A cozy and productive day in my life as a writer ✒️☁️

[@Renagade14]

I literally wait for these videos like they're some sort of reward after a rough week.

[@kristywhilden3772]

😂same

[@antoniaguzman5464]

Sameee

[@christy-anne-jones]

awwh 😭💛 thank you for being here

[@Renagade14]

@@christy-anne-jones you really are so inspiring. I would love to be a content creator at some point. I've come so close but get too scared to put myself out there every time. Seeing you do it with such grace and success leaves me in awe.

[@leahrose-yt]

@@Renagade14 I so feel u :') it helps me right now to make videos where I don't really talk into the camera. I've only made 3 but I'm slowwwly getting more used to it.

[@morganleonard]

Oh, this is so perfectly timed. I just sat down with my coffee.

[@monavc8962]

hey me too with my tea!!!

[@abigailhoneycombe]

2:39 You sound so happy in this meeting, and it gives me so much hope that one day I'll get to live this absolute dream of mine. I wish you all the luck on Project Teacup and getting it published because you so so deserve it

[@emcoffeebreak]

I feel so happy whenever I see your videos, and writing videos like this makes me feel so creatively refreshed :')

[@martinelanglois3158]

A Sunday morning cup of tea while watching your videos is always a joy. Thank you! 🫖🥰

[@winslow8779]

I love that you can tell how much you and your agent vibe from how you speak and laugh with each other. Goals! Thanks for these videos, always the best motivation to sit down to work and write!

[@EyeGlassTrainofMind]

Oh absolutely about the teacup, thing! It's definitely also a great way to have an acceptable added few seconds to think on something when you go to pick it up and take a sip and people don't rush you.

[@miahandwrites]

watching your vlogs has me feeling the same way as snuggling up with a good book or sitting down to write a favorite scene. i approach it in the same manner too: attentive and enthralled. i can't be having supper or ironing at that time, you know. i just sit down (or stand cuz I also have that blessing of a standing desk lol) in a quiet place and prepare to absorb it, like I were studying for a test. God forbid any distractions because every little detail from your gracefully constructed cinematic videos is so precious. gosh, I said that before but I feel like writing a book with you as the mc! not in the creepy way, you just inspire so much and are so unique and lovely thank you and wish you all the growth and happiness you deserve, you cutie.

[@nicolas4407]

Today has been such a stressful day, but your videos always motivate me to sit down for a writing session anyway. Thank you 🫶🏼 Love from Switzerland!

[@tonydeluna8095]

Another cozy day with Christy Anne Jones ❤!

[@cozyaboutbooks]

I love your vlogs. ;) You singlehanded made me think that maybe dream about being writer is worth to fight for.

[@MyAndyzzz]

I am on the same boat. I have dreamt about being a writer my whole life. Every story deserves to be told, go for it! I started writing my first novel a few months ago.

[@TheJellypop1]

Being a writer is indeed a fight but one I keep reminding myself is worth it. Good writing vibes to all my fellow writers

[@emiilyrose]

you posting this right as I finished cooking my breakfast was so perfect!!

[@writeymaile]

YES a new Christy video!!! just what I need to finish my short story

[@AbiofPellinor]

I'm just impressed with how quickly you edited and updated this!

[@MissCapturedSoul]

Christy I looove your vlogs! Always so cosy and inspiring. ❤ Also your hair looks lovely.

[@Rusthate101]

How is no one talking about the nonchalant fork flourish at 8:08? So subtle, yet so impressive.

[@readknitwithcheryl]

I have low iron as well. I had 7 weekly infusions and i never felt any better. Glad it works for you! Your projects sound so good and i can't wait to read your published work!

[@AnnaYoungStories]

Needing the cup! Yes! My mom had a phrase "busy hands are happy hands" and it is so true for me 😅

[@wabisabi8571]

love your improvised video conferencing setup, especially the books as phone stand. so realistic

[@altertive5757]

Watch this after work, so cozy to wind down. Love your vid alwayss

[@WritingWithASnack]

I would love a video on how you go about finding places to publish your short stories! I tried researching about it briefly, but then I got overwhelmed 😅 Love your videos, can't wait to read your book one day!

