How to pick?!

Hello again!

This week I thought I'd quickly touch on something that I've been putting a lot of thought into lately. 

There are a LOT of incredible resources out there to help you learn about writing craft, and the business side of being an author... I've even made an Author Toolkit where I documented a tiny portion of these, (and yes, I do actually plan on updating it at some point.) But in all honesty, I don't use all the resources I find, nor would I suggest anyone else do so!

So, how do I pick which ones to add to my personal collection, out of the countless options? A little bit of gut instinct, and a little bit of investigating! 

As I'm certain I've mentioned before, I mainly choose my author education resources from YouTube. (It's a lot easier for me to watch a video, than to read a blog or worksheet, because of my dyslexia.) Though, with a little tweaking, I imagine my process should work for almost any form of media!

The first step I go through when approaching any given channel is to check the content to make sure their information is actually relevant to me, (for instance, a channel that's mainly focused on Trad publishing, wouldn't be much help to me, as an Indie author.) Once I've checked to see that the videos might be of some help to me, I pull up a few that look especially interesting to me and watch them all the way through.

After this, I ask myself a few questions: 

Is the information helpful?

Are the videos easy to watch? 

Is there anything off-putting about the channel or content?

And, possibly most importantly, 

Could I see myself actually watching the videos? 

Because it's all well and good to find an informative channel, but if I can't actually see myself watching the videos, (even if it's for a silly or petty reason,) there's no reason to save it as a resource. 

And... that's about it! I hope this is helpful to someone!

Have a great day, and keep writing!