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  • Опубликовано: 18 янв 2025

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  • @umalbaneen6789
    @umalbaneen6789 19 дней назад +71

    A message for Kate and Abbie Emmons : you two helped me write my debut fantasy novella and I'm about to be published as a teen. I'm so glad for your resources that have improved my writing so much.

    • @KAEmmons
      @KAEmmons  19 дней назад +13

      WOOHOO! Congratulations! 🎉 Were honored that our videos have helped you, friend!

    • @fl4007
      @fl4007 19 дней назад +7

      oh, great! where can we read it?

    • @theastroguy6710
      @theastroguy6710 19 дней назад

      I'm curious, too! We gotta support each other out here fr :,)

    • @umalbaneen6789
      @umalbaneen6789 17 дней назад

      ​@@KAEmmons thank you!

    • @umalbaneen6789
      @umalbaneen6789 17 дней назад

      ​@@fl4007 it'll take some time to work out distribution details and I'm unsure if it'll be internationally available

  • @lianilges_lilaconeal
    @lianilges_lilaconeal 19 дней назад +19

    I write mostly in the evening hours and some of my best ideas came to me while going for a walk in the woods.

  • @DarkThreadsMysteries
    @DarkThreadsMysteries 17 дней назад +6

    My most creative time is in the evening. I’m naturally a night owl so I generally gravitate toward that time anyway, but I am also a mom of 4 with the oldest being 10. Having kids with me 24/7 (they are currently still homeschooled), I feel more at peace and like I can take a breath and think when it’s dark and quiet. Many many times I have sat up in bed with nothing but the light from my laptop and blasting my book playlist in my ears while my husband sleeps next to me. Everything is calm and I feel relaxed enough to concentrate solely on my book.

  • @nkanyisosiziba2761
    @nkanyisosiziba2761 13 дней назад +1

    I write the most and best in the evening, when the house is finally quiet and I can walk around and talk to myself like I always do.

  • @DrawlingsStoriesAndMore
    @DrawlingsStoriesAndMore 18 дней назад +5

    I don't know if anyone will see this now but I'm ready to do this!!!!
    And you all are the first to know!!!!! Stay tuned everyone because i have some great books in me that are coming soon!!!!!!!! 📚📚📚📚

  • @AnnaBush-nn8yv
    @AnnaBush-nn8yv 19 дней назад +8

    I like to write in the evening, after I've been daydreaming about scenes all day

  • @LFlowers36-o3p
    @LFlowers36-o3p 18 дней назад +4

    I am just about to publish my second novel and the third is plot bunnying around already. Here for this! I’m most creative after lunch as I like to get errands done/gym etc in the morning. I can relax and write once I know I have stuff done.

  • @danielleegolf4290
    @danielleegolf4290 18 дней назад +3

    Yes! Ready! I just finished my first manuscript during the December summit and can't wait for this new summit! Hoping to start book 2 as my first manuscript was the first of a series.

  • @irotr53
    @irotr53 19 дней назад +4

    Been writing a fantasy novel for years now and both of you and this are really helpful, thanks guys

  • @IAmMyBrother
    @IAmMyBrother 19 дней назад +4

    I am so in awe. Thank you for the inspiration 🙏

  • @MeltonStudios-TV
    @MeltonStudios-TV 19 дней назад +3

    Thank you Kate and Abbie, I am actually working on my first commercial video game and a comic using what I learned from you both

  • @Creadigol1863
    @Creadigol1863 19 дней назад +1

    You both inspire me so much! For the first time in a long time I feel like I can finished my book! Thank you! 😊

  • @fallabeaufaebelle
    @fallabeaufaebelle 19 дней назад +1

    Looking forward to the summit :D Love seeing you two! Hope you both had a lovely holiday

  • @vshirese7065
    @vshirese7065 16 дней назад

    You guys got me to start write my very first book. And I'm soooo thankful for you both.
    My starting point was in December and I'm already 30% in with the draft!

  • @wowkir
    @wowkir 18 дней назад

    You girls are wonderful. For me, the key is consistency (growing writing habits). I’m struggling with it but trying to grow one simple habit: show up for my story once a day (no demands on how long, just show up). What will most often happen is I end up sitting there longer than expected because I LIKE doing it.

  • @rad4924
    @rad4924 19 дней назад +2

    I usually write between 9pm and 3am, with peak creativity usually being around midnight.

