Hey guys, it's Lainey and it's going to be the last week of September and I decided
to challenge myself this whole week. I'm gonna do the 5 a.m. Challenge. It's not a
real challenge but I'm just calling it that. Basically it's where I get up every
morning at 5 a.m. I'm doing it for several reasons one of the reasons is to
boost my productivity. Also I need a change. I will say right now there is no
writing vlog because I have been in such a creative rut for the past month that I
just haven't been able to write and I think the main reason why I fell into
this creative rut is because I am going to rewrite Sharp Hollows from the
beginning. I've gotten into this routine of not doing much I've been reading
which is great but I haven't been furthering myself and challenging myself
in my own creative way. Today I have been preparing myself for the week to come.
I went grocery shopping I did some laundry I cleaned my apartment and that's really
helped with "the change." With October coming up my birthday is right at the
beginning of October so I'm about to turn 26. I just need this change doing
this challenge will help me just help me get out of the rut help me feel more
productive. I probably should mention why I'm getting up at 5 a.m. I work at 8:30 so I
leave my apartment around 7:45. The reason why I'm getting up at 5:00 at
versus 6:00 is that I want to get things done. I want to do yoga because I have
really fallen off the beaten path of doing that because I was doing that and
then I stopped and I want to get back to that. I also want to make my lunch before
I take it to work I don't want to eat at work anymore. I want to have breakfast
because I also am kind of rushing out the door I don't have time to you know
sit and have a good breakfast. I want to be able to write. Push myself to write I
want to also maybe read just spend maybe a half hour just reading to get my brain
going. You're gonna see a lot of variety this week. So I'm gonna be vlogging it
because it's gonna be able to hold myself accountable. So I do have to get
up every morning at 5 a.m. I just kind of want to do something different and
put it out there and just feel better about myself before you know I go into
my birthday. Right now I haven't been and great about myself because of my rut.
I can kind of make this into maybe a writing vlog as well. A lot of you guys
know if you follow me on Twitter I entered Pitch Wars. We were able to
submit up to six mentors. I submitted to six. I got full requests
from three of the six. I'm going to be doing a blog post as well about
my experience on Pitch Wars, because I had a very positive experience with Pitch Wars
despite not being picked as a mentee and I kind of want to tell people about it,
if I can, I don't know if it's tacky or something. Really helped me it actually
pushed me to realize that I need to rewrite it. One of the mentors gave me
basically a mini edit letter. She said she really liked it but there were these
problems with it and the important thing to know about receiving feedback is you
don't have to take it at face value I don't have to apply any of this mentor's
critiques at all to my manuscript. However when I was reading her critiques
because she broke it down and... I was like really really impressed that
she gave me this much feedback even though she didn't pick me. To know if you
need to apply this feedback is, at least for me, when I was reading the critiques
I was like "hmm..." Yeah, I kind of agree with that and there
was mostly all the things that I knew were problems but I was kind of ignoring
in the deeper subconscious part of my brain but having someone point those out
I did realize that those were things I did need to fix. Unfortunately for me
these things that need to be fixed, require me to mostly rewrite it. It took
me a while to like let that sink in that I needed that to be done and it was very
disheartening at first for me even though I knew, I knew it, I knew it these
things, these changes, need to be made, but it sucked. It just straight-up sucked,
because I feel like, I know writing is rewriting and this is a piece of writing
101 that takes me a long time to really embrace just because of my
academic background. I viewed it as a while I've been working on this for 10
months and to feel like I'm going back to square one just makes me want to cry.
Trying to force myself to see it as this isn't square one again, you're not back
at square one because still all the same characters, they still have all the same
motives and the same personalities, mostly. The best way I can describe it is
I'm basically writing a reboot to my own original book. Just making it better, but
I'm telling the same story. It's still the same journey story. It's still the
same treasure hunt... I'm just telling it in a different way. Instead of taking
path 1 to get to the end product, I'm taking path 2 to get to the end product.
And that's very overwhelming for me and you know how much of this really sucked
is that a couple days before I realized that I needed to rewrite it I actually
started outlining a book, a new book, a new idea that I was going to work on for
NaNoWriMo and now I don't know. I don't know my future plans for NaNoWriMo at all
Right now it's about 7 p.m. and I'm gonna get to bed early and I guess
you'll see me tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. Okay, it's 5 a.m. and I am getting up for
the day. First I'm going to do some yoga.
Okay so, I finished my workout. The bad thing was I really sucked because it's
been a while since I've done yoga. The good news is I feel really awake now.
I have to leave for work in about 20 minutes so I did do a lot of things this morning
productivity wise, I just didn't get to all the things I wanted to do. I also got
extremely distracted when I was doing my makeup today because I was watching
Project Runway while I was doing my makeup so that just took me a really
long time, plus I like curled my hair and that takes, you know, about 15 minutes as
well, so since this is the first day I'm like getting used to the schedule of
getting up at 5. So let's hope by Wednesday I'm finished getting ready by
7 so then I have about 40 minutes to kind of do what I want. I just wanted to
quickly update kind of my day. I'm just kind of sitting at my desk I am painting
my nails currently because why not? And I'm watching some YouTube videos.
