A few quick updates, and an outline for the rest of the year

Hey everyone!

A few quick updates. I’m sorry that there was no video to finish off that month of videos project I was doing. I tried really hard to fix it but it just fell apart in my hands and I no longer felt very comfortable or confident in publishing it so I dropped that and have moved on to my next project which is what I want to talk about here.

This next video on conservative figures in horror is among the most personally complicated projects I have ever taken on, and has gotten substantially more like a tightrope in the past couple of weeks because of some discoveries I’ve made when researching an individual. It is the kind of thing where I’m really having to go over it to make sure that I have receipts for every claim I make, and that the phrasing of certain  sections is perfect down to the individual wording so as to not leave me open to anything that could come back to harm me. I’m trying to get it together as best and fast as I can, but this is taking more time than I would like. As of right now, it is in between two and three hours of material (about 75 pages long) and I would like to get it out by the end of the month but it might be the  beginning to the middle of June if I’m being more realistic. It is four chapters long, and when I have the first one finished I will post that one here early. 

After that, we should have a more fun rest of the year, as that one is more of a serious project at times. My therapist has said that I should not announce projects before I make them because I am bad about getting excited about something and then being disappointed when it doesn’t work out for one reason or another, but I feel comfortable saying that I really do think I can manage this for the rest of the year:

My plan at the moment is a franchise video on Sleepaway Camp, an essay on the movie Bones and All, a non-horror video comparing the movie Priscilla to the movie Elvis and also to the real life events that those stories depict, a history of a monster video, a video on a very weird fringe grifter, and a Jack Frost franchise video. Sleepaway Camp, Bones and All, Jack Frost, and sections of the monster history video are already written, so I feel very confident in saying that I should be able to get these out by the end of the year, because I already have dozens of pages of scripts in the can, and am working with a co-writer on the monster video to make that process easier. I haven’t made those in so long because they take an absurd amount of time to research and write and decided that I still wanted to do them and that this was the best way to make that happen. If this working relationship is successful we plan to do a larger three part series early next year like I did on witches, and so far it is going well and we are getting along. 

I know I haven’t been as productive as I once was the past couple of years, but that is largely due to two life events that happened to me in late 2019 that have taken a lot of time from me that have recently resolved themselves- more or less. From late last year I have been genuinely back to making videos again with the same freedom that I haven’t been able to have since 2019, and am getting a lot more work done than I have in the past couple of years and I’m feeling really good about it. Again, I’m really sorry for that last project that fell apart on me, it sometimes happens for reasons that are always hard to explain. I’m really looking forward to doing this, and I’ll see you again soon when I have that first chapter completed.

-Zane