What a typical day is like - Author Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
What a typical day is like for an author. I'll tell you what a lot of people think it is. You, uh, you wake up, you brainstorm, you write furiously at a typewriter, clickety-clacking on the keys, and usually in your pajamas while sipping coffee, tea, or some other hot beverage of some kind, and then you rake in giant paychecks. Or you live in a tiny hovel because you can't make any money. None of that is true or accurate besides possibly being in your pajamas, because I like to write in my pajamas and it's super fun. But, um, no, you have to wake up in the morning just like everybody else, you have to treat it like a nine-to-five job where you sit down, you're planning, you're outlining, hopefully you have a crew to talk over ideas with, you have to outline, you have to actually sit and write, set writing goals, mine's 2,000 words a day, and you have to hit those numbers. So that means sometimes there's late nights. Sometimes there's really late nights.
Video 2 Transcript
So if you want to be an author, you have got to first envision yourself as an author and take yourself very seriously saying, I'm going to write, this is my time to write and carve out every day, some time to write, or at least once a week, you're going to have to, you know, have everybody else in your life take you seriously too, where you separate yourself, you're able to lock the door and you're able to get to work and you use those couple of hours, whatever they are to just get it done. A typical day for a normal author is there, they work and then they come home and then they write. You want to make sure you have water with you. You want to make sure you have snacks because actually writing is really hard and takes a lot of brain power. And if you need a nap, take a nap, get back up and start writing some more. What I like to do is reread what I've written the night before, and then fix any little blips that I can, and then continue on writing. I don't spend a lot of time in editing, but I just reread to see where I'm at and then I go again.
Video 3 Transcript
Hi, my name is Heather B. Moore, and a typical day for my writing life is to get up early, get my exercise done, and to start writing pretty much before I do most other things. And this would include hitting my word count. And usually my word count goal is about 2,000 to maybe 3,000 words a day, and this is five days a week. And then after I hit my goal, then sometimes there's a lot of other things I deal with, like marketing, or maybe editing a previous project, or if I'm in production for something else, dealing with whatever has to be done there. And then sometimes I get back to writing and editing later in the day, but mostly if I hit my word count goal, then as far as the writing part, that part is done.
Video 4 Transcript
A typical day as a writer? I don't have such a thing. I genuinely, some days I write my behind off and I sit in my chair and I type and I type and I type and some days I don't ever get to it and that's not even vacation days, that's like just normal, the kids are running everywhere and I have to be here and there and mom and I don't get to any writing. I really admire those people who are able to be super steady and I have in the past been able to get up before everybody but now that my kids are in high school they get up at the crack of dawn and I'm not getting up before the crack of dawn if you know what I mean. So I just do it when I can do it. Thank goodness for laptops. Sometimes it's a library waiting for kids to get out of like dance class and sometimes it's sitting on the soccer field and you just make it work.
