HUGE yes to the quarterly writing craft book club. I would love to add new craft books to my stack and get to discuss them with fellow authors and hear your thoughts on them as someone who has written so many books
The book club sounds so awesome. I have been following for a while and have been collecting craft books and would love to have someone to read a long with.
Hey Sarra. I've gotta say your time off did you well. Your skin is glowing and there's just this pep and energy surrounding you. I'm so glad that you're doing this writer reset as I've been struggling with writing as well.
One thing I recently learned whilst cleaning/tidying my space was... When I finish a project, I start a new project... I never clean up or tidy the area. I found a box filled with trays of tools that never got put away after the projects were over. A stack of envelopes that never got thrown out after opening the mail. So lately I've been making a deliberate effort to clean up my mess after each project and not let the stuff pile up to do later... Truthfully, it takes longer to do later because you have to review the pile of stuff, where as if you just took care of it upon project completion, there's no review. So next project, clean up your space before you move to the next and see how satisfying it is to start fresh every project! 💖🌞🌵😷
Getting to decorate and utilize your creativity is totally a stress reliever and helps you be in that happy flow state. It makes TOTAL sense that you enjoy tracking on the pretty pages!
I love the craft book club idea! There are so many great books out there, so would be great to have a sort of 'guide' of great books to read (if that makes sense)
Yesyesyes to a craft book book club!! Craft books are def one of the things that inspire me, and it would be so awesome to have a book club focused on them!!
I love this - how organized you are. I have a few planners/notebooks on the go, with intentions of having 1 for TH-cam video plans/ideas, 1 for notes on the books I read, 1 for notes on my writing project, 1 for daily life stuff, etc. I find it hard to remember to look in them all! I feel like I need 1 giant book to put everything in so it's all in 1 place, lol! The cacti notebook is cool. I love the colours in it. All the best with your writing reboot; I think you got this!
Oh my gosh I love the notebook giveaway! I gasped out loud haha. Also I think a craft book club would be really awesome and fun. I'm looking forward to the writer reset vlogs!
I love the post it note idea. I am in sales and that is such a great way for me to use to focus on solutions to challenges I have. Thanks for doing really helpful vids!!
Missed these videos. I have been waiting for this video for a whole week. I am no writer but I enjoy the stationary and the notebooks but I also enjoy the help books part, I don’t know why😂 I also respect Sara and I feel how considerate she is as a human being. Wish her all the success in the world.
Just finished HB90 and have regained my passion!! I am organizing my notebooks. Creating my writing space, and have learned to be ok with where I am. Q2 will be May and June for me. I am beyond excited!! Thank you Sarra Canon! ♥️
Your channel makes me want to get my butt in order!!! I seem to always come back to your channel as my inspiration! Sending love❤️ all the best in your journey to your best self!
Love the writer reset idea. I can see the energy growing for you! and as always, love the notebook challenge video. It feeds my own notebook obsession, but also makes me use them. Spring is the perfect time to renew. Can't wait to see how you move forward with the writing.
What helped me was taking care not to promise too much too early. That you have a good week doesn't mean you are back in the flow, it might be (and often was) just a spurt. And then people were expecting what I promised and I felt so bad it hindered my writing even more. So now I just write and not tell anyone and when I am done, they will be happily surprised and that will hopefully make me feel so good that I can dive right into the next story.
Yay to writer reset and for taking time to relax and rejuvenate 🎉❤ Sarra, I love hearing the joy and excitement in your voice! Please count me in if you do create a book club for the craft of writing 😊🌻🌵❤
That productivity planner really caught my eye. I'm very checklist-driven, and the undated pages looks less intimidating. Gonna check that out for my writing. I love seeing all the different kinds of notebooks that you try out. I'm always getting ideas!
I've been feeling very unmotivated and anxious for the last few months, so my main goal for this quarter is to reclaim my happiness. Your videos are always a great motivation
I really enjoyed this video and I have to add your rest break has done you so well. I can hear the rested vibe in your voice. That cactus cover is super cute.
