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Summer Writing Update! - By Lumos Learning

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00:00	Yeah . Yes , it's Jalen and I'm here today
00:05	with another reading video . So I know it's been
00:08	a hot second since I posted anything on this channel
00:11	, but I thought I would come back with just
00:13	a little writing updates . Since I realized I haven't
00:15	done one of these in a really long time ,
00:17	and I've written so much has happened . So I
00:20	thought that this would be a good way to just
00:22	jump back into it because I know even posted in
00:23	a month . I have had a super busy July
00:26	and August . Um , I don't think I've been
00:29	home for the past five weekends . Moved , as
00:32	you can tell , because the backgrounds different both my
00:35	roommates moved to to a new place just because our
00:37	old place I mean , we move for many reasons
00:39	, but we lived close to our university and student
00:43	housing is like the grungy ist shit ever . But
00:47	you pay so much money for like the lowest quality
00:51	of housing , because landlords charge you so much just
00:54	to live close to the university . But now that
00:56	we're all starting to graduate , there's kind of the
00:58	point being close to the school . But far from
01:00	everything else . So we just moved to a different
01:02	place . That's way nicer , different priorities , you
01:05	know . And also , our landlord was a little
01:07	crazy if you saw my vlog where I talked about
01:10	the time that she moved into our house without telling
01:14	us . So the movie is a hectic but I'm
01:16	super excited to be moved in now and also to
01:18	have this really nice background that I love . I
01:22	was just so happy to move into a house where
01:24	the walls were like a normal colour . Because in
01:26	my old house they were like my mom called the
01:29	Color of the walls and my oldest baby proof .
01:32	Anyways , that house served me well . It treated
01:34	me well , but the tapestry is no more .
01:36	The tapestry was just the background to cover up my
01:38	ugly ass walls . The past two weeks , I've
01:41	just been away on a bunch of like , family
01:43	trips . We went on a kayaking trip and then
01:46	we went to a family reunion . And so because
01:48	I was away for , like , two weeks ,
01:49	and I went away after , like , three weeks
01:53	of , like , three of the busiest weeks of
01:54	my life because I was like , moving . I
01:56	was in a condensed online course . I was working
01:58	. I didn't have anything pre filmed . And then
01:59	I went away from my camera for two weeks .
02:02	And obviously you're not going to film anything when you're
02:05	on an island , off the grid and in a
02:07	guy . Since I've been away for so long ,
02:09	I've been thinking about a lot of videos that I
02:10	want to make . So the last writing update posted
02:12	, I think I filmed in like April , so
02:15	quite a lot has happened . I'll start with my
02:17	novel , Um , since it's like my primary project
02:20	. So I've been working on a novel called Honey
02:22	Vinegar since September of last year . I finished part
02:25	one of the books . The book is split into
02:27	two parts . I expect Part one will be a
02:29	bit longer . My word count is about 55,000 at
02:32	the moment , and I'm done part one . So
02:35	that was very exciting . I don't think Part two
02:37	will take me as long . I've had a very
02:38	slow writing process because from September to February I was
02:43	writing the book for school . I wrote a little
02:45	bit , and then I edited it for months for
02:48	workshop . And then I wrote a little bit and
02:49	then edit it for months again for workshop . And
02:51	I've just been taking a very relaxed approach with it
02:54	. Um , in that I've been doing a lot
02:56	of editing as I go . I have a workshop
02:58	group . So we've met and we're going to meet
02:59	again soon . And , um , that's just kind
03:01	of to get the editing done while I'm drafting .
03:04	I realized a little bit ago there was a big
03:08	developmental edit that I wanted to make . And when
03:10	I first had this realization , I was like ,
03:12	Oh , do I want to do that ? Because
03:15	it was gonna be a huge edit , and I'm
03:16	going to have to not just add in scenes ,
03:18	but I'm gonna have to take in a big change
03:20	to my character's emotional state as a result of these
03:24	new things that I'm going to change over a period
03:27	of , like , seven chap , and so for
03:28	a little bit , I was toying with it ,
03:29	and I was like , Do I want to do
03:30	this ? Do I don't want to do this is
03:31	the right choice . And then I kind of realized
03:33	that if I weren't to do it . It would
03:35	literally just be because of laziness . And it wouldn't
03:38	be because of doing what's best for the book .
