it definitely feels like the modern artist doesn't have the luxury of dedicating their time to their craft given all the self-promotion thats expected of them. i often feel like a person that manages an artist rather than an artist myself.
I love James Baldwin. I knew someone who said that she used to spend her summers in Paris with him when she was a little girl. He was a close friend of her family, who were educators, and she called him her Uncle Jimmy. She said he was a wonderful man.
Ngl i feel like i needed this video. I have insomnia and i find it easier to sleep in the early morning and wake up at noon or afternoon. I've spent the last week on holiday trying to reset my body clock, but it just hasn't worked. I feel a bit of shame sometimes about missing mornings and waking up late but now I feel better about it lol. Maybe one day I'll be able to wake up early one day, but for now, knowing that my favourite author used to wake up at noon too 😭
I’m 27 seconds in but I can see why so many writers were/are alcoholics cus I went drinking last night and thought of the perfect short story up while I was tipsy 😂
@@roberta2134I’d have to agree with you however they aren’t wrong that being intoxicated or high could be one of many ways to be creative. Is it healthy depending how much you are consuming. Though I’ve had many creative moments while not being under influence I actually prefer it!
lol I really like whiskey but not everyday & waking up at noon geez. You are spot on about how we often only kno writers as the finished work & not the process, how good was they at keeping familiar, friend etc relationships together. This may have been on perfect day Baldwin writing routine. That timeline is something else. I’m writer myself poetry, plays. Been working on developing a routine or as a writing workshop instructor told me having good writing rituals.
This video is so beautifully edited. Been in a writing slump recently and this gave me a little bit of inspiration to pick back up on this novel idea I've had floating around in my head for months.
This popped up on my recommended and I'm so glad it did! As someone with a similar daily schedule to James Baldwin minus the drinking and the socializing (and tbh minus the writing most days), I can confirm that I am bad at life maintenance. Would be interested in hearing more of your thoughts about the struggling artist stereotype
Super interesting video concept. James Baldwin is my favorite writer and civil rights figure I’m in the middle of reading “another country” right now. Can’t wait to see the next video Prince.
What I'm thinking is Baldwin waited until everyone was gone took in his day and then wrote in that space. The work period between noon and 6:00 was probably the toughest for him; overnight was the juice.
This was so refreshing to watch. Loved all the ponderings and reactions to different parts of the experiment. Reflections on one's art and processes as it relates to life always brings me joy. I guess it makes me feel less alone in it. All that plus diving into Baldwin's process/life?! 10/10 Thank you for this gem.
Loved this video. It was so fun and I learned quite a bit about his routine! Your passion for James Baldwin makes my heart sing. Hope you have a great weekend!
I don't even feel bad now that it took me 2mo to read Go Tell it on The Mountain now that it took him that long to write it because goodness gracious that was a heavy book! Love this BTW!
i found your page thru this video i really appreciate the effort and your experiment! it was really cool to learn more about you and james. much appreciation!
You’re amazing! So inspiring!! I really like your channel. I am writing a screenplay ( and have been for over a year) and I have been feeling like I am in slump!! And this is incredible. To You and James Baldwin 🙏🏾
Glad I found this video. As steeped in literature as I've been, there are just some authors that were never shown to me (as a 35 year old white dude). Baldwin seems fascinating and I've ordered Go Tell It On The Mountain. I know I can't relate to the race struggles that he faced, but at the very least, I can relate to never knowing my father. And I fucking love good writers. The kind of writer who puts out exactly what they feel, what they believe. What they have lived.
I did my MFA on James Baldwin but I took the extreme opposite. The image you are using is part of what I used. Agree. it is the behind the scenes that matters. Hunted everywhere looking for "the" typewriter for my exhibit, I built my James Baldwin table and it was a beautiful exhibit. Yes. I felt honour too...
I must admit my nerves and my brain activates 100% and I'm able to do most of my writing and my reading tremendously when I'm able to smoke my herbs of the field. So another words daily I am able to read through a novel and write a piece of my book because of the herbs of the field. Now others may have another choice of what helps them to tap into those great ideas, then be able to place it on paper I think it's awesome.
I would argue that working on your podcast/social media/your book proposal are justified as "writing" and should count toward the routine hours. Baldwin didn't have the technology we do now and that work is equally effective if not more so to get one's ideas and words out to a large audience. I feel like these writers may have also had the opportunity to be kept, so to speak, by wealthy patrons sometimes. I'm not sure about Baldwin or other black writers of the day but I know that historically so many artists were able to create because rich people fed and housed them - something we don't have so much these days.