Hi, Sarra, Yes, I would L O V E to do a craft book , book club! I read craft books all the time. It would be amazing to share that journey with other writers.❤
Thanks for another brilliant inspirational post. I love what you say about not beating ourselves up over things we don't achieve and also about being able to come back to those notebooks that we haven't used as much as we initially thought we might. Gorgeous nails, too!
Your journey has been really inspiring to watch. I’m on year seven of college, studying for my doctorate and I am so drained. I’ve lost sight of all my hobbies and your writer reset is helping with my entire life reset that happens to include writing. 😂
Oh my goodness. I love the cacti notebook. It looks so fun. Green is my favorite color. Thanks for all of the writer reset information. I found it very helpful.
❤ yes please! Love your idea for a read-a-long. I sometimes find myself unmotivated to read nonfiction, and I think if we do book club it could open up another level to glean from one another. Great idea!!
I'm working on an enviromental reset. I love calling it that because it's easier to get busy than if I call it cleaning or organizing. 😉 I'd enjoy a craft book club. I have a lot of books and need the encouragement to do more reading. Thanks as always for your honesty and encouragement. ♥
I completely agree with you. Having stickers that you love and a notebook or planner that makes you happy really does motivate you to keep track of everything going on in your life. May we keep moving forward and reach our goals.
Love the notebook challenge videos! A sticker haul of the new stickers you purchased would be awesome! I’m excited for the vlogs and can’t wait to hear what’s next for you!
A craftbookclub spunds very good. And the notebook with the greencolors is so spring-like....I want to use it for writing ideas. So fresh... creates fresh ideas.. thanks for this vlog!
For black paper notebooks, I have completely fallen in love with using Sarasa Decoshines. They're metallic, but they write SOOOO smoothly at least on the black paper journals I've been getting from Lights Planner Action.
I am doing well using my journals. It's helping me to cope with my mental health. I am enjoying the Passover holiday.I would use the notebook for my health since I am more symptomatic.
I have SO MANY notebooks with a single page used. You are definitely not alone! That's one reason I love these notebook challenge videos. I get ideas on how I can use my "one-pager" notebooks. :)
Thank you for the Writer Reset!! I'm so excited for it! I'm a full adult that loves stickers, so I'd be very into a sticker haul video. Another great video, thank you for the amazing content!!
Q2, I'm hoping, will be more productive than Q1. I felt scattered last quarter, and I'm hoping to be more focused and ready to get stuff done. Here's to a great Q2!!🎉
I absolutely love a writing craft bookclub idea. I was using my old Passion Planner as a way to track what I've been learning from my craft studies. :)
April is going great so far! hoping to finish a book I started during NaNo and trying some new changes to my writing day. I hope you have a great April!
I already said this on the coffee chat video, but all the yes to the book club idea! I love the new EC productivity planner to, but I have no idea how to use it. My Q2 is off to a better start than Q1, which was an abysmal failure. While I was going through your fabulous new P&T videos, I decided I needed to make some decisions and am currently working on my logo with Qamber Designs, talking to editors, and getting ready to research cover artists. I was fine until overwhelm set in when I got back from NYC last week. I burned out my Woo and Empathy strengths while I was there and my Input got overloaded. Now I'm dealing with that overwhelm and I'm doing that whole "Who do I think I am writing a book? No one wants to read anything I have to say." thing and I can feel that one voice in my head getting ready to talk smack and urge me to self-sabotage. Oh! And then my wonderful husband decided he wanted to learn how to make biscotti, so now my house smells like a bakery and there are currently three containers of delicious biscotti sitting on my kitchen counter just taunting me to eat them so they can immediately turn into fat cells and migrate to my thighs. It's not like the man doesn't know I want to lose another 20 lbs, (He really is wonderful though, evil baking aside)...Anyway, that's how my Q2 is going. 🤣 And sorry for the all the run-on sentences, but it felt good to write that out. Clearly, I'm a mess!❤
That's such a cute notebook. My book is actually off with my editor this month, and I am helping my mom who had back surgery this week. In my free time I am reading a craft book and I am playing around with ideas for book 3.
Hunter Paper Co journals are so nice! I stocked up when a US shop selling them had a fantastic sale and I love the narrow dot grid. Glad to see you loving yours too!