03:40	And I was like , Okay , I really am
03:41	I not going to make this change ? Because it's
03:42	going to take what , a couple months to make
03:44	the change that's done since I am done . Part
03:46	one . I'm going to take a break from drafting
03:48	the book for quite a while to do some big
03:50	edits . I did pretty deep edits on chapters one
03:53	through five , because those got workshop for school ,
03:56	so those chapters are quite clean . They haven't had
03:59	deep , deep line edits , but they're fairly clean
04:01	. But everything beyond that . So six through 14
04:03	hasn't had deep developmental edit , so I'm gonna take
04:06	a while to really sort out the content , make
04:09	any changes I want to make . I want to
04:10	go into Part two , feeling like everything is as
04:13	clean as I can make it . I think that
04:15	that will just give me some peace of mind ,
04:17	and I'm the kind of person who gets very overwhelmed
04:20	with editing . I like editing once I start doing
04:23	it , but the thought of it is really overwhelming
04:25	to me . And so if I get to the
04:27	end of a book and I know there are tons
04:29	of changes I want to make , it's so overwhelming
04:30	, which is why I've been doing it as I
04:31	go , and I've been quite happy with that .
04:33	It's been a nice process . I've not been rushing
04:36	it , so I'm gonna take some time off just
04:37	to edit . And then I'm also going to then
04:40	take a break from the book to finish my other
04:42	novel , and my other novel is called Someone Will
04:44	Save You and it's a rewrite of a Y ,
04:47	a novel that I wrote a couple years ago .
04:49	I don't plan to take on new young adult projects
04:52	, but this is a project that has been with
04:54	me for years , and I'm really emotionally attached to
04:56	it , and I really love it , and I
04:58	really still want to publish it . And so I've
05:00	been rewriting it . I started writing Someone will save
05:02	you in July of last year , and it was
05:05	my main project for a couple months , and then
05:07	I started working on honey vinegar for school . It
05:09	kind of shifted to the back burner and also because
05:12	I've kind of settled with the fact that I don't
05:14	really want to debut with Someone will save you .
05:16	I want to debut with honey vinegar because Honey Vinegar
05:18	is like very in line with the type of books
05:21	that I want to write in the future , where
05:22	someone will save you is less so just because it's
05:25	Y . And I don't really plan on having a
05:27	prolific career as a Y author . I had kind
05:30	of a turbulent experience with it For a while .
05:32	I was just really not liking the books , basically
05:35	, for the whole writing process , honestly of this
05:37	rewrite , and it was really sad . It was
05:39	really upsetting me that I wasn't liking it like I
05:41	would write it , and I just wouldn't be happy
05:42	with any any aspect of it . And it was
05:45	really unfortunate , because it's like I liked the characters
05:48	. I like the plot and everything . In fact
05:50	, I love the characters of the plot . This
05:52	story is so dear to me , um , it's
05:54	something that I've been carrying around with me for a
05:57	good five years . The main character is a character
06:01	I feel really close with just because she's been in
06:02	my head for so long . You know , when
06:04	you've had a character in your mind for so long
06:05	, you just feel like you have a personal relationship
06:07	with them . This book is something that in the
06:09	past made me really happy I would work on it
06:12	, and it just would put me in a good
06:13	mindset . And it was always something that I really
06:16	enjoyed working on . So it was almost just really
06:18	upsetting for me that for reasons I didn't understand what
06:21	they were when I was writing the rewrite , I
06:23	just didn't like any of it . And I was
06:25	like , It's not turning out good . And I
06:26	think I was putting a lot of pressure on myself
06:27	because it was a rewrite . And so I felt
06:30	like it had to be amazing , you know ,
06:31	like you had your trial run where you messed it
06:33	up . Now you should make it great . So
06:36	I think that that was really messing with me a
06:38	little . And so I really didn't touch the book
06:40	much . Um , when I would write it ,
