I did it!!!! Thanks for cheering me on. I can't wait to start edits! In the comments, I'd love to know what you're currently working on and which stage in the process is your favorite??

@DeborahFont

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations!!!

@annelyle5474

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations! I know how good it feels to finish a novel after a long hiatus - same happened to me last summer, and I published the book in January 😀 My favourite stage is the second draft, when I take my messy first draft (I'm a discovery writer) and turn it into a coherent story that I can show to other people. By that point, everything is starting to click together and I find myself unable to stop writing - it's like a runner's high!

@elizabethlandis6050

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on your accomplishment! I'm still working on the rewrite of my first novel, which is the third draft of my novel. I have major changes to the plot in this draft and so far it is looking much better than drafts one and two. My favorite part of the process is the second or third draft where I figure out the plot. I like to zero draft, then plot, then write a first draft, then do developmental edits. Developmental edits can take a while, but the reward of seeing the story plot much more complete than in the earlier drafts is so satisfying.

@tonyaroche7733

Жыл бұрын

I started crying as soon as I saw your face when you got back in your car. ❤

@kimbare7434

Жыл бұрын

Woohoo!!!!!!

“Did you even finish a rough draft if you don’t cry in a Panera?” 😭 Congratulations Sarra!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Does anyone else like the video before watching it. I do because I know it will be a great one. No matter what topic. Congratulations with finishing your first book and ALL the other things you do. Such an inspiration. Sarra you rock!!! 🤗💝👏😘

@HeartBreathings

Жыл бұрын

You are so sweet thank you for brightening my day!

@marleynh7001

Жыл бұрын

@@HeartBreathings No no, Thank you!😂😘

@KimtheElder

Жыл бұрын

Always 😃👍

@SusanCartersBooks

Жыл бұрын

I click like at the end because it's my way of telling my future self that I've seen this video. There's never a question of whether I liked it or not LOL

@tammy2830

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Sarra’s one of my best friends I’ve never met. 🥰 I’m so happy for her and thankful she’s here for us.

So happy for you. I almost feel like I did it. Finishing the writing of a book is such an incredible feeling. It’s like finally giving birth. The baby you’ve been waiting for is finally in the world. I have a feeling you productivity is going to sky rocket now, especially after Evie starts school. Congratulations! Blessed Be

I’m drafting but also editing at the same time since I’m a pantser. When the words are flowing, I love this stage. When I realize I have to go back and change things, I hate this stage. I’ll be really happy when it’s finished and my draft will be very close to ready.

🎉🎉🎉HOT DAMN!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congrats Queen. So happy for you!!!

I plan on a grid - flash cards and in a folder… it helps solidify the story. I now have a few Happy Planners since discovering your channel! Congratulations on you massive milestone xS

YAAAAAY!!!! I'm so happy for you!!! I can't wait to someday read this new book! 🥰

Congratulations Sarra! I’m so glad the Writer Reset has been successful and what a great reminder for all of us that we need to be refilling the well and taking care of ourselves to fuel our creativity!

Terrific news! Congratulations! Thank you for sharing this exciting moment with us.

🎉🎉🎉weird analogy: a cake 🎂 bakes and bread 🍞 rises at different altitudes and amounts of moisture in the air. In other words, a story is done when it's done 💜✍️💜 You adjusted for your conditions, found your joy and YUM- the cake is iced!!!!! 🍰🍥😊

Congratulations! Huge win, for sure. Thank you for sharing your journey and letting us see you ❤

Congrats on finishing your book! 😊

Congratulations. You are amazing. Currently, I am working on my first book. I have loved writing since I was a child and earned a Bachelor's in English thinking that would move me forward. Life happened and I lost my confidence in writing. it's not your typical writer's block. I have been finding inspiration from your journey, Abbie and Kate Emmons motivational channels, and have goals in mind now to move forward. I learned the hard way that I have to plan. I have written full manuscripts but lost a majority of my writing when I left my old laptop behind in Virginia several years ago. Right now, I am going to work on outlining and not worry about time, whether or not I will publish, or anything that adds stress to the process. I did complete this novel during Nanowrimo two years ago, but it's not what I want it to be. I noticed that I did not add inner conflict for my protagonist and everything fell flat. I don't want to be anyone special, or prove myself through multiple successes. I just want to write. I don't know if that makes sense, but I want to return to that first love I had for writing and stop listening to the people who say I have nothing to offer. I realize that most people aren't really saying those things. It's inner dialogue that I need to stop telling myself. Thank you for being who you are and for all you do to encourage the writing community.

