I tried Toni Morrison's writing routine 📝 (ch.1)

Hello, I'm Dominique. I used to make videos at The Storyscape. Last month, I had about a week before work started back up for me and so I decided to start making KZbin videos again. Here we go.
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[@khadijaali2476]

As a Toni Morrison devotee and budding writer, I thank you for taking the time to do this and I’m thankful your video found me! ♥️

[@Anka_Tulak]

I think this is the best "trying an author's routine" video I've seen. The editing, the way you frame thing's!!! I hope more people find you soon💚

[@bewriting]

Thank you!

[@ktkami9616]

"i'm creating more than i'm consuming" is the headspace i'm settling in right now as well. it always feels good to come back to that. i loved this video and i can't wait to see more from you! just watching this inspired me to get back to the story i fell out of routine with.

[@esthercuenca4071]

This video was really well-put together. Toni Morrison fascinates me.

[@gloriasilveira5332]

This is a great video, and wow "the ideas rotting in my head"...what a great visual-this helps me get my butt in gear and make writing time a priority. I too hated to get up early but now that I have a toddler I have to if I want to get anything done for myself. Have you slept enough each night? I heard somewhere that women actually need more sleep than men-between 9-11 hours a night. Only men thrive on 7-8 hrs each night. So try sleeping more-once I started sleeping 9 hrs a night, getting up at 4 or 5am became a piece of cake. Although it does seem like you might be a middle of the night writer...whatever-you do you!! Great video!

[@bewriting]

Hm, interesting. I'll have to see how I do on nights with more and than 8hrs now. Thanks for watching!

[@WhitmoreReads]

So good to see you. And yes anytime you want to make your booktube videos public. I'm here for it. The vibe of watching your videos while I painted was always a routine of mine. I missed your amazing edits ❤

[@leilakamel8425]

Damn, this is a gooood video. Please make more!

[@bewriting]

Thank you and will do 😄

[@noahthomas8774]

This is great! can't wait to read your work some day. I feel like her morning ritual of watching the sun was almost like a liturgy: a way to participate with the world and the muse and God or whatever it is that inspires people. Thanks for making this video and I wish you well in your work!

[@browngirlreading]

I hate waking up early too. I'm having to do that right now too and I hate it, especially Saturday mornings.☹ Well done! I totally get what you mean about the consuming.

[@Atsteel]

This was fun to watch. I didn't know Toni Morrison's routine before this. I wrote my first manuscript because of her words -- because of the quote that you opened this video with. Thanks.

[@bewriting]

Nice! That quote is truly a gem. :)

[@acuervo006]

This was so good to watch. I watched with my daughter when I was putting her down for a nap. Love how she soothes with videos like this. I love Toni Morrison she was a good one ❤ can you do Octavia Butler next? I know her routine is hard but is what we do when we work full time! It’s inspiring to me as someone who grew up struggling and as butler didn’t have but my own mind as a friend sometimes. Thank you for this wonderful video

[@bewriting]

Aw, that's so lovely to hear! I'll keep the Octavia Butler one in mind. She was on some mad hours though, lol, but we'll see. :)

[@pmhr2153]

Stumbled across a video of yours, now I feel compelled to watch everything on the channel so far! Thank you for sharing the journey 💛

[@daisychakoo4466]

Eeeekkkkk! This is so effing inspiring! I’m bout to but myself a legal pad and an alarm clock! 👏🏾

[@bewriting]

Yes indeed! 📝🤗

[@auntieayla2310]

This was so inspiring to watch. Thank you for sharing the journey!

[@kaymcbridemcbride3307]

Wow! You are amazing and I love your ambition. I am a huge Tony Morrison fan as well and I wanted to tell you she was in the bed around 9:00 pm so don’t worry about being off a little. (LOL) Also children are up like clockwork around or about 7:00 am and her choices were limited. So while you are on the right path, you’re absolutely right about doing what works for you because sleeping enough hours is definitely a must to conquer her routine😂 I was excited to come across your story and see that she inspires you. I know you will be successful. I wish you the best of luck❤

[@kiranreader]

i def hear u on the desire to create more than consume!!

[@kiranreader]

the sandwich u made in the beginning looked awesome!!!!!!

[@ClarissaG222]

I love this!!