  • @TwiMSAnimations
    @TwiMSAnimations 17 дней назад

    Thank you for your encouragement! Every time I'm at a stand-still I watch your videos and regain that inspo

  • @DeborahPettit
    @DeborahPettit 18 дней назад +1

    I’m outlining and plan to write a novel this year! Let’s do this in 2025!

  • @shannonarthur4585
    @shannonarthur4585 18 дней назад

    I used to write in the early mornings, but with illness after illness, I now sleep 10 hours, and I wake up tired and in pain. I"m retired, and I thought I'd have plenty of time to write, but that hasn't happened. Thank you for the tips about carving out a time and space. I need to start eliminating distractions at the same "time" doing what I can to get better.

  • @Inemin27
    @Inemin27 22 дня назад +4

    ♥♥♥ I'm so looking forward to it! ♥♥♥

  • @dragoonsfire9222
    @dragoonsfire9222 19 дней назад +2

    I unfortunately have to write late at night, I’d love to be able to do it earlier in the day but I don’t have the best environment to do that, people keep interrupting me no matter how much I ask them to leave me alone for a hour or two. So I write after everyone goes to bed, or when I get to be alone in the house.

  • @presleybaldwin3756
    @presleybaldwin3756 18 дней назад +1

    Happy New Year, Kate and Abbie. Hope you both have a happy, healthy, and prosperous year.

  • @donaldbernacky9356
    @donaldbernacky9356 19 дней назад +1

    Thank you both for these videos!!!

  • @nicolabanda2231
    @nicolabanda2231 19 дней назад +2

    I found myself writing the most on the bus after work because of my previous work schedule.

  • @Lswat717Ent
    @Lswat717Ent 16 дней назад

    Super cool content keep up with the great work and keep pushing through the RUclips grind and I really enjoy the love and support form the RUclips community

  • @kathyl6677
    @kathyl6677 19 дней назад +1

    My natural creative time is from around 8 or 9 p.m. and goes until 2 a.m. Unfortunately, my job doesn't allow those hours. I do not know whether I'll start my next novel in January or wait until after I move in Spring, but I have a book about writing a novel/first draft in 30 days which, coupled with John Truby's book, The Anatomy of Story, I fully intend to follow a.s.a.p.

  • @sophielafleche3803
    @sophielafleche3803 18 дней назад +1

    My biggest challenges as a writer - 1. Time. My most creative time is usually late morning. That doesn't match up with the fact that I have a full-time job . Early mornings or right after work - doesn't match up with having a son and house projects that do need to get done. Late nights? Nope too burnt out and have no creative capacity. 2. I struggle deciding. What do I include in the book? What do I not? A book can go a million different ways, and I am interested in all of them. So how do I choose the one that will unlock other ideas? 3. Plot holes. I don't have writing friends or a group that I feel comfortable with details of my book. So, I basically sit staring at my notebook trying to figure out a way to fix gaps or missing information. Names, locations, settings... 4. I am very visual. Book Scenes come to me like a movie. How do I write that out? Some things can be accomplished in videography that don't translate well onto a writing page. Or don't have the same emotional impact.

    • @SetApartMireya
      @SetApartMireya 16 дней назад +1

      I relate to this whole post way too much! 😅

    • @sophielafleche3803
      @sophielafleche3803 16 дней назад

      @@SetApartMireya Hope you find a way that works for you!

    • @nbucwa6621
      @nbucwa6621 16 дней назад +2

      Ooh we should chat because I have so many thoughts on what you mentioned. I hae struggled/still struggle with similar problems. I'll try and give some of my thoughts here though. A lot of *my* similar struggles came down to impatience. I wanted to fix issues before they became issues and books/stories just don't work like that. They will be imperfect, they will have plot holes and sometimes they will be a jumbled mess that requires re-writing. You won't know the answers to some of your questions until you get that first draft out. For me the fix for your question 2 was having a zero draft rather than a first draft and embracing outlining.
      Why can't you write out all million ways your story might go? It will take too long? Then reduce each branch to one sentence or a word (the bare bones of). Make a mind map. This will work as your initial outline and put every idea you have in there and how it branches out. I guarantee you will run out of ideas and you will likely think of even better ideas but, best of all, you will feel which ideas you fall in love with it. Doesn't matter how clever or creative an idea (branch) is unless you fall in love with it. Only followe the ones that absolutely make you FEEL strongly.
      3) Plot holes are editor problems. Embrace them in your zero draft. There will be things that you cant figure out in the zero draft. That's fine. Make a note (highlight or underline or asterisk them) if you notice them and save them for the First Draft you to figure out. The pro of this approach is it gives your brain time to think of solutions while writing the rest of your zero draft so that by draft one your brain will be ready to solve them. Waiting for your first draft also means you will have clear eyes to see the plot holes you didn't notice before. Brandon Sanderson advises: when stuck in a scene just write "they got out somehow/ they figured it out somehow and then move on. Fill in the details later."
      4) I am absolutely the same. I use milanote to visualise my scenes. Then I figure out what the emotional core of the visual aspect is. If I can figure out that core, understand it and it's importance then I will eventually figure out it's written counterpart. That might be a problem for draft 1 or even later though. The important thing is getting the scene down on the page and noting what is missing if I need to. How I figure out the emional core to my visual scenes is a process that a bit too long to explain in a YT comment section but hoefully this helped give you some ideas on how to tackle some of your writing process.

