 Good morning! It is Monday, November 1st, which means it is the start of Nanorano, and unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be doing any writing today. Now that is not the end of the world because I originally had planned it this way. So the way my schedule is set up at the moment is I work full-time, I work from home on Mondays and Thursdays and go into the office the other days, and that means Mondays and Thursdays are also my gym days, so I go to the gym before work. So the plan was do my writing before work but do it on my non-gym days, so Tuesday and Wednesday, Friday, and then of course I've got the weekend to catch up on words, which I think is reasonable because when you work a full-time job you work five days a week, so why not write five days a week? The problem is if you saw my last video you know I was in Nice with Nicole Wilber, and I didn't end up getting home until like 11pm just because of the timing of the trains and the planes, and I'm usually in bed at 9.30, like I'm a toddler, so I got home around 11 and then of course my husband hadn't seen me for a few days so he wanted to hang out and chat so I probably wasn't in bed until midnight, so this morning when I woke up at six I was like oh should I go to the gym or maybe I should just rest a bit because you know last night was a late night and today's going to be a big day catching up on everything at work, so I did that forgetting that it was nanorhymo and this means now I've got to go to the gym tomorrow, so I might not be able to write tomorrow either, so um week one has gotten off to a great start. Good morning and happy Tuesday. It is a bit after 5am because I woke up at five, looked at my clock, considered going back to sleep and then said no if I get up now I'll have time to both go to the gym and do some writing before work, so at the moment I feel like I deserve a medal. It is now quarter past seven I'm back from the gym I've decided to hop back into bed and do my writing for the day because I deserve it so I've got about an hour before I need to like do something about this and head to work so hopefully there's probably not enough time to get my 1667 words done but it's time to do something. Approximately 10 hours later. So I'm home from work and I'm not sure how well you can see it on the camera but I have like zombie demon eyes at the moment. I don't know if it's something in the air in Lausanne but my eyes are a lot redder here and the fact that like I get quite tired at work doesn't help so I get home and I look like a zombie. Great for YouTubing. Anyway this morning I wrote for half an hour and did about 700 words so obviously not on the Nanorano target but I was just writing like a linking bit between the scene that I finished on Sunday and what I'd already written because I'd already written the scene where Chiara first sees her glass statue that sets everything in motion so I linked those two and then went through the original scene that I wrote already done just to polish a little bit and now I know what's happening next but I'm not sure how to write it because if it was like a movie it would be like a montage so I think I need to do a little bit of planning so tonight I actually was meant to go to like a CMO networking event and decided not to so I'll use that time for plotting instead. Good morning it is Wednesday and I woke at 4am today and I could have been good like I was yesterday and gone okay I'm up all uses time for writing but I was tired I'm like okay I'm gonna see if I can get back to sleep and that meant I spent three hours not sleeping so except when I gave up I got up and I did another half hour of writing 808 words so obviously about half what I should be doing for Nanorano but I figure anything is better than nothing. What I'm realizing though is that I actually don't know how I'm gonna write with this job because I just don't have the time for thinking during the week or not even time I don't like when people say they don't have the time or not so much I don't like when people say they don't have time but often when you're not getting stuff done it's treated as okay you don't have the time let's reorganize let's get you some more time and change your priority so you do have the time and my thing is I feel like I have time like I woke up at 4am today I could have had four hours before I started getting ready for work and similarly after work so last night I got home at 7 so that's like two to two and a half hours before I go to bed tonight I need to get home by 6.30 because I've got a French lesson but I'll be done with that by 7.30 so again I've got two hours but it's two hours when my brain feels like it has been rung out and I don't have the capacity to do anything so what that means is now I'm at the part of the book where like I know what's happening but very very broad strokes like I haven't outlined scenes and I feel like I it would be so much easier if I'd already had the scenes outlined because then like I would have done the thinking and it's just the writing part so for this week I think I'm just going to continue trying to do like half an hour to an hour of writing a day just because anything is better than nothing and then on the weekend what I'd like to do is start really outlining some scenes so that