The Temptation of Silence by V. J. Chambers

Author:V. J. Chambers [Chambers, V. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2021-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The next morning, Liam woke up and made breakfast to go along with his coffee. He felt very hungry for the first time in a long time.

Typically, he’d roll out of bed and stagger to his desk chair and muddle around between checking social media and a forum with other YouTube creators and then he’d start a bit of work on his videos, hit a snag and go waste more time on social media, and then belatedly, realize it was dinner time and he hadn’t eaten anything.

But this morning, he felt focused and ready to work.

He took a shower, and he sat down and went right to productive tasks. He accomplished twice as much as he’d expected that day, meaning he was ahead of schedule, which was good.

The prevalent attitude amongst YouTubers was that releasing frequently was key to juicing the YouTube algorithms and keeping one’s channel afloat. And by frequently, they meant daily. Weekly, at the very least.

If you couldn’t release frequently, though, you should release on a schedule.

Liam had not been able to follow either of these well-placed bits of advice, even though he agreed with them. In fact, if he ever ended up in a conversation with a would-be YouTuber, he would faithfully parrot them back as the best thing a person could do in order to get their channel to the next level.

The next piece of advice he’d give would be to try to make videos about things that people wanted to watch.

He was probably the only channel of his kind that he knew of. His channel had started out on a lark. He’d been trying to tell his friends that they should watch How To Get Away With Magic. And they would usually be resistant, because it was a vampire show, and it was for teenage girls, and he would try to explain to them that it wasn’t that way at all. There were vampires in it, but there were a lot of other magical creatures, too. And that it was set during college, and it was very tonally sarcastic and cutting, that it wasn’t some fantasy romance show but a show about life and friendship and relationships.

Anyway, when he couldn’t get this across, he started thinking about making a video. He’d long wanted to practice video editing, and he thought he could make a video with clips of the various episodes and it would be something he could show people who were interested in the show. Maybe a ten-minute video or something easy.

But as he tried to find the clips, he started to feel as if the video was ballooning into something that might be hours long, and so, he decided to limit his scope. He would only take clips from the first season, and he would just focus on that. Then, when it was still too big, he thought he might break it up into parts, ten minutes for each episode.

Before he knew it, he was making ten-minute videos that highlighted whatever was brilliant about each episode in the first season of Hitgam.

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