Congratulations! It's the best feeling in the world to finish a book.

YAAAS Sarra! Such an accomplishment! I am so looking forward to reading this. It feels like we've all gone on this journey with you and honestly, I couldn't be more proud of everything you've been doing to get back to your happy place in spite of all the stuff you've had go on over the last few years xx

So happy for you❤ love seeing the whole process to know I'm not the only one that knows a scene in the end but have no idea how I'll get there😅 big hugs!

Congratulation on completing your novel!🎊 I teared up too because I felt so happy for you! As a fellow writer, I know the feeling of elation of completing a whole book. It might look like nothing to some, but we writers know it's like feeling alive again.

I would be crying too. What an accomplishment! Congratulations 🎉💜

I honestly teared up alongside you watching this. The joy you’re reclaiming is SO visible in your videos recently. Congratulations!!! 🎉

@HeartBreathings

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Darrian!

Congratulations, I'm glad you've finished the draft! You are such a role model to many you don't even know it! So proud and I want to here you talk about this until the end of the year!

I have to write down my scenes multiple times too. Otherwise I will forget the flow of my story. Right now, I am waiting for my manuscript back from my editor!! She’ll have it back on Monday and fingers crossed my book will be published in June!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 ps: I love your makeup! The pink lipstick looks so good on you. 💕

Oh my goodness I was crying right along with you!! 💜💜💜 I'm so happy for you!! You are SUCH an inspiration to all of us!! Give George a hug from me too!! Congratulations!!💜 I'm still riding the struggle bus with plotting my first book (amateur sleuth/suspense) but I'm not giving up! 😘

@rrebecaa

Жыл бұрын

Glad to know I wasn't the only one crying with her hahaha it was just such a powerful moment for a Creative

OMG Sarra, I'm tearing up! I'm so so so proud of you! I've been on this writer's reset with you, and I understand the feeling of finally finishing it and accomplishing that. I'm so happy for you. Amazing, amazing, amazing!

Sarra, this is awesome!!! Congrats! Just a confirmation that the story comes when it's ready to be written. You're an amazing author. Patience is key! Champagne!!!! 🍾Thanks for being an inspiration to us all! Enjoy this amazing feeling. 🌹♥

Sarra I am so, so happy for you❣ It has been so inspiring to watch you keep moving forward, no matter what craziness got in your way and tried to derail you. 💖 This is so huge!!!! Amazing job and you deserve to enjoy this and celebrate this for the amazing moment it is!!!! Congratulations❣❣❣

Love, love, love your transparency and so happy to hear that you have completed your project.❤🎉. I love watching your progress 😊and learning how to create my own stories❤

Huge congratulations!

😍 That's amazing! Congratulations!!! ❤️❤️❤️

So Proud of You. Been following in the stream of your writing adventure. I ve seen your disappointments, stresses & doubts-but YOU DID IT! Can t tell you how much you encourage all of us who struggle to get the right words on the page. Been writing something off & on for 10 years-gone through many valleys of doubt & despair thinking I don t know what I m doing but you have helped me to dig the story out & try again. Your reset shows on your face & in your joyous spirit. Kudos to you!!!

Congratulations!!!!! I know that feeling of finishing a rough draft. You just want to dance in the streets! So proud of you for getting this far. You are such an inspiration!

Something I’ve come to know about you after watching your videos on repeat nearly every day, I can honestly say you’re a really great person. I hope you get everything you ever want.

@HeartBreathings

5 ай бұрын

This is so sweet thank you!