Ideas that held me up for a long time: 1) the idea that I needed to wake up at 5am and write for several hours straight... And 2) Outlining, because people are always talking about discovery writing being inefficient. But I'm not a morning person. I can't write first thing in the morning. My brain is a foggy mess, and caffeine doesn't even help. It might wake me up physically, but I still feel as creative as a tree stump. My best writing times are from 6pm-12am. And outlines are not for me. Not before I write, and not after. My intuition will take care of the structure if I just get out of its way. I write better when I let my intuitive, creative brain have free rein. As soon as I start trying to force whatever I think should be coming next, my creativity shuts down and the writing becomes a slog. It took me many years to admit these things about myself. I kept trying to force myself into other peoples' boxes. It's really freeing to finally be in a place where I am comfortable in my routine.
So glad to hear you took a month to rest after 5 (at least) very busy months! I hope April is full of writing inspiration. Also, a craft book club sounds interesting to me.
Hi Sarra! First, I love your nails this month! Love the idea of a quarterly writers resource book book club - Count me in! I always love your notebooks and your honesty about when something doesn't work or you get overwhelmed and have to let it go for the moment. Like you, I had to reset and will be following along with that. What a fab resource box. Super cool!
So glad you're getting some much-deserved rest! A craft book club sounds like fun! And I'm obsessed with Orange Umbrella Co. Have to say they're my favorite sticker company! They also have journaling kits :)
I’m reading this year. Hallelujah. And I’m kinda in a book club. Thus, I would use the journal to document my reading library and journey. And I would love to see your sticker haul. 😊
Oh I’d love to see a sticker haul video, also a video on how you use the stickers (I’m stuck on just using happy planner box stickers lol) thanks for the inspiration 💜
Hey Sarah, since you were asking for tips on planning social media content, I recommend Bethany Atazadah's video on planning a month's worth of content in 60 minutes ❤
just half way through and loving all of it, was thinking i wonder what craft books she's planning to read and omg, i have Gail's book! so wonderful to see someone else talking about it. getting it back out, too. :) and yes to the craft book club!
Hope your April is going well so far! Grab the writer reset workbook and join me. Also, hope you enjoy a long holiday weekend video haha.
HUGE yes to the quarterly writing craft book club. I would love to add new craft books to my stack and get to discuss them with fellow authors and hear your thoughts on them as someone who has written so many books
The book club sounds like an amazing idea! I hope you’ll do a quarterly craft book book club reading.
The book club sounds so awesome. I have been following for a while and have been collecting craft books and would love to have someone to read a long with.
Hey Sarra. I've gotta say your time off did you well. Your skin is glowing and there's just this pep and energy surrounding you. I'm so glad that you're doing this writer reset as I've been struggling with writing as well.
Thank you Rachel! It's amazing how a little bit of rest can help sometimes!
Hey, Beautiful, Sarra is beaming. I love her energy. I love yours, too. I am rooting for you, Rachel. 💕
@@dianemorasco Thx D. i'm rooting for you too.💞🎊
Craft book bookclub sounds great!
One thing I recently learned whilst cleaning/tidying my space was... When I finish a project, I start a new project... I never clean up or tidy the area. I found a box filled with trays of tools that never got put away after the projects were over. A stack of envelopes that never got thrown out after opening the mail. So lately I've been making a deliberate effort to clean up my mess after each project and not let the stuff pile up to do later... Truthfully, it takes longer to do later because you have to review the pile of stuff, where as if you just took care of it upon project completion, there's no review. So next project, clean up your space before you move to the next and see how satisfying it is to start fresh every project! 💖🌞🌵😷
Getting to decorate and utilize your creativity is totally a stress reliever and helps you be in that happy flow state. It makes TOTAL sense that you enjoy tracking on the pretty pages!
I love the craft book club idea! There are so many great books out there, so would be great to have a sort of 'guide' of great books to read (if that makes sense)
Yesyesyes to a craft book book club!! Craft books are def one of the things that inspire me, and it would be so awesome to have a book club focused on them!!
