Been thinking about quiting my day job for a while so that I can freelance as a video editor, maybe build a youtube platform, and even teach part-time. But of course, I've been too scared to do it. This was insanely helpful and inspiring. Thanks!
Congrats. I remember the 10-15K days. I personally let every add roll all the way through, which is not something I do for most other channels. You have been an example to my 20 year old neice, proving she can make a go at full-time self-employment with her writing and editing skills. Plus, we love "Little Birds" and can't wait for the novel
wow thats so crazy a 16 yr old being an icon and a hero to a 20 year old ^_^ (seriously hannah how do u stay looking so young. are you Elizabeth Báthory) (yes, i DID go to the wikipedia page specifically to get the proper grammar construction or wtf ever you call that, to get her last name correct)
I’m working on transitioning to being self employed because I’m overrun with graphic design work on the side of my boring, low paying office job! Thanks for sharing info about being a creative and self employed!
I honestly want to say this is very very motivational! I’m about to go into a creative writing degree and being an author is my dream so this kind of makes me feel better about my chances? Specially seeing the ways you make income :)))
Nutsy McNutterman. Woah! I think you might be onto something with the week thing. I've been trying to integrate writing in with everything else I am doing but it hasn't been going well at all. A mere hour or two a day isn't enough time for me to get into my writing and when I devote a day out of the week to it the universe almost always finds a way to steal that day from me. I remember a time when I was able to write a whole draft of a novel vs struggling to finish a short story and that was when I divided my time between weeks
so excited that i found your channel. it's such a great tool, and i thoroughly enjoy you as a person--you give me so much writer's-dopamine. love having your content in my arsenal
I was looking for ways to enhance my lackluster writing description and found your page. I appreciate that you use your channel to critique writing and teach at the same time. Thank you.
Your workshop service has been super helpful! I look forward to turning in the next draft! (It's been a minute, but I haven't ghosted, I swear.) Edit: It's partly because I've been busy with the group workshop, which has also been super helpful!
Love your perspective on TV (and everything) and very helpful to hear how you are diversifying income streams. I’m curious if this has changed over time.
I know this an old video but I really enjoyed this. I’m new to your channel and I’m so so glad I found you. I really want to get back into writing. Thank you for your tips and motivation. I hope you smashed the goals you had in this video ♥️
This is super informative! Thanks for all the work you do trying to support the writing community. I've learned a lot from your channel and it's always so fun to watch :)
I'm so tempted to sign up for the incubator (great idea btw!) as I'm planning on starting working on my novel this year. I'm hesitant because I'm from a non English speaking country in Europe and I haven't figured out what it would mean for someone like me to publish in English and worldwide instead of in my own country. I haven't seen any author on yt in a similar position. So I guess as much as I would like to participate, I wouldn't want to waste your time, if I turned out to be a hopeless case, you know 😅 Anyways, you're always a delight to watch and I look up to you so much 🥰
I watch bad movies with my friend often and so far I've only ever regretted watching one movie (The Room). There's (almost) always something to gain even from consuming literal garbage. Squirrel name idea: Nuts?
@@HannahLeeKidder also i'm trying out the list of assets now and it's making me realize i'm capable of more than 1 thing and also have or have had a lot of cool people/experiences in my life? 👌🏻
Re: the squirrel name On the one hand, I wanna suggest the more subtle "Abraham" for "father of many" or whatever that translates to But on the other hand he could be Testy Is it short for Testes/Testicles? Testosterone? Testing Hannah's patience? We just don't know
THANK YOU for saying you shouldn't be spending every second of every day hustling! People NEED to relax! They NEED to recuperate and have fun! Hustle culture is BS! And I love watching stuff and analyzing it and actively engaging with it! It's awesome! Glad I'm not alone in that! :D Your advice, espec about having savings and all, is really interesting and great! Thanks a lot! So glad you're so happy with all this (but don't know how you do it, seems like you do WAY too much to be able to do it all, LMAO)!
