I tried Virginia Woolf's daily routine, here's how it went. | trying famous daily routines
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- hey everyone! in this video I try out Virginia Woolf's daily routine! I had so much fun making this video, so I'm thinking about turning it into a series and following other famous writers' (or any artist) daily routine :) if you have a person's routine you'd like me to try, give this video a thumbs up and let me know in the comments and I'll try to make it happen.
Here’s my interpretation of Virginia’s routine:
7 a.m. - wake up, take a bath & get dressed
8 a.m. - breakfast, finish getting ready for the day
9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. - write fiction or reviews
12-1 p.m. - revise the morning’s work
1 p.m. - lunch
~2 p.m. - finish lunch, go for a walk
~3 p.m. - afternoon tea
~4-6 p.m. - letter writing and diary entry
~6 p.m. - dinner
~7-9/10 p.m. - entertain and/or read
~9/10 p.m. - go to bed
(using ~ because it's not explicitly stated at what times she did these things, so I'm using general times that I assume these things would've done)
Sources of research for this video:
Recollections of Virginia Woolf by her Contemporaries edited by Joan Russell Noble
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgini...
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Thank you. I really enjoyed your interpretation of VW’s routine and how you appreciate and revere her. She was so disciplined and creative people need a routine in order to get their work done. You showed it wonderfully.
Thank you! Yes, creative people definitely need a routine! Otherwise there’s just too much happening in the brain to focus properly on the task at hand, I can see why so many creative people are very disciplined about sticking to their routines.
Thank you so much for sharing! I would love to see other routine videos. It's interesting how looking back we have a tendency to think of her routine as slow or a luxury even though we know of productive and important she was. She did more and left more of an impact than most people who have a very fast and busy day will do.
That’s so true! Maybe there’s something to be said for living intentionally and putting all of your effort into the things you love instead of filling our days with activities that don’t fulfill us. Thank for watching and leaving this comment :)
I loved this! I’m going to incorporate my writing routine before work and edit after work. It will be easier for me to find 2.5 hours in the am since I work from home. Where as when I had to go into the office writing just wasn’t possible. Since working from home I’ve been able to exercise and now I shall incorporate this. I’ve been keeping a diary since I was 7/8-my mum purchased my first one pink with flowers and dedicated it to me. ❤ I haven’t stopped writing since.
Oh, I love that! I am very bad about keeping a diary, but I really want to. Working from home really does help in that regard, I'm glad you're finding time to write again!
Really interesting idea and I loved how you stitched Virginia's voice and opinions about writing in your own vlog 🍂 just found out about your channel!
Great video! Thank you so much for Virginia's daily routine!
Thank you for watching! :)
love it! such a simple but gorgeous and meaningful video... really makes me feel like trying Virginia´s routine too. And think it´s gonna help me leaving definitely this ugly depression. Thank you for sharing... Think Virginia would love it ❣
thank you for your comment! I’m glad the video could help you feel better and I hope you do try her routine, it was really good to follow :)♥️
@@ingerlouise 🥰
Loved your video. I'm showing it in one of my creative writing classes. 🧡
Yay! Thank you. I’m glad you liked it so much :)
What a delightful video and so well done! Beautiful integration of her history and voice into the video! I hope you will be able to do this again. I’m so glad I “stumbled onto” your channel - very refreshing! Now you have a new subscriber! I have also shared with a friend 😊
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Wow, I love this routine! Good job! :)
I will try to follow this routine. because I like her diary and books, too.
Thank you for organizing it in detail. I'm Korean, so I used a translator. I'm sorry..!
Thank you for watching! The translation worked perfectly :)
Try working in an old style literary print shop as she did setting type. Also more pastry at tea!
I completely forgot about having pastries with my tea, but you are right! I am dying to find an old printing press that I can print stuff on. It would be a dream come true to print an entire book by hand :)
@@ingerlouise I'm old, and I've done that. It's a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of work. A lot of work. Dirty work, at that.
It was luxurious because she lived on inheritance from an aunt. So she was very, very fortunate, most people in England at that time were very poor. However, she didn't squander her good fortune and instead put it to great use by using the time she had free to write. I also wonder if her lack of job maybe hindered her depression, as having a workplace with a routine and colleagues can help depression (if you enjoy the job) whereas motivating yourself at home can be very different. Good video, thanks for sharing.
You make a very good point… I definitely think it could have helped, but perhaps then she wouldn’t have produced the same works that we all know and love today… Thanks for watching!!
Interesting 🤔
It’s the electronic elephant in the room, Virginia didn’t have a mobile phone 🤓
she certainly did not 🤓
@@ingerlouise like most people, I knew she had a laptop, but she most definitely did not have a mobile phone …
@@user-tl8zp2vs3e she did not have a laptop… possibly not even a typewriter, she wrote all of her manuscripts by hand, which were then typeset and printer by her husband, Leonard
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I will! I just uploaded another one about Sylvia Plath’s routine if you want to watch that one:
ruclips.net/video/qxkSsZm837I/видео.html
If you want to be personaly effective (Inwardly peaceful and outwardly useful) continually be asking yourself Martin Luther Kings critical question "What am I doing for others" and do it.
that is good advice!
Virdinia Woolf didn't use a laptop. Few great writers do today, hard as it is to believe. There is undeniable scientific evidence that writing in longhand automatically accesses the brain's creative center because we don't write letters and words, we DRAW them. For weird reasons that apparently have to do with the way the brain, the hand, and striking things with a stick for attack or defense evolved together, a MANUAL typewriter also accesses this center of the brain, though not quite as well as longhand. A keyboard does not access it at all. This doesn't mean great writing can't be done on a keyboard, but it does mean you have to work a lot harder to create such writing.
Too, it has been proven that the creative brain works much better at the pace of handwriting, with the stops and starts and pauses, with time for thinking twice, or three times, before you put the words on paper. The single silliest, most self-defeating thing I hear new writers say is, "I use a word processor because then my typing keeps up with my thoughts."
Unless your first thought is always perfect, the LAST thing you should want is for your typing to keep up with your thoughts.
It is no coincidence that the majority of great writers that most of us admire wrote in longhand, or used a manual typewriter. It is also no coincidence that the vast majority of fiction out there today in semi-literate, same old, same old nonsense. It's all the same thing with just the names of the characters and the setting changed.
A surprising number of great writers still write in longhand. A couple I know use dip pens. A number still use manual typewriters. "Work" is not all the same. If you want to follow Woolf's routine, then write the same way she did, not with a word processor. You may actually write something that susprises you.
Very interesting to know, thanks for sharing! I do write in longhand a lot of the time, it just depends on what I'm working on because every project lives in a different place. Some live entirely in a notebook until they're finished, some are half notebook-half laptop, and some only exist on my laptop.
I have been hunting for a manual typewriter (that actually still works) for a while now, but it's not always easy. A lot of people are selling typewriters just as collectibles, but I want to be able to actually write something with mine.