I agree. I even count my Letterboxd/Goodreads reviews as writing if I put enough effort into them. It's like how walking to the bus stop and a gym workout are both exercises, even if they have different goals/purposes.
No, working on your podcast is working on your podcast. Writing a grocery list is writing a grocery list. They have names of their own for a reason. The only thing, besides working on an ongoing project day-to-day, that will work out your writing muscles is writing in your journal every single day.
@@safegourdexertion isn't exercise or working out. "Writing reviews" and "having an ongoing writing project" are two different things, both very valuable if done right.
@@abcdefghijklmnnopqrstuvwxy2312 we can definitely agree to disagree here but as a writer and as someone who has had many conversations about this- I think it’s subjective. Articulating your thoughts isn’t all black and white. Maybe it is for you and that’s fine.
This was a great vid-- I would also take issue with drinking every day. It's awesome to learn about what/who inspires others. I knew little about Baldwin before this, tbh, but I definitely feel what you were saying about exploring sexuality in frankly dangerous situations. It seems to be a common rite of passage amongst the queer community.
A Conversation With Baldwin My skin has cost me a simplistic emotion. One in which I know myself. One in which this, time transforms my essences, to that of a being, formed by stress. I know not of nurtured happiness. Not of silence, not of the absence of violence. I know nothing but, the fight, happening here. Shots rang, as flesh is torn, from those who haven't moved in days. Burnt flesh, from ancestors, knowing these are the only days. This is how we were raised. One speaks absent a leash, and thinks of themselves, as free. If blood ceases to splash, upon my assimilated black back, am I not free? Who's to say I still exist as slave, if i am free?
I enjoyed this video. I like your curious mind. Will purchase your book and read something by Baldwin. Thank you, and careful with the scotch, it has a way of jumping up and biting ya on the _! ❤
Great video dude. Also, what was the name of the jazz song, or songs that played toward the end of the video when you were playing the sound bites of James Baldwin talking with his friends?
TIL that James Baldwin’s favorite scotch is Black Label which is also Hitchens’ favorite scotch (because you can get it anywhere in the world) Best way to get into Black Label is to blend it: Black Label, Club Soda gets you used to the drink without making you too drunk or hungover.
eu nunca clico nesse tipo de vídeo porque sinceramente não acredito em forçar para si uma rotina de escrita de outra pessoa. mas AMO O JIMMY 😭😭😭😭 então talvez, quem sabe, seja a hora de...???? edit: esquece. lol. whisky e acordar at noon? respectfully? nah. i can'ttttt 😩♥️
i was just rereading eve's hollywood by eve babitz, and now im highly concerned realizing that both her and james were asked to model nude as teenagers for art pieces by waaaay older men (and eve was asked by her fkin godfather 🙃). thats some nasty work right there
I think an elephant in the room is that James Baldwin didn't emulate someone else's writing routine, he developed his own (actually that's a guess, maybe he did). But surely that is the real experiment, find something that works for you through trial and error. I bet the journey to good writing is as individual and varied as the writer. It's probably harder to understand yourself than copy others. That said, Christopher Hitchens also swore my Jonny Walker Black so either great marketing, or that's the secret sauce. I can't stand the stuff.
I would say no comment until the bottle of scotch is dry...but, here I am. Good luck on the second book - I've never published anything so I can't say I relate on a visceral level, but I imagine its an agonizing wait.
Me: omg wow, i can't believe i haven't seen someone try to write like james baldwin. i love him Prince Shakur: It involves a lot of drinking and smoking Me: oh 😀
it definitely feels like the modern artist doesn't have the luxury of dedicating their time to their craft given all the self-promotion thats expected of them. i often feel like a person that manages an artist rather than an artist myself.
also-- very aweomse video. thank you!
thank you
Just wait, still procrastinating here
This is such an accurate statement. As an author myself, I get it.
Yep, it's exhausting 😭😭😭
I love James Baldwin. I knew someone who said that she used to spend her summers in Paris with him when she was a little girl. He was a close friend of her family, who were educators, and she called him her Uncle Jimmy. She said he was a wonderful man.
You had me at waking up at noon.
facts! Subscribed.