Can I hire you to look at my book? I just finished it. I would love your honest opinion before I publish it. I can pay for your services. How should I proceed?
I just produced it with audible, which is super self-explanatory when you get into it. It would be an incredibly boring video, but I'm 100% sure there are at least five videos that already exist about it haha.
Hi I have a question, if you took at the videos on my channel do you think it would be possible for you or your team to write stories regarding men getting revenge on cheating spouses? Let me know if interested and I can explain more details.
@@HannahLeeKidder Oh too bad, that would have been funny😅. I'm currently reading a book about american archeology and the name came up. He was an archeologist in the 20th century who explored the southwest of America
@@namowadriver I appreciate the attempt to paint on a silver lining. But there isn't any here. Over the last ten years I was blacklisted from my profession, suffered a stroke, had a family member steal $40,000 from me, the rest of my family written me off as a failure, I'm being sued by my last employer because they want their unemployment money back, I'm losing my home in a few months. I have absolutely nothing, and no one.😔
Getting off your phone is likely the best advice I've heard all year.
When they're cute as h*ck /and/ successful? Iconic.
i'll cry, bitch
@@HannahLeeKidderI'm not taking it back!
@@TimbrrWolfe wholesome
I really appreciate how much you genuinely want to help.
I love my pals 🥺🥺
Been thinking about quiting my day job for a while so that I can freelance as a video editor, maybe build a youtube platform, and even teach part-time. But of course, I've been too scared to do it. This was insanely helpful and inspiring. Thanks!
Yes!! Oh my god, get it!
Congrats. I remember the 10-15K days. I personally let every add roll all the way through, which is not something I do for most other channels.
You have been an example to my 20 year old neice, proving she can make a go at full-time self-employment with her writing and editing skills.
Plus, we love "Little Birds" and can't wait for the novel
Thanks for being nice, and thanks for watching 😊
wow thats so crazy a 16 yr old being an icon and a hero to a 20 year old ^_^
(seriously hannah how do u stay looking so young. are you Elizabeth Báthory)
(yes, i DID go to the wikipedia page specifically to get the proper grammar construction or wtf ever you call that, to get her last name correct)
I’m working on transitioning to being self employed because I’m overrun with graphic design work on the side of my boring, low paying office job! Thanks for sharing info about being a creative and self employed!
I honestly want to say this is very very motivational! I’m about to go into a creative writing degree and being an author is my dream so this kind of makes me feel better about my chances? Specially seeing the ways you make income :)))
Did you write your book?
This is fantastic. I'm planning to quit my day job after Christmas to be self-employed. Your story is definitely inspirational and aspirational!
Omg good luck!!
Nutsy McNutterman.
Woah! I think you might be onto something with the week thing. I've been trying to integrate writing in with everything else I am doing but it hasn't been going well at all. A mere hour or two a day isn't enough time for me to get into my writing and when I devote a day out of the week to it the universe almost always finds a way to steal that day from me.
I remember a time when I was able to write a whole draft of a novel vs struggling to finish a short story and that was when I divided my time between weeks
so excited that i found your channel. it's such a great tool, and i thoroughly enjoy you as a person--you give me so much writer's-dopamine. love having your content in my arsenal
I was looking for ways to enhance my lackluster writing description and found your page. I appreciate that you use your channel to critique writing and teach at the same time. Thank you.
Thanks for watching 😊
I picked up Little Birds. It is really good. I got the audible version.
@@jeffclifford6127 isn't Gretchen an amazing narrator? 🥰🥰
Thank you for sharing all of this! Super inspirational
Your workshop service has been super helpful! I look forward to turning in the next draft! (It's been a minute, but I haven't ghosted, I swear.)
Edit: It's partly because I've been busy with the group workshop, which has also been super helpful!
Glad it's helpful!
Love your perspective on TV (and everything) and very helpful to hear how you are diversifying income streams. I’m curious if this has changed over time.