[@ellie2285]

Another lovely video!! Thank you for sharing Christy, I always look forward to these every Sunday. I hope you guys have fun on your trip as well! Take care🧡🧡

[@froodoftheforest]

Re: Prometheus + Ancient Greek/Modern medical knowledge. I've spoken with people about this a few times. My theory is that they noticed that soldiers would often survive even serious liver injuries. Or also, animal dissections were super common back then and that might have been a somewhat common observation. Great vlog by the way, hearing the birds in the Botanical Gardens were delightful!

[@hilary3219]

That makes so much sense! I was thinking dubious early medical practices but your theory makes way more sense!

[@jordanseifert4640]

As always, a good video. Certainly the best balm for a so-so week.

[@Lucieesarah]

I LOVE Frankestein …..is a very sad book 💔❤️‍🩹but so beautiful

[@Dina2662]

Charlie work is my favourite episode of IASIP 😂 it cheers me up like nothing else

[@e4mi]

I love how varied your writing is and you try so hard to make an honest effort in each perspective. Some authors get too stuck in their genre but I love genre branching authors. As a reader, I can tell when an author just wants to try weird stuff and have fun doing it ❤ Also: high five to the girlies with game dev Significant Others! haha

[@elianaalzate03]

I love your obssession with Totoro (thr plushie and the mug)! Huge fan of that movie too, it helps me during the stumbling blocks of the writing process. 🤍🐰

[@MsGloomyLamp]

I like how at 14:50 it feels like tiny electricity zaps :) Your videos are always so motivating, I want to go get writing every time I watch them! 💛

[@Niailis]

I purchased your book and it arrived today, I can't wait to add to the collection when your future novels come out!

[@Lara_Ameen]

Wonderful vlog! I love your short story idea with the game developer character. I live close to Irvine and know about Blizzard Entertainment as a family friend works for them! People unfamiliar with the Orange County area in SoCal will often say that Disneyland is in Los Angeles (it’s not). Although Orange County is between LA and San Diego, having grown up here most of my life, I can say it’s very different. I hope that short story gets published! It sounds absolutely fascinating! Also, glad to hear you’re making progress on your new novel. I’m excited to see where it goes! 🥰 I’m a screenwriter (not professionally yet) who has been trying to break into the entertainment industry for many years. I’ve been writing scripts since 2007 and have written 36 scripts so far (not a typo, lol). My MFA is also in screenwriting (wrote a fantasy TV drama pilot for my MFA thesis) and my PhD dissertation is a one-hour supernatural drama I adapted into a fantasy novel (currently querying that novel). I think it’s really cool that you went to a free screenwriting lecture. It’s such a different form than short story and novel writing and I do all three! Currently applying for TV writing fellowships and submitting my short stories that haven’t been published yet. I also love the aesthetics of your vlog! Your editing is so enticing and it makes me want to visit Adelaide. 😍

[@ThatTallQueerBassist-up8cf]

love the vlogs so much! they help put me in a writing mood, which im so grateful for. about to go work on my (incredibly self indulgent) fanfiction now! Hope you have a lovely trip/day

[@ElleGoulden]

Please can you do more book review videos, I really enjoy those and would love to see what books your currently loving or have been your favourite books this yer.

[@aurora20XX]

16:45 Love the formal top and then... a knee of pyjamas 😂🥰

[@hilary3219]

Oh my gosh the shots of the botanical garden were so pretty and peaceful especially when everything is turning brown here in America. Quarterly small business taxes sound like an especially brutal version of taxes. I wouldn't be surprised if the greeks did know from potentially dubious medical practices. I hope you are able to get an iron infusion again soon if that what helps you most! I've also run into the issue where all my tests are normal so they're just like I guess it's just the stress and insomnia, even though I do so much less than most people my age (and honestly, also than my parents who're retired). Hope you have a great time snorkeling on The Great Barrier Reef! It's like one of my bucket list goals to scuba dive it, so I'm super excited to hear about it! Side note, I noticed that you had a paperback copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed, which made me wonder if you prefer paperbacks or hardcovers (or if like me it's length and/or specific novel/cover dependent)? Also, I'm so curious what you were looking for in The Anthropocene Reviewed! Did you find the answer in a vlogbrothers video or the podcast?

