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Do these glasses make me look like someone who actually wrote a book
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Hey guys! So first of all, I want to say so sorry for not making a video last week, but I think I have a pretty good excuse
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So as some of you know, I think I mentioned it in a previous video, I wrote a book
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Well, I guess it's more of a short story, but I'm published, okay? So it's called Spirit Week, and it's basically a diary of a high school student who's kind of struggling with their gender identity
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And it takes place during Spirit Week at school, which you guys had Spirit Week, right
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It was like retro day and tacky day. I know I had it at my school. But for Duncan who is the main character
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Friday is opposite gender vendor day. So they're kind of in a dilemma
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They're trying to decide whether they should dress as a boy, dress as a girl, will they be judged for it? And it's kind of pulled from a mix of my friends who are trans and my story being gay in a private Christian school
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I really enjoyed writing it and I think it's inspired me to write a lot more. It's something I never really thought I would like doing, especially since I never really read very much as a kid
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I've actually just started reading a lot more now. But what I was doing last week was working with a really awesome narrator
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and we got an audiobook version of the story up and it turned out amazing
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Seriously, it made me actually enjoy reading my own work because normally I'm super critical, but it was like someone else wrote it
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so it wasn't that bad. And I not just putting this out there to make money off you guys I not making very much off of this at all The audiobook version is only for Audible members and it only about 30 minutes long so that the reason it priced so low
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If you're not an Audible member, it's only $3.95, which is a little bit more, but it's still
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cheaper than a movie rental, and it would really, really mean a lot to me if you guys could check it
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out, listen to it, and give me a review, because right now it doesn't have any ratings on Audible
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so every review helps, even if it's not an amazing five-star review. It really does help me
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grow and it also kind of helps validate myself on audible because like i said i have never written
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anything before this is my first time and it's really cool to see me as like an author on there
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so i don't know i just really want to let you guys know about this and obviously there's still
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the kindle edition available on amazon for 99 cent um but i recommend the audiobook not because
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it's more expensive but because the narrator did such an awesome job telling the story he made it
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super believable it felt like a movie listening back to it so go to the audible website and listen
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to the preview and see if you like it, and it'd mean so much to me if you picked it up. So thank you so much for watching
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I'm already starting on a second short story. I don't know when I'll publish it. I think I'm going to focus more on YouTube right now, especially since I kind of left
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you guys hanging last week. If you like this video, leave me a thumbs up. I live for your thumbs, and I'll see you guys next video
