I’m trying an experiment this year for NaNoWriMo. Instead of writing blog posts about my progress, I’m recording “vlogs” about it. I created a YouTube channel where you can watch me ramble about my NaNoWriMo journey this year.
My goal is to record a short video every day talking about my progress, the challenges I run into, how I deal with them, etc. Things that I think might be educational or inspiring or helpful or just funny to other writers. A lot about “the writing process” and how I’m feeling about the project as I go along. Thrills, chills, spills. Stuff that I would normally write about, but I’m just going to talk about them instead. I would rather reserve my writing energy for the NaNoWriMo draft as much as possible.
I’m going to leave the videos unedited. On day one, I threw out my back for the fourth time in the last couple months, which makes it virtually impossible to sit in a chair normally and type. I was very upset and discouraged about it, and the video I recorded on day one reflects that. I was going to throw it out, but I decided no–I want to make an “authentic” sort of a “documentary” about this year’s NaNoWriMo, so I went ahead and uploaded it anyway, with the hope that I might look back at it later and be able to say, “Wow, I did a great job digging myself out of that really low point.”
Anyway, that’ll be over on YouTube. The thrills of victory and agonies of defeat and all that. (So far, I have to admit, it is mostly agony of defeat.) I disabled comments though because I don’t really want any feedback from YouTube commenters hehe. It’s purely for educational purposes and my own personal entertainment.