06:42	it would be like a beak would work on it
06:43	, and I'd write 10,000 words and then I wouldn't
06:45	touch it for months around . Oh , I don't
06:46	know what this was late March or April . Honestly
06:49	, I couldn't tell you . Maybe it was even
06:50	early May . I have no idea . When this
06:52	was I just had this sudden burst of inspiration to
06:54	work on the book when I hadn't touched in a
06:56	really long time . And suddenly I was like ,
06:57	I really want to write Someone will save you the
07:00	way that I solved my problem where I had been
07:02	like in the book and I had so many dumb
07:04	reasons why I tried to justify why it was difficult
07:07	. I was like , Oh , I'm not liking
07:08	it cause it's young adult and I don't want to
07:09	write young adult enjoying because it's a rewrite and like
07:12	, you know , it's not as fun . I'm
07:13	not enjoying it as much because of this or this
07:15	or this . And then I was like , You
07:16	know what ? I don't know why I'm not enjoying
07:17	it . It's probably a combination of a bunch of
07:19	things , but what if I just decided to like
07:21	it ? So I just made the conscious choice to
07:23	enjoy the book and enjoy writing the book again ,
07:26	and I loved it . First day back to writing
07:28	. I wrote 5000 over 5000 words in one day
07:30	, which is unheard of for me . Like for
07:31	other writers that might be normal . Or that might
07:33	happen every so often . I don't write five k
07:36	words in a day that's happened to me one other
07:38	time in my life , and that was like in
07:39	high school . I enjoyed it so much , and
07:41	I was like , Oh , this is what it's
07:42	like to love writing this book . I remember now
07:45	and it was just so nice . Like , I
07:46	think it's something that I'll remember next time . I'm
07:49	not enjoying a project that I know I love .
07:51	I'll just go like , Hey , you can just
07:53	consciously decide right now to enjoy this . You don't
07:56	have to just sit around like hating it , for
07:58	whatever reason , just decide to love it like it's
08:00	your art . To be honest , I haven't written
08:02	since then . That was quite a while ago ,
08:04	because I've been so busy and I have been doing
08:06	so many other things kind of decided that after part
08:08	one of honey vinegar , I was going to do
08:10	my edits and I was going to finish , someone
08:11	will save you . I estimate that I have around
08:13	30,000 words left . If someone will save you .
08:15	I think I'm about 50 kn . I would really
08:17	like to write the rest of it just straight through
08:21	because I've been reading it in these little spurts .
08:23	It's been a side project , and now that I've
08:25	kind of like re found a love for the book
08:27	, I kind of was like , You know what
08:28	? I want to actually immerse myself in it .
08:30	You know ? You only get to draft the book
08:32	. Well , it's gonna take . You only get
08:33	to draft a book once , but this is actually
08:34	my second time drafting the book , but I doubt
08:36	I will do a full draft of this book again
08:38	. It'll probably just get at it . Drafting is
08:40	my favorite part of the process , so I want
08:42	to actually really immerse myself in it and just really
08:44	get into it . That'll probably happen in the fall
08:46	. Whenever I've done my honey vinaigrette , it's the
08:48	first draft will be done , and then that can
08:50	just be kind of like something off my plate .
08:51	And I won't be trying to draft two books at
08:53	a time . Gonna just give someone will save you
08:55	It's time and I think that that would be really
08:58	nice . So that's basically all my stuff for novels
09:02	. I guess this is kind of a new thing
09:04	, and I'm going to make a full separate video
09:05	of this . I've actually been writing a lot of
09:07	poetry lately . I in May decided , like ,
09:11	Okay , I really want to learn how to write
09:12	poetry . And that was something I've been wanting to
09:14	do for a long time . And the reason I
09:17	hadn't done it is was just because I thought I
09:18	was bad at poetry , but I literally not tried
09:21	it . I could say that I was bad at
09:22	poetry , just like I could say that I'm bad
09:24	at juggling or speaking Japanese . I've never done any
09:27	of those things or made an effort to learn .
