Death, Taxes, Writer's Block.

I get asked for advice by those wanting to start their own YouTube Channels a lot, and the advice I always give is this:

1. Start

2. Have fun, and the rest won't matter.

But, if anyone wanted to make videos like mine (God only knows why you'd want to do that), I'd have a third piece of advice:

3. Write.  Write when you're bored, write when you're angry, write when you're sad, write when the last thing you want to do is write.

I find the best way to cure writer's block is to just write through it.  "Writer's block" doesn't mean you can't write, it means you can't write anything you like.   But, I write anyway.  I fill page after page with pseudo-intellectual, inconsistent, unfunny garbage.  Then, eventually, I hit something good.  It is at this point, I can throw all the garbage away.

Writing garbage is key to my creative process, and it took me far too long to accept that it IS a part of my process.  My best videos have a six-page script, but 20 pages I threw away.

I'm happy to say the garbage part is over, but God almighty is there a lot of it.  I'm hoping to finish soon, thank you as always for your patience.

“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”