[@francineh.7825]

Your walk through the park looked beautiful. I struggled a lot with low iron through the years so I would take Floradix liquid iron & herb supplement and it helped me.

[@Lucieesarah]

The part with your childhood picture made me laugh hard 😂 im going back😂❤love your vlogs!

[@victorabadia3702]

Much love!

[@scarlettdownsiswriting]

I need to steal your cooking skills omg!!!!

[@saram5659]

I love a fun fact as well! ❤

[@ReadingNymph]

I hope you enjoy snorkeling!!

[@northofdakota]

I'm dealing with the same thing with writing short stories where I overwrite like I'm writing a novel 🤣 and that's why I feel like short stories aren't for me cause I can come up with the shortest story possible and still end up wanting to add things like character development and interpersonal relationships and wanting the story to be a slow burn 😅

[@monavc8962]

Ahh!! Can you share the details of the anthology of myths? I would LOVE to pick that up! I need to feed my greek mythology bend right now.

[@dinarasafinah6609]

Your video is a great healer and motivate❤, but I really wanna ask about writing a story, what should we do before we start writing a story like novel? I want to be an author one day and I need to learn how to get into it?😢

[@daithedaithe]

hi Christy! I love your videos and I'm sorry to hear you struggle with low iron! I wanted to drop a comment because I've personally struggled with anemia for a really long time as well - it turns out tea and coffee can inhibit your body from absorbing iron, particularly if you have those drinks close to meal times! I've noticed that you seem to be a hot-drink enjoyer like me so I was wondering if that might be affecting your iron levels. In case my own iron-recovery method is informative to you: I restrict myself to one tea/coffee per day at 4pm now - as far away from meal times as i can get (but still devastating, I know, it is so sad) - and I take an iron supplement before bed, and it's really helped!

[@hananebouslahi1433]

finally, a NEW VIDEO;

[@TurnthePageCafe]

Love your videos. Therapeutic to me!

[@katevenhorst1723]

I do not mean to suggest how you write this short story but I LOVE the concept and wanted to toss something out: what if when this games maker inherits her grandparents farm she discovers her grandparents were harboring a supernatural/mystical secret? Maybe they have to pass the farm down to someone worthy or similarly “gifted” to care for the supernatural/mystical thing? Maybe her aunts are jealous bc they wish they were gifted in a way the protagonist doesn’t yet know she is? The caretaking of the supernatural thing could play on her unique gifts for game making/ creative thinking too? Just a thought! Love love love your videos ❤

[@SheegogProductions]

7:20 California! Irvine!! Game developer!!! You're talking about Blizzard, aren't you? XD XD As someone who works in Irvine frequently, I appreciate it!

[@manuelespinosa724]

Thanks for sharing!

[@devayanig.3100]

You don't even know, how much I was waiting for this video...thank you, I was looking forward to it🤍🤍

[@everausten]

Wonderful ✨

[@ooh29]

What a beautiful day only for you ✌️❤🕊️

[@manamiyagishita1835]

Hi i am Japanese living in Germany. Just wanted to let you know that "Spiegel tent" is actually called "Spiegelkabinett" in German. Just for information 😊

[@KirileeCosplay]

Have you ever read anything by Rachael Johns? Based in WA but I've really been enjoying the outback/country romances and stories.

[@the-comments-poet]

A day on earth Every day I see the world I am forever amazed by its unending wonders And all the beauty of everything around me Each blade of grass, every pebbles, shoot and twigs Drops of dew as diamonds in the morning sun The fresh scent of renewed hope in the early breath The promises of life awoken Riches and abundance and rewards near I am so very small - this world so big Though I look and look I cannot see very far But I can see I belong here That I belong to here The new day also brings hurdles and sorrow Streams to cross, treacherous and menacing covers I am just a solitary little mouse trotting along In this immeasurable field I call home And no matter the dangers and the threats However unkind the weather and cold the nights And the friends lost and the dark days I am grateful for this ground I walk on I am the life given to me Like a voice needs a listener And the dream a dreamer This earth comes alive under my tiny little feet I am bound to it as it is to me I am just a solitary little mouse trotting along Small and defenceless, sometimes scared and unsure But trusting and confident in this moment Today, there is nowhere else I would rather be Here and now I belong To this life given to me I am a voice, I am a dream, I am a breath I am just a little mouse

[@eminorthworld]

You might just not be absorbing iron in your gut well, sometimes no clear reason, sometimes coeliac. I am glad you found that protein works.

