Creator Spotlight with YouTuber and Author Lynn Jung
This week, we’re pleased to introduce YouTuber and author Lynn Jung. Her YouTube channel currently has more than 26k subscribers, where she discusses her writing journey and reviews some lessons she’s learned along the way. Her debut novel, Mothsblood, will be published in fall 2026 by Bloomsbury U.S. (North America). After reading her spotlight blog, check out and subscribe to Lynn’s YouTube Channel and follow her on Instagram.
What was the inspiration behind becoming a creator? What do you enjoy most about the creative process?
I am both a content creator on YouTube and a science fiction and fantasy author. I’ve written stories for as long as I can remember, and my YouTube channel came about during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was still a full-time student and a frontline worker at a veterinary clinic, but I felt very disconnected from any sort of creative community and was struggling with my writing as a result. I started filming myself and talking through my writing process on camera as a means of self-motivation, but five years later, my hobby has blossomed into a community of writers and creatives that I could not be more grateful for.
I am definitely a storyteller at heart. Whether it’s a vlog or a novel, I love constructing a narrative that is capable of evoking emotion, inspiring thought, or connecting with a viewer or reader in some way.
Can you talk through your creative process? How long does it take? Does everything you produce make money?
Writing and videography are very similar in that they require a lot of thinking. Not just thinking about what shot you’re going to film or what sentence you’re going to write, but genuine introspection and metacognition. Talking about writing requires thinking about writing, and crafting strong themes and character arcs also requires deep self-reflection. That’s sort of my starting point.
Videos can take me anywhere between a week or a month to outline, film, and edit. Full-length novels historically take me a minimum of a year to write, and more—I’m often tinkering with individual lines until the finish line.
I am fortunate to make a modest amount of money from my YouTube channel, and while I didn’t make money off of my writing for a very long time, I have sold a few short stories and was recently fortunate enough to sell my debut novel, MOTHSBLOOD, to a traditional publisher! MOTHSBLOOD comes out in 2026.
What do you think is the biggest misconception about your line of work?
I would say people often underestimate the amount of time that goes into writing. If you truly want to produce quality work, it takes time, energy, and effort (with some very rare exceptions). However, I don’t think this should be intimidating to those who are looking to pursue writing as a hobby or even a potential career. Writing is difficult, yes, and it is frustrating to put in hours of work without a guaranteed ‘reward’, but just because it’s challenging doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile.
Life is full of various pressure points, but pressures and challenges are not inherently negative. Learning to persist through the process of writing a book, then rewriting it, and rewriting it, and rewriting it again, will only help you hone your craft and become an even more accomplished writer than you already were.
What do you do when you encounter someone stealing something you’ve invested your intellect, time, and money into?
Unfortunately, there often isn’t much I can do outside of simply reporting stolen videos on YouTube. They are usually pretty swift to take action on copyright claims, but there’s no recourse for videos that I find elsewhere. In terms of my writing, I’ve been lucky to never have to deal with this—so far—but my forthcoming debut novel will be fully protected by U.S. copyright law.
How has AI technology impacted your works and career?
Generative AI and its defenders have yet to impact me directly, but as someone who is deeply embedded in the online writing community and has engaged in these conversations, I have felt the widespread effects of increased generative AI usage in writing.
As a YouTuber, I have already been approached countless times by generative AI ‘companies’ aimed at writers, all promising authors a quicker route to a finished book, editing, and publishing. I will never accept such a sponsorship, but unfortunately it seems like generative AI will continue to try and establish roots in publishing for the foreseeable future. Seeing that we now all know that generative AI is being trained on stolen books and short fiction, it truly is just plagiarism with more steps. I have been involved in several productive conversations about keeping writers’ work safe from AI training, and I hope that more concrete steps can be taken in the future to protect writers and their work.
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