Intermission Time, But Not Really
We’re officially done with half of the houses in Red Rope, and now we’re face with the following question: are we half-full kind of people or half-empty? Put more relevantly, are we the people who look at the halfway marker and think we’re inching ever nearer to the end? Or are we the people who think about all the work they had to do to get to the midway point and gripe about having to do the same amount of work again?
Player 2 sits in the former camp, and I dwell in the latter. This video series has been fun to make, but some of these videos have drained the life out of me (i.e. the previous house). I’m also a curmudgeon who thinks life is about the end and not the journey. With the Brain School, I recall how writing the middle portion was such a slog. I was already envisioning the ending, but the whole lead up to that point still felt like a desert with no determinable end.
Part of the pressure has been the self-imposed deadline. Player 2 and I want to host a contest related to Red Rope in November, so we want all the videos out by then. You’d think four months would be more than enough, but my motivation runs on solar power in the dark winter. I’ve got to publish a review by then as well, and I don’t know if this slow-and-steady thing is going to let me beat the hare.
We’ll see. We’re at our “hump video,” and I’ll be damned if I call it anything else.