09:29	Actually , I used to know how to juggle .
09:31	That's a lot . Currently , I don't know how
09:33	to do either of those things so obviously don't know
09:35	how to do them , but like everything is a
09:37	learned skill . So I was just kind of like
09:40	I'm bad at poetry and bad at it , so
09:42	I was like okay , I want to try to
09:44	learn poetry . I don't necessarily think I'll ever be
09:46	amazing at it , but I feel like I would
09:49	enjoy writing it . And so I'm going to try
09:51	. And so I set myself a goal of writing
09:53	10 poems over the summer . I write 10 poems
09:56	, and by the end of 10 poems , I
09:57	feel like I have learned nothing . Maybe that's a
09:59	sign that poetry is not for me , and I'm
10:00	not gonna I have a feeling that by the end
10:02	of 10 poems , I will feel like I've learned
10:05	something . You know , it's hard to write 10
10:07	of a thing and not be better at it .
10:08	Like if I think about my first short story compared
10:11	to my 10th short story night and day , I
10:13	was a dum dum who didn't know what I was
10:14	doing on the first short story about the 10th short
10:15	story . Like I was getting things published , I
10:17	was like , I need to just make an effort
10:19	. I don't I'm not saying that by the 10th
10:21	Poma would be publishable because no , but I feel
10:24	like learning make an effort to learn instead of just
10:26	resigning to the fact that you're bad at something that
10:28	you've never done before . So I've written nine poems
10:31	out of my 10 , and I do have an
10:33	idea for the 10th one . I just sit and
10:35	write it . I'll probably do that this week .
10:37	I mean , I am close to my deadline because
10:39	it is like August 20th , so time to take
10:41	in . And then finally , let's chat short stories
10:43	. So I actually have four short stories that I
10:45	view the written or or am in the process of
10:48	writing that I can talk about since my last update
10:51	. So the first story that I wrote is called
10:53	. She always kills the animals . You might know
10:56	this one because I have a vlog of me writing
10:57	in it , which I will leave that in the
10:59	cards . So I wrote that story at the end
11:01	of May . Honestly , it was the best ,
11:03	because I was feeling like I hadn't really made a
11:06	lot of progress because at the point with my novel
11:09	with honey vinegar , I mean and also want to
11:11	be with someone will be with both my novels where
11:13	I'm like dead in the middle . You know you
11:16	can't see light at either end of the tunnel .
11:18	I'm deep enough in that . It feels like I've
11:19	been writing it for so long . But I'm far
11:22	enough from the end that the end is not in
11:24	sight . I was kind of feeling like I wasn't
11:26	making any progress whatsoever even though I was making progress
11:29	. It just didn't feel like anything like I could
11:30	write 10,000 words in my novel and be like No
11:32	progress has been made because all I did was getting
11:34	deeper into the tunnel . But I just wrote a
11:36	story in , like , two days I felt on
11:39	top of the world . I was talking about this
11:40	with friends last night , and we were talking about
11:42	, like , finishing story than had been a while
11:44	since we finished the story . And I was like
11:46	, Oh , my God , like the last time
11:47	I finished the story , I was like , This
11:48	must be what cocaine feels like . I was like
11:51	I can do literally anything right now . I finished
11:53	the story , so that was great . So she
11:56	always kills the animals is a pretty short piece .
11:59	It's only 2200 words , which I've really been enjoying
12:02	slightly shorter fiction lately . um for a while ,
12:05	everything I wrote was like 4 to 6000 words ,
12:08	But I've been playing more around in 2000 to 3500
12:12	range , which has been really great . I feel
12:13	like it's just me learning to be more concise .
12:17	So this story is bizarro . But what's new had
12:20	had this image in my mind of these two characters
12:23	standing in a koi pond while in like a backyard
12:27	koi pond while there was a party happening in the
12:29	house and it was like a fancy . He was
12:31	like it was like a rich person . I had
12:32	a very , very clear image of this . It
12:34	was nighttime , and this is how most of my
12:36	stories start like I get an image and I'm like
12:39	, Oh , intriguing . So I had this image
12:41	in mind of a while of this koi pond and
12:43	these two people standing in it . I had a
12:45	pretty I could see both of them pretty clearly .
