is? I'm trying to find a good one with a solid English selection 😅
this came just in time for my writing session.
I'm currently on a book buying ban but once my exams are over i'll go to the city and see if I can find better together in one of the stores because on all the websites it says like "ready for shipment in 1 to 4 weeks" (i live in Switzerland maybe its just because of that)
Also I am trying to get caught up on the podcast I always forget how much fun when i unintentionally stop listening to it for a bit.
I can’t wait to read! I loved your other two!!! Love u!!❤❤❤❤❤🎉
yay! thank you so much 🖤🤗🤗🤗
I saw your book in the airport!!! That's literally what inspired me to read it!
I’m so excited to read this ❤
yay thank you!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
I love these writing blogs! They inspire me so much!
Also doesn’t pages have track changes?
thank you!!! and it does but it’s not compatible with word and that’s what the publisher needs me to use. when you switch between the two it’s super glitchy. i’ve tried it and it really just freezes over and over again 🫠🫠
Christine this may sound random, but do you have a personal song playlist when you read Percy Jackson for the first time or any reread?
After I read the series, I was obsessed with finding mashups for the characters.
Congratulations on your new book BTW.
You should do overnight oats. If you make them up the night before, they'll be ready when you're hungry the next day/night. No having to wait. You can eat them cold right out of the fridge, or heat them up in the microwave. They can have the flavors of your favorite desserts, and can be as savory as a good meal. I make mine at night with Old Fashioned Rolled Oats, but a friend of mine prefers to make hers up in the morning. She uses the same recipes I do, except she uses Quick Oats, that can be ready in one minute. My favorite overnight oats recipe is the one that is similar to the No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies recipe my grandmother always made us grandkids. The cookie recipe calls for butter, so I always add a tab of butter to my overnight oat recipe. I also add 1 to 2 teaspoons of cocoa instead of the 2 tablespoons called for. I don't like it too chocolaty. I prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate. And there are pie flavored recipes.
Have you read, or heard of, *"I Give You My Body...": How I Write Sex Scenes* by Diana Gabaldon? If you haven't, you can check it out and see if it helps with writing sex scenes. Although I think it's more just her explaining how she does it, rather than an actual teaching guide.
Christine’s reaction to sexy scenes is LITERALLY me
Taradiddle is a fun word!
This was soooooo real, I have such a problem with repeating s words like sear(ing), scorch, search, screech, etc.
Yes. Preach about Microsoft Word. I was so mad at it a few days ago.
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This is so fun to watch!❤ Love your energy in this video🥰🌸
i used to screech ferociously
i miss these videos so much , forgot about your Channel till 2 seconds ago . 😭
glad to have you back 🤗
Have you tried using scrivener? It doesn't have all the Microsoft word stupid things and it can tell you which words you have used a lot and how many times you have used them, AND you can compile the book into word to send to your editor/publisher
yeah i’m not a fan of scrivener since i write in order, i really like a simple layout without a bunch of bells and whistles 🤓
@@polandbananasBOOKS Fair enough, my system involves Scrivener, Google Drive and Word, so you are probably better off only using one program ;p
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My bfs name is Stanislav and I LOVE saying what’s the plan Stan 🤣🤣
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Drop the matcha latte recipe, queen!
-chobani vanilla oatmilk
- half a banana
- a swirl of honey
- 1 teaspoon of jade leaf matcha
**blend ** 🍵 ❤️
@@polandbananasBOOKS thank you 😙
how many drafts do you do before the book is "Officially" done?
there’s around 5-6 official drafts for the publisher but i of course do more drafts myself in between those. probably comes out to somewhere around 8/9 drafts (10 if your super ambitious)
So no more "betters" in the title?
Why are you shortening the book??? I would die for an extra chunk of my favorite books! Unless it’s just super boring droning descriptives, I guess… still if I like a book enough I’d want more. Unless things are too stagnant. Then, okay, fine! 😂
so usually a story can benefit from being more concise, but also it’s more expensive to print a novel that’s longer so the publisher needs you to stay under a certain word count to keep the price of the book the same
Wait... did you use the blender to prepare the matcha?
LOL a handheld one yes, i put a banana in and you need a blender to shred that up 🤓
@@polandbananasBOOKS mind blown! I didn’t know this was a thing. Looking for recipes right now. Thanks!
I write, like not professionally yet, and I tried doing a s*ex scene cause everyone kept saying my romance books would need that and when I tell you I haven't been able to read that scene more than once, the cringe is so strong 😭
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Get Another Boyfriend is *chefs kiss* I think it'd work great for revenge inspo.
agree 🤗🙌
"MS word is a bullshit asshole" --Xtine
Yes! Microsoft word count is horrible! I never know how many words I have.
Microsoft word really is the worst. I wasn't expecting to be validated in this particular way today, but I'm glad for it.
The Microsoft word slander😂
LOL
Love Sexy Scene Christine TM 😂
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