Ngl i feel like i needed this video. I have insomnia and i find it easier to sleep in the early morning and wake up at noon or afternoon. I've spent the last week on holiday trying to reset my body clock, but it just hasn't worked. I feel a bit of shame sometimes about missing mornings and waking up late but now I feel better about it lol. Maybe one day I'll be able to wake up early one day, but for now, knowing that my favourite author used to wake up at noon too 😭
I'm a bit of a typewriter nerd and my heart skipped a beat when I saw your Smith Corona. I do my best writing on a manual 1957 Underwood.
Happy 100th birthday James!
I like this experimental video. What I take from James Baldwin's writing routine is he made time for life (daily) while writing.
Only more to come!
I’m 27 seconds in but I can see why so many writers were/are alcoholics cus I went drinking last night and thought of the perfect short story up while I was tipsy 😂
Same happens when I am high, best ideas ever, I just rush to grab something and start writing… also waking up at noon is wild 😂
REAL
@@mattfranco23 fascinating!
Y'all would say whatever to glorify unhealthy lifestyles. Yet the most creative minds in the history of man weren't drinkers or substance abusers
@@roberta2134I’d have to agree with you however they aren’t wrong that being intoxicated or high could be one of many ways to be creative. Is it healthy depending how much you are consuming. Though I’ve had many creative moments while not being under influence I actually prefer it!
Happy Birthday, James Baldwin. 100 years as of August 2nd
lol I really like whiskey but not everyday & waking up at noon geez.
You are spot on about how we often only kno writers as the finished work & not the process, how good was they at keeping familiar, friend etc relationships together.
This may have been on perfect day Baldwin writing routine. That timeline is something else.
I’m writer myself poetry, plays.
Been working on developing a routine or as a writing workshop instructor told me having good writing rituals.
This video is so beautifully edited. Been in a writing slump recently and this gave me a little bit of inspiration to pick back up on this novel idea I've had floating around in my head for months.
This popped up on my recommended and I'm so glad it did! As someone with a similar daily schedule to James Baldwin minus the drinking and the socializing (and tbh minus the writing most days), I can confirm that I am bad at life maintenance. Would be interested in hearing more of your thoughts about the struggling artist stereotype
I just discovered I’m living James Baldwin’s lifestyle
Super interesting video concept. James Baldwin is my favorite writer and civil rights figure I’m in the middle of reading “another country” right now. Can’t wait to see the next video Prince.
aw thank you for watching! and there's definetely more videos coming on JB throughout August
Interesting concept. Had no clue he was such a night owl. I like to be up late too but not working on stuff.
What I'm thinking is Baldwin waited until everyone was gone took in his day and then wrote in that space. The work period between noon and 6:00 was probably the toughest for him; overnight was the juice.
His writing routine is my dream life
Your channel is one of the most nutritious channels i've come accross in a while. Thank you
It appears that you are having fun! Good for you.
it was fun! i wanna keep researching his routine
we heard you gurrl! love the experiment and how you're exploring your relationship with/ perception of Baldwin.
thank you ❤️
Boy, you and Jimmy would be such good friends!!!
haha, i'd like to think so
I loved this! It would be really fun to see you do this with other writers that have inspired you
That’s in the works! I’m looking into maya Angelou and Stephen king, and some others
@@PrinceShakurRUclipsyou're gonna need more than some whiskey if you wanna do King
i love this content i myself not a writer but has immersed myself into james' writing... so this was so refreshing to see.
This was so refreshing to watch. Loved all the ponderings and reactions to different parts of the experiment. Reflections on one's art and processes as it relates to life always brings me joy. I guess it makes me feel less alone in it. All that plus diving into Baldwin's process/life?! 10/10 Thank you for this gem.
Can’t believe I just found this channel. Keep up the awesome work!!
Thank you❤
Loved this video. It was so fun and I learned quite a bit about his routine! Your passion for James Baldwin makes my heart sing. Hope you have a great weekend!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don't even feel bad now that it took me 2mo to read Go Tell it on The Mountain now that it took him that long to write it because goodness gracious that was a heavy book!
Love this BTW!
13:00 cheers to Jimmy and cheers to you! Thoroughly enjoyed this.
Awesome to see Baldwin fans
i found your page thru this video
i really appreciate the effort and your experiment! it was really cool to learn more about you and james. much appreciation!
