a cozy day in my life & writing vlog ☁️ what motivates me to be a writer?

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My book 📖 A Year in Tōkyō: An Illustrated Guide and Memoir:
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Welcome to another project teacup vlog! Here is a cozy, day in my life, writing vlog. I was a bit poorly in this one--betrayed by my own damn sinuses. I also answered a bunch of writing related questions as well within the vlog, so I hope you enjoy the Q&A segment as well on topics like what motivates me to be a writer and what makes me to most nervous about potentially one day seeing project teacup out in the world as a real book.
Take care everyone 💛
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My partner, Tyler, is solo developing a game! It's a farming sim, set in space. Check it out here bit.ly/3LgvH4P 🌱🚀⭐
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25 мар 2023

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@asililydying Год назад

from someone who finally feels like a proper human being again, thank you so much for your energy christy. the world is dark and often confused, but you add a little bit of light each video :)

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Thank you for your beautiful comment 🥹 I hope you're doing okay 💛

@e4mi Год назад

For the past year, I have been watching your channel for motivation to finish my MA thesis. Now that I am post grad, I still love the cozy vibes and this attempt to view writing in a positive light after college haha basically your videos are great

@e4mi Год назад

OH in relation to the song motivation thing (I don't judge) I have the same relationship with the band I Don't Know How But They Found Me. It just tickles my brain in a wonderful way to work or write

@ooh29 Год назад

Christy, I’m so hoping that you will get published. I raise all my hands for you dear.

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Thank you so much 💛💛

@tempest2000 Год назад

We're rooting for you, Christy Anne. I will pre-order your teacup novel when the day comes! 🍵

@k8rine Год назад

Christy why don’t you self publish! I felt the same as you, my novels are my babies, and when the traditional publishers didn’t pick it up (sadly I think this is harder and harder as yrs go by due to current trends etc) but finally I came to the realisation that we are writing for ourselves, to share with family and friends it’s already SO amazing that there’s strangers out there who may buy our books- I’m sure you’d have so many interested in yours! Don’t give up 🙌🏻 also by self publishing you get full autonomy what you want to write about and share with the world!!❤

@jessdinning Год назад

I was wondering this too! Christy, I'd love to hear your thoughts about why you want to be traditionally published for fiction vs. self-publishing 'A Year in Tokyo'. Self-publishing so popular at the moment and I'd love to hear your voice in that discussion ❤️

@Man-ej6uv Месяц назад

because self publishing is almost harder than tradpub. you have to do a lot of things on your own. and when you get tradpub, it forces you to improve, and you get to work with editors and agents and meet more writers. i'm not sure about her reasons but this is what i can think of.

@lewistony Год назад

Good lord, I've been visualizing her spilling the tea on that nice sofa for 10 minutes! 🤓

@celineoceane1539 Год назад

Oh wow, I’ve never been this early 😊 your vlogs are always so lovely to watch and it’s exactly what I need on this gloomy Sunday afternoon ☁️

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Thank you so much for being here 😊💛💛

@miriam8376 Год назад

Does anyone have suggestions for other writing/book channels with a tone as positive as Christy’s? She’s got such a gift for talking about writing without fixating on flaws or getting judgmental. I love that she says a book “isn’t for her” instead of saying it’s bad. I just want a warm space to hear nice things about good books without tearing anything down. Suggestions?

@abileamon6406 Год назад

I'm not sure if she's exactly what you're looking for, but I think The Artisan Geek is fabulous so I highly recommend her channel. www.youtube.com/@TheArtisanGeek

@agentnaget Год назад

Im not sure if this is 100% what you are looking for either but i really enjoy Oliviareadsalatte. Her reading vlogs are super cosy, ‘slice of life’ style and she recently stopped giving books star ratings. She lets you know if she didn’t enjoy a book but always shares her thoughts on the type of reader who might be the target audience.

@saram5659 Год назад

Yes! The Book Leo. Very cozy and fun and relaxed energy

@viktoriakiss4496 Год назад

Darling Desi 100%! She's just the coziest human being

@pernilla-goth Год назад

Definently Morgan Long! Not a writing channel but a book and creativity channel that is so wholesome and sweet!

@safamujeebrahman3019 Год назад

I am really looking forward to reading project tea cup, if it doesn't get published I am sure many of us will be heart broken as well, fingers crossed, let's all hope for the best. ❤❤❤

@seriouslywhatever1031 Год назад

I love your honesty during your Q&A. Hope the project is going well!

