An Insight I didn't expect

Cause honestly, I do not feel good. I've been up since six am, on my day off, just feeling miserable. Miserable.

Which is why, this post is so late and I have nothing of writerly merit to tell you.

But I realized something, when people are feeling miserable, they want something to make them feel better. Today I worked on my novel the majority of the day (in between trying and failing to nap) and I watched a lot of Olan Rogers videos.

Olan is a youtuber; his job is making YouTube videos. He's a storyteller. Most of his stuff, is him retelling things that have happened to him in his life. Whether it was last week's prank or a childhood memory, he retells them all with the same hilarity and enthusiasm.

And laughing is the best medicine.

It made me realize, that although my medium is different that Olan's, and I'm not really writing about my life, and my book isn't meant to be comedic, I too am a storyteller. I have to have the same care and excitement about all my stories or they're not going to turn out right. They are going to flop.

Because if you don't care, you're readers don't care.

Amazing how it's the little things like being sick and looking for comfort, can reveal things you didn't know you needed.