"My Most Difficult Case" Posted on YouTube

When I went to fix some minor problems on my website, I realized that the video for "My Most Difficult Case" was not working. I uploaded a new copy of the movie to YouTube.

I fixed some problems with my website this week. Years ago, when I moved my website from html and php files to WordPress, I created some php files to forward the old page addresses to the new WordPress addresses. I realised that several of the forwarding files didn't work.

While I was reediting these files, I noticed that the video on my page for "My Most Difficult Case" did not work. It just showed a black box. http://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/my-most-difficult-case/

When I uploaded it, I put it on a website called daily motion. At the time they had a feature that allowed you to charge people to watch, rather than rely on advertising. I thought that approach would make more money for my films. That didn't work out for me. I don't think anyone ever paid to watch it.

A few months back they gave me notice that they would drop the pay per view feature. Since it wasn't doing anything for me anyway, I just let them switch the video over to private. I didn't think until this week that meant the link on my web site page wouldn't work.

I also had an e-mail a while ago that asked me to consider publishing it on Amazon Video. That would have paid. I hadn't bothered to follow up on that yet, and wasn't sure if I would. Maybe I'll do that later, but for now, I decided to upload "My Most Difficult Case" to YouTube, and use that on my web page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3CIsWY0pE

While I did that, I decided to modify the description of "The Barrier" as well. I didn't think it was clear that I still planned to make a new version of it. I didn't want people to think it was a final product.

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Another Story

I started on a new story this week. That means I didn't work on the rewrites of my other story. My life responsibilities also took me off my projects this week.

I have a bad habit. When I am stuck on a project, rather than getting down to work on it, I take a side trip into a new project. This has worked out for me a few times, but usually it just lets me procrastinate.

My top priority now is to complete the rewrite of "Felix", but since I started on it, I've been side tracked a couple of times by other ideas. This week I started to mull a new idea I had for a detective story.

I worked on an outline and started to create the characters. The out line has a few gaps in it that I need to fill in. I also wrote about 600 words of the first part of the story. It was that first bit of the story that got me started.

Over the last couple weeks I have been busy with some personal responsibilities. That seems to have turned out well now, which is a great relief.

Maybe next week I will get back to work in earnest on my main project. I hope. 

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