I love this - how organized you are. I have a few planners/notebooks on the go, with intentions of having 1 for TH-cam video plans/ideas, 1 for notes on the books I read, 1 for notes on my writing project, 1 for daily life stuff, etc. I find it hard to remember to look in them all! I feel like I need 1 giant book to put everything in so it's all in 1 place, lol! The cacti notebook is cool. I love the colours in it. All the best with your writing reboot; I think you got this!
A big "YES" for a Writing Craft Book book club!
Oh my gosh I love the notebook giveaway! I gasped out loud haha. Also I think a craft book club would be really awesome and fun. I'm looking forward to the writer reset vlogs!
One needs to reset oneself whenever and wherever one needs them. Wishing everyone the best! 🙏💛
Love the idea of a quarterly writing craft book club!
I love the post it note idea. I am in sales and that is such a great way for me to use to focus on solutions to challenges I have. Thanks for doing really helpful vids!!
Missed these videos. I have been waiting for this video for a whole week. I am no writer but I enjoy the stationary and the notebooks but I also enjoy the help books part, I don’t know why😂 I also respect Sara and I feel how considerate she is as a human being. Wish her all the success in the world.
Thank you so much. What a sweet comment!
Sarra is a remarkable soul. 💕
Just finished HB90 and have regained my passion!! I am organizing my notebooks. Creating my writing space, and have learned to be ok with where I am. Q2 will be May and June for me. I am beyond excited!! Thank you Sarra Canon! ♥️
Your channel makes me want to get my butt in order!!! I seem to always come back to your channel as my inspiration! Sending love❤️ all the best in your journey to your best self!
Two Lil Bees has beautiful journaling stickers. Love how you're using stickers throughout your notebooks and planners.
Love the writer reset idea. I can see the energy growing for you! and as always, love the notebook challenge video. It feeds my own notebook obsession, but also makes me use them. Spring is the perfect time to renew. Can't wait to see how you move forward with the writing.
YES❣️❣️ Please let’s have a craft book club❣️❣️ It would be so helpful and inspiring❣️❣️ -Denise
Your authenticity and engagement are so inspiring. Thanks for sharing parts of your day and thoughts with us.
Great video, as always, Sarra. The craft book club sounds like a great idea.😁
Yes to the craft book book club!!!
So glad you're getting (me) time for yourself and the family. Definitely tell in your smiles that it's working ❤ Have a Blessed month.
What helped me was taking care not to promise too much too early. That you have a good week doesn't mean you are back in the flow, it might be (and often was) just a spurt. And then people were expecting what I promised and I felt so bad it hindered my writing even more.
So now I just write and not tell anyone and when I am done, they will be happily surprised and that will hopefully make me feel so good that I can dive right into the next story.
Yay to writer reset and for taking time to relax and rejuvenate 🎉❤ Sarra, I love hearing the joy and excitement in your voice! Please count me in if you do create a book club for the craft of writing 😊🌻🌵❤
Woohoo! 🎉 The Notebook challenge! I love the book box for curated black lit! Looks fantastic!
Yes, I'm all for the book club. Sign me up, lol.
The book club sounds great!
I love that you frequently highlight Black books.
I love the book club idea!
Thank you for another great video!
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That productivity planner really caught my eye. I'm very checklist-driven, and the undated pages looks less intimidating. Gonna check that out for my writing. I love seeing all the different kinds of notebooks that you try out. I'm always getting ideas!
i love watching you talk about all your notebooks!
I've been feeling very unmotivated and anxious for the last few months, so my main goal for this quarter is to reclaim my happiness. Your videos are always a great motivation
Love the idea of the Craft Book club. I also started Heroine's Journey book and need to get back to work on it.
I love idea of the Craft Book Club as well.
What a fun video! I always feel like I've had a mini-vacation after a notebook challenge!
Love these challenges. I also love stickers. They make a huge difference and make all that work fun.
I really enjoyed this video and I have to add your rest break has done you so well. I can hear the rested vibe in your voice. That cactus cover is super cute.
Love the craft book club idea
I love your craft book club idea!
Hi, Sarra,
Yes, I would L O V E to do a craft book , book club! I read craft books all the time. It would be amazing to share that journey with other writers.❤
I'm not a writer, but I love reset videos of all stripes and I'm excited to follow your journey!
