Jonathan Wilson Does What I Fail To Do

I probably mentioned Jonathan Wilson's YouTube channel on here before, but let me mention it again.  He's fallen in love with the art of storytelling (including writing and narration) and has started putting out his work on YouTube.*

He's put together this channel, with the intention of sharing more of his narrations, and asked me if I wanted any of my narrations on there as well.  Now, I have wanted to do this for a decade now, and even tried it a couple of years ago, managing to put a half dozen or so videos on YouTube, despite only being capable of the most rudimentary video-making achievements . . . and then when my P.O.S. computer died, I wasn't even capable of that anymore.

I have, no exaggeration, between two and three hundred audio files that I have made over the years, split fairly evenly between the work of other writers (generally what I put out on The Podcast That Dares Not Speak Its Name) and my own (what I released on the Outcast, and to a lesser extent, on the Dunesteef).  I would love to put out a file or two a month, since YouTube is so visible and so popular, but I simply haven't the time or resources to do it.**  So, the fact that Jonathan is willing and able is a huge boon to me, and I hope many folks discover his work, and along the way, mine as well.

I sent him several of my readings, all but one old public domain ghost stories I had run on The Podcast That Dares.  The other one he deemed not quite ready for Prime Time, and I'll defer to his judgment there. 

Among the first of his released videos is my performance of "The Voice In The Night" by William Hope Hodgeson, and it's essentially the image of a lantern while my audio plays behind it.  But that's just fine, and makes me want to go to the library some Tuesday and do one of my own.  It's an excellent story, so do yourself a favor and listen to it again by clicking HERE.

*If you recall, he experimented with generative AI, making animations or images to go with his work which, creepy though it may be, I was very impressed with.

**There's never enough time in the day, and even when I had a movie-making program available to me, I didn't feel it was worth spending an hour or so to put out one of my readings, or the three or four hours it would take me to put out an actual video.  Sadly, I did sit down and record a couple that never saw the light of day, and that's an even bigger waste of time, wouldn't you agree?