Recently, I have created a Youtube account and considered the thought of posting videos. I have been practicing editing videos and also creating movies for quite a few months now posting videos on my private blog for friends. It wasn’t until recently I’ve thought to publicly post anything. But I am very tempted to post interviews of writers I meet and would also like to meet. For example Deborah Brandt and also local authors–Carol Manley, John and Peg Knoepfle. Just to name a few.
And I would also like to post tours of bookstores and coffee shops–I do find quite a few coffee shops and bookstores. (I famously told D when I first met her that I enjoyed bookstores and coffee shops and I do believe I have stayed true to that.)
Yet, I do fear the Youtube community–their responses are nasty and immature at times. Or at least underneath all the videos I watch. But I do like the idea of discussing process and also discussing this idea of failed writing–revision and other arcane topics memorable only to other failed writers. I’d like to follow this idea that Kim gave to me from Tracy Daugherty. The idea to follow writers that are leading literary lives–lives based on the study and the creation of narratives and literature.
Isn’t there some way to set up the posts so they can’t accept or won’t accept comments? Then it could be linked, perhaps, to a new email account that could just be checked every once in a while for helpful critical comments and positive ones.
Well, I am thinking about just posting the video on this blog–but the Youtube account gives you free unlimited space as long as you follow their rulles–copyright and what not. But having the videos there means people will watch them–audience. Here is a writer’s site I found yesterday. She’s on Rachel Maddow all the time: http://www.youtube.com/user/anamariecox