12:47	Um , I was pretty sure they were a couple
12:50	, and then I was also pretty sure that they
12:52	were probably house guest at this party and I have
12:54	in mind for a while , and I kind of
12:55	like this is probably going to turn into a story
12:57	at some point , but I'm just not sure exactly
12:59	what that will be . And then everything started to
13:01	kind of just click , as usually happens for you
13:04	in writing a short story , whatever weird image turns
13:06	into a story starts to click , and I started
13:09	writing it , so this story was really inspired by
13:11	mouth full birds by Spanish wobbling . The idea is
13:14	actually somewhat similar to one of the ideas in this
13:18	collection , but I had the idea beforehand seeing a
13:20	similar idea play out in this story kind of made
13:24	me realize what kind of tone I wanted that idea
13:26	to have . There's a story in this collection about
13:30	father and his daughter eats birds alive . It's the
13:33	title story . It's a great story by weird koi
13:35	Pond idea . Like I had had this idea of
13:38	the girl . The girl like , eats animals alive
13:41	. I've been playing with that for a while ,
13:43	and then when I encountered a similar story in here
13:44	, I was like , Oh , I think that
13:46	that's the tone that I want to have . So
13:48	when I started drafting and I wanted it to have
13:50	this eerie , tense dark field . But then when
13:53	I started writing it , it felt like almost like
13:56	the story was mocking itself like vaguely satirical . And
13:59	I was like , No , come back . This
14:00	isn't the time I wanted . And then , as
14:01	I wrote it more , I felt like the sarcasm
14:03	merged well with the darkness . And I'm actually really
14:06	happy with how the story turned out . Like I
14:08	say , that this story is the opposite of my
14:10	personal energy . It's only like 2200 words , so
14:13	it's hard for me to say too much . But
14:15	what I was doing it . It's basically about this
14:17	young man and his girlfriend there , like in their
14:19	early twenties , their co workers , they've been having
14:22	like a summer fling and right after they break up
14:25	and then as kind of the last kick at the
14:27	can , they go break into a stranger's backyard while
14:30	those people are having a party to go swim in
14:32	the pond . And while they're they're the main character
14:34	is just kind of reflecting on his relationship with this
14:37	girl . Her name's Lolly . I wanted her to
14:38	have kind of like a manic pixie dream girl name
14:41	. He's kind of like reflecting on why he's attracted
14:44	to her . A friend of mine calls it the
14:46	whoops . That's my kink story , which I find
14:49	hilarious . Thing I was really happy with this story
14:52	is that I felt like the crux of the story
14:54	came to me quite clearly , and I was like
14:56	, Oh , this is what the story is about
14:58	Psychologically , this is what the main character is wrestling
15:01	with . Psychologically , this is something that can take
15:03	me like a year to figure out . Like my
15:04	story wishbone literally a couple weeks ago . I've been
15:07	writing this story for a year or working on a
15:10	year . I wrote it a year ago , and
15:11	I was like , Oh , that's the crux of
15:13	the story , right ? So she always kills the
15:14	animals . I felt like the crux of the story
15:16	was just very present and clear , and I liked
15:18	how focused , Um , I felt like the story
15:21	has very narrow focus , which was quite happy with
15:23	, and then after that , I wrote a story
15:24	that I was less happy with . Next story that
15:26	I wrote is the last story that I finished .