Congratulations Sarra!! I am so very happy for you. Not just that you finished, but that you are finding your joy in writing again. I finished the rough draft on my first ever fiction novel about a week and a half ago. I literally cried after I got it done. I know it’s a horrible mess and I’ve got some extensive edits and rewrites…but it is done. My journey with this novel has been up and down. I abandoned it for about three years, but in January I was determined to finish it and I did. You have been such an inspiration to me and the Heart Breathings community has played a huge role in keeping me going to the finish line. I’ve tucked it away for a bit to get some space before I start editing. I don’t know yet which part of the process I like best, but I’m determined to find out as I push forward and get this thing eventually published….with the help of Publish and Thrive 😊

It's not "just" a rough draft...It's a ROUGH FREAKIN' DRAFT!! Congrats Sarra, its been a struggle but you stuck with it. Give yourself way more credit. So proud of you! Thanks for the inspiration 🎊

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations, Sarra!!! So, so, so PROUD of you for pushing through and finishing your book! It has been such an inspiration in my own writing journey to see your highs and lows while you persevered and have now completed your newest draft, and words cannot express how thankful I am that you have let all of us continue to follow you on this journey. Much love to you and your family as you celebrate this WIN in your life! ❤

Excited to read it! Just further proof that life is about evolving, growing, changing and figuring out what works for you. That includes the writing process!

Congratulations Sarra! Finishing a first draft is so exciting! I can't wait until I get to the point that I finish mine. I am finally at the point where I'm ready to write again, ready to learn more about different aspects of novel-writing, and to say goodbye forever to this creative slump I've been in for the past fifteen months or so.

I'm such a mess as an empath watching the ending of you in the car. I am so so so freaking proud of you, Sarra! This is a HUGE WIN! Even with the naysayers and haters telling you to just sit down and write, never understood this is and was a process to get back to who you were as a writer and who you've become now as a writer. You inspire me so so much! I'm incredibly proud of you, and especially for you sticking it out through the process in which you knew would be the best approach for you to tackle this rough draft! I was a writer/book author in a past-life. And I do understand how much of an undertaking this process was. I'm so so proud of you! ❤❤❤❤

I'm usually quiet, but I've been watching your journey for a while now, and I'm so happy for you! Great job, Sarra! I started my own writer reset around the summer of last year, taking baby steps, finding my joy, everything you're doing. And it's so worth it. I was at a place where I felt like I hated writing, which bothered me because it had always brought me so much happiness. It took a lot of soul-searching and actually listening to myself, but I'm glad to say I've found that place of happiness again. I'm cheering for you!

Girl, no need to apologize for the tears of joy! You are successful!🎉🎉🎉

@HeartBreathings

10 ай бұрын

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Omg I'm gonna cry!! I.m so freaking excited to watch this!! ❤❤❤

🙌Congratulations!!! I'm not crying 😭(yes you finished a rough draft if you didn't cry at Panera). Thank you for sharing that moment with us! So happy for you! Looking forward to getting a copy of "The DVS". Wishing you a Happy Mother's Day!💜

Congratulations!! So Happy and proud of you and for you.

Congratulations, Sarra! About a year ago, I came to the same conclusion as you about my own writing: I need to get back to the joy of it in order to ever finish a draft again. Brute forcing, butt in chair, write even when you don't feel like it-style advice only served to further deepen my burnout and crush my creativity. But I haven't been sure how to get the joy back. Seeing your writer reset so far and witnessing how much joy can do for your writing has really inspired me to try and do the same. I want to get my joy back! So thank you so much for sharing this process with us, even when others can sometimes be judgmental about your methods. It's truly helping so much. Can't wait to see what's still ahead of you!

I'm soooo happy for you! Congratulations on finishing your rough draft. It means so much to me that you allow yourself to be vulnerable in these videos. Watching you go through your writer reset has encouraged me to do something similar with my own author journey. Thank you for that.

Congratulations, I know you are so excited. 🎉

George is the bestest. I adore him! And congratulations, Sarra, I am so happy with and for you!

I am so happy for you!! I am so glad the writer reset worked for you!! On to the next part of this journey!!