@dipity98 Год назад

I'm getting traditionally published soon (albeit not fantasy, lit fic), and I would say don't worry about what people online say about 100,000 being the perfect word count and all these things people get very fanatical and weird about. There's no right length and no right plot, just good writing! I got told absolute min for getting picked up was 40k and mine barely scraped 30k and still got picked up. Good luck with the agent hunt!

@marcellarussell Год назад

Thanks for another fun writing vlog! They are always so lovely and motivating. I heard you say before that if one book didn't get published you would just go to the next and then the next and then the next. It has really stuck with me and inspires me because I feel the same way. I would love to get published as well, but either way I will keep on writing! :D

@kellimbt Год назад

There are never too many Teacup vlogs, Christie!

@Ignez777 Год назад

just wanna say I went right to spotify to find the artist you recommended and now I'm OBSESSED, THANK YOU!

@KarmaMuch Год назад

I'm in the process of writing my first novel at the moment. When you called yourself a magpie, I felt that so much. I couldn't piece a bunch of ideas together and one day walking home I had the right song and all of a sudden BOOM, it was there. Love the writing brain :)

@17caria Год назад

hope you feel all better! Looking forward to whatever video you have planned!

@StudioLindsay Год назад

I can definitely relate to either focusing for short bursts at a time or hyper-focusing for most of the day!

@aaliyahdailey31 11 месяцев назад

I’ve only started watching your videos a few months ago and I CANNOT WAIT to read Project Teacup

@GeorginaNZ011 Год назад

You uploading another vlog is my favourite thing in the world!

@prajaktag1145 Год назад

You are such a motivation for me! ❤

@watchmanonthewall77744 Год назад

i cannot develop character without other characters...its how they react to each other within the plot that reveals them more than how they just react to the plot themselves .

@TreasureBoxReviews Год назад

Really enjoy hearing a fellow writer's journey, it can be a lonely endeavor writing.

@MatildaTheBookDragon Год назад

I really look forward to read your book when it's published. I'm sure it will be published!❤❤

@AdrianasWonderland Год назад

i love your writing vlogs

@saram5659 Год назад

I have a theory that 90% of vlogging youtubers have adhd (like me😃). The way you describe hyperfocus and trouble focusing, and being highly creative and fast associating is very relatable. Love your videos!❤️

@camilaallende3999 Год назад

You answered my question 🥺😍 I hope one day I can read project tea cup❤

@eolhc13 Год назад

Oh man, I'm completely obsessed with Sleep Token. The Summoning is killer, so excited for the new album - hopefully it'll give you more writing inspo 😁

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

it is SUCH A GOOD SONG!!! And I can't wait for the album 😊

@BrittanyBWrites Год назад

Fingers crossed that you get project Tea Cup published :)

@circleofleaves2676 Год назад

I'm glad the sinus-monster waited until after your birthday to pay a visit. I love Orlando; I've read it a few times now. I'm currently reading The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding.

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

That is a very good point! I'm so happy it wasn't here for my birthday. Oh, I hope you enjoy Esther!! 💛💛

@jessicam.g.8529 Год назад

I recently discovered this channel, and I am in love with it and with you Christy. I am very interested in writing, though not on a professional level, but I do have my own creations/ideas Something I would find interesting, is a vlog of how you come to the ideas for your stories, shorts or large ones, how yodo u keep yourself motivated or what exercises you do to create characters or plots... I dont know if you have prompts or tips, I saw the video of journaling like VIRGINIA WOOLF and I saw that you started the figurative spin and the random word generator... I would love to know more about this, what do you do to create an idea or to evolve one when you get a writter block. PS: sorry for any gramatical mistakes, i am not an English native speaker.

@kearra.fortune Год назад

I may or may not have the same Sleep Token experience that you can, including the month long fixation and the influence on writing (the magpie analogy was very apt!) It's very fun hearing that someone else had gone through something so similar from across the globe

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Yaaaay snap hahaha Fingers crossed the album is as great as the singles were! 😊

@kearra.fortune Год назад

@@christy-anne-jones Please let it be so!! Can't wait for May~

@Rileyw239 Год назад

Love to see that my question made it in to the video! It did genuinely offer some great advice for me!

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Oh I'm glad!! Thank you so much for taking the time to ask it 💛

@Rileyw239 Год назад

Thank you for answering! Hope you are feeling better now!

