Q: what part of hotewig took the most research/time to tl;dr down for us plebs? (whether that was learning about it or deciding to keep it in or out of the script). thanks again for condensing 11 months into 20 minutes
A: i'm not sure, but over the summer is when the research/writing happened. from about 2000bc to 1500ad i was going in 500 year blocks. i would just learn everything i could for every region, and write it all down, and then i had to basically just bang my head into a wall trying to get it to fit together. like a puzzle, and it had to make sense and it had to be interesting and it had to also be short. oh and after 2 months writing i reached the end but it was 20min45sec and still not 'good' enough, so during phase 2 (planning out the video) i actually ended up doing a lot of re-writes mainly in the second half, to basically make everything even simpler and shorter. it was a real nightmare to condense all that down. i was pretty much hallucinating all the hateful "you left this out" comments, in advance. but there was nothing i could do, i had to move forward