  • @NathaniaDemecillo
    @NathaniaDemecillo 19 дней назад

    This is the inspiration I needed after months of procrastinating my first book’s sequel.

  • @heathersmith5237
    @heathersmith5237 19 дней назад +1

    My most creative time is in the morning, circa 8 or 9 am, generally after I’ve had my coffee.

  • @MeltonStudios-TV
    @MeltonStudios-TV 19 дней назад

    I write and do my other creative work towards my dream at night when my creative head space works best, I wish you both a happy new year Abbie & Kate

  • @Ghostrob2023
    @Ghostrob2023 19 дней назад

    I'm going to try and finish editing my story in 2025. Happy New Year to you ladies and happy writing in 2025!

  • @milomazli
    @milomazli 18 дней назад

    Omg, that comment for plotters was sooooo helpful!! Its so trendy to be a pantser, but I ADOOOORE being a plotter... so thanks Abbie! I also feel that I need some dedicated time for that before I take my "machetes" in my hands 😂😂😂. Hugs

  • @apocalypso3427
    @apocalypso3427 18 дней назад

    My most creative time in the day is between 2am-6am. Which was GREAT back in the days when I was an insomniac, but not so great now that I'm old and suddenly require actual sleep lol.

  • @sharkinator7819
    @sharkinator7819 18 дней назад

    I’m on track to finish my rough draft at the end of this month. So satisfying to be so close

  • @DeborahPettit
    @DeborahPettit 18 дней назад

    I haven’t been able to write in the early morning yet. I am a little foggy-brained. I think my favorite time has been around 5:00pm. I have written all times of the day, though.

  • @milomazli
    @milomazli 18 дней назад

    I love these study sessions

  • @ronbeck201
    @ronbeck201 19 дней назад +2

    I have been working on a time travel story for decades. My biggest hurdle is making character interactions seem more real. Also I don't understand the internal conflict and misbelief for the main character, he just wants to see if he can get his hands on a time machine.

    • @hafsaali276
      @hafsaali276 19 дней назад +1

      You can try making his agenda merge in with the internal conflict like it's all a web of interconnected things. Why does he want to get his hands on that time machine you could start digging up from that! Hope this helps

  • @JudgeJordan_
    @JudgeJordan_ 19 дней назад

    Happy New Year to you both! My creative time is the crack of dawn 🥴

  • @t0dd000
    @t0dd000 18 дней назад

    Must creative time of day? Morning. Early morning. Before I'm exhausted from adulting. The late nights are for kid writers to find their words. The older you get, the more responsibilities you have, early morning becomes your most energy-filled time of day.
    When I'm on a roll, I join the #5amWriters crew. Yes. We are a thing.

  • @jonathanbaumler
    @jonathanbaumler 19 дней назад

    I’m here, and I’m waiting! Let’s do this! 🥳

    • @KAEmmons
      @KAEmmons  19 дней назад +1

      thrilled you're here, Jonathan!

    • @jonathanbaumler
      @jonathanbaumler 19 дней назад

      @@KAEmmons I also, just joined the Patreon Muse Challenge tier! :)

  • @VictorianLucy
    @VictorianLucy 18 дней назад

    I write best between 7-11 pm. Trying to write in the morning is hard because I'm tired and thinking about going to work. The evening is when I have the rest of the day to myself.

  • @TraceyBurnett-t8h
    @TraceyBurnett-t8h 18 дней назад +1

    My most creative time is 5 am. That’s when the magic happens. 12:27

  • @giuliaidiometri186
    @giuliaidiometri186 18 дней назад

    My creative time of day is first thing in the monring, after breakfast, or sometimes afternoon.