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

@@Rileyw239 I am, thankfully! 💛💛

@Celine-zj5sv Год назад

I've also been addicted to Sleep Token lately and the Summoning describes my brain perfectly in terms of music genres passing through! lol

@watchmanonthewall77744 Год назад

Weekends are for yummy reading🥰

@wishingwellinkwell Год назад

With everything you said about your book that you’d spent eight years on (and this is coming from a stranger who spent 10 years on a book and always feels deeply resonant about the topic), you may want to read some of Samantha Shannon’s interviews. Before working on The Mime Order, she had a very arduous relationship with a book that she eventually had to abandon. In the throes of my book breakup, reading what she had to say was very cathartic.

@SuperBlondenerd Год назад

Love seeing your vlogs! Do you have lots of book ideas just sitting in your head, ready to go, or is it more like you were saying in the vlog, where you have bits and pieces of inspiration from variety of things?

@ritabush3324 Год назад

Would love the recipe for your soup. It looks so yummy.

@ReadingNymph Год назад

Your soup looked soo good 😮

@hollycarr8853 Год назад

oop I may have paused the video to check out the Summoning and yep that sounds like my new hyper-focus. Thanks!!

@Mooncrow23 Год назад

If you're interested in reading more manga, I highly recommend Yona of the Dawn! It's one of my favorites and I think the story/writing is amazing.

@trapsaltnburn Год назад

That veggie soup looked amazing! Recipe, pretty please? LOL

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

I chucked everything in a pot and eyeballed it! hahaha. But I suppose: 1. put 1 big onion and a big clove of garlic into a pot and then cook them in some butter until they're brown and transluscent. 2. Add 500g of frozen cauliflower, maybe 5 or 6 potatos, and two carrots, two cubes of stock dissolved in water, a bunch of pepper and italian seasoning, a cup and a bit of water, and then boil them all up until they're soft and, when they are, use an emulsion blender to mix. 3. add a dash of milk (I used almond) and then add more water/milk until it's the consistency you like. Vegetable soup is so, so easy. I pay very little attention, chuck everything together and then just wait until it boils and mash it up 😅😅 Hope that was helpful 💛

@circleofleaves2676 Год назад

@@christy-anne-jones Same here. My vegie soup is 100% chucking and eyeballing. It's always tasty. Can't go wrong.

@cdwritervlogs Год назад

@@circleofleaves2676 Yes. Chuckball soup is my favorite too

@rohit_id Год назад

Haven't watched the video yet, but wanted to say that the thumbnail was very good and like this one

@ChadveeA Год назад

Can't wait to read your book! Will it be a standalone or part of a series? PS: I value character building most too!

@ellenmariedrummondscurtis Год назад

I have the same birthday as Neil Gaiman. He's wonderful. 🌟

@monikaorlow6517 Год назад

😍😍😍

@jnada101 Год назад

Where are your pants from? The checked ones? I love them xx

@chlnmich 10 месяцев назад

❤

@lindseyberrum 4 месяца назад

"Whatever you do in LOVE, it will turn out well." - Sandra Cisneros

@Frostbite7402 Год назад

what cite or program are you using to write all of your work on? it seems so concise and you can integrate how many chapters you want early

@teenaprajapati7678 Год назад

Lots of love from india❤

@_laurenolo_ Год назад

Kind of unrelated to the bulk of the video, but I was just wondering if Tyler has any plans to release dev blogs/vlogs or if there's a mode of following updates for his game? It sounds really interesting and I'd love to keep an eye on it!

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Aw thank you so much for being interested! He's currently considering it but hasn't made any dev vlogs yet 😊 I'll be sure to share the steam page at least when it's up. Take care 💛💛😊

@clarejean3309 Год назад

question:how many pages do you put in a chapter, whenever it's in project teacup or in three years in Tokyo? great vlog, another one to add for my writing playlist to listen to as I write. By the way, in my book, Fallen, my main character is a strong female. I've just started chapter 11 and I have 31583 word count and 74 pages.

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

For project teacup, it's normally about 2500 words per chapter! I don't use pages as a metric generally (because fonts, font sizes, margin sizes, etc. make it too inconsistent to be useful), however, I would guess that's about 10ish? A Year in Tokyo didn't really have chapters and it was half visual / half written, so I couldn't even tell you how many words per page hahaha 😅 Good for you for getting to chapter 11!! Best of luck with your writing 💛

@clarejean3309 Год назад

@@christy-anne-jones thanks for the help! and thank you!

