On the subject of spending all my time documenting my documenting process and having it use up all of my time and not leaving me any time to do my creative work. I was editing that video last night, all about that, on that very subject. Because I'm mucking around with some new techniques that will hopefully save me some time. But I ended up spending all my time just making the video and not spending any time on my next illustration for the first page of my kids book. I'm pretty depressed this morning, I felt really defeated and as I was saying yesterday about losing sleep, it can make you feel pretty grumpy and put you into a negative mindset. You must wonder what I'm doing all day to not get my work done. I'm a parent and there's lots of things to do apart from keeping the house in check, also my daughter had to go to the dentist, I had a couple of lawn mowing jobs that I had to do and it's winter time so the days aren’t very long, so before you know it the day is over. And I haven’t even done a sketch or any videoing. I'll give myself about a 12 hour sleeping window because it's when my daughter usually falls sleep. I’ll read her some books and usually fall asleep myself it's pretty hard not to. Then I will wake up about midnight and ry and fit in about four hours work between midnight and four. That's the way it's been at the moment, it’s just the way it is, you work with what you’ve got. Then I get back to sleep again before my daughter wakes up. Last night it was really hard work after four hours of mucking around with my editing I had to decide, do I stay up all night and keep my illustrations going? Because I was meant to be getting back into the swing of things, getting regular my drawings. So now I'm thinking I need to streamline the Vlogcast. But I need to find a way of still keeping it entertaining. I enjoy doing all the quick editing and all that, it’s good fun. However it's what takes up time so I'm looking around for better ways that I can do this. Today's video I'm recording straight into an app called Apple clips, I’ll export portrait style video for Instagram stories and I'll be able to save the transcript for the blog and I will also rip the audio for the podcast. I'll let you know how all that goes and how much time it actually takes me. I want to try and do my shooting and editing during daylight hours, and at night time when everyone's asleep, that's when I'll be creating my book. That's the plan I'll see how it goes for now.
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