Love your stuff! Welcome back!
I've tons coming this year, especially since I've something of a split planned now. After realizing last year the three things I'd put each skill in with endurance, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship, I decided to focus the YouTube content on endurance and entrepreneurship side of being a creator. Craftsmanship content, meanwhile, will go into articles and books. That's part of why I was gone for a couple of weeks; I created a whole nonfiction book on getting started in story creation that I'm aiming to release in March. Plus, doing my own work, such as what I mentioned near the end. I'll be releasing that stuff before the month's end.
Parenting builds iteration tolerance at the cost of having time and energy to build other skills.
Time management is actually something I plan to tackle a bit more this year! Same with energy, I've been doing a lot of thinking on this and research. Though I obviously can't say speak from experience when it comes to balancing that side of things with a kid.
This made me think of success stories. It's common for people to be biased towards them. As a reader, you see the writer's output, but you don't get all the failure that led them there.
Someone can be envious of a person's writing skill or success without seeing the constant failure they endured to get there. Even though some of my failure is public, most will never know about the constant hours practicing prose with stories that led nowhere.
They will only see a finished project and judge it.
Hell, it's even more frustrating in ways in the present, given that they can see the output and leap to the wrong conclusions since don't consider all the bottleneck. Not that it matters though for the audience. This is something I wish to discuss more about the frank realities of treating things as a business. And understanding what entertainment as a business is, since I've realized most people truly don't understand.
