What's Happening With the Next Video (and a draft)
Hey everyone, first of all here's a preview draft of the next video, though this version is a few days old and is missing a whole bunch of stuff that's been changed in the interim. If you've been watching the editing streams then this is more or less the version from a week ago, since things were already finally getting into polish mode at that time.
At the moment it's looking like we'll be good to go on Tuesday, so if you want to wait for the finished version with good audio and completed graphics and re-shoots then maybe wait to hit play on the video but keep reading.
Or if you want it all to be fresh and new and shocking on Tuesday then stop reading now because I want to talk some logistics about what I'd like to happen with the release of the video, and that involves talking about specific stuff in the video.
So with all that faff I'll put in a line break and then the details.
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A critical element of this video is that I wrote ("wrote") two books, one called Treating Epilepsy With Self-Hypnosis and another called A Skeptic's Guide to Hypnosis. The first of these books will remain unreleased lost media because it's bad and honestly not that interesting. I'll do a full post-mortem on it after the video comes out, but bottom line is I'm not going to give anyone copies of Treating Epilepsy With Self-Hypnosis so don't ask.
However.
I will be releasing A Skeptic's Guide to Hypnosis for free, but there's some Rules™.
How that's going to work is I'm going to post the .epub and PDF versions here to Patreon initially as a patrons-only post and then I'm going to let all y'all disseminate it. The book is free to distribute, you are welcome to post it in forums, chat rooms, wherever, email it, give it to whoever wants a copy. Share the tapes, basically. The idea is purely to have a bit of word-of-mouth fun with it spreading out.
Part of this is also that it, too, is not that great. I want to temper expectations here. It's not the centrepiece, it's not what I would consider to be a finished and polished manuscript, but it is interesting and there are large chunks of it that are actually pretty good and I think y'all will enjoy it, and I think treating it like a b-side or a concert recording that spreads mostly peer-to-peer helps keep it contextualized in a way that "hey, I wrote a book" on Twitter wouldn't.
Hopefully that works out and everyone has some fun.
Okay, with all that I'm going to get back into the mograph mines and finish these illustrations, hopefully see y'all on Tuesday.
Comments (18)
I would just like to say that you look *intensely* Canadian in this video. (Are you Canadian?) I downloaded this to watch on the plane, and I watched it twice through. (This was partially because I'd forgotten to load anything else, but only partially.) and now I'm watching it again because it's finished!
The idea of Ghostwriter contracts to write junk even if it was decently paid in itself sounds frightening to me. On a level of a dystopic horror film pitch kind of scare.
Loved this cut. Can't wait to see the finished version!
Hey again, finished it and had a last bit of feedback. It was a little jarring when you cut to Savy’s segment. The way you transitioned, I expected it to be a 30 second clip or somesuch, but obviously it’s a lot longer. Watching the transition a second time, I think I get what you’re going for, but the thing you’re missing is an explanation for why you want her to say these things instead of you. I’m also unclear if this is a cut of some video she already did or something she recorded for you. Either way I think a more significant preamble would make it less jarring.
Hey Dan, loving it so far. Just in case you haven’t caught it already, the scrolling text around 8:15 is out of sync with the audio. The text you’re reading in the second half is sometimes off the bottom of the screen.
Doing as the Mikkelsen twins would want and releasing bootlegs of Dan's book on audible. Actually, like I tried some business books on audible because I had the credits (like, marketing/seo sort of things) and they were this exact kind of garbage and I was very mad (I don't know what I was expecting because business books are basically all garbage).
This post has me fascinated but I feel like I'll spoil the final video if I watch the draft/early cut. I'll hold out. Fun times ahead.
Summary: Dan tried 1/2 of NaMoWriMo and realized it was miserable
Scott, wherever you are, I'm pulling for you. Please get out before you hate words
I wonder how the revenue from just ebook publishing compares to the revenue from Audible, given that people have already invested a lot of money into Audible and have free credits to spend
In some sense, that grift is more moral, given that it's a wealth transfer from Amazon to spam publishers rather than a wealth transfer from individuals to spam publishers...but ugh, either way.
“I know what Dans areolas look like” is never a sentence I thought I would say, but here we are. Thoroughly enjoyed the fake ads sketch.
Hey, dan, or should I say worth decider, was writing your book worth it?
One of the funniest parts here is that Dan decided to contact the voice actress pictured to confirm any connections when they probably googled "voice actor" and took the third picture they saw to slap on the page.
As a professional writer/editor, and a former SEO content writer, I can attest to how demoralizing the grind feels. I applaud your dedication!
Hell yea Dan
Can't help myself. Going to watch both.
I really love the background you’ve chosen for the shots. Where did you go to get them?