Full steam ahead. . . in It's a llittle llazy over here

So. . . for about two weeks now I have been doing something that I have never done. I have been putting my writing out there.

I’ve never done this. So I have launched a youtube channel, a blog and a second prosebox account into the bargain, as well as a profile on twitter. All running under the same brand name.

It is already, at one and the same time, one of the best, one of the most instructive, and one of the hardest things ever.

It’s one of the best because it is forcing me to write, for practice and just so I have content. It’s making me be disciplined with myself and giving me a reason to sit down in front of my computer and damned well put some words down. It’s also one of the best because even if I suck totally and nobody ever reads or listens to a single word I’ve put out there, at least I tried. Even if nothing comes of it ever.

It’s one of the most instructive and hardest things I’ve done because even after 2 whole weeks of being a youtuber, you really, really begin to realise how frighteningly hard it is to get any momentum going and how incredibly hard some of the high-profile youtubers have to work to keep things alive. Often, of course, while doing full-time jobs to survive because like all of the arts, there’s no money in it except for a vanishingly small percentage at the top of the tree.

The most depressing thing I’ve seen from my point of view is a channel that has 18,000 subscribers. They read horror books, public domain stuff. Really good work, great production, fabulous performances. On that channel they have a bunch of their own original content and those videos have maybe 300/400 views each vs thousands for the non-original work. This is a channel with 18,000 subscriber (which is 18,000 more than I have) , and even then people are only really tuning in for the stuff they’re heard of.

Work is work is work. It’s a pain, but it pays the bills. Llamas remain awesome. Have a good week y’all…