These Writers Confessed their Deepest Secrets

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[@Leitis_Fella]

On my first draft (still in progress), it took 100k+ words for my protag to leave his hometown. Lol.

[@joshuam2212]

For anyone dealing with Self Doubt it seemed to be a common writers trait nearly every writer i have seen on youtbe has talked about it some of them have successfully published dozens of books and for anyone that has a book out that isn't doing as well as you thought look up the story of the man that wrote Moby Dick it was a total flop at the time but now it's a classic

[@simonjohansson248]

I wrote my first novel during the pandemic, self published it in 2022 and as of today still struggle to want to write again

[@SpanishEclectic]

Confession is good for the soul, lol.

[@tinkabreytenbach-sima8218]

For your #03 Glowing reviews: When I trained at LifeLine to council, we played some games to determine our character. This particular game required the participants to chose only one person whom they would save amongst the group, when being in a liferaft tipping over. So when we all chose somebody other than ourselves, the coach asked us, why we didn't choose ourselves. Afterall, aren't we also valuable enough to be worth saving?

[@rafaelisaac21]

I have to say. I love your channel. I'm an aspiring writer and I find many things that you say very helpful. With that being said, this was just a fun video and I loved it.

[@imaginepageant]

My confession: I’ve never imaged my husband was another actual person… but I have imagined he and I were both characters from my books.

[@beatriceanobah6388]

Great unique deep and fun video. ❤ makes me curious about your books!

[@Melleanah]

Love the video. It’s interesting to see what others views as deep secrets.

[@birdiehara1151]

As always, amazing content.

[@Bookfox]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@user-ok2zs4eu7k]

I have read several almost-great self-published books. They would have been great and successful if an agent had helped them.

[@lizgonzalez491]

Those were fun

[@reavz8262]

Stephen King also wrote drunk

[@Exayevie]

Did 24 mean that her best friend made a lot of money, or spent a lot of money? Because I thought at first she hadn’t read it because it was bad, rather than that she was jealous! Now I don’t know!

[@jeffdanelek2132]

After several years of getting a number of non-fiction (and a few fiction) books published with traditional publishers, it all suddenly went away. I have several highly polished manuscripts and other projects ready to go but for some reason can't get an agent or publisher to even take a look at any of them. I carefully investigate the agents and editors I query to make sure they're a good match for my type of writing and list my publishing credentials on my query letters but it seems everything just goes into either the junk mail folder or is deleted without even an acknowledgement of receipt. Has anyone else experienced this or am I the only author on planet Earth to suffer such a fate?

[@zantosender3348]

It's sad that self-publishing gets such a bad rap. I don't want to give any control of my work to a corporation. And it's not easy either; I'm floundering trying to make any progress getting my book published.

[@Bookfox]

Yes ... but that person was "confessing" it -- they felt bad about feeling that way, and it seems they knew it wasn't the right way to feel.

[@saxbend]

Self publishing is very hard work. If you can do it, great, but to even know what needs to be done is quite an undertaking.

[@dorysmith2776]

My first book had a publisher, and it was an awful experience. I have self published every book since then and really enjoy the control.

[@matthewkjames4498]

I thought this would be more about writing deepest secrets, like self doubt and such. This was all about personal issues. :-(

[@shinaxia7474]

Six months without reading a book? Try a few years. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I read a book written by someone else. The reasons are two, although there were three at first. At first I didn't want someone to accuse me of stealing an idea if I was inspired by something, but now the reasons are only two. I don't have time to read. I write. 300 K words a year. It may not be a lot, but a writer's job is not just tapping on the keyboard, it's coming up with plots, dialogues, etc. The second reason is more painful - I don't like any book I start reading. Unfortunately, neither do my books. I have become incredibly critical. I don't like my own books because I expect better of myself, and I sell them because there is a demand. My readers are less critical than me. But as a reader, I notice every misused word, every poorly constructed description, weak dialogue - everything. And that's why I can't read books.

[@brucewinters-cr4it]

Maybe audiobooks can help? They're read by a narrator or actor which helps remove the focus from the actual writing of the story and redirects it to the characters and plot. If you have no free time, it's easy to listen to audiobooks while driving, doing chores, cooking, etc.

[@tessakaye3269]

“Writing a book does feel like giving birth in a lot of different ways,” - someone who has never and will never give birth I really don’t think that that’s how she meant it.

[@sheila19954]

Stop being a crabby and delusional loser He didn't claim that that's what she meant