I was thinking about my journey as a web novel author and how it shares a lot of similarities with my YouTube journey.
I’ve been writing years and slowly writing/uploading new chapters for people to read. It started with me having a horrendously depressing day and needing an outlet for all the dark negative thoughts going through my head. I decided to take what was inside of my body and pour it into my computer. My first chapter was over 8,000 words but by the end of it, I felt immensely better about myself. Then I just kept writing new chapters.
It was a nice feeling seeing people read my work and comment below the chapter. After several chapters, I got my first review which was great. As I continued to write, I began getting a varying degree of comments/reviews/DMs from people who either hated or loved my work. I kept writing new chapters. I got reviews saying how my work was like an adolescent’s wet dream or some other negative thought, but I kept writing new chapters. Sometimes, I’d crawl into bed because of the comments and reviews but it wouldn’t be long before I would continue writing new chapters.
Years passed by and I found out I’d written over 500,000 words (a combination of writing the chapter and editing them). In my analytics for the site, I’d had over 1,000,000 accumulated views and reached the top 10 for active series on the site (I dropped down to #~3,000. T^T). But I kept typing new chapters. I’ve had people comment about their surprise to see I’m still writing my web novel series.
Then in 2018, I came up with the idea of narrating my story and uploading the chapters onto YouTube. Just like with writing out my chapters, I had people tell me that I had no business on YouTube. I was told my accent is too strong or I suck at narrating my work, but I keep uploading new chapters. I’ve also received DMs from people who told me they were die-hard fans of my videos and love the story.
Just like with writing, though I don’t have an impressive number of views, subs, or watch-time, I know that it’s just about uploading new videos. The same as when I realized I had written ~500,000 words, I know I’ll get to 1,000 videos (maybe even 10,000) and I’ll just continue uploading new videos.
Crossing a mountain is intimidating, but if you remove a grain of dirt and keep going you’ll eventually remove your obstacle and reach your goal. There may be various strategies shared on YouTube, related to SEO, thumbnails, titles, and etc, but everything boils down to keep making videos and having the intent to improve your skills with each one. It may take 1,000, 10,000, or even 100,000 videos, but if you keep at it then you’ll reach your goal.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/es4dsn/just_keep_uploading_videos_and_youll_get_there/
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