"i think the app would work better if they were pets" i CHOKED on my water

As soon as you made the comparison to writers and cats being viscous, I got this weird urge to draw some of my favourite writers as cats. Schwab Cat: cat playing with black stone. one black eye. claw marks in background matching August's marks. Bardugo Cat: silver cat wearing antler collar. playing with crow feathers. eclipse in the background. Omg I could make a Gaiman cat...

I'm procrastinating by watching this video 😂 But this is super helpful!! Thank you for the wonderful advice!

This makes sense regarding writing versus transcribing. Sometimes on the train I get hit with scene, characters parts, and other stuff in my head, then I write it done so I keep it, and now I realize it was transcribing in my notepad and computer. EUREKA!!! Thank you for the video and your cat!

Okay, sorry to spam the comments but I loved this: "My creative time is infinite. My transcribing time is very limited." Yes!

I'm the worst at time management because I have so much free time, but I do find that what you said about the part at the computer just being transcribing super true! I definitely am more productive if I've thought about what I'm going to write while doing other stuff than when I'm sitting staring at a screen trying to figure it out and just typing/backspacing random keysmashes for an hour.

I am also a queen of procrastinatory productivity. Pinterest, anyone?

LOVE what you said about sitting at your computer is not writing, it's transcribing. It's so true. I'd never thought of it like that, my whole process just made much more sense!! :D

I've never heard anybody say they work the same way as me! I'm definitely that way, where if I have a week to write something, I'll take all week, but if you give me three hours, I can make that happen. This was super helpful to hear!! That I'm not broken, that's just the way I work.

These are useful and solid points! Thanks for sharing

Haha that ending! Thanks for this video. I might try that forest app. I procrastinate a lot. And I'm someone who has all the time to write yet I find I have to do it in small chunks otherwise I get distracted. Sigh.

I appreciate how you risked your face to put your cat in your video for us lol

Ok yes yes yes. Cats are liquids xD but also, I wrote more on my current project in the last week and a half when I had a deadline for an uni essay than I wrote in the month previous to that. So I work similarly to you but I had like this terrible experience with school before and now I respond to the opposite deadline rather than the real one. It's terrible and I think I'm not making any sense now... But again super helpful video cause another thing I did the last 2 weeks was have at least an hour's walk everyday. Imagination time is super important! Thanks for making me feel like that walk is justified! I'm glad the beautiful Oliver didn't maul your face. That was a risky move you pulled there V!

Your videos are incredible! Super helpful! Hope you have many more planned!

Another great video!! I love all these writing content videos!

Hi, Victoria! I love your videos, your insight really helps me. I'm gonna try your advice of writing everywhere, and type it then on my computer. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷

Love the analogy! Also, the La Croix.

The concept that you will keep it all in your head until you can get it on paper because you are transcribing, not writing, works great until you have memory issues and know you have to write things down or lose them. Then, a notebook comes in handy. :-)

I look forward to your videos. As an aspiring author, I look up to you so much. I've even started trying the calendar system. :)

Thank you for the video! :) You always pick the most relevant and interesting topics and talk about them in a helpful way. Time management and not trusting shiny new ideas are the two things I struggle with most.

Great advices! Now I want to check out the forest app!

I haven't read any or your books but you are amazing ! :) thank for the video

Firstly, I have a cat named Oliver too! Secondly (and the reason why I'm here) I love your advice in this! I can relate SO much when it comes to writing haha! But I'm so glad that there are options for us like minded people! Of course, when it works hahahaha!

I started using Forest because of you! It works when it works for me too. Until I started high school, I was super good at not procrastinating. It was all downhill from there. (I don't recommend finishing a college English paper...while you're already late for the class it's due for. I got an "A" but I think that's why I keep procrastinating.) You're so right about the writing wherever you are thing--I write at work! (...And I transcribe at work, in my notebook, shh.) I've been moving the deadline for my third draft all around, since I keep not meeting the deadlines... but I figure--better than nothing! Right now it's due on my 23rd birthday, so we'll see. Thank you for showing us Oliver! :D

Love this video. Love you. Really love Oliver.

Thank you so much for this! My dyslexia has always been some sort of an impediment when it came to writing to the extent that I began to make absolutely no progress at all, but throughout those times, ideas would swarm within the vicinity of my mind and I would be flooded with scenes and concepts for the story I'd be working on. Now, however, thanks to you and your statement of 'writing is not what you do at the computer; typing is what you do at the computer', I'm able to construct whatever notion comes to my mind, build it, and manifest it on paper or document. Your videos are always so helpful, so thank you, Queen of Writing! (It wouldn't be a regular video if Oliver didn't make an appearance. His anger was so palpable I was afraid he would actually scratch your face off xD)

I'm glad I'm not the only one with a cantankerous fluff ball! 😼 Also I thank you for mentioning the fact that computer time = transcription time. This is something I think I've been missing in my own practice lately. Great advice! 😃

As always, this video speaks to my soul--my horribly, horribly unproductive soul. When I was in school, I wrote SOOO MUCH (but then I graduated and had infinite time to write and ended up watching a lot of netflix and not much else. But last year, I had a baby and now my free time is very precious to me again and (after the initial six months of learning how to keep a small human alive and not sleeping) my writing time is more productive again! It's only an hour and a half in the evenings, but you'd better believe I'm making the most of those 90 minutes.

I'm definitely someone who works better with less time. I'm coming up to 3 years on my current book and I've been out of university nearly two years and snuggled on the job front. Now that I'm back in work I find my writing productivity has shot up? Suddenly my brain has gone "woah you suddenly only have this many days a week to write you should probably do something."

I use to think I had great time management until I became a library branch manager. Lol Calendar works for me but sometimes I forget to add things or ignore it, which is bad on my part. Thanks for sharing!

I'm perpetually hyper and kind of spontaneous so I'm definitely horrible with time management. (I'd have a bunch of dead trees.) I move around too much, can't do more than 15 minutes of studying at once, (a little better with writing, maybe 40 minutes) and I procrastinate too much. I think I subconsciously avoid doing things I'm forced to do so I'm that person who has 2 weeks to write a paper but I don't actually touch it until there are 1-2 days left. With writing, I'm horrible at reaching daily/weekly goals and I seem to actually get more done when I don't have goals.

i just wanted you to know that i appreciate so freaking much

I didn't even consider that by being busier, I am more productive. When I was a full time mum, I wrote but not steadily. But now I'm working and I've become frustrated that I haven't been able to write steadily, so I've been taking advantage of small bursts of time and it's strangely working well so far? I hope that it continues. I'm going to make it continue. I have too many books planned to not get through them all.

Thanks for this!! I appreciate this videos so much because I admire you a lot. ❤️

Ha! I'm drinking a pamplemousse La Croix as I watch this! Twins

Love this! It was super helpful too. It's nice to hear what someone else does and it makes me feel better about my constantly changing system that your system is changing too.

I used to spend my days thinking about what I was going to write next. That was when I had a decent day job, not the drain-your-body-and-soul-type. *sigh* I'm sure I will get the opportunity again one day.

Thank you!

Ooo, the tree app sounds good for grading, too.

So you're secretly Maru the cat? I knew it, you're a shapeshifter!

i also use forest!! 😆

"If I'm given 8 hours to do a task I'll take 8 hours, and if I'm given 1 hour I'll take 1 hour.". Get out of my head, Victoria!