when I have my next four week of work it'll be easier to write but now it is time to go to work so I have another day in the office. I'm in my very fashionable blue light blocking glasses with a very red face and now I am facing the conundrum that all of the tutors face which is do I edit a video or do I write? I think I'm going to edit a video. Good morning it is the 4th of November and it's one of the other days I work from home so I went to the gym this morning and I didn't get up until 7 actually so it was quite late so now I'm home and I've got to jump on to work immediately so I don't know if I'll get any writing done after work just because I do need to go out and buy a couple of things because we're doing a video shoot tomorrow and I need a top to wear that's not green because that'll fade into the green screen so I've got to like head to Zara or H&M or something and get the top and maybe some more makeup because one of the things I noticed when we last did videos was like I put on the heaviest makeup that I had and it looked like I was wearing nothing as soon as I was under the lights so got to get some proper stage makeup but for now I need to get to work Good morning it is 5.30 on Friday and today we've got a day of filming some new videos from work so I don't actually need to be up this early we've got to be we've got to pick something up from the office at 9 and then at the studio at 9.30 but I woke up I knew I wasn't going to get up to sleep so I thought I'll get up and use some more time for my morning puffiness to fade before I'm on camera and some time to do some writing. Point in the book where like I have a list of things that can happen but other than images of every now and then I haven't really thought about how the scenes are structured and how to write them and some things are really hard to write like I want Chiara to have a day which is just breaking everything she tries to work on in the workshop and this is something that's very easy to see in my head visually but like I don't know actions sometimes hard to write because things sort of happen all at once but they can't happen all at once when you're writing them because you can only write and read one word at a time so there's this combination of like images of moments I have in my head and a list of scenes they can go into but I haven't really thought about where to start or finish these scenes so at first I was going to try doing some outlining and just wasn't getting anywhere so then I did a for the words endurance battle with a monster where you basically need to write continuously for 15 minutes so you don't die so that was good for getting like 550 words out but I don't love any of the words and so at this point I'm like okay I could either push through and keep writing babble that I'll probably have to cut or I can take a step back and try planning again so I think I'm going to try Susan Dennard's magical cookies exercise which I've done in the past which is a planning exercise but you start with why you love this scene or why you love this book and it's supposed to want to help with planning but also make sure all of the scenes are exciting and magical so I think that's the best starting point. Hello everyone it's Jackie here now I'm actually not scared George to do the Instagram takeover today so you know don't tell our social media managers but I wanted to jump on because we actually are working on a very special project. Bastion our chief growth officer and I are actually filming some videos to help explain CHSP yield to our community so I'm in the studio now which I mean it's a green screen there's not that much to see behind me but I'm in the studio we're getting set up and ready to film so I thought you could send all of your questions about CHSP yield 2.0 and once Bastion gets here we'll both answer them for you. The main difference between CHSP yield 1.0 and 2.0 is that we're implementing like a tier system so basically there are different rates for the number of CHSP you hold and the best thing about this is that for your first 2000 CHSP you're actually going to get the highest rate so it's like a bonus if you're a smaller investor. So today was not a long day in terms of hours like we were done by about 4.30 and then went to the office for a little bit but I feel so wiped out and maybe it's the week that I also think there's an element of when you're filming and supervising filming um like you're very on all the time so now it's like I have time to breathe though um I'm also feeling very sad that I didn't do filming when I was there because there was so much lighting so obviously the quality would be much better than this. Oh well so like I said I'm exhausted I'm going to have a shower and de-utify and um yeah then chill for the night and hopefully I can revive my start to NaNoWriMo on the weekend. So it is now day seven of NaNoWriMo and at this point or not at this point but by the end of today I should have 11,669 words if I'm on track to hit 50,000 at the end of November. Guess how many I have? Go on I'll give you a moment. 