You can do a vid with the team and discuss how each of you give insightful critique 😊
I'm planning on a video with one of them, for sure!
Super happy I have found your channel.
You better stop making quality content before I binge your entire channel.
I know this an old video but I really enjoyed this. I’m new to your channel and I’m so so glad I found you. I really want to get back into writing. Thank you for your tips and motivation. I hope you smashed the goals you had in this video ♥️
you are all sorts of awesome to be able to pull this off as well as you do
also could you link the skillshare InDesign class you took 🥺
@@HannahLeeKidder thnx
This is super informative! Thanks for all the work you do trying to support the writing community. I've learned a lot from your channel and it's always so fun to watch :)
Thanks for watching! 😊
I agree with you that the whole hustle culture dynamic is super unhealthy. Leisure is very important.
Awesome advice as usual.
And you're pretty close to 15k already! See you then!
I'm so tempted to sign up for the incubator (great idea btw!) as I'm planning on starting working on my novel this year. I'm hesitant because I'm from a non English speaking country in Europe and I haven't figured out what it would mean for someone like me to publish in English and worldwide instead of in my own country. I haven't seen any author on yt in a similar position. So I guess as much as I would like to participate, I wouldn't want to waste your time, if I turned out to be a hopeless case, you know 😅
Anyways, you're always a delight to watch and I look up to you so much 🥰
I hope you went ahead, your English is faultless.
Do you use a social media suite to keep track of everything? And if so which one?
I'm really enjoying your channel, thank you :)
Love ur videos. They are the highlight of my week
Thank you for watching 💜
Here is my question: What would you recommend posting on a newsletter and a website when starting out and still working on your craft?
I watch bad movies with my friend often and so far I've only ever regretted watching one movie (The Room). There's (almost) always something to gain even from consuming literal garbage.
Squirrel name idea: Nuts?
loved this! this helped me a lot, so thank you! cannot WAIT for the incubator program! :D
I'm so excited!! (Also I'm keeping a short list of people to consider for the discounted first beta run of it, and I got my eye on you 👀)
@@HannahLeeKidder oMG 🤩(emojis are failing to represent my excitement, but this will have to do hahaha) that's amazing, thank you!
@@HannahLeeKidder also i'm trying out the list of assets now and it's making me realize i'm capable of more than 1 thing and also have or have had a lot of cool people/experiences in my life? 👌🏻
@@ashleyforshaw8449 dude, the power of a list? truly unmatched
@@HannahLeeKidder lists are glorious
I feel like Nutz is the obvious choice for the squirrel 🤷🏾♀️
Re: the squirrel name
On the one hand, I wanna suggest the more subtle "Abraham" for "father of many" or whatever that translates to
But on the other hand he could be Testy
Is it short for Testes/Testicles? Testosterone? Testing Hannah's patience?
We just don't know
Big Nut Nutterson
TESTY IS SO GOOD WOW. the layers
@@HannahLeeKidder 😎👉👉
THANK YOU for saying you shouldn't be spending every second of every day hustling! People NEED to relax! They NEED to recuperate and have fun! Hustle culture is BS! And I love watching stuff and analyzing it and actively engaging with it! It's awesome! Glad I'm not alone in that! :D Your advice, espec about having savings and all, is really interesting and great! Thanks a lot! So glad you're so happy with all this (but don't know how you do it, seems like you do WAY too much to be able to do it all, LMAO)!
The secret is I was still doing way too much! lmao. I'm even more pro Stop Hustling than I was when I made this video. 🥂
@@HannahLeeKidder Hahaha! Oh, wow, that's great! Love that! I'm so glad you're relaxing more (at least, I hope, you deserve it)!
The first year I freelanced in entertainment I earned $9,000 gross. Congrats on buying a house!
omg twinsies. thanks!
Squirrel should be named "MAN Squirrel" or "The Gifted One" lol!
Love your outfit💗
I like how there’s just a punching bag casually in the background.
