Friday, June 28, 2024

Two milestones!

Within the last five weeks, two unexpected things happened in my online life.
I first got on YouTube in 2009; four years later, I started putting my own videos there...most of them turned out to be music videos (olay, me doing the music on most of them).
Nothing spectacular...nothing viral. For the next ten years, I was content with having 40-50 subscribers to my YouTube channel.
All this time, I'd wanted to digitize my VHS tapes...tons and tons of VHS tapes. And do it without tying up my TV set.
So...this past March, I sent in for a VHS-to-DVD converter in order to do the work at my computer. Then I started going through my VHS videocassettes to see which old TV shows I'd taped would be suitable to put on YouTube.
Well, late last month, after putting up six telecasts from the 1990s (one a rerun of a 1970s show), I received an email from YouTube saying I'd reached a hundred subscribers.
No, it's not a thousand...but I'm still very happy with a hundred.
In October 2019 (nine months after I joined Stage 32), I joined CJ Walley's outstanding screenwriting/TV writing platform, Script Revolution. (The philosophy was: "It really shouldn't hurt to get as many eyeballs on these scripts I've written as possible.")
At the time I joined up, I'd written four feature-length screenplays. I'm now up to 27 full-length scripts and a TV pilot.
I'm proud to follow 298 other Script Revolution writers...and I'm humbled to say that earlier this week, I gained my 200th follower.
Thank you so very much, YouTube subscribers and Script Revolution followers.
And I'm going to continue to try my best to come through for you.