2,033 words. Now this might not be a surprise to you given the lack of writing that we've actually had in this vlog but um it is a bit worse than I was expecting to do especially considering that when I was in Nice last week like I did 5,000 words in three days and it wasn't difficult and part of me wonders like did I use up all of my steam before NaNo started? So there have been like a couple of factors here one is that I got back from Nice quite late so Monday was a bit of a wash. Tuesday and Wednesday were fine I didn't do the amount of writing that I needed to but I did something and I think just during the week with my job at my mental state like doing something is better than nothing and then um yeah I got to the end of the runway that I had and I'm now in this part of the book where it's like I need to get from she's seen this glass statue for the first time to she's got a clue to who built it and she's going to go on a quest to find it and I know that during this period I want her to visit the glass statue twice more because the rule of three so she visits three times and then she gets the clue is like a reward I want her to be getting more and more distracted and doing worse with her work and like her family noticing and I did have a list of scenes like maybe four or five scenes here for what could happen but none of them are really inspiring me so like I said on Friday I think I need to go and do the magical cookies exercise a bit just to remember why I love the idea of this story and figure out how to integrate some of the things that I love into this part that I'm struggling with the problem is I just haven't had the time to think because Friday was a long day and then yesterday you may have noticed I did not film day six so I don't know if you've heard of the term revenge scrolling it's the idea that you spend all day doing things for other people so work family and so on that you get to the end of the day and you haven't done anything for yourself and so what happens is before you go to bed you end up on your phone and you're scrolling through Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or whatever your poison is and it's then making it harder to sleep which means you're more tired the next day and so on and I felt a little bit like that yesterday where it's like I went to the gym and then got home around 11 30 or midday so had a full day ahead of me when I could have been writing and brainstorming and I just didn't want to I'm like I wanted to play Final Fantasy 8 so I played Final Fantasy 8 on PlayStation and there was this little voice in my head going is this like revenge scrolling behavior and I think it was just because like I feel like so much of my job is and it's like everyone's job I'm not saying that I'm special here but so much of my job is about everyone else and I think um anyone who's in a management is anyone who's in any job is doing stuff for other people but when you're in a management position like it's all about the other people and keeping your team happy and making sure lines of communication are open and solving problems and I feel like I don't even do my own work anymore it's ridiculous like I just coordinate everyone else so I get to the end of this week and it's like I need a day to just waste because I haven't had the time to waste all week so that's not great the one saving grace though is that Drew and I are going on holiday this week so today in about an hour we're actually heading to the airport to fly to Portugal and we've got a week off and I know you're like you were just in Nice weren't you but I'm I'm sorry in advance to everyone who's in the US who doesn't get much holiday leave but in Switzerland we get five weeks and we need to use it by the end of Q1 next year otherwise it disappears so this year before Nice I'd only taken one week so like I had Nice I've got this week now over Christmas I'm taking two weeks so it's um I'm like I've got to cram it into the end of the year so I am lucky enough to have another week off this week and I guess I can see if I fit in 23,000 words if anything I'm hoping it will be more like Nice in that because I have the time to relax like I want to write more and I have the capacity to write more I am a bit concerned about what will happen when I get back from Porto because let's say I do do 23,000 words and then on the 15th I'm back on track for the 50th given what the last week is like I don't actually know if I can keep up the writing when I get back so I've been thinking about like do I just not worry about it so we're not going to do 50,000 words and I'll just do what I can or maybe I should try cramming it all into the weekends so we'll see at this stage I'm just looking forward to this trip and getting some writing done and editing this video for you so I'm going to end this video here and I'll see you in the next one if you are doing NaNoWriMo please let me know in the comments below how you're doing and yeah one if you're ahead of schedule how you did it two if you're running behind do you have any plans or ideas on how to catch up because I need help like this is the I've only done NaNoWriMo once before but I think this is worse than the first year when I was running quite behind like I was you know 10,000 behind maybe in week two or three and now I'm basically 10,000 behind in week one this is not good anyway that's all from me for today so thank you for watching like subscribe comment hit the 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