Squirrel name - Hugo Nuts
This is a good video ❤🎉
hi thank u for answering my question i love u n miss u
I love u and miss u, come over why don't u
@@HannahLeeKidder omw🏃🏻♀️
Self-employment taxes are your social security and Medicare. Employer pays half. Employee pays half. If you are self-employed, you are both. :)
and u pay a tax for employing yourself, it's rly cool
Can I hire you to look at my book? I just finished it. I would love your honest opinion before I publish it. I can pay for your services. How should I proceed?
Can you do a video on how you did your audio book?
I just produced it with audible, which is super self-explanatory when you get into it. It would be an incredibly boring video, but I'm 100% sure there are at least five videos that already exist about it haha.
Hi I have a question, if you took at the videos on my channel do you think it would be possible for you or your team to write stories regarding men getting revenge on cheating spouses? Let me know if interested and I can explain more details.
not only do i now follow u on twitter, i HIT THE DENG B E L L
HA! take that!
Just wanted to say, I think the denim shirt is cute
thx it was my grandma's 💜
Just name him Ballsack, you can't say it's not fitting.
Would u guide short story writing
Hello
It's the cutie police! You're under arrest for looking cute 🔫😳 haha
🙆♀️
Also if I see a single Novelpad comment,
They're coming
Everyone calls me XXL Wave master.
Nutty the squirrel. Maybe?
When will we get another plant tour everyone say it with me plant! tour! plant! tour!
Patreon! U gotta vote in the polls! Plants are there every time lmao
@@HannahLeeKidder so my beef is with Mudgang then 🤬
I'm pretty sure Plant Tours get last place in every Patreon vote. They're just a lesser gold, that's all.
@@micahklassen7151 omg do we have beef? are we enemies?
Mr. Nuttington.
Random question, but are you in any way related to Alfred Vincent Kidder?
Haha not to my knowledge. Is he from Louisiana?
@@HannahLeeKidder Oh too bad, that would have been funny😅. I'm currently reading a book about american archeology and the name came up. He was an archeologist in the 20th century who explored the southwest of America
Lmao I thought you were gonna be like "he's my cousin"
My family is supposedly related to Jean Lafitte tho
You deserve six million dollars a minute
Thanks for seeing me
Mr. Tree Rodent With Giant Testicles is a lovely name but I also like Mr. Chunk-Nuts
Another strong contender
I heard there was a person on the other end of this, is that true? Herro? Herro??
The number you've called cannot be completed as dialed
@@HannahLeeKidder herrooo 😭 i just want some fries!
Every 5k, so the next is at 19k? Confusing. ☺
Seems like there'll be one more at 15k and then every 5 after that
@@TimbrrWolfe nailed it
@@HannahLeeKidder I choose to stay confused, and then complain about it.
What do you do for self-employment? As a writer?
Your website /store gives a 404 btw. I think you wanted to link /shop
Oop haven't updated in a thousand years, good catch
Squirrel name obviously has to be a nut pun both due to the fact he is s squirrel, and that he has big nuts.
Okay he's called Coco, after Coco de mer the largest heaviest nut.
If you paid $1 in taxes, you have been paying more than Donald Trump has most years. Heh
I've stopped and started trying to be self-employed for almost a decade. I exist as nothing but a mountain of failure.
@@namowadriver I appreciate the attempt to paint on a silver lining. But there isn't any here. Over the last ten years I was blacklisted from my profession, suffered a stroke, had a family member steal $40,000 from me, the rest of my family written me off as a failure, I'm being sued by my last employer because they want their unemployment money back, I'm losing my home in a few months. I have absolutely nothing, and no one.😔
@@suijin25 I hope things are better for you now
@@rice1298 Thank you, sadly no. I've tried to re-enter the workforce, sadly nearly 1000 job application later...... nothing.
@@suijin25I hope things will be better for you
Deez, surely.
Wait no, Dee. Call it Dee.
Incredible