Right now I'm watching Natalia Leigh. I really like her videos, she's a great writing
person on YouTube. I'm also behind on a lot of videos. My Watch Later right
now is... it has to be over 200 and it's just so overwhelming because I just
haven't been watching a lot of YouTube lately. So I'm currently binging the
videos I've missed of hers. I got 20 minutes of brainstorming in this morning
which was great I think I have... I'm working out the problems that I feel
like I'm having in my head which is good. Releasing that creativity. Still plan to
go to bed around 10:30/11 o'clock is my latest. I mean I could go to sleep if I
wanted to right now but I'm not exhausted. That's one of the things I'm
pleasantly surprised at. It doesn't even feel like I woke up at 5:00, it
feels like I woke up at the same time I usually do, which is nice. I know it's only the
first day but I'm feeling really positive about these changes. I have like
a new outlook on how I want to live my life and these were like the first steps
in the right direction for me. You're probably like this girl is a being way
too extra about giving up early, but I just want to one, be happy and be excited
and two, be productive. I will see you guys in the morning I guess.
I'm doing pretty good on time. I did yoga. Oh my god, I woke up this
morning and like my whole shoulders were on fire they hurt so bad.
Showered, did my hair and my makeup already. And now I'm eating. So a bagel
and some applesauce and then I'm also just watching a episode of Bob's Burgers.
Okay, day three, five a.m. Let's do this.
I feel like my transitions for this vlog are going to be so terrible.
I just finished watching last night's Dancing With The Stars. I really love Dancing With The
Stars. Since it like started, I feel like I've watched about 90% of the seasons.
If you're fans of Dancing With The Stars, let me know because I love that show.
My favorites this season... Favorite is Frankie and Witney. I also really love Jordan
and Lindsay and Lindsey and Mark. Yesterday I broke through some of the
brainstorming issues I was having with rewriting the first chapter so now I
think I can finish the first chapter. I'm really really excited about that.
I feel so lost that's how I really feel about Sharp Hollows right now. This one
felt like a blow to me because I'm not even keeping anything I'm writing, I'm
not reworking anything, I'm like starting over and that sucks. It just plain sucks.
You'll probably get sick of me complaining about this but it's just
like so heartbreaking. All over the writing vlogs I've done before talking
about this right here, right now. You've seen them. You've seen how much I've been
working. Not that I want you know I'll pat on the back, but you've seen the
journey of that whole process for me. That being said, I know I'm
gonna be participating in NaNoWriMo. At what capacity? I'm not sure yet. I don't know
if it'd be better if I just write what I can with Sharp Hollows right now and then
once November 1st hits, just to let it sit? The part I love about NaNoWriMo is
starting something new and just having that fresh, blank page and just going for
it for 50,000 words. So that's like what I'm struggling with because I have
another idea that I'm pretty pumped about.
I don't know if I should just word vomit a first draft in November. "First draft" is
relative let's get real. It'll just be like about 50,000 words barely at midnight
of December 1st. Go back to Sharp Hollows in December? I'm just it's pretty much up
in the air and if I do do the new project, which I'm just gonna start
calling Witch Pirates because that's what I've started calling it when I've
made a playlist and everything for it already. I mean I'm gonna have to divide
my time in October between working on Sharp Hollows and also outlining
Witch Pirates because I will... I have to have a plan and I have like brainstormed a lot
for Witch Pirates already, so I have a general idea of like where I want to go
with it, but I still need to research, I need to outline, and I need to world
build a lot because this world... there's a lot of rules, already. I've been rambling
a lot, but I thought I need to let you guys in on what my writing has been like.
It just has not been as vigorous as it was in the beginning of the summer.
It's tiny bit harder to get up this morning, I'm really tired and it's also the ab
workout for my yoga today, I know I'm gonna hurt all day once I do it
Okay, 5:00 a.m. Friday morning.
I never did do an outro for this 5:00 a.m. Challenge. I'm so very happy that I did this. I feel like I was really taking
care of myself and also being productive, which was great. I found that when I was
at work, I didn't feel like I was tired it's not like, "Oh man, I got up at
5:00 a.m. today." I felt like I got up, got up at my normal time so I think going
forward I'm gonna continue to do getting up at 5:00 a.m. just for my productivity
and for my health. But I won't vlog it. October you'll see
my regularly scheduled writing vlogs and this month is gonna be crazy for writing
because I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do for NaNoWriMo.
Thank you for watching this video. Let me know down below what you guys been doing with
your writing. It's been a really long time since I've asked that question, so I
really want to know what everyone's been doing for the past couple months where I
have it's been asking that. I'll see you guys all in my next video
Bye!
I have this new candle I got at T.J.Maxx
it's pumpkin ginger cookie bar. I love the scents
that I would never eat I don't like pumpkin,
I don't like ginger, and the picture on this candle does not look appetizing to me.
But it smells phenomenal.
Anyway, off track.
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