Any makers sharing their journey on YouTube?

@graeme_fulton I can see people could be getting excited if you maybe tried to approach your (weekly?) YouTube video as an accountability tool, meaning: At the end of each video, you make a statement on what you’re going to have shipped within 7 days. Then in a week, it’s judgement day and you show what you got. Will Graeme deliver? Or, will he fail “miserably”? :D Of course, start the video with a great hook, a petite story that leads from the hook the outcome, and then deliver the outcome. I believe the very simple story arc approach that Casey Neistat explained in this video of his could be helpful: 1. Setup (beginning) 2. Conflict (middle) 3. Resolution (end) (classic 3-act story) Source: "HOW TO VLOG LIKE CASEY NEISTAT by CASEY NEISTAT" https://youtu.be/Q980C74SdYQ?t=284 (timestamp: 4:44min) Core question: Could you find, in your activity of bulding Letter, find a 3-act narrative to share? === Alternatively, you can consider the Dan Harmon "Story Circle" approach which is quite universally applicable, including real life and business. It goes like this: 1. a character is in a zone of comfort 2. but they want something 3. they enter an unfamiliar situation 4. adapt to it 5. get what they wanted 6. pay a heavy price for it 7. then return to their familiar situation 8. having changed And shortened to single words, you get: 1. You 2. Need 3. Go 4. Search 5. Find 6. Take 7. Return 8. Change Source: Dan’s article about it - https://channel101.fandom.com/wi... Additional source: a video explaining it well - "Using the Story Circle to Structure Your Screenplay - Complete Screenwriting Masterclass Part 7" (don’t be misled by the context, which is screenwriting and film in this case, it applies to YouTube documentaries as well) Harmon also writes (qutoed from the article above): === It’s not that stories have to follow this structure, it’s that, without some semblance of this structure, it’s not recognizable as a story. You can have a story where your characters don’t change (8) or don’t get what they want (5) or never return to a familiar situation (7) but you can only take away so much. So then would be left: 1. You 2. Need 3. Go 4. Search 5. / 6. Take 7. / 8. / This 👆 is the barebone. Harmon’s Story Circle is so useful because it exists outside of the screenplay structure. You can also apply the Story Circle to each act of the script or each scene. Always keep in mind, in each act/scene we follow a character with a dramatic need heading towards a goal. The audience doesn’t care about simple external obstacles. The audience only cares about how your character’s beliefs come into conflict within the story. For the documentation of your startup, Letter.so, and particularly your video from above, “Building Letter series: Brand Logo Manager”, this could mean: 1. I, Graeme, was happy with how images worked in Letter 2. But I noticed that for your brand logo you didn’t want to crop and zoom in and behave like a cover image; you wanted a consistent logo and then look the same everywhere 3. So, I had a look 4. ...ran through some iterations 5. / 6. You explain some of the struggle that was involved it 7. / 8. But then I noticed that if I do that (epiphany) I was able to resize logos so they maintain their ratio, and everywhere where you want your logo to appear, your newly uploaded logo will show, too. Next week, I’ll show you how I approached social media icons in a similar way. Talk to you next .

@naii This is a beast of an answer! Thanks a lot Alexander, I never considered following some structures based on popular youtubers. I'll look into these, and yeah look forward to your social media icons approach!

@graeme_fulton my pleasure 😌