@haondokuproductions2452 Год назад

What is your take on Alan Moore?

@MojiiOkay Год назад

When it comes to The Summoning, Christy and I, we are the same.

@floffycow2649 Год назад

when do you estimate Project Teacup will release?

@shanshangalan8074 Год назад

Are you going to do camp NaNoWiro in April

@pollyjeanz Год назад

💗💗💗💗💖💖💖💖💖💖💗💗💗💗

@ooh29 Год назад

Christy, what are you doing?! You always make me smile when I see your face on the cover. Such a sweet person😊😄 Christy Anne Jones

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Thank you so much 😊💛💛

@traceythibault4946 11 месяцев назад

Do you have a favorite notebook and pen you use to write and I love your videos it helps me I learned to write from videos like this 📓🖋🩵🩷❤️💜💖💗💓💞 I want to say thank you 🩷🩵 I usually start writing in the morning and by 2:00 Am I am done writing and I am ready for bed 😴 🛏

@goddessqueen7730 9 месяцев назад

That sounds interesting. I love farming games I hope he has it a available for switch. I also have some gaming ideas I wish I could get developed. But how far are into your book .

@mayahooper599 Год назад

Is there any advice you would give to your sixteen year old self? About publishing a novel, or writing in general? I am currently at that stage in my life, writing my first book, and I really want to be published one day but I never really considered the possiblility that my story might never be published like what happend wiht your first novel.

@hannascrivs5379 Год назад

if project teacup didn't get traditionally published, would you consider self-publishing it? love the video!!

@MohammedFarhaan-ev3vx Год назад

💖🌹💖👍🏻

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

😊💛

@Allie_Dragon_Writer Год назад

I made my characters years in advanced so writing isn't that hard it just the bits in between the big parts I find hard

@mehchocolate1257 Год назад

What is the best publishing company to work with anyway

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Whichever one wants to publish my book 😅😅

@mehchocolate1257 Год назад

@@christy-anne-jones but what if you get a really shitty publisher that doesn't work out

@GoldenThreads1 Год назад

Hello, I'd like to ask what your option is on writing a story that is at the same time released to an audience chapter(s) at a time. Would you ever try this method? It's true that it wouldn't allow for such storywide revisions and redrafts. Although it is still a method appreciated by some audiences is it not? Curious to hear anyones thoughts...

@christy-anne-jones Год назад

Charles Dickens did that originally! I suppose it depends on what you want. I don't think you could sell it to a publisher if you'd already made the content widely available. And I think you would have a harder time making money from it. But if you had a platform and just wanted to put things out and share them, why not?

@GoldenThreads1 Год назад

@@christy-anne-jones I am not actually a writer first and foremost, I work in another artistic field but feel writting a story could add a lot to my proposal. My rational behind the segmented release method would be that I could continually market the same story over a very long period of time along with my other work as it comes out. Even at releasing chapter 20 you could be referring people back to any of the previous chapters as well... If there's a pay wall in front of all of it, then maybe there'd be revenue in that after all. Plus I'm notorious for unfinished projects... the whole story at once would be far too dangerous. If it did even get done it'd be at the expense of my regular work so... That isn't realistic for me. I did want to take the time to see what you'd say though. Thank you in that.

@heartmommyinpa Год назад

You would love my book… most of my characters are strong females

@jellyshelly Год назад

I don’t know if anyone is still watching this three weeks later but I’m looking to make writer friends to discuss manuscripts with! I’ve been writing on my own for years but I’m currently living abroad and it’s the first I’ve moved away from home. Things are quiet and I spend most of my time speaking another language, so I’m just really missing that one-on-one connection. I’m trying to dedicate my free time to finish drafting my novel, and would love to find someone to chat with. If you’re interested please leave me a reply!

@cotapanda5 9 месяцев назад

Hey Christy, about your concentration problem. Have you ever consider you having ADHD? It's a common thing for ADHDers to have this non focus time and then hyperfocus. Creativity is also in "package". Not that I'm an expert, but I'm just interested in this topic.

@reychawl Год назад

Random thought: idk if you've ever read or watched the anime My Love Story, but you remind me of Rinko Yamato ♥️✨️ Anyway I like your videos a lot! Thank you for sharing your content ♡ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ"