hey guys so sorry about no video last week but I have a good reason and I'm
about to tell you what it is so things have just been really crazy
lately and that is because this week is my final week of my day job which means
that next week I start going full time with all authorly and writerly things which that means for this channel that there are
going to be more videos more videos more frequently more lives and more collabs I
have a bunch coming up really soon one with Mari Suggs I write early Mandi Lynn
RJudyWrites from Instagram we're gonna talk about critique partners so
stay tuned for that and I'm also working on a few course ideas that I have and if
you guys want to see any specific kind of courses on anything I've touched on
so far or anything you have questions on please let me know below because I want
to create things that are going to help you guys so much in addition to that
obviously I'm still working on my book I was trying to make it to Pitch Wars this
year which I'm not but I made so much progress I have 32,000 words in the book
so yay so yeah there's a lot going on and again if you want to stay in the
know and be the first to know about everything that I'm putting out and
doing you can now join my newsletter which I'll link below but this week I
just really needed to keep it simple and light and so we are doing the
author trivia tag which I have been tagged by author Maverick Moses who is pretty cool
he's got a really interesting concept for his book so I'm linking him below so
you can check him out thanks maverick but yeah we just have to share ten
random facts about ourselves and of course I'm like what the heck do I share
and so you wonderful people on Instagram helped me out and gave me some questions
and yeah so let's do this okay so question number one actually comes from
maverick Moses and he says when you were kid what did you want to be when you
grew up um I have been told that when I was younger I would tell my parents that
I wanted to be a singer a dancer a doctor and a frog yeah
I don't know where that came from maybe it came from Kermit the Frog
yeah that's what what I want to be and then as I got a bit older um I've sort
of talked about this a little bit before but I really fell in love not only with
storytelling but with telling story through music and so I wanted to be a
singer songwriter for a very long time I loved American Idol Kelly Clarkson when
she won American Idol I was just like oh my gosh that's what I want to do and I
meant to audition and I just never did but I did end up writing enough songs to
fill a whole album which I recorded in college and put on iTunes at that time
and so they're a little old but if you want to check them out I'll link that
below because that's just sort of fun and I'm excited that I got to do that
this second question comes from my good friend Rebecca case Samson and she asked
a question that sort of takes us in a similar vein but she says I want to know
about the extra channels you have and your singing voice so I do have two
other YouTube channels here on YouTube one of them is centered around my music
and I started it around high school I think and then did some stuff also in
college on there of like old covers and some originals and some collabs with
other people but then about a year ago I tried to transition it into like a more
music teaching channel where I did a few videos about how to learn how to play
guitar really fast like easily so that was fun for a little while but I
actually really enjoy teaching more one-on-one like in person so I
transitioned into a different channel which I'll tell you about in a second
but because she asked about my singing voice I figured that'd be sort of cool
to give you a little taste of my singing on here and hopefully you guys like it
and get a kick out of it
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I love you
say something I'm giving up on you so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed that and
again if you want to hear more my voice really from like over 10 years ago you
can check out my other channel but my second channel is called positively Brit
which I also started about a year ago and the premise was building a more
positive productive and purpose filled life and it was basically an
experimental channel where I just wanted to do all the things that I was
interested in and that included talking about minimalism and capsule wardrobes I
did some bullet journal videos and I also did a few meditation videos that
actually one of them is over like 300,000 views right now and that's just
really cool so those things are more less of what I'm doing I'm obviously
putting full force into this channel but Rebecca asked and so again if you guys
wanna check them out you can they're like our third question comes from the
writer Kimberly and she asks did you do any activities in high school sports
clubs etc um I am NOT very athletic my brothers got that skill and I did not
have two younger brothers if you're wondering I did play rec soccer like in
elementary school middle school but once high school hit it was like all choirs
and theater so that's a lot of what I was involved with at school and then I
was also really involved in my youth group and my church and so went to a lot
of retreats and did a lot of activities like that as well our fourth question is
from mandolin writes and you stinker yes what is your most embarrassing moment
and honestly I tried to avoid these which is possible but one sticks out in
my brain from elementary school so I was very embarrassed then it's sort of funny
now but we were at recess and my friends made me laugh so hard that I peed my
pants and they felt so bad they were so nice they came around me like a barrier
as we walked to the nurse's station and but the thing that made it even more sad
and embarrassing is that my crush who like never talked to me
chose that day to actually call out to me like he wanted to talk to me and we
were walking to the nurse's office hoping he couldn't tell that I'd be my
dad's and I was just like sorry gotta go bye
