Writing Vlog: Working Through Summer Malaise to Plot & Submission Updates

[@Spider-Manders]

I dunno, the plant talk really feels like how I'm approaching my zero draft right now. Got all these notes and scenes. Some are old and don't fit the current plan but I can cut them up and recycle them. Grow them into new content or save them for a different project. Absolutely a great way to kick off the vlog!

[@LiselleSambury]

Omg I love that! That’s a great metaphor! Thank you for making my long plant talk feel valid hahaha

[@shebreathesingold8043]

I love your writing vlogs so much, btw. Thanks for all these updates.

[@LiselleSambury]

I’m happy you love them!!

[@thathollyking]

Love your cult of the lamb plush!!

[@LiselleSambury]

Thank you!!!

[@DMMorrow-ev6rr]

After the opening, I think we need more plant talk in the vlogs LMAO And Im glad you'll be doing submission updates. I love learning about the process!

[@LiselleSambury]

Loool good to know! I’ll have to put one in the August vlog haha and yeah, I feel like the updates I give are so harmless to the industry but nice for viewers

[@annekat8358]

you could call the trilogy Monstera! y’know, like the plant? 🤣

[@LiselleSambury]

I already have a book named after a monstera plant 🤣 so I don’t know that that would fly again

[@carolinajgovar]

omg those plants can go THROUGH HELL and still be alive. also good luck on sub! we want alll the sub updates!!!

[@LiselleSambury]

I get that impression since even I’ve been able to keep them alive haha and thank you!

[@sherrylalonde5719]

Haha, love the plant rant. I too have ridiculous, long, straggly pothos that need cutting. Definitely a metaphor for my revisions, lol! Also yay for transparency in publishing!

[@LiselleSambury]

Hahaha it’s hard to get around to them, much like revisions. I wish you the best with both!

[@shebreathesingold8043]

BTW, re: breathing thing, if you were physically exerting yourself too much during your trip, you could have been hyperventilating just from the physical strain alone. If you were anxious while having trouble breathing, it could be more of a mental thing (ie. panic attack). Took me more than a decade to know that once you feel anxiety/panic you need to let it runs it's course (you can physically run, flail arms, etc to get that anxious energy out). Also egging on the panic, internally, like, "Boarding a plane, lets freak out!" *internal screaming* can actually minimize the actual panic because that kind of empowered, very in control thinking is almost the antidote to the panic-thinking that can cause panic attacks. Either way, physical or mental, I hope you're now more relaxed!

[@LiselleSambury]

That’s the thing! I wasn’t physically exerting myself at all haha. I was literally just walking on the sidewalk which is why it was so strange to me. That’s interesting about the internal screaming and stuff. Me and my therapist worked on some good strategies so I was able to manage using those but it was just such an odd experience because truly I didn’t mentally feel anxious

[@SamasBananas1]

I live in a university town in Ontario and yeah, St. Patty's is crazy

[@LiselleSambury]

Yup haha it was a first for me in my first year at school

[@LindsayPuckett]

INVESTED in the plants

[@LiselleSambury]

Hahaha this tracks

[@Eve.Daniels]

2000 words a day is a LOT for me. I can word vomit an outline for a scene in a day and then allow the hyperfixation to take over and draft for like 8 hours straight later in the week, but then I still need MASSIVE revisions.

[@LiselleSambury]

I feel like that’s super fair. Meanwhile I could never sit and write for 8 hours, I would die lol. I draft for like 2 hours max in a day and I’m tired. But I feel like that’s the thing with writing, every writer can have such a different process and things that do or don’t work for them

[@Eve.Daniels]

@@LiselleSambury So true. I think it's so crazy how much it varies and I look back on all of that 'Perfect writing process' hype from the early author tube days and just cringe at my little baby self 😆

[@Eve.Daniels]

I finally had enough sunlight to get further into delicious monsters without giving myself nightmares (I'm not done, no spoilers) and you are slowly killing me!!! I keep thinking that one perspective will spoil the other but nope... just keep having to read one more page... OH! And I saw the Sequel to Blood like magic in a bookshop called 'Science Fiction' in Stockholm but they didn't have the first one so I might just have to break down and get the kindle version 😅 Apparently you sell out quick there girl

[@LiselleSambury]

@@Eve.Daniels haha good to read during the day then and rip to you but also yay that it’s keeping you on your toes haha. Also omg I didn’t realize my books were being sold over there! That’s so cool! Though sad you can’t get that first book 🙈 kindle does seem like a good solution

[@LiselleSambury]

@@Eve.Daniels haha we all learn as we go on. And it feels like good advice to kind of nail down your process but it truly is just so in flux. Even my own process does change in little ways as I learn things or switch things around

[@zrienkersh1475]

Oh the malaise is for real.

[@LiselleSambury]

Right?? 😩