Not entirely sure how the idea came up, but last night I started seriously thinking about creating a podcast.
My first preference would be to make some sort of comedy show, like the Daily Affirmation with Scott and Kris – that was a really fun one while it lasted, but sadly I don’t exactly have the second half of a comedy duo needed to pull that one off and frankly, I just don’t think that I could be funny enough “on air” all by myself…
So my second thought was to do something where I just talk about creativity and being a writer and struggles and rewards and all of that once a week – something I think could be kind of interesting because as weird as it might sound, I already do this a lot already just talking to myself throughout the day! I tend to work things out verbally when I’m alone in the car or something anyways, so it makes me wonder if anyone else would find any value in listening to how those thoughts unfold as well. Personally, I love shows like Webcomics Weekly (another Scott & Kris, and Co production) where it’s just a bunch of creative people sitting around talking shop about their trade – even if they’re several orders of magnitude more successful than I am at the moment, it’s still interesting to hear them talk about their own conflicts and issues that they find important.
The truth is, at the end of last year I was strongly considering doing some sort of video series this summer to chroncile the making of as well as just help to promote my second humor book, and my wife even got me a little video camera for Christmas to do so, however at this point I’m almost thinking that this new podcast idea might take the place of the whole video thing. Mainly this is because I’m just not sure how confident I’m going to be in front of the camera and I’m almost thinking that audio might be a little easier to nerve up to … not to mention it sort of ties into another project that I still want to try and fit in this year.
My second excuse, and I guess it’s still sort of along the same lines as the first one, is that if I were to do a video podcast, I think I’d feel more inclined that it would have to be funny to garner as many views as possible, whereas it almost feels a little “safer” to just stick to an audio podcast where I can talk from the heart and not necessarily worry about whether it’s funny enough or not. Plus, I don’t want to spread myself too thin by trying to write a funny column AND trying to do a funny video podcast by myself every single week – that seems like a lot, but a funny column and then a more down to earth audio podcast about the making of said column might be a little more managable…
…and again, it’s not like I’m not already having a lot of these conversations with myself in the car, anyways! The only difference is now they’ll be a little more structured and I’ll be recording them.
Ultimately I’m pretty excited about the idea of trying out a new medium that I’ve enjoyed from other people for so long, so now it’s just a matter of seeing where it fits into my schedule to begin. Right now I’m kind of thinking sometime later in July – I still have one huge project that I desperately need to finish before starting anything else, but for what it’s worth I sat down last night and filled a full sheet of notebook paper just brainstorming to see if I even had enough ideas for more than one show, and I think I do, so hopefully in less than a month I’ll be following up this post with an announcement to come check out my very first episode about being creative!
*hopeful, excited fingers crossed*