15:28	I think I wrote this in June , and I
15:30	also have a vlog of me writing this or partially
15:32	writing this . It's called a word that rhymes with
15:35	fishhook . So I wrote this story because I was
15:37	in a class summer class on post apocalyptic film ,
15:41	and the professor let you propose a creative project in
15:46	instead of doing the final essay . And I was
15:48	like , I don't feel like writing an essay right
15:50	now . So I asked if I could do a
15:51	screenplay and he's super chill and he was like ,
15:53	Yeah , obviously , like it's an apocalyptic film class
15:55	So the script had to be apocalyptic . So I
15:58	wrote my script about a robot apocalypse , and it
16:00	was kind of like from the point of view of
16:02	the robot , I mean as much as a screenplay
16:04	can be from a point of view , the thing
16:05	about me is like I get very attached to projects
16:09	very easily . It takes , like , two pages
16:11	of writing something for me to be like . I
16:13	would die for this character . And so I got
16:15	really easily attached to this idea , and I was
16:17	kind of like , I'm so bad at screen writing
16:19	. I'm attached to this , though , so I
16:20	should write it as a short story . So I
16:22	tried reading as a short story , and honestly ,
16:25	I'm just not happy with how it turned out .
16:27	It's way more genre than any of my other stories
16:30	. My other stories have been all like lipstick .
16:32	This one is more genre , and I don't even
16:34	think I've ever like . Okay , I have read
16:36	, but very few genre fiction , short stories .
16:39	So I barely know . How do people do that
16:41	much World building , like , How are they going
16:43	to be structured like my whole education ? And my
16:45	whole background is with a literary style short story ,
16:47	and that's how I know how to write short stories
16:49	. So I got to the point in the story
16:51	where , like , the world was ending and there
16:52	was all this action and I was like , Oh
16:54	, my God , I just remembered that I'm terrible
16:55	at writing action . I really wasn't that pleased with
16:58	how it turned out . Unfortunately , it might be
17:01	something I come back to later tinker with , but
17:03	for the moment I'm like , Okay , I got
17:05	that out of my system . I was writing as
17:07	a screenplay because I had to for school and then
17:09	, while writing the screenplay was like , Oh ,
17:10	but wouldn't it be better as a short story ?
17:11	And then I wrote as a short story , and
17:12	I was like , Nope , it really was better
17:14	as a screenplay , it was meant to be a
17:15	screenplay . I'm just bad at screen writing , so
17:18	I really didn't execute the vision that I have two
17:21	stories that I'm in the process of writing . I
17:23	probably will touch on them just pretty briefly and save
17:26	them for my next update when hopefully they're done .
17:28	So the first one does not have a title yet
17:31	. I'm still playing around with titles . I got
17:33	both of these ideas for these stories on the same
17:36	day , and so I kind of started them at
17:38	the same time , and that was when I was
17:41	away from home . And so I really haven't really
17:43	had much time to write because I've been on ,
17:45	like , a camping trip and at a family reunion
17:47	, and obviously I didn't have time to write .
17:48	Well , I didn't have a way to write when
17:50	I was on an island that I had connected to
17:52	, and I also really didn't have time to write
17:54	when I was at a family reunion surrounded by my
17:56	entire extended family of like almost 30 people For the
17:59	past week and a half , These two stories have
18:01	just been kind of sitting in my head brewing ,
18:03	so the first one doesn't really have a title .
18:05	Like I said , I think the title will probably
18:07	come to me as I'm writing . Hopefully , this
18:09	doesn't turn into a story that's really difficult to title
18:12	. Hey , that this story is a classic sailing
18:14	story because it is about birds . My current working
18:18	title , which I don't think I'm going to keep
18:20	keep , is how music falls from the sky .
18:22	I don't know . It just seems like too much
18:24	of a title of like a Y romance . The
18:26	story is about this woman who used to be a
18:28	concert pianist . But then she got in an accident
18:31	, Um , where she lost three of her fingers
18:33	and so she can't play piano anymore . Now she's
18:35	quite like reclusive . We're following her in like ,
18:37	two timelines . So in the first time line ,
18:40	where she is in the present , where she's kind
18:42	of obsessed with this crow that keeps coming to her
18:44	clothes on and then in the past we see her
18:47	relationship with this other pianists that she knew that she
18:51	was like , um , training with practicing with .
