I tried Charles Dickens's writing routine 🖊️☕☁️

Welcome to another writing routine! In this one, we're trying out the routine of Charles Dickens. This is the oldest writing routine I have done so far on my channel and it features a lot of walking (which, of course, I really enjoyed). I hope you like the video 💛

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[lailadobb]

As someone who has always wanted to read Dickens despite my initial doubts and limitations, I just got 'Bleak House' for my birthday this month and I am loving it so far!! You can definitely feel Dickens' life throughout his works.

[elizabethargyll]

Gosh, I currently live in a house where he wrote A Christmas Carol. He used to stay here with two other famous authors.

[donna]

Harry Lloyd who played Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones is a direct descendant of Charles Dickens. He did an excellent narration of Great Expectations which you can get on Audible.

[mollycampbell]

1. Your glasses are really neat! 2. I had to laugh when you started talking about your keyboard sound because I had JUST thought to myself, "Wow, that is a really thocky keyboard!" LoL I, too, have gone down the keyboard mod rabbit hole. You really lucked out with that keyboard, it sounds great!

[ComedorDelrico]

Looking at the routines of famous writers, both historical and modern day, as well as the routines of not-so-famous authors I encounter online, I've noticed a couple things that crop up again and again.

1. Writing for 3-4 hour blocks, usually in the morning, followed by some activity that doesn't require a lot of mental focus. Often they'll come back and write more after a few hours break. No one writes for 8 hours straight!

2. Walks. So many writers go for walks! Some do it as a regular part of their routine. Others do it when they get stuck in their writing, struggling with a plot beat, or maybe just a problem paragraph or bit of dialogue. As their mind wanders and they "zone out" during their walk--blamo!--the solution comes to them. I think any kind of menial task that allows your mind to wander can be really helpful. Housework, for example. But walks provide the extra benefit of improving your mental and physical health. Sadly, walks don't get your floors clean. 😭😆

[Ignotus]

absolutely loved this christy! please never leave a video without your cooking or making tea, i really loves those parts of your videos!

[annieq]

A three hour walk sounds heavenly, especially when the weather's really nice ☺️

[lilrosetattoo]

His writing routine is close to mine. Two hour walk in the morning. Then breakfast and coffee. Then writing in two hour blocks.

[OlaGabie]

I can't believe! You're back. You make my morning Sunday better 🇧🇷

[thedanalcantara]

Honestly, three hours of walking would be such a dream

[gothandwhimsy]

We are just getting autumn weather in the UK and I'm so motivated to get back to having a morning walk. This summer has been harsh, and I found your channel while looking for vlogs to motivate my writing habit. Thanks for sharing ☺️

[eastcoast]

I love these routine videos, the context, and your approach to them 😊

[circleofleaves]

As a chronically ill disabled person myself, I probably would have felt like throwing my phone into an abyss if I had been listening to that podcast with their very black and white ignorant ableist views. Just wow. But that aside... lovely as always to see a video from you, Christy!

[antiperspirant]

These are my favourite videos!! Ahhh can't wait to watch

[JennyinGero]

Thanks for this Christy, you’re amazing the way you present and do these! Charles Dickens is one of my favourite authors alongside, CSLewis, Enid Blyton and May Gibbs! Fun Fact from reading a biographical book about him - Dickens was meticulous in his planning and spent time walking to work out his plot lines because he had monthly deadlines ie The Pickwick Papers were published monthly and so he did not have a lot of time to edit. His first drafts had to be well prepared, written and then published. His walks were work apparently! He also gained inspirations from the current life going on while out and observing. But apparently his walks were detrimental to his work.

I’d love it if you could do the writing routine of a popular contemporary Australian Author like Richard Flanagan, Tim Winton or Liane Moriarty!

[AbiofPellinor]

It was so interesting to see an older writing routine in the modern day!

[MojiiOkay]

They really were just out there strollin' in the 1800's.

[Indhel]

As someone with a similar writing style to yours (often starting over several times and struggling at the beginning) this feels validating. In that I may actually be a writer, which sounds silly but... I worry about if this thing I love is something I'm wasting my time on. And seeing that someone else who I see as succeeding in writing is doing a similar thing feels validating in my own pursuits.

Also, I have built my own keyboard and it is an addicting business. I love my keyboard... and want to build a new one so, stay out of that as long as you can XD

[Kevinpgomes]

I just love your videos, i'm also a writer here in brazil and its such a joy to watch and be inspired by you!

[empressfreya]

First of all, I hope that all of the stuff that is currently causing you stress is getting better soon. It sucks when everything seems to come down at once without any relief.
Second of all, in a weird way it's quite calming to know that you seem to have trouble with getting into Spiegeltent. I'm also in a bit of a middle project after finishing the one that I'm querying with (although I've decided to rewrite that again as well lol) and even though I'm heading towards the end, the first 80.000 words were like pulling teeth. I don't know if it means that the story has a bunch more layers that I'm going to discover when rereading it for draft 2, but it's exhausting. But at least I can say: Keep at it, you never know what the story turns into.