That productivity planner would make an awesome social media planner
Thanks for another brilliant inspirational post. I love what you say about not beating ourselves up over things we don't achieve and also about being able to come back to those notebooks that we haven't used as much as we initially thought we might. Gorgeous nails, too!
Your journey has been really inspiring to watch. I’m on year seven of college, studying for my doctorate and I am so drained. I’ve lost sight of all my hobbies and your writer reset is helping with my entire life reset that happens to include writing. 😂
Oh my goodness. I love the cacti notebook. It looks so fun. Green is my favorite color. Thanks for all of the writer reset information. I found it very helpful.
❤ yes please! Love your idea for a read-a-long. I sometimes find myself unmotivated to read nonfiction, and I think if we do book club it could open up another level to glean from one another. Great idea!!
Yes, I love the idea of a craft book book club!
I love the new video format and the book club idea for craft books is a great idea! And I absolutely love the book box for black lit. ❤️ 💋
A bookclub sounds so much fun!
I'm working on an enviromental reset. I love calling it that because it's easier to get busy than if I call it cleaning or organizing. 😉 I'd enjoy a craft book club. I have a lot of books and need the encouragement to do more reading. Thanks as always for your honesty and encouragement. ♥
I completely agree with you. Having stickers that you love and a notebook or planner that makes you happy really does motivate you to keep track of everything going on in your life. May we keep moving forward and reach our goals.
Things are going well since I took the HB90 course! I actually self published my 1st book!! I'm so excited to grow in my writing!
Wow, that's awesome!!
What a fun gardening notebook with cacti!
Ooh, a quarterly craft book club sounds awesome!
Love the notebook challenge videos! A sticker haul of the new stickers you purchased would be awesome! I’m excited for the vlogs and can’t wait to hear what’s next for you!
I always love to watch you and see what you use.
A craftbookclub spunds very good. And the notebook with the greencolors is so spring-like....I want to use it for writing ideas. So fresh... creates fresh ideas.. thanks for this vlog!
Craft book club sounds amazin!! Thanks for creating the new work book Sarra.
I've had to redo my office to get my writing reset
For black paper notebooks, I have completely fallen in love with using Sarasa Decoshines. They're metallic, but they write SOOOO smoothly at least on the black paper journals I've been getting from Lights Planner Action.
Ooooh, I need them! Thank you!
I am doing well using my journals. It's helping me to cope with my mental health. I am enjoying the Passover holiday.I would use the notebook for my health since I am more symptomatic.
yes to craft book bookclub!
I have SO MANY notebooks with a single page used. You are definitely not alone! That's one reason I love these notebook challenge videos. I get ideas on how I can use my "one-pager" notebooks. :)
and yes please on the Craft Book Book Club ! :)
I love the book club idea. I love the notebook and would use for my Sunday reflections.
The book club sounds like a great idea!!
Thank you for the Writer Reset!! I'm so excited for it! I'm a full adult that loves stickers, so I'd be very into a sticker haul video. Another great video, thank you for the amazing content!!
Q2, I'm hoping, will be more productive than Q1. I felt scattered last quarter, and I'm hoping to be more focused and ready to get stuff done. Here's to a great Q2!!🎉
Such a cute notebook. It would be great for morning pages.
You always make me want to go and somehow use all my notebooks at once, lol. The cactus one is so cute!
Always love your content! You are very inspiring! Cute cactus 🌵 notebook, how fun!
Looking forward to your writer reset videos coming! And loved the idea of a book club 😅
Another great video- kept me entertained in the hospital ❤
Thanks for the reset workbook. I think the craft book group is a great idea. ❤
I absolutely love a writing craft bookclub idea. I was using my old Passion Planner as a way to track what I've been learning from my craft studies. :)
April is going great so far! hoping to finish a book I started during NaNo and trying some new changes to my writing day. I hope you have a great April!
Love the idea of a writing craft book club!
