This is just off the cuff. This year hasn't started the way I wanted, but you know, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches. We're already in February 2015 and I already feel like I'm playing catch up. Many writing projects on the horizon, including the ones from the list I posted last month. Exciting stuff, but again, I feel like I'm playing catch up as I wanted to do more than I did in January. I'm aware of it, so I'm keeping track of statistics of things I do starting this month per project. I have some statistics sheets I received from my mentor's class back in 2011. Wish I had used them sooner, but I think I had to grow up a little more since that time. I'm taking things much more seriously now than ever before.
I'm quite the introspective kind of person. My mind goes a mile a minute, and sometimes I wish I could quiet it. I wonder why sometimes I am this way. Where did it come from? Why do I live inside my head as much as I do? I seriously need to tell myself to snap out of it and pay attention to the world. Being on autopilot isn't the best thing. I'm very attentive to the details around me, but I do catch myself being lost in my head while walking around. You know that thing when you're deep in thought and someone talks to you and it surprises you? You're sitting there like, "oh... yeah. Hey." Possibly with a frightened expression, as if you're dumbfounded someone actually spoke to you.
That has happened a lot in January.
I've been thinking a lot about making YouTube videos again because that's something in my life I really miss doing. I was really into the YouTube game back in 2007 - 2012, and things have changed a lot since YouTube's beginnings, but in ways, it has stayed the same. The problem with YouTube now is that it's harder to become noticed as there are so many people out there attempting to be the next big YouTube star, or create that viral video that everyone sees in a given week / month. There is so much content out there. I wonder if there are people out there that are discouraged about that very notion. I know I could be, but I also know how to play the game and get back to where I once was -- the thing is: I ask myself if I want to or not. It takes a lot of time to play the YouTube game. Writing the video, shooting the video, editing the video -- this is just starting by yourself. I think if or when I come back to it, I change it up a little bit. Maybe make it fun for myself. Maybe make it a little different than what I was doing before.
Again, this is if I truly decide to move forward with that or not. Focusing on my writing projects and getting my scripts out there is the main goal this year, as well as making my first feature. If I did YouTube again, I would like to keep it simple enough where I could post consistently, but not fully dedicate all of my time towards it. For example, making one video per week instead of attempting to make daily videos or videos every other day. At this time, I don't think I have made my mind up about this. I've been on the fence about fully returning to YouTube for awhile.
If I do it, I have to be fully committed and not look back.
I'm quite the introspective kind of person. My mind goes a mile a minute, and sometimes I wish I could quiet it. I wonder why sometimes I am this way. Where did it come from? Why do I live inside my head as much as I do? I seriously need to tell myself to snap out of it and pay attention to the world. Being on autopilot isn't the best thing. I'm very attentive to the details around me, but I do catch myself being lost in my head while walking around. You know that thing when you're deep in thought and someone talks to you and it surprises you? You're sitting there like, "oh... yeah. Hey." Possibly with a frightened expression, as if you're dumbfounded someone actually spoke to you.
That has happened a lot in January.
I've been thinking a lot about making YouTube videos again because that's something in my life I really miss doing. I was really into the YouTube game back in 2007 - 2012, and things have changed a lot since YouTube's beginnings, but in ways, it has stayed the same. The problem with YouTube now is that it's harder to become noticed as there are so many people out there attempting to be the next big YouTube star, or create that viral video that everyone sees in a given week / month. There is so much content out there. I wonder if there are people out there that are discouraged about that very notion. I know I could be, but I also know how to play the game and get back to where I once was -- the thing is: I ask myself if I want to or not. It takes a lot of time to play the YouTube game. Writing the video, shooting the video, editing the video -- this is just starting by yourself. I think if or when I come back to it, I change it up a little bit. Maybe make it fun for myself. Maybe make it a little different than what I was doing before.
Again, this is if I truly decide to move forward with that or not. Focusing on my writing projects and getting my scripts out there is the main goal this year, as well as making my first feature. If I did YouTube again, I would like to keep it simple enough where I could post consistently, but not fully dedicate all of my time towards it. For example, making one video per week instead of attempting to make daily videos or videos every other day. At this time, I don't think I have made my mind up about this. I've been on the fence about fully returning to YouTube for awhile.
If I do it, I have to be fully committed and not look back.