  • @floweryong-lt6sk
    @floweryong-lt6sk 17 дней назад

    Yes i am ready ❤

  • @dancenica054
    @dancenica054 8 дней назад

    My most creative time is 10am-2 pm…the exact time I am at work. So I have to write at other times

  • @hafsaali276
    @hafsaali276 19 дней назад +4

    Abbie are you taking rest you seem a bit down?? Please take care of yourself

  • @Christina-dg2ds
    @Christina-dg2ds 18 дней назад

    I think for me it would be in the morning with my morning coffee or very early morning like the 5:30 or 6:30 time frame.

  • @karendickson4172
    @karendickson4172 18 дней назад

    I guess mine is probably in the afternoon. I haven’t tried writing in the morning and I’m terrible at writing every day. I’m still quite new to all of this.

    • @karendickson4172
      @karendickson4172 18 дней назад

      Maybe I still don’t see myself as this author, even though I’ve written three children’s books (unpublished). Sometimes I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.

  • @lampyrisnoctiluca9904
    @lampyrisnoctiluca9904 19 дней назад

    Unlike my first 2 books, the one I will finish in 2025 will be published! I have already decided it will be rewritten and revised so much to become like a well polished gem. 💎
    Today I am finishing my master's thesis. I have given myself a deadline. The end of the year to write it. I just have to add a little bit about ecology of the sea shores, rewrite the beginning, move a few paragraphs to another place in the document and repair citations. 2 and half hours max! Then I am sending it to my mentor. I am so excited! She will probably criticise me heavily, but I am glad to finally be over with my first version.
    Tomorrow I will be continuing with writing my book. I will give myself deadlines this evening. Right after sending the thesis to my mentor. I have to do something now. Otherwise I would have written a lot more stuff nobody is going to read. Bye-bye!

  • @milomazli
    @milomazli 18 дней назад

    I am also the evening and night writer ❤

  • @madeline1376
    @madeline1376 19 дней назад

    Thank you for the video ❤ so beautiful

  • @woodlandlady7011
    @woodlandlady7011 20 дней назад +1

    ​​I can't watch the live stream as it's at half past midnight for my time zone.

  • @hafsaali276
    @hafsaali276 19 дней назад +1

    I mostly write at night after winding down everything l as much as I would love to change this time this hasn't been possible yet

  • @knghtmajic
    @knghtmajic 13 дней назад

    Usually in the evening for an hour and a half.

  • @Sundji
    @Sundji 10 дней назад

    My most creative time seems to be when I'm tired and falling sleep

  • @floweryong-lt6sk
    @floweryong-lt6sk 17 дней назад

    you know its sad because my most creative time was at night like 1 to 3 am,but i cant do it at that time because of work and after work too tired too,so i think i will try in the morning

  • @sofiagswriting
    @sofiagswriting 19 дней назад

    LOVE YOU GIRLSSSS

  • @Lolee56
    @Lolee56 18 дней назад

    Is this referring to just the first draft? Because I could spend every waking moment writing and I still can’t finish to publish in just three short months

  • @cieloscotto3000
    @cieloscotto3000 19 дней назад

    Do I have to be a member on Patreon to register?

  • @pidyrevibes9840
    @pidyrevibes9840 19 дней назад

    Reading the book now

  • @erinjames9801
    @erinjames9801 18 дней назад

    Any ideas for somebody that works overnight and carves out minutes to write between calls? I work overnight for a security company and tend to write between calls and if I have a chance in the just a couple hours before work. I want to grow a stronger habit in 2025 so any ideas are helpful

  • @alayamcgill7166
    @alayamcgill7166 19 дней назад

    Afternoon!!!

  • @darintroxel3295
    @darintroxel3295 10 дней назад

    Sadly, i just saw this video 4 days after the Summit happened.

    • @KAEmmons
      @KAEmmons  10 дней назад

      the replay of the full training is still available! As well as December's Dialogue training. You can get access here if you're interested: www.patreon.com/c/kaemmons

  • @fortheshygirl4938
    @fortheshygirl4938 18 дней назад

    I am so in

  • @girlypopgay
    @girlypopgay 11 дней назад

    I wrote a book in a month. It was awful, for my standards. I’d rather waste two years and end up with something I kind of like, or find somewhat redeemable… 😅