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100 Subscribers!

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 Well today...28th January 2025 is the day I have reached the amazing milestone of 100 subscribers on my YouTube Channel. Yes, I did that.  I picked up my camera.....multiple times and said what I was thinking. I chose an editing software that I can work with. I posted the videos. I wrote the titles. I made thumbnails. I wrote descriptions. I made changes where I felt I needed to. I made something and people like it. I created this and people are responding and showing up for ME! How amazing is that?  That is a lot of I. But it is true. 100 people have shown up for me and it isn't perfect, it doesn't fit with a specific niche. The thumbnails, titles and descriptions are messy in places. So is the editing, the lighting, the sound etc. But it is mine and I love it and clearly some other people do too.  I am terrible at self promotion because I usually feel unadequate, unworthy and never good enough. Tears streaming as I type this out, but honestly this time they a...

Switching tactics when you feel stuck is the right choice!

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 I was making a video which I hope will be sorted and published soon, but I was feeling stuck. I couldn't edit it properly and I didn't know what to do.  At the time of recording I had decided to try something different with a new camera angle and set up and was happy during the recordings etc but when it came to to edit I had no clear direction with it. I felt some of the script was not what I was thinking about and it just felt all round wrong. I couldn't put my finger on why though. What was wrong? If nothing then why am I stuck?  I was just sitting messing about with the edit and not getting anywhere so I decided to park the project. For a while. I wanted to get something uploaded though and the next day an idea popped into my head from nowhere! I have used some of my pre-edited footage of the White Party on MSC Cruises. It is a standard sort of thing that occurs on many if not all of the ships in the fleet and I just popped some YouTube approved music underneath it a...