Yay! 🎉 I love that you recorded the message at the end. Congrats on your journey to here. I cried with you. :)

Congratulations!👏👏👏🎉 We will all be reading this novel after watching you go through the process! Can’t wait! Congrats on Bringing back the joy- inspirational!!!!!

Congrats! So happy for you!

Congrats! I'm so happy for you!

Congrats!!! I’m so happy for you!! 😃🙌🏻🎉

Yay! Congratulations!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations Sarra! Celebrate your a** off, you deserve it. 😅😊❤ I'm working on the second book in my series. I enjoy the brainstorming and coming up with clues. Also enjoy finding those funny scenes that make me laugh out loud. 😅

Congratulations! Hooray!

Beyond happy for you! 🎉🎊✨

Yay! congratulations!

YAY!!! ☺ Congrats Sarra!!!

So happy for you :) Great job Sarra! :)

I'm so excited for you!

I'm so excited for you! Congratulations!

Yay Sarra! Congratulations!

Congratulations! So proud of you!

Yay, Sarra! You did it!

I am soooo excited and happy for you!!!

So happy for you! You are always a great inspiration as I am revising my first very rough, rough draft

CELEBRATE!!!! Congratulations!

Congratulations! 🎉 So happy for you! Thank you for sharing your journey with us. ❤

What!!! That’s awesome, Sarra! ❤

🎊 🎉congratulations! You’re such an inspiration, Sarra!

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh so excited for you Sarra!!

Massive congratulations! Such a huge achievement and I'm so thrilled for you. Well done! I can't wait to read the book when it's published.

🥳 🎉 👏 Congratulations on finishing your draft!!! 👏 🎉 🥳

Congratulations! I'm happy yo hear you've finished your rough draft while also creating a better routine and environment for your creativity to thrive!

So happy for you! Keep going!You've got this! Can't wait to read this book! :) xx

I love it, congratulations Sarra! ❤ Thank you for sharing this

So glad for you, Sarra!

Congratulations!!! 🎉 Thank you for letting us be here for your journey. I’ve been struggling to not give up and this has given me renewed hope. Thank you for everything you do for the writing community 💖 I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart 🙏🏼💜

I am so happy for you Sarra!! Congratulations!! I look forward to reading your book!! Sending love and hugs!! ❤

Thanks, Sarra, this is inspiration GOLD! Congrats to you, looking forward to this read! Yay you!

Woo Hoo!!!! You Rock! You did it!!!! Congrats!

Congratulations, I'm so happy for you!!!

Ah, man, I know the feeling of "What if I don't have it anymore?" But you do! Congrats on finishing your rough draft!

I'm so excited for you! What an achievement!

Whoo hoo! Can’t wait to dig into this!

Congratulations, Sarra!!! I knew you could do it. I'm trying to do a reset right now too and it seems to be working. I'm working on the rough draft of Book 1 in my new series. I was thinking over the last couple of years that maybe all the stress of moving around has been stopping your creativity from flowing. It happens to me. When there's stuff like that happening in my life, I can't write. Now that you have your forever home, the books will come flowing out of you like a river. All the best to you and your family!

@HeartBreathings

Жыл бұрын

I think you are totally right.

Congratulations! I wish you the best! I will be looking forward to this book to read! ❤

Congratulations!!! I can’t wait to read it.

I am ecstatic for you! Congratulations, Sarra!

Seeing the video gave me goosebumps! I'm so happy for you!!!

Woo hoo!!! Congrats. Bubbly celebration in order.

Very inspiring at the end! Tears of joy. ❤

🩵 Yay! Congratulations! I'm SO happy for your accomplishment and your awesome writer reset! You did it!

Woo hoo! Congratulations. I was crying happy tears with you. So happy for you 💜

Congratulations! I have been watching you through your struggles to complete this story and they mirror my own. I am so happy for you and that you have found your joy again.

I'm so happy for you Sarra! I can't wait to keep watching how you edit the book and publish it!! ♥♥♥♥

So happy for you!!!

Yay!!! Congrats!