I wish I could erase this video from my mind, just so I can enjoy it for the first time again - spectacular work 🎉
aw thank you for watching
You’re amazing! So inspiring!! I really like your channel. I am writing a screenplay ( and have been for over a year) and I have been feeling like I am in slump!! And this is incredible. To You and James Baldwin 🙏🏾
thank you for watching! and good luck on your screenplay
I enjoyed this sooooooo much. It reminds me that f the wild ride of writing. It felt free and intuitive. ❤
Glad I found this video. As steeped in literature as I've been, there are just some authors that were never shown to me (as a 35 year old white dude). Baldwin seems fascinating and I've ordered Go Tell It On The Mountain. I know I can't relate to the race struggles that he faced, but at the very least, I can relate to never knowing my father. And I fucking love good writers. The kind of writer who puts out exactly what they feel, what they believe. What they have lived.
I really liked this video. I think you should do more day-in-the-life type of videos.
There's more in researching for sure
This is everything!!!
Loved this video, and love James Baldwin. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
loved this!!! wishing u the best on your writing journey!!! new subscriber hereee
Thanks for subbing!
18:26 I love typewriters and the tactile/audio portion of using them.
most of humanity is damaged, but we are still worth the effort to lift ourselves and others up.
I did my MFA on James Baldwin but I took the extreme opposite. The image you are using is part of what I used. Agree. it is the behind the scenes that matters. Hunted everywhere looking for "the" typewriter for my exhibit, I built my James Baldwin table and it was a beautiful exhibit. Yes. I felt honour too...
that's pretty cool that you're diving into every aspect of his routine including the drinking and smoking lol. pretty badass.
I just found this channel from this video. I love it. Can't wait to see more!!!
Yay! Thank you!
I must admit my nerves and my brain activates 100% and I'm able to do most of my writing and my reading tremendously when I'm able to smoke my herbs of the field. So another words daily I am able to read through a novel and write a piece of my book because of the herbs of the field. Now others may have another choice of what helps them to tap into those great ideas, then be able to place it on paper I think it's awesome.
Thank you for this video! Bringing back my summer schedule at Howard, way, way back in the day. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
this was great! you’re helping me imagine new possibilities for a writer on yt
♥️ thank you
Thanks for this
This is dope! You’ve gained a new subscriber!❤❤❤
Thanks for subbing!
You’re amusing and so honest. I loved this 🎉❤ UK
Thank you for watching!
First video I really liked it
Thank you
@@PrinceShakurRUclips AND you replied! Ugh now i’m on a binge of your content.
Obsessed with your sign in the back
I enjoyed this.
Thank you
your laughter. if that ain't jimmy spirit right there 💗💗💗💗💗
Instant subscribe! I loveee your vibe ✨
Loved this!
Glad you enjoyed it
I really appreciated this video. As a young blk creator I really enjoy content like this.
Glad you enjoyed it
I have thoroughly enjoyed your video!!!
I would argue that working on your podcast/social media/your book proposal are justified as "writing" and should count toward the routine hours. Baldwin didn't have the technology we do now and that work is equally effective if not more so to get one's ideas and words out to a large audience. I feel like these writers may have also had the opportunity to be kept, so to speak, by wealthy patrons sometimes. I'm not sure about Baldwin or other black writers of the day but I know that historically so many artists were able to create because rich people fed and housed them - something we don't have so much these days.
I agree. I even count my Letterboxd/Goodreads reviews as writing if I put enough effort into them. It's like how walking to the bus stop and a gym workout are both exercises, even if they have different goals/purposes.
No, working on your podcast is working on your podcast. Writing a grocery list is writing a grocery list. They have names of their own for a reason. The only thing, besides working on an ongoing project day-to-day, that will work out your writing muscles is writing in your journal every single day.
@@safegourdexertion isn't exercise or working out. "Writing reviews" and "having an ongoing writing project" are two different things, both very valuable if done right.
@@abcdefghijklmnnopqrstuvwxy2312 we can definitely agree to disagree here but as a writer and as someone who has had many conversations about this- I think it’s subjective. Articulating your thoughts isn’t all black and white. Maybe it is for you and that’s fine.
I loved this! ❤
This literally just inspired me so bad. Im gonna research some more writers’ routines & i might do a video now lol
Im a visual artist most of my friends are as well, we all wake up at the crack of noon 😅
Lol. We all have our methods
Fascinating and fun! 🌸
Glad you enjoyed it
This was endearing and funny.❤
Love
Amazing!
lol we watching this man become an alcholic in REAL TIME! All jokes aside great experiment.
