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One of the most important things anyone can do is to fail in public, so that’s what i’m going to start today.

One of my mentors, Dean Wesley Smith, has been blogging every day. For how long? Since August 1st, 2012. That’s 13 years, 5 months, and 16 days as of this publication. Or, for those keeping count at home,  that’s 4,919 straight blog posts.

So, i say screw it. I’m gonna do the same. Now, here’s the rub. I need to create more content, especially in the video world as well, so i’m going to try to start my daily blog journey with video blog posts. How will i try this? There are now amazing applications that can help edit your videos. What used to take hours or 100s of dollars and hours is now easy. Or so they claim. We’re about to find out together.

I know that this is ambitious. Way too ambitious. So i figure that most of my daily blog posts will just be of the written variety. But i am going to try to do as many video blog posts as i can. Will it be 50%? 1%? Will i quit after just today? We’re going to find out together because chasing your dreams, like i am with being a storyteller, is failing in public. And i have no doubt that this will be no different. How i fail is a different story that we’re going to find out together. My hope is to fail up.

And finally, like everything else in the world, i will be trying this using AI powered video editing. To be clear, i am against all things AI. All the images that you will be seeing in these edits will be from existing, real images that were created by real people. No AI images will be used. In fact, i have a lot to say about AI. But that will be for the next video blog post. For now, this is just an introduction of a writer documenting his storytelling adventures trying to mix both written and video media.

Let’s see if i can make it two days in-a-row. Then i’ll only have 4,917 days to catch up to Dean.