[@annikajh71]

Absolutely love Toni Morrison and this video - your music choice is impeccable! I can heavily relate to the desire to create more than you consume. I feel like the pandemic numbed a lot of our brains for a bit, but now we're picking up the inspiration again. Looking forward to more videos from you!

[@wawahals]

very cozy and motivating to watch, love this Dominique!

[@miriam8376]

I love seeing all your craft books in the background of your video. I had to read Robert McKee's Story for a college writing class, and two decades later, it's still on my shelf, so thoroughly read and annotated that the spine is breaking.

[@authorgreene]

It's great when you change things up and learn something valuable about your own creative process. Great video. Thanks!

[@colleenbixler3292]

this is so inspiring! thank you

[@bewriting]

Thank YOU!

[@Advisorblogger]

I really enjoyed this routine, very well edited

[@user-gr2vc2kv8r]

I’ve been waiting for someone to try Toni’s routine! Love to see it

[@rhett-says-hullo4229]

please keep documenting more of your writing journey!!! i loved this video!

[@hannahmichellelambert8983]

Loved this video! Everything had such a cozy and almost home video feel 🤗

[@mspoetic888]

Here for the writing, and the vibes! New subbie!😊

[@jesswhycamarz]

So glad I found your channel 🩵💜 I hope you come back and continue making content

[@goldonpaper]

Wonderful! Very glad to have found your channel, going to sub:) I'm a writer too! I'm guessing you're a French speaker? For the mornings and alarms: I read somewhere that alarms "shock" the body awake and they're obviously not a very natural way to wake up which can account for the grumpiness/grogginess. After getting up at that time consistently though, you won't even need an alarm! Loved the video!

[@hadiyamuse7688]

This was really inspiring to watch, thank you for sharing! It really does come down to choice + taking steps toward creating v consuming. Many of us totally relate :)

[@tale4489]

Loved this video! So encouraging having that reminder to be non perfectionist about this. On a ludicrously trivial note the baking / cooking you do at the beginning looks incredible. Do you have a recipe for that awesome looking scone (Im from the UK where this is known as a scone - such an ugly word for a heavenly thing! though my Nigerian Auntie would correct me and inform me quite rightly that this a biscuit! - I think US terminology is biscuit too?)

[@bewriting]

Indeed I do say biscuit. I'm pretty sure I just used the basic recipe from the Allrecipes website, but you really can't go wrong with any recipe you find.

[@arabicabqariyyah111]

So inspiringggg. We want more😍Thank you ! 🎉

[@kiranreader]

your editing is so good!!

[@asexualatheist3504]

This is wonderful information. I wish you the best of luck in your writing endeavors.

[@bewriting]

Thank you! Yes, I speak French. And yeah, I give up on the alarm unless I really have to be up at a specific time 😆

[@livressolitaire]

The bit about choices really hit! 🥺😅

[@SwetieLuv]

I want to become a writer, but I'm terrible at grammar and dialogue 😢 I used to write a lot when I was young because I didn't care what I wrote I just write but know I do

[@juliakauffman3639]

your video is really well edited and engaging, i had to subscribe! i hope you upload again soon :)

[@heloisamanduca1996]

great video!!! thanks

[@chinasacasmir]

youre so beautiful and I would make a video like this too, thank you for this inspiration

[@heartmommyinpa]

I also write longhand sometimes

[@ComedorDelrico]

La grasse matinee: literally "a fat morning" or "a greasy morning" meaning a morning of sleeping in (I had to look it up. Thought I'd share for anyone else who doesn't know!)

[@kentuckyburbon1777]

Ideally (my 2 cents) , up at dawn , but ideally (also) after 8 hours of sleep ! Because by the third day of less than adequate sleep you’ll be dead to the world and it will take a couple days to make it back. Also …no guilt. Just get back on the horse 🐴

[@mkyultra]

I loved this! I’m about to try it too

[@bewriting]

Yayy!

[@heartmommyinpa]

I use Scrivener in dark mode also

[@csalles21]

I've noticed that the wallpaper on your phone is in Portuguese. Am I right? From which book? (If you don't mind to share)

[@bewriting]

It is! It's from 'Light in August' by William Faulkner, it's the opening lines to chapter 6