How Arianna Burt Adapts Her Writing Process Across Genres

Arianna Burt is a writer who seems to shape-shift with effortless precision, from snappy digital content and viral sketches to spellbinding fiction. Her writing process varies widely depending on the genre she’s tackling, and she has only refined that adaptability through writing for Instagram stars, YouTube shows, and best-selling books.

Writing for Digital Stars and Viral Content

Arianna has written content for Instagram personalities Omar Parker and Charles Burt, and for the Tumbleweed YouTube channel. Tumbleweed commands more than a million Instagram followers and 120,000 YouTube subscribers. Charles Burt himself also boasts over a million followers across platforms. Their success stems from posting comedy skits, travel content, and gaming humor, and Arianna has been the wordsmith behind many of those viral moments.

Comedy skits and funny vlogs demand a rapid, punchy creative process. Arianna says she draws inspiration from everyday quirks and trending ideas, then quickly distills them into a sharp point. She starts with research and inspiration, watching what’s working now, pinpointing what makes her laugh, and asking “how would I twist that in a way uniquely mine,” an approach that has brought her career a great deal of success.

Then she outlines a tight structure, setup, escalation, punchline, before scripting a fast first draft and running it past trusted friends for feedback. She always rewrites, polishing timing, trimming fat, and shoring up humor.

When it comes to gaming content, Arianna says humor thrives on gamer tropes, visual exaggeration, and timing. She plans key beats around recognizable scenarios, like lag, rage quits, or unexpected wins, then layers comedic reactions and callbacks. She structures the scenes like a skit: quick hook, peak comedic escalation, and concise payoff. Her goal is to make even non-gamers laugh, while insiders nod in agreed recognition.

Writing Books: From Haikus to High Fantasy

In longer forms, Arianna’s process shifts entirely. Her novel Despite the Gods debuted at number three in Amazon’s fantasy category, and her playful Inebriated Haikus reached number one, a stark contrast in tone and discipline.

For her novel, Arianna builds space for discovery. She plans broadly, outlines major beats, then writes daily in a consistent nook (often mornings), invoking Stephen King–style rituals of momentum, leaving the next scene “mid-action” so she can dive right in the next day. She rereads nearby pages before writing further, to maintain tone and pacing.

Her long-form mantra is clarity. She follows advice that genius lies in saying complex things simply and serving the reader first. She also writes what she wants to read, stories she can’t find anywhere else.

By contrast, Inebriated Haikus demanded distillation and spontaneity. She treats them as playful exercises: jotting phrases, brewing in small bursts, and letting imagery guide her punchy lines.

In all her writing, even with books, she takes extensive notes from observation, sharpening imagery and ideas through habitual note-taking. And she writes daily, even when imperfect, because editing only works if there are words to refine. She builds rituals around time and space that prime her creativity.

Tailoring the Process by Genre

Final Threads: What’s Next

Arianna Burt’s toolkit spans sharp comedy, gaming humor, mystic prose, and poetic bite. Whether crafting a punchy social sketch or weaving high fantasy narrative, she tunes her process to the medium, and keeps the reader or viewer front and center.

And 2025 has more on the horizon. Arianna is co-writing the myth-inspired film The Prince, the Sister & the Serpent, set to begin filming next summer. It’s another canvas for her craft, and we can’t wait to see how her process evolves yet again.