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VIDEO NOTES:
2:25 Hosting Giveaways, Author Marketing, and Becoming the (Unexpected) Author Services Entrepreneur
4:50 Starting “New Adult Noir(e)”: a Dark and Gritty SFF/H/R Book Blog & Author Services Station
7:38 MEGA CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY I’m Hosting, the “25 Days of Box Sets” Giveaway
12:00 How to Sign up to a Giveaway as a Reader OR as an Author
12:40 Benefits to Joining a New adult Noir(e) Giveaway as an Author
14:30 My Upcoming Romantic Suspense / Paranormal Romance / Erotica Pen Name!!
15:40 Developing a Large Readership
16:17 Worldbuilding & Research for My Novel Series
20:05 JOIN THE HOLLOW POINT BETA READER LAUNCH TEAM!
22:35 Update on SANDMAN Horror Film
23:58 Creative Uni & Creative Classes I’ve Taken in the Past Month
25:45 Running The Bohemian Badass & Our Upcoming Writing Courses
28:00 Getting Back into My “Hollywood Camera Work” courses & Learning the Craft of Filmmaking
28:52 The Importance of Consuming What You Want to Produce
29:31 Still Working on Rose n’ John Does + Loosey. Goosey (the first novels of the Hitmen of Happily Ever After)
30:41 Turning my “Creative Achievements” Vlog into a PODCAST! (called “The Epic Journey of a Black Female Sci-fi Writer”)
32:00 Sitting in Gratitude, Counting My Blessings, and Staying Flexible in All Areas of Life in order to Uplevel Your Prosperity
33:45 Reflections on the First Year of Grad School — MFA Program in Generative Dramaturgy
— Admitting Who I Am and Who I’m Becoming as a Grad Student
— Skills I’m Gaining by Being in Grad School
— How Grad School is Helping Me to Understand Where My Body of Work is Going (especially as a Filmmaker)
— My Deepening Love of Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Sci-fi
— My Love for Adaptation (Thanks to Grad School + Akira Kurosawa)
39:07 New Directions for YEAR 2 in Grad School! — MFA Program in Generative Dramaturgy
— Dramaturging a Gothic Horror Musical: The Addams Family Musical!
— Studying My Eighth Language, RUSSIAN! + The Importance of Languages in Life AND as a Sci-fi/Fantasy Author
— AMAZING Classes I’m Taking Next Semester: Film Editing, The Dramaturg & the Classic Play, Contemporary Trends in Dramaturgy (for film, game design, and immersive theatre), and Combat for the Stage!
— The Artist vs. the Scholar: The Scholar Lost, lol
45:00 Self-care, Health, and Wellness