How I Drank Tea and Became a Writer

I made tea with lemon. 

At first, I wanted to get away from my main work and just have a drink while watching a video. 

New videos from Kherson were visible in the subscriptions, but I typed in the search line “writing blog”. 

I open the first two videos and start watching.

The first is about a writer showing her typical day:

Day in the Life of a Writer: Finding time to Read and Write VLOG

A calm, quiet video story about the day of a person who has everything going well in life. 

She has her own house and she can not go to work. 

Therefore, every morning she is able to devote her life to household chores and writing without distractions and tension.

I will not say that I am delighted with this vlog, but it did not evoke negative emotions. 

Two hours a day is still, in my opinion, not enough for a writer. More precisely, very little!

But she got a like and a subscription from me, even though she hasn’t been filming her life lately.

The second video talked about how to start your blog.

I heard things that I didn’t even know about when I started creating my site. He tells about what I already have and I do exactly that:

1. I write about what interests me, not about what might interest others; 
2. I describe my process (although at the moment it is not so visible); above all, it concerns my writing journey; 
3. I don’t doubt it, I just do it, little by little, every day I write something, think about it, plan it, decide it.

Maybe this video isn’t really for me (because I don’t have doubts, hesitations, problems with development, writing, etc.), but I’m still inspired by it, because I understand that I’m moving the optimal path. 

I am following the path that others have followed and succeeded.

Later, through the link in the description under this video, I ended up on a site that offered free lessons on any topic. Here I select the writing section and get a whole bunch of different video lessons.

2746 Results for Writing

You can only imagine what a lot of information, 2746 Results for the filter “Writing” on this site. 

Such discoveries happen to me all the time, just now I decided to tell about it. 

Why?

Because my desire to talk about my journey as a writer has now found an additional incentive to pay more attention to it.

Yes, I work on the blog 6-8 hours a day. I write and translate a lot (two language versions of the site are being prepared at the same time, because I write in Ukrainian, and then translate it into English), but now the main focus is on the war. I want to reveal a lot of topics, so I don’t have enough energy for frank writing enthusiasm.

I would say it differently: I am currently practicing my writing skills as a blogger. During this period, I am not writing fiction, I am more involved in documentaries and journalism.

What has changed now?

First, I want to allocate some time to study theory, because I know practically nothing about writing, literary genres, and so on.

Secondly, I still want to write something besides articles. And there should be time for that too.

It’s not difficult at all and I know I can handle it.

Time will always be found when you have desire, purpose and intention

Since November 1, I have been writing at least one post on this site every day. 

Starting from November 13, I will devote at least 1 hour to studying literature or writing an artistic text. There is a suspicion that I will write less than watch online lessons, but now it is not so important. Any information will be useful to me.

Thirdly, I want to know more about the site I came across. Because I was pleasantly surprised by how many materials are freely available. Can I really just choose what I want and just watch, learn, for free?

I will write about my further research later, not here, and it will be a kind of review, a review of a specific Internet resource that has interested me so far, and what will happen next – read on my blog later.

An investment in yourself

Returning to learning, acquiring new information, correcting old knowledge, structuring it, the site with video lessons makes it possible for only US$24.00 billed annually. This is a small price for such a convenient and powerful  knowledge source. But not for me now. Although I am willing to pay for a quality product, these are very difficult times and every penny counts now.

Every investment pays off sooner or later. 

Not every one of them is noticeable at first glance, not every one of them will be comprehensible at all. For example, physical activity, cultural education, reading does not bring benefits immediately, but later, when the muscles recover, when the brain decomposes new facts, stories, when the new information becomes next to the existing one and they will hold each other’s hands and smile sincerely.

I am never ashamed to invest in myself, so I very willingly accept everything new. 

I enjoy life, I allow something outstanding and worthy to become part of my world. 

I move, communicate and do not even think about how much it will affect me and when these efforts will bear fruit.

Each new day is a past investment

If they are not investment today, then in the future we should not expect significant progress either.

That’s why I just do my thing.

I do what I like and I am good at.

I invest in myself, but I don’t really care what it will look like in the end. I am sure that I will be satisfied with any result.

Maybe because I never regret anything?

How I became a writer

I talk about that in a separate article in more detail. And today, I still admit that the headline was an exaggeration and does not correspond to reality as much as possible.

I drank tea with lemon and after watching these two videos I felt like a real writer for the first time, that is, it happened for the first time since July 21, 2021, when I decided for myself that I am a writer.

That is, I did not mislead anyone because of this title, I became a writer even more than before. I feel myself more consciously as a person who creates by writing. I like this state so I will continue.

Write.

But not here anymore.

Good luck