and for some reason that really sticks out in my brain so embarrassing moment
there you go question number five came from author charity Ryan and hers was a
sweet question it said are you thinking about adding kids into the mix in your
life and so if you didn't know I am married to my wonderful husband Ben and
we definitely want to have kids God willing at some point but we are just so
enjoying our time together and we really want to make the most of the time that
we have and build our marriage so that when we have kids we have a strong
connection and are unified in how we bring up our kids and we love taking
trips and stuff so we've been doing that and having so much fun and spend about
three and a half years and but we are thinking about kids and praying about it
and yeah so we'll see especially in this new season where I get to really work
from home we'll see what happens so I'll keep you updated and you guys this next
question reminded me that I did not have any kind of drink for little chats that
we have which made me sad because the next question comes from JC scrab
associazione Singh your name um but it's up on the screen and she asked what is
your all-time favorite writing drink coffee tea soda etc to be honest guys it
is water I need to stay hydrated and I often forget so I love having water with
me but I do sometimes do tea and spoiler I am not that much of a coffee drinker
um I don't really like it which makes me really sad because there's so many cute
like coffee mugs and so yeah sometimes I just put water in them cuz they're so
darn cute number seven is sort of a combo between a question from Morgan
Jean Ellis who asks what's your favorite milkshake and author Natasha Mickey who
asked what weird snack combination do you enjoy and so milkshake wise I
definitely go cookies and cream and combination of a weird snack combo thing
I don't know sometimes I have like cucumbers and hummus but then I also do
cheese like not on top but just like in the same
like snackage time um I don't know if that's weird but that's the only thing
you could pick up what kind of weird snags do you guys like I mean am I am I
missing something that's just like weird but we're like really yummy please tell
me in the comments for questioning I did get a writing question and this is a
combo between questions from book BRD who asked when did you decide to start
writing and rudi smiles who asked how long have you been writing well I've
been a writer of stories in some form ever since I can remember um but like I
said before it started off more with songs and I have this it's actually on
film this moment where I'm a toddler and my moms like videotaping me and she's
talking to me and we're singing different things and then I tell her
that I wrote a song which I was like always saying like I write a song and so
I started singing this really morbid song that was about like someone in a
car crash and you can hear on the recording that I'm just singing and she
died and she died just like watching this as an adult being like what is
going on so yeah so I got really creative as as a little one and that
came through and all kinds of writing if you want to know a little bit more about
how I actually started writing fiction I definitely share that a lot already in
some of my other tags which I'll link down below and in the cards but yeah
writing has always been a part of my life in some way alright number nine is
going to be like a lightning round where I just answer really quick some of these
shorter questions so here we go Danielle asks what ethnicity are you and
I am Italian and French Canadian Marlowe York asks what's your favourite
mythological creature and why I am gonna state the obvious and just say fairies
my book right now is about fairies and I think my love for them started when I
got really into Peter Pan and hook and just the lore that sort of came from the
Peter Pan book so yeah so I'm gonna go with fairies author M Elizabeth asks
what's your favorite Disney character girl this is like trying to pick your
favorite book or your favorite movie and it's just impossible but if I have to
narrow it down to maybe just like Disney Princesses I'll have to say
probably Ariel or Belle okay I pick - sorry and the final question was asked
by my friend Michael who asked a very meaningful question so we're gonna end
it on a little bit more of a serious note but he says what was the darkest
point in your life and I think this is meaningful to for writers because we can
draw from these kind of experiences to bring more depth to our writing and the
messages we're trying to say but the darkest part was probably in college I
was engaged to somebody that I was dating for a very long time and thought
my life was going in a particular direction and sort of got the rug pulled
out from under me and that's what I ended and I was a mess for a really long
time but through that I really felt like I got to solidify who I really am I felt
like God really helped me through that process and showed me that my identity
doesn't rest in anybody or anything or any position that I hold but it only
rests in in who I am and who I am in God and so that was a super transformational
time in my life from total low point darkness and not knowing what's going on
to figuring out more of who I am and what I meant to do so thanks for asking
Michael we'll just end it with that okay guys well those are my ten facts I hoped
you enjoyed learning a little bit more about me and now I'm going to tag some
of you to do this tag I am going to tag hopeful happenings Hannah vangor comes
and Peggy Spencer and you can find their channels below so I'm tagging those
wonderful people wonderful author tubers and obviously I am tagging any of you
that would like to do this as well please let me know if you do it I would
love to watch it and I'm excited to see you guys in the comments and see you
very much more very much more very much more we're gonna go with it very much
more in the coming weeks as I go full time with author things and writing
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