18:55	I used to play piano , and I don't even
18:56	know what the term is . So I think I
18:58	found like a good heart to the story . I've
19:00	just been struggling to structure it , but I think
19:02	I just have to figure out that as I write
19:04	it , the other story that I'm writing , I
19:05	started at the same time and it's okay , So
19:07	when I started this story , I was like ,
19:09	This is kind of dumb . It's a dumb story
19:12	and I know that it's dumb and I wasn't really
19:16	intending to ever write it seriously . I thought I
19:18	kind of was like , I'm just gonna write this
19:19	for myself because I have the idea And it was
19:21	a bit more like darkly comic or satirical . When
19:24	that's not only my style , my stories are pretty
19:26	serious . I'm not funny enough to write comic fiction
19:30	. I really was like I'm just gonna write this
19:31	for myself . It doesn't really fit my collection that
19:33	well because it's just kind of comic , and the
19:34	story is called . I apologize in advance for the
19:37	title . It's called the subtle , the key difference
19:39	between shoe gaze and dream pop . And it's about
19:42	this girl One summer she's working as a roadie and
19:45	this really chaotic relationship that she has with this fellow
19:49	Rohde and she's been quite self destructive . And initially
19:52	, I kind of like I said I was seeing
19:54	this kind of comically , and as a result ,
19:57	I think I wasn't really giving the character as much
19:59	depth . Like the main character , I hadn't really
20:01	explored any back story for her . I felt like
20:03	I understood her personality , but I don't really understand
20:05	export a backstory for her . And so I think
20:07	as a result , I wasn't humanizing her enough .
20:10	It's kinda hard to explain , but while I was
20:12	writing it , I was like , This is a
20:12	comic story But it felt like there was something sad
20:15	to it , you know , like I could feel
20:16	kind of a sadness there because I could . I
20:19	felt like the character was really self destructive Halfway through
20:21	the story . I go away on this camping trip
20:23	and I don't avoid it , right . And so
20:24	the story is just sitting in my head , and
20:25	while I was away , I got this idea for
20:27	like a very random , small character detail since she
20:30	was fairly young , maybe a teenager , to go
20:32	into clothing stores and , you know , like on
20:35	button up shirts on the inside There's the extra button
20:37	. She would cut off the extra button and just
20:39	steal the extra button . And then I thought maybe
20:41	as she got older , this would extend to her
20:43	stealing it from other people . You know , like
20:47	she's at a party . She steals a button from
20:49	a shirt in the closet or , you know ,
20:51	stealing this button from partners or something . I know
20:54	it's so small and it seems kind of random .
20:56	But for some reason I was like , I felt
20:58	a lot of feeling attached to that , and I
21:00	was like , Oh , this is a person whose
21:01	she's just trying to hold on to other people or
21:04	even strangers by just collecting a single button from them
21:08	. It's just like this incredibly false way of having
21:11	a piece of another person kind of realized that the
21:13	story was not just a comic laugh at really pretentious
21:17	music , people being pretentious about music , which is
21:19	what the title comes from . That sounds like the
21:21	kind of thing that a pretentious music person would say
21:23	, which all the characters in the story are .
21:25	And I realized that really is a story about a
21:27	young woman who's trying so hard to connect with other
21:29	people but can't . And she's just hurting herself in
21:33	the process . And I was like , Oh ,
21:35	that's actually sad long tangent But that's basically the story
21:38	of how I started writing the story and I was
21:40	like , Well , stupid comic story . And then
21:43	I realized that actually , maybe it was quite a
21:45	serious story , long tangent . But that was kind
21:48	of just like a weird realization that had I thought
21:49	it was kind of an interesting story about how the
21:51	story really evolved . Anyways , that's basically it for
21:54	this update . I don't think I have anything else
21:55	more to say . I think that's basically everything I've
21:57	written . Thank you guys so much for watching .
22:00	Let me know what you've been writing recently . I
22:02	love to hear you guys as little updates . Thank
22:03	you so much for watching . And if you have
22:05	any questions , you can always let me ask on
22:06	public . Thanks . Yeah . Uh huh .

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Summer writing help for students! Keeping a journal is a good idea for any writer for two reasons. The first being that it is excellent practice for writing, getting used to the habit of writing daily is important to keep your "exercise regime" up.

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