Hey guys, it's Emily! For today's video I am doing the "Not a Booktube Newbie" tag.
This tag was originally created by Clever Fox. I will link to her channel.
The reason I wanted to do this is because it is officially, to the day, my
one-year booktube anniversary,my booktube-versary. I got like a little
nervous that I got my date wrong, but I just confirmed it is officially August 25th!
That is the day that I posted my first Booktube video. So I thought, you know, I'm
not a newbie anymore. Been doing this for a year! So I thought it would be fun to
post this tag on the official anniversary date. Let's get started. The first
question I have already answered, and that is how old is your channel? It's a
year old. Number two is what are your favorite videos to make? My favorite
videos to make are review videos, but I only really make them if I feel super
inspired by a book and very passionate about it. So I don't make them as much as
I would like. I'm trying to do at least one a month--we'll see if that works.
Number three is what is a piece of advice that you would give someone who
maybe wants to join Booktube. And my advice would be to just do it. Just do it!
I know for me, I was really uncomfortable talking to a camera when I first started,
and because of that I put it off and put it off and put it off for ages. But then
I finally was just like, "I'm just gonna do it!" And then I did it and I was like, "Wow,
alright... This is not that great of a video." But I posted it anyway because
eventually you do hit your stride. It takes a hot second. Just like get it done.
Get started. Be okay with, you know, maybe stumbling a little bit along the way.
Because it's all a learning process, and the community is so lovely and welcoming
that even if six months from when you post that first video you're like, "Wow, I
was so awkward in that." Which is how I feel when I occasionally
re-watch my old videos. It's just such a welcoming community that it's worth that
little learning curve. Number four is since joining have you noticed any
unforeseen challenges? Yes, although I did kind of anticipate this being an issue
for me. I film using natural light coming in from my window over here, so obviously
I have to film during daylight hours. I've tried filming at night with just
like my apartment's lighting, and it's... It's bad. It looks really, really bad. so I
have to film using natural light, which means I am restricted to filming during
daylight hours. And because I have such a long
commute, so long, I oftentimes get home from work post daylight hours, which means
I really have to film on the weekends, which means that I have to be good at
time management, part one, which I am not that great at. And I kind of have to work
around living with three other roommates, because on a weekend when everyone's
like hanging out at home having fun I don't want to stick my head out of my
room and be like, "You need to be quiet because I'm filming a video!!" I don't
really want to do that. So anytime people are like out and about
I'll throw this up, shoot something, and then I generally have a bunch of videos
filmed at any given time so that, you know, if I'm like, "Crap! I don't have time
to film this weekend!" Or there's a ton of people over this weekend because we have
friends visiting and it's just noisy. Then I don't have to stress about it. So pre-
filming is the best savior because of those challenges that I have encountered.
Number five is what is a favorite book or series that you have read because of
Booktube? This one is a book that I've read recently! And I wrote it off, but
I've seen several people mention it as one of their favorite fantasy series and
what I am talking about is Furies of Calderon which is book one in Jim
Butcher's Codex Alera series. I wrote this off because I thought the concept
was like not for me, which is that it's vaguely inspired by the idea of a lost
roman legion combined with pokemon, and I was like, don't get me go on like love
me some Pokemon. I played that on my Gmeboy back in the day, like near and
dear to my heart. I just was like, "I don't think I want this in a high fantasy
series." I was very, very wrong, and I'm glad that people on Booktube talked
about it so much with such glowing reviews because I loved it! I'm so
excited to continue reading the series. And another book that I read because of
Booktube was Persepolis by Marjan Satrapi. I have wanted to read this
because it's considered such a great graphic novel, but you know you just kind
of like put stuff off? You're like,"Yeah I'm gonna read it later. I will get to it,
eventually." I picked it up for DiverseAThon, which is a wonderful read-a-thon. It's
such a good read-a-thon. It's just read diverse books. It's so great! I just loved
it. That was a great kick in the butt to finally pick it up, and it's one of my
favorite books. It's so so brilliant! I definitely recommend checking that out.
Number six: what is your favorite overall aspect of Booktube? Hands down the
community. I feel like this is a thing that is reiterated over and over and
over, both in this tag--so many people say for this question
that the community is their favorite thing--but also just in random videos.
People are always talking about the community. It's so, so wonderful. I just
love it! Speaking of community, I bit the bullet
and purchased a plane ticket to Orlando because I'm going to BookNet Fest! I'm
so, so excited. I'm gonna be staying with my friend Madelyn. She runs the blog
Novel Ink. I am I'm just so pumped. I'm so so excited! I'm so, so so excited to get
to meet some Booktube friends in person, so if any of you guys are going please
let me know because I would love to see you! So let me know if you guys are going
and hopefully we can meet up! Number seven is spread the Booktube love! Who is a
Booktube newbie that you really like? And for this I'm going with Kristin's
Library. I think her channel is under six months
old, so I'm considering you as a newbie, Kristen. I really like her channel. She
seems so sweet and she reads a lot of the same kind of genre that I do, so you
should go check her out. I will link to her channel in the cards and down below.
And number eight is who do you tag, but I feel like this is a really old tag so
I'm just--if you want to do it you should do it. It's great little tag. Thanks so
much for watching! If you liked this video give it a thumbs up, hit subscribe to see
more of my face. You can find me on Twitter at possiblylit and on
Instagram at possiblyliterate, and I will see you next time! Or possibly in
person at BookNet Fest let me know if you're going. I'm so excited!!!
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