[@TheEccentricRaven]

I love your videos ❤ Happy to hear updates on your writing and reading 🙂 Ah, why does spring have to be tax time? 😶

[@christy-anne-jones]

Tax time is every three months when you're a small business owner in Australia 😭 Thank you so much for your lovely words 💛💛

[@Sthemingway]

What kind of shoes does Emma wear? No idea why I'm curious about her footwear since I never think about it when I'm reading. Seeing you get a shrimp salad makes me want one too. ^~^

[@christy-anne-jones]

Sandals! I already wrote that detail in hahah 😅💛

[@monimahanta5999]

Oh I'm wait for ur nice video thank u.

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

tasmania crab size is amazing for me but i dont live in australia so i just know about it recently btw i live in java island and i'm not from a downtown area

[@JoanneMallory13]

Hi Christy, what software are you using for the short story? The layout looks amazingly helpful. (Lovely video, as always 😊) x

[@christy-anne-jones]

For writing the story, mostly Microsoft Word :-) I also took some notes on Google Docs 💛💛

[@JoanneMallory13]

@@christy-anne-jones oh you had some video-in-video in this vlog that looked very different, with images and links etc all included with the plot points. Is it a mood board app? I've been trying to find a software where I can put everything together for ages :)

[@martellc1008]

@@JoanneMallory13it was most likely Milanote and it’s free and intuitive

[@JoanneMallory13]

@@martellc1008 just looked at the app, that's it, thanx so much :D

[@AshleyR-s1m]

What font do you use in your thumbnails? It’s so pretty!

[@christy-anne-jones]

It isn't a font; I hand draw it every time 😅😅😅

[@christy-anne-jones]

And thank you!! 💛

[@AshleyR-s1m]

Omg that’s so crazy. You’re so talented!!!

[@Repulsiastorm]

I need to know how Krobus works into the new story!

[@bkjunkie1553]

Do you eat meat? It's the best source of iron. Regenerative grass fed, grass finished beef is best, but whatever animal protein you can afford is good for you. Pea protein in protein powders causes digestive issues for some people. I'm glad you are healthy otherwise. I love your channel. Thank you for giving us a peak into a day in your life. I can't wait to read project teacup one day.

[@christy-anne-jones]

Yeah, for years I've had to put in a lot of effort to regularly eat red meat (and other meat) mostly because of the low iron stuff. My diet is super balanced and, as I said, I've done literally everything I can 😭 I just have to wait now for the infusion. I'm glad you like the channel! Thank you so much!! 💛💛

[@NadeenOmer-f8o]

Have you talked with your doctor about being low on absorbance of iron. There are supplements to help you absorb

[@marcosroberto8309]

What are the switches of your keyboard?

[@fionahowellwrites5302]

Don't think anybody likes doing taxes...Lol My dad was very impressed with my tax document. Said a lawyer could have written it and would love it. Haha I love N.K. Jemesin too! I have a signed copy of, The World We Make. I loved book one so much. :)

[@LexiGow-u7h]

Please please please make a video about how you made your finance template. I am really struggling with understanding how much I should put into my student loans and I would pay for a template from you.

[@rachelmcdonald6092]

[@mclaineisabellaschwertfege9131]

haha your comment about having tea to ground you... I call it my "emotional support tea"

[@lightineverything]

Christy, please look into reading Becoming Supernatural by Dr Joe Dispenza for your iron issue. I love your videos and rarely comment but i hope you start feeling better ❤

[@PeterMacansky]

[@meysician7117]

Does Christy say hi?