 Hello, my name's Jackie, welcome back to my channel, and in today's video I'm going to be doing the author tube newbie tag. So if you're new to author tube, this is a video where other people who are new to author tube answer the same 13 questions so you can get a bit of background on who they are and what they do, and whether you want to watch their videos. So I've taken these questions from iRataly and I'll include a link to the questions in the description below. The first one is, how did you find out about author tube? So I have been interested in watching writing channels for a couple of years now, but I only came across author tube a couple of months ago when the YouTube algorithm recommended one of Kate Kavanaugh's videos. I think it was her, I tried writing like Stephen King for a day video, and then I was hooked. And what I really liked about it is, although there are a lot of writing advice videos on YouTube, what I liked about author tube was it was so much more about the process and just seeing people write and seeing people try things and see what worked and what didn't. And when I attempted to do Camp Nanarimo earlier this year and when I was starting to get into writing fiction again after over 10 years, I found it really motivating to see these videos and thought it would be fun to do something similar. Question two is, which genres do you prefer to write in? So this is still to be determined because I have just gotten back into writing fiction, but fantasy is my first love, definitely YA fantasy. In the future I might also branch into some more urban contemporary or romance, but we'll see how I go. Once you're preferred writing tense, point of view and story category. So my preferred tense is past tense, point of view is close third person, and writing category is YA. Are you a plotter, pancer or planster? This is another one where I'm still figuring it out. If you've been watching my prectober videos you'll know that I've been attempting to plot out my ideas for Nanarimo using three different plotting methods. So they are take your pants off, save the cat and story engineering. Having attempted to do this and realizing how much I get stuck, I think I started to think that maybe I am a pancer after all, which is really annoying because I wanted to be a plotter and I see the value in being a plotter. However I think this is a discussion for another video. What is your dream publishing house slash literary agent? So because I'm still in the early stages of writing, I'm not submitting or anything yet, I haven't done a lot of research. However off the top of my head I think working with Holly Root who is V.E. Schwab's literary agent would be amazing. I have listened to some podcast interviews with Susie Townsend who works at New Leaf Literary and she sounds like she'd be amazing to work with too. There's a company called Cake Literary which is not really a literary agency. They're called book packages and they create book ideas and then they look for writers to produce those ideas and then they go off and sell the books. And I think having that type of process would be so much fun and as far as publishing houses go, the go-to one for fantasy is tour so of course tour is the one on the list at the moment. But for the moment I'm just focusing on getting some drafts out and learning how to write and maybe in a year's time that's when I'll be looking at submissions. Which author tube videos can we expect from this channel? I'm not a hundred percent sure yet. I do really like watching writing process videos and behind the scenes type writing videos so writing vlogs and so on. So I think you can expect that for starters so I've already been showing my process as I attempt to plot using different methods. In Anarayma I'd like to do weekly vlogs showing the writing process and how I go. I can't see myself doing writing advice anytime in the near future simply because I have no idea what I'm doing and I do not think I'm qualified to be giving anyone advice yet. When did you start writing? I actually don't know. I know that when I was in school from a very early age I had teachers commenting on my writing like from I know as young as like seven maybe. I don't remember what the first story I wrote was though. I know that I always used to write a lot outside of school though like I was writing a lot outside of the actual assignments that I got from my teachers. So there was one where my best friend and I were going to do like a never-ending story where I'd write one chapter and then send it back to her and she'd write another chapter which fizzled out after like three chapters but I remember when my great-grandmother had Christmas and Easter I would hide under this table that was in like sort of a there was like a corner in her entrance that was sort of a storage area so there was this table and a whole lot of things under it that had just been put there until there was a proper place for them and we would crawl under there and I would tell them stories so it started pretty young but I don't know what the first story was and I have just realized that I combined questions eight and nine there so eight was when did you start writing and nine was what was the first story you ever wrote so I'm going to consider both of those answered. Ten, which authors have inspired your writing the most? What is becoming a recurring theme for this video is that I am just getting started in writing and that means that I'm still finding my voice and my approach so it's not clear if I'm being particularly influenced by any one author. Having said that when I was writing back in high school I remember that my voice would change dramatically depending on who I was reading at the time so when I was 14-15 I was reading a lot of Terry Goodkind and his sort of Truth series and the fiction I was writing at that time sounded a lot like that whereas after that I went into Christopher Stasheff's Warlock books and as soon as I started reading those my writing style completely changed so I'm curious to see whether just being a little bit older now and having done more writing since then and by more writing I mean nonfiction but it's still writing if I have a clearer voice and I'm able to stick to that or whether if I do go into a reading spiral with one particular author if that is going to show up in the writing so I'll let you know. Do you schedule writing sessions or do you do it whenever you find the time? So at the moment I started writing again at the beginning of July for Camp Nanarimo and for July, August and September I was working on one project and for October I've been planning for Nanarimo so over that time it was really just when I found the time. I imagine when I start Nanarimo though because there is the word count goal of 50,000 words in 30 days I am going to have to commit to a schedule because if you miss a day or you miss two days or god forbid you miss three the number of daily words you have to hit is going to go up for the rest of the month and I can imagine that once you miss a few days that can make it feel insurmountable especially if like me you're doing it on the side of a full-time job. Do you write on a computer typewriter by hand or use a mix? I really like writing by hand for string of consciousness type work so planning brainstorming and so on. When it comes to actually writing scenes I prefer to do those by computer just because I do type faster than I write. However if I have an idea and I'm out and about I will use whatever I have on me so when I was doing Camp Nanarimo for instance I did have a couple of days where I was just typing notes on my phone to get a scene out. And when you write in general I generally write at home so this is my apartment right now. However if I'm not at home like if I'm traveling I'll just write wherever I am. And what are you looking forward to the most now that you're a part of AuthorTube? For me I'm looking forward to a couple of things. One is getting to know the community a bit better. For me writing has always been a really solitary thing so being able to connect with other writers and support each other through the process and bounce ideas off each other I think is going to be really fun. The other thing I'm looking forward to is having this extra creative commitment because what I've noticed already in October is that knowing that I need to do a video about plotting using Save the Cat means I actually plot using Save the Cat so it's a nice accountability tool as well. So those are my 13 AuthorTube newbie questions. In the comments below if you are also an AuthorTuber I'd love it if you left a link to your own channel because I'd love to check it out and connect with more AuthorTubers and if you're not an AuthorTuber let me know if you have any other questions that haven't been answered and I will answer them below. Until next time, bye.