016 - Quotidian Writer | The Art of Storytelling, Viral Videos, and Inconsistency

Diane Callahan runs the YouTube channel Quotidian Writer. She’s a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She’s also the managing editor at Story Garden Publishing.
The Quotidian Writer YouTube channel is dedicated to helping writers tell better stories and inspiring them to keep writing. Some of her most popular videos include:
• How to Show, Not Tell
• How to Motivate Yourself to Write Everyday
• All About Writing in the Third Person
• 10 Common New Writer Mistakes
As of this recording, Quotidian Writer has 143k subscribers.
Diane and I cover: showing vs telling in a story, Diane's literary career, how Diane's channel became successful without her posting consistently, the downside of getting millions of views on your videos, how a single joke Diane made has led to thousands of unwanted YouTube comments, her process for creating her videos, the value of going back and redoing your titles, thumbnails, and even videos, what it was like when she got 100k subscribers, and much more.
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Here are Diane's links...
YouTube—https://www.youtube.com/@QuotidianWriter
website—https://www.quotidianwriter.com/
Instagram—https://www.instagram.com/quotidianwriter/
Twitter—https://twitter.com/QuotidianWriter
Medium—https://quotidianwriter.medium.com/
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Get in touch with me!
YouTube—https://www.youtube.com/@youtubersguide
blog—https://dills.blog/
Instagram—https://www.instagram.com/dillanroytaylor/