Progress Update: Once again (pretty much) whole

Heyo, foundry maintenance crew!

The last week was a doozy. I'm not sure I've ever been quite so sick in my life. But at last, the phantoms of illness have left my side and taken their miasma of noxious fever with them. I am once again whole... for the most part.

The most exciting thing about this, to me, is that I can finally get on with my work. Even so, recovery's a slow process and I'm still not quite functioning at 100%. Last night, for instance, I was up until 5am with a lingering cough. That said, I've still been making some meaningful progress. So, after a few days' climb toward relative health and general cognizance of my surroundings, I'd like to talk to you a bit about where we are in the production process of the Pratchett series.

Let's talk about it, shall we?

Where are we now?

ONE SCRIPT IS COMPLETE. The episode script, to be precise, which is the harder of the two between the list and episode. 

I say this often, but this is one hell of a technical episode. Seriously. It goes real deep on the mechanics of voice and style, and how they're represented in Pratchett's work. I'm not even sure I'd follow this video perfectly on the first viewing. 

Sooo there may be a little bit of trimming or condensing to do here and there. No big deal, really. Just a tiny bit of extra time.

What's next?

The list script, and visual planning! I expect these to take 3-4 days all told, although I've never had the pleasure of being able to plan the visuals for a list video before recording the audio of both scripts. I think it'll lead to an overall more cohesive experience across the whole series, and it'll sure as heck shave some time off production during the creation of the visuals.

To be plain: I am stoked to finally be putting the new pipeline to use. It's bound to have hiccups (like getting terribly ill for more than a week—a "hiccup", absolutely), but it's really exciting to have something that actually resembles a schedule for the first time in... years.

The other thing I'm working on right now is figuring out where to put Patreon and merchandise promos. Right now I'm leaning toward doing a standalone video during each series that promotes the new limited-time merch item for the series as well as the Patreon. This would free up regular videos a little for sponsors and make them feel a little less cramped in the outro. 

I'd be curious to get opinions on this, if you've read this far. What do you think would be the best approach, here?

Anything else?

Speaking of opinions..,

Earlier today I announced that TF was secretly re-monetized by Youtube, why I manually de-monetized all the videos again, an my mixed feelings about the prospect of monetizing videos with ad sense in the future. 

The additional revenue would be nice, but is the right decision ethically? Check out this post to get the deets and share your opinion with me. 

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That's all for this week!

Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta return to hacking up my lungs in lieu of sleeping for the next few hours! 

Farewell, all you lovely humans. I'll talk to you more later this week!

—Benji