I already said this on the coffee chat video, but all the yes to the book club idea! I love the new EC productivity planner to, but I have no idea how to use it. My Q2 is off to a better start than Q1, which was an abysmal failure. While I was going through your fabulous new P&T videos, I decided I needed to make some decisions and am currently working on my logo with Qamber Designs, talking to editors, and getting ready to research cover artists. I was fine until overwhelm set in when I got back from NYC last week. I burned out my Woo and Empathy strengths while I was there and my Input got overloaded. Now I'm dealing with that overwhelm and I'm doing that whole "Who do I think I am writing a book? No one wants to read anything I have to say." thing and I can feel that one voice in my head getting ready to talk smack and urge me to self-sabotage. Oh! And then my wonderful husband decided he wanted to learn how to make biscotti, so now my house smells like a bakery and there are currently three containers of delicious biscotti sitting on my kitchen counter just taunting me to eat them so they can immediately turn into fat cells and migrate to my thighs. It's not like the man doesn't know I want to lose another 20 lbs, (He really is wonderful though, evil baking aside)...Anyway, that's how my Q2 is going. 🤣 And sorry for the all the run-on sentences, but it felt good to write that out. Clearly, I'm a mess!❤
That's such a cute notebook. My book is actually off with my editor this month, and I am helping my mom who had back surgery this week. In my free time I am reading a craft book and I am playing around with ideas for book 3.
Hunter Paper Co journals are so nice! I stocked up when a US shop selling them had a fantastic sale and I love the narrow dot grid. Glad to see you loving yours too!
OMG I LOVE the cactus journal!!!
Ideas that held me up for a long time:
1) the idea that I needed to wake up at 5am and write for several hours straight... And
2) Outlining, because people are always talking about discovery writing being inefficient.
But I'm not a morning person. I can't write first thing in the morning. My brain is a foggy mess, and caffeine doesn't even help. It might wake me up physically, but I still feel as creative as a tree stump. My best writing times are from 6pm-12am.
And outlines are not for me. Not before I write, and not after. My intuition will take care of the structure if I just get out of its way. I write better when I let my intuitive, creative brain have free rein. As soon as I start trying to force whatever I think should be coming next, my creativity shuts down and the writing becomes a slog.
It took me many years to admit these things about myself. I kept trying to force myself into other peoples' boxes. It's really freeing to finally be in a place where I am comfortable in my routine.
Book club sounds like a good idea!
So glad to hear you took a month to rest after 5 (at least) very busy months! I hope April is full of writing inspiration. Also, a craft book club sounds interesting to me.
Yes to a craft book club!
Downloaded the workbook. Hopefully, along with getting the hb 90 I got off of etsy, I will br able to get situated and going.
Hi Sarra! First, I love your nails this month! Love the idea of a quarterly writers resource book book club - Count me in! I always love your notebooks and your honesty about when something doesn't work or you get overwhelmed and have to let it go for the moment. Like you, I had to reset and will be following along with that. What a fab resource box. Super cool!
I need a notebook to vent quietly at work, those cacti look perfect 😅
So glad you're getting some much-deserved rest! A craft book club sounds like fun! And I'm obsessed with Orange Umbrella Co. Have to say they're my favorite sticker company! They also have journaling kits :)
I’m reading this year. Hallelujah. And I’m kinda in a book club. Thus, I would use the journal to document my reading library and journey.
And I would love to see your sticker haul. 😊
Yes, would love a craft book, book club!
Oh I’d love to see a sticker haul video, also a video on how you use the stickers (I’m stuck on just using happy planner box stickers lol) thanks for the inspiration 💜
Trying to catch up with you again. Love watching you. So much inspiration.
Love the idea of the craft book book club.
Hey Sarah, since you were asking for tips on planning social media content, I recommend Bethany Atazadah's video on planning a month's worth of content in 60 minutes ❤
I also like the idea of a craft book club! If I won the journal I would use it for my garden planning.
A craft book club would be anazing!
Great video I always love seeing your notebooks and planners
just half way through and loving all of it, was thinking i wonder what craft books she's planning to read and omg, i have Gail's book! so wonderful to see someone else talking about it. getting it back out, too. :) and yes to the craft book club!
Enjoyed the video. Look forward to the writer reset 💕