Life as a YouTuber

(YouTuber sounds like a potato.)

I have finished my first week of making videos for my YouTube channel. I thought I might list a few thoughts I’ve had about working in this new medium. There isn’t any order here. I’m doing a brain dump, so a year from now, I’ll know how it felt at the beginning. I appreciate everyone who subscribed and hope for more growth in my future.

My thought on Jenn’s Writing World:

• It’s a lot easier to make a YouTube episode than a podcast episode.
• Working with camera gear is fun.
• Learning how to create a YouTube video from start to finish is one-part learning from YouTube videos and three-parts trial and error.
• It’s way cheaper to create YouTube videos than podcast videos.
• I need to improve my scripts.
• Every YouTube expert said to do one video a week. I did six the first week, and I plan to put out a video every day in April. Apparently, I don’t listen well.
• It took time to find the right free video editing program, but I believe I found a great one with Shotcut.
• Every YouTube expert said don’t do an intro video, but I wanted to, so I did.
• Every YouTube expert said to just “jump in” and don’t wait. They were right about that.
• I bought little gear to get started, and I feel good about the thirty or so dollars I’ve invested.
• Walmart has a ton of YouTube recording stuff for the same price as Amazon with no wait. I wish I had known that before.
• I may go to three episodes a week, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday, instead of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I don’t have to decide until May.
• My most popular videos are my write-ins which are great, but they take the longest to edit.
• However, the editing is easy and fun, so I don’t mind.
• I have a ton to learn (I really want to edit in a clone segment), but I’m having so much fun that I don’t mind how little I don’t know.
• I have ten subscribers in my first week, which is grand. My first goal is 100 subscribers, so I’ll have to figure out how to get the word out.
• Getting the word out is the part I don’t like, so I need to learn how to make it fun (or pay someone to do it for me.)

If you read that whole list, you now know everything that’s in my head about my channel (I’m sorry.) I didn’t realize it would be so long. I’m doing a write-in every day in April to go along with Camp Nanowrimo, so I’ll do a check-in at the end of the month.

Again, thank you for all your support. I genuinely appreciate you all.