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  • Failing In Public

    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.

  • Day 1 – First Is Second, Second Is First

    At the moment of this writing, it is May 2nd, 2024, 12:20 am. When i mark down the time of my writing, i will put the date as yesterday, the first, by saying that i started writing this post at 11:20 pm. The reason for the little white lie? I still haven’t gone to bed yet so, even though it is technically tomorrow, this is a post for today. Which is technically yesterday.

    Confused. Do be. You are entering the world of Tony Hernandez. Buckle up!

    Like most writers, i get into writing funks. You know, “writer’s block” or whatever other lie we call not writing. For the record, there is no such thing as writer’s block. Maybe we can touch on that in a later post.

    Anyhoo, my friends at WMG Publishing are doing something special. Kris Rusch, one of the most prolific writers in the world, is in need of a push. So, she came up with this challenge that’ll start on Friday, just a few days from now.

    The way i understand it is, she’s gonna write and then share her daily ups and downs and finally her word count. She hasn’t directed any of us to follow along and blog with her, but i’m gonna give it a go as well. The reason is that i want to do exactly what she’s doing, getting into the habit of writing usable words. Fancy stuff for writing fiction or blog posts. Emails and Facebooks arguments don’t count.

    And, even though this starts in two days time, i want to try and write 1,000 words a day. And then pump that bad boy up.

    All while having a regular job and life while i try and play and have fun too.

    As i was about to hit the beddy-bye, i realized that i was going to start day one without writing a word or editing a word. I couldn’t have that. So what i did was, i did an editorial “pass” and did some 2,200 words. It only took 15 minutes ‘cause all it is is a basic spellcheck. But what i usually do, i use that spellcheck all the way until i get to the end, mark where i ended the spellcheck-voice check thingy, and then i start with the actual, real new words.

    So even though i did a pass of 2,200 words, does that count as my 1,000 words? I don’t think so. I’m at over 400 words with this post and these are genuinely new words, so they’ll count.

    The goal then is to write 1,600 new words or so. Again, gonna aim for 1,000 new words a day and since i’m behind, i gotta make those up tomorrow.

    Which is technically today.

    Good night, and see y’all tomorrow.