#oneaday Day 463: Some Good Advice

I happened to stumble across this image earlier today, and it struck a bit of a chord with me:

I've not come across this quote before, nor have I ever consciously thought about it — but it's spot on. One thing I do think about quite a bit when I write is the "sound" of what I write; I tend to write in the style of speech. Not necessarily my own speech, mind, because I don't speak like I'm making some sort of grand proclamation all the time (however much my wife would like to convince me that I am a "posho") but… as if I'm reading it out loud, I guess. Making a presentation. That sort of thing.

It's for this reason that I've found my articles often find themselves making for good videos with minimal adjustments to the actual words. Because I've already written them in a manner that could be spoken aloud in most cases — unconsciously, usually — they translate perfectly well into the video format.

On a related note, I recorded a bunch of videos today and I've come to a bit of a decision: since I'm doing quite a lot of video per week at the moment, have all my MoeGamer stuff and now occasional Nintendo Life freelance assignments, I'm going to retire Warriors Wednesday at the end of the current playthrough of Warriors All-Stars. Not that I care about numbers, but it's always been my least-performing series; the majority of the people who come to my channel are there for Atari A to Z, it seems so that's certainly not going anywhere!

I'm not going to immediately replace it with anything, either; I just want to take a little bit of pressure off myself. I normally record two episodes of everything in one go, and cutting back on Warriors Wednesday will allow me to free up at least an hour and a half of time to do other things, which would be very welcome right now! Among other things, it will provide me with some more time where I could do some more "video articles", which I'd like very much to do some more of; I was particularly pleased with my 198X one from a little while back, so more stuff in that mould for sure!

Anyway. It's Saturday night ramblings; I should probably go to sleep so I can spend tomorrow cramming in the visual novel I need to review for Nintendo Life next week! And perhaps even finding some time to actually play Atelier Iris 2… who knows?!