Good morning everyone and welcome back to the channel,
today we will talk about what I have done in August in relations to writing
and my goals for the month of September
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If you have seen my latest vlog for camp nano, you know I finally finished writing,
only the first draft, obviously, of my fanfiction "Slytherin's Secret".
My plan for August was to review it and finish the second draft,
of course, as I already had imagined it was a goal a tad,
a tad exaggerated for just a month and, of course,
I ended up not reaching it. What I did do, was re-read and take notes on the first eleven
chapters, in all, there are a 14/15, I don't know yet because I don't have the final version.
So let's say I have almost re-read everything.
As a consequence, aside from correcting errors and rewriting a few sentences,
at the level of the number of words I have not made much progress,
at least as far as this story is concerned.
"A boxed heart", I didn't touch it, it's still there and will stay there until I'm done with
"Slytherin's Secret", because I feel it's a story that I still have no idea where it's going,
and I need to figure it out before picking it up again.
Another thing that I had communicated at the end of the vlog was
that I wanted to start writing on Medium, that it's this platform on which you can publish
articles. I ended up writing only three articles this month but considering that
I had never wrote them before I would say that it was a great accomplishment.
If you follow me on Instagram you have certainly seen them already,
in any case, I will leave the link below in the description.
The first was related to sharing your own stories online and what that taught me,
and was obviously inspired by the video on the same topic that you can find here on the channel.
The second was related to fan fiction and how they can be useful for beginner writers,
and don't worry a video about this will also arrive, sooner or later,
and the third article that I have published just a couple of days ago,
is on what writing essay for University taught me of writing in general.
For that too I will do a video soon.
The articles are in English, the platform is multilingual but to be chosen by
publications and be curated by the site the articles must be in English, consequently, I have adapted.
In general, I'm a bit disappointed by how much I managed to do this month.
I am very satisfied from the point of view of the articles,
even though I know I have to write more of them,
but I am a bit disappointed in relations to "Slytherin's Secret", because
I would have loved to start publishing it on September 1st, with the return to Hogwarts,
but unfortunately, I couldn't even finish rereading it, let alone correct it and
rewrite it and beta read it all in the space of one month.
As a consequence, unfortunately, that desire did not, let's say, came true.
A bit for the heat I think, a bit for the post-camp NaNo fatigue,
I ended up resting a bit more this month, also with the idea of ​revitalizing my creativity a little
let's say I was a little dried up at the creative level, as a consequence this month has been a bit like this.
Writing something different from fiction definitely helped, as I said
I had never written articles before, but especially beyond essays for university
I had never written anything that was non-fiction, consequently,
it was quite an invigorating change and I'm curious to go forward with this, let's say, new discovery.
My plans for September! Definitely finish reading SS,
there are just a couple of chapters left, SS stands for "Slytherin's Secret",
Ordering the notes I took by hand on my notebook on Notion,
dividing them by categories, so all the ones related to the scenes, all the ones related to the characters
all the ones related to a certain grammatical error that I have to check,
stuff like that, so I can get an idea of ​​the areas where I need to intervene more.
Once I finished this I would like to start writing the extra scenes
and edit scenes which must be changed,
so I can have a full story that then later on I will send to my beta,
which I think will happen in October/November, knowing myself probably December/January,
it takes me a long time for these things, I don't know if you noticed.
In regard to Medium, the plan would be to write more articles.
This is because the more articles you write, the more you get paid.
Medium pays you based on how many minutes of reading time of your articles you have,
so if a paying site member spends a certain amount of minutes reading your articles,
you earn a percentage of the five dollars, I think it is, 5 euros of the.... ehm....
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of their subscription, let's say.
So members pay 5 euros a month and you get a percentage of those 5 euros if they read your articles.
Therefore, more articles you write more you obviously earn,
and since I don't work and I have no other means of income,
it seems necessary to me to put a little bit of effort
and a little more quantity of articles in this, let's say, project.
And with this it's all, as I said this month I am not completely satisfied, but because
in September I'll start again at university and I will have to work on the dissertation,
I'm planning on taking it easy and give myself time to rest and recharge, before
ending up getting tired and not be able to do anything already in September.
Thanks for being here with me, as always you can find my social networks
and the writing sites I am a part of below in the description, in which I will also put
the articles. Let me know in the comments how August was for you,
have you continued with the same rhythm as nanowrimo, did you take it slow,
did you rest? What are your goals for September?
And as always see you next time and good writing
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