So it’s July. Funny how that happens.
Back in March I wrote this post–Video–about my goal to do some short videos connected to blog posts. And I did. For a while… 😉
The thing is, I ran into some trouble. Nothing big–just that doing a video along with a blog post added more time to the process, and it took me out of my blogging flow.
When I do blog posts, I like to move along quickly. They don’t take me real long to write as I’m usually doing relatively short posts and finding an interesting image to go along with the post happens pretty quickly as well.
So I’m able to go from having an idea to getting it posted usually well within an hour and a half. I like the timeliness of that–especially if I’m getting a signal. 🙂
But having to do a video too made this a longer process than I like. Sometimes I’d have the post all ready to go and it would be a couple days before I got to the video. That was longer than I wanted to wait to post it. So the videos started to drop off…
And that’s okay.
I got the idea for this post from reading Pivoting Like a Writing Pro by writer friend D.M. Domosea where she talks about having to adjust when things aren’t quite working out the way you’d like them too. Good read.
And about those videos? I’m not really sure how I’m going to proceed, but I am still interested in video. I didn’t really like connecting them to blog posts, but I may come up with something better in the near future. I will just hand that over to the universe and see if I receive any guidance back. 😉
So the whole point of this post is to say:
I don’t know what I’m doing with the videos, but probably something at some point. 🙂
Amanda Linehan is the author of North, about a young woman on the run from her past, the law and an old adversary out to get her. Her newest release is Bored To Death: A Vampire Thriller, about a 300-year-old vampire trying to restore the balance between life and death. She has published five novels. Get a free short story every month when you sign up for her newsletter.
Thanks for the pingback! Personally, I’d love to see more authors use videos to read passages from their work, and then give “behind the scenes” insight for that passage: maybe some bit of research required and what was learned, a personal experience that inspired the scene, how the weather outside informed the story setting the day they wrote it . . . that kind of thing! Some interesting tidbit that went into writing the story, and then a bit of the story as a teaser!
D.M. – Thanks for the ideas. I’m going to let those marinate…