New subscriber here and I purchased your book today on Amazon.🎉❤
Oh thank you so much!
Waking up at noon isn't very wild if you don't go to sleep until like 4
This was a great vid-- I would also take issue with drinking every day. It's awesome to learn about what/who inspires others. I knew little about Baldwin before this, tbh, but I definitely feel what you were saying about exploring sexuality in frankly dangerous situations. It seems to be a common rite of passage amongst the queer community.
A Conversation With Baldwin
My skin has cost me a simplistic emotion.
One in which I know myself.
One in which this,
time transforms my essences,
to that of a being,
formed by stress.
I know not of nurtured happiness.
Not of silence,
not of the absence of violence.
I know nothing but,
the fight,
happening here.
Shots rang,
as flesh is torn,
from those who haven't moved in days.
Burnt flesh,
from ancestors,
knowing these are the only days.
This is how we were raised.
One speaks absent a leash,
and thinks of themselves,
as free.
If blood ceases to splash,
upon my assimilated black back,
am I not free?
Who's to say I still exist as slave,
if i am free?
I enjoyed this video. I like your curious mind. Will purchase your book and read something by Baldwin. Thank you, and careful with the scotch, it has a way of jumping up and biting ya on the _!
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Your liquor “brrrewww” I felt! 😸
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Great video dude. Also, what was the name of the jazz song, or songs that played toward the end of the video when you were playing the sound bites of James Baldwin talking with his friends?
you're the cutest person in the world 🥺
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Next vid: trying Van goghs painting routine hahah heading to the hospital rn lol
I just want to tell you I love love love your videos so so much
Thank you ♥️
I loooooooooove this hahahahaha
TIL that James Baldwin’s favorite scotch is Black Label which is also Hitchens’ favorite scotch (because you can get it anywhere in the world)
Best way to get into Black Label is to blend it: Black Label, Club Soda gets you used to the drink without making you too drunk or hungover.
eu nunca clico nesse tipo de vídeo porque sinceramente não acredito em forçar para si uma rotina de escrita de outra pessoa. mas AMO O JIMMY 😭😭😭😭 então talvez, quem sabe, seja a hora de...???? edit: esquece. lol. whisky e acordar at noon? respectfully? nah. i can'ttttt 😩♥️
The routine … oi. No. Couldn't do it. The whiskey though. Yes! But that would lead to my demise.
hey have you ever read Leon Forrest or William Melvin Kelley?
or dambudzo marechera
i was just rereading eve's hollywood by eve babitz, and now im highly concerned realizing that both her and james were asked to model nude as teenagers for art pieces by waaaay older men (and eve was asked by her fkin godfather 🙃). thats some nasty work right there
Don't overthink it
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Man you put a dent in that bottle already lol
Why are you holding the glass like you are pouring something poisonous 🤣🤣
i meannnn aint that what it is? 😂😂
Waking up at noon? That is crazy. Lol
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Say what?!? 35 year old painting a 16 year old?!?! Lordy mercy 😮
I think an elephant in the room is that James Baldwin didn't emulate someone else's writing routine, he developed his own (actually that's a guess, maybe he did). But surely that is the real experiment, find something that works for you through trial and error. I bet the journey to good writing is as individual and varied as the writer. It's probably harder to understand yourself than copy others. That said, Christopher Hitchens also swore my Jonny Walker Black so either great marketing, or that's the secret sauce. I can't stand the stuff.
He probably experimented with what worked just like any committed person to their art
I would say no comment until the bottle of scotch is dry...but, here I am. Good luck on the second book - I've never published anything so I can't say I relate on a visceral level, but I imagine its an agonizing wait.
Just trying to stay patient
That's good whiskey
Me: omg wow, i can't believe i haven't seen someone try to write like james baldwin. i love him
Prince Shakur: It involves a lot of drinking and smoking
Me: oh 😀
Where has the YT algorithm been hiding you??? Clearly I'm following the wrong links if this is the first time I'm seeing this channel pop up
Someone tell Veondre Lovette
dude, you're supposed to sip scotch. 😂 breathe out of your mouth after sipping. it's amazing.
Now I gotta do round two
Now do Hunter S Thompson
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Drink talisker and sip on it don't gulp it down like a turkey