Patchwork

I'm not sure what broken reflection of a black cat I crossed paths with but it's been one of those weeks.  No one tragic thing, but a myriad of small tasks that went from 1 hour's work to 13 or so.  I'm sure you've all had times like these though.

So what's the plan?

Well we're currently juggling three goals:

1. Growth
2. Production catch up
3. Fund Raising

At the moment as far as fund raising goes, I'd like to limit our use of campaigns.  Once a year feels right, but I've been wrong before.  For everything else there is Patreon, of course, at the core.  But I know people like having something in-hand on occasion to share their love of history.  

I have ideas in all directions, but I suspect the regular appearance of limited patches might go over well. I've attached an example.

As for growth, the overall plan is to develop one or two new shows for 2020.  However, Youtube's behavior towards anything with gun fire is... well pretty hostile.  This makes it really difficult to reach new viewers while providing content in our current field.  So you might be seeing some gun-tangent videos as a means to reach a broader audience and make them curious about the core content.

I was hoping to have a preview of one such project ready but that good old bad luck got us this afternoon.  I'll try again soon.

And finally: Catching up Production!  I've always dreamed of being more than a week ahead and yet, somehow, every single time we're in by the skin.  This week is no exception as we've been plagued by production bumps and bruises.  

Having Mae full time should have made this easy, but I became overconfident.  Desperate to reconnect after 4 years of long hours, I wound my schedule too far back in order to reach out to friends and family.  I also took on a number of side projects to hopefully secure new relationships and resources for the show.  Sadly only some of those worked out and, in the meantime, I'm back up against the time limit.  

The new plan is to keep a low profile as much as possible and just plug away at pulling ahead by about 3 episode before we do anything extra.  This is, even as I type it, impossible though due to the first two goals of growth and fund raising.  But I can pretend!

Thank you all for the continued support in this transitional period.  If we can keep from being tipped too far over I'm expecting good things for 2020 as we pick up momentum!  More for you all to enjoy across the board.