Today was the first day in the vlog series that I forgot to upload the video the day it was created and had to quickly finish the upload after my alarm went off. That meant instead of writing this delightful post I had to work on the upload flow. Don’t worry the video was posted an hour later in the day than the normal series, but it went live and all is well. I’m using a basic video editing workflow where all the content is created on my Pixel 7 Pro, content is edited in PowerDirector on the phone, and then it just gets uploaded to YouTube. I’m actually getting fairly proficient at using PowerDirector after 29 days of consecutive vlog updates. The YouTube Shorts format works well enough and making content that is always less than 60 seconds is a different sort of challenge. At this point, I think that is a better format than turning out sub 10 minute videos. 

Last night I got into a fight with my writing backlog. I have been looking at the remaining blocks of content for the year and trying to consider what could best occupy that space. I’m very clear on what will be created in 2024. I have a book in mind that needs to be written and I’ll go about creating it one block of content at a time. Probably from start to finish in my normal writing style. That effort will yield a roughly 20 chapter book. Aligning the backlog for 2023 has taken a bit of time and I’m really considering either combining my code development planning and writing planning or splitting them up. One of those two things needs to happen. Generally, I keep my writing backlog separate. That has worked out well enough. I’m starting to approach a window where I’m probably going to spend more time coding than writing words. I’m sure that is a good thing and naturally a part of the cycle of creation.