Q: you used to decide what to work on according to length, then with a randomizer, and it seems now you're trying to pretty evenly distribute music/short stuff/long videos over time. are you using any sort of system now to decide what to work on?
A: i am now "writing the queue" in a more human way than ever before, and i think that is a breakthrough for me. the short videos (including 'what is love') were all newly written as i made the queue (not selected from the archive). i have added some songs to the queue which i HAVE picked randomly, but I'm doing it differently than before -- now I'm actually randomizing from the entire list of songs including ones that are not 100% done (writing), where as before i would only pick from the completed list, and as a result the ones selected were always very old, because the newer ones are usually unfinished (writing). but now i have actually made a list that includes all the partially written ones (including ones that are just a title, or just one line, or even just an idea.) and whatever gets picked, i have to write it to completion. as a result, the finished items will include more newer and stronger writing. So far 3 song picks have been made, the first one was about 50% done, the second one was 100% done but i changed part of it, and the third one was really just a short (very traditional) chord form with barely a dummy melody, and i finished and wrote the whole thing. The entire current queue of items was made/selected/written between 5/20 and 5/26, and it has 11 items, starting with "thinkin bout doing some content." after those 11 items, there is a history video which is currently only a title. after picking that title, i decided to start production on the videos. The list may change, and i am trying very hard to resist the hammering from the public to "just do another history video" and i am trying very hard to remember that no one was asking for a history video before i did it (they wanted vines forever), and that following through in my own way is what made that what it was, and i am trying to remember to continue operating like that.