Apparently I can’t keep in the habit of writing regularly anymore, and I don’t exactly know why.
I ended up scrapping the second YouTube channel idea, mainly because it turns out that there is no good way to film in my house without spending thousands of dollars on gear. The lighting and angles are all wrong for it. Instead, I’m accepting the fact that voiceover style videos are what my particular situation allows for and going back to that for the original channel. We just jury-rigged a makeshift sound booth in the finished side of the basement so I can record without the constant sound of traffic and cats demanding my attention (or wailing like the lost and abandoned from the other side of a closed door).
Now, after several decades offstage, I’m trying to remember how to do voice work. I literally grew up in a theater group, and yet I seem to have forgotten how to talk like a normal person when I’m not talking to another physical person. For some reason, as soon as I hit “record” I start talking like there’s someone sleeping in the next room and I’m trying not to wake them up, and I’m having a hell of a time stopping doing that.
Maybe I’ll set up some stuffed animals or something and see if that works. Revive my childhood habit of telling stories to the stuffies under the kitchen table.