what part of hotewig took the most research/time to tl;dr down for us plebs? (whether that was learning about it or deciding to keep it in or out of the script). thanks again for condensing 11 months into 20 minutes
i'm not sure, but over the summer is when the research/writing happened. from about 2000bc to 1500ad i was going in 500 year blocks. i would just learn everything i could for every region, and write it all down, and then i had to basically just bang my head into a wall trying to get it to fit together. like a puzzle, and it had to make sense and it had to be interesting and it had to also be short. oh and after 2 months writing i reached the end but it was 20min45sec and still not 'good' enough, so during phase 2 (planning out the video) i actually ended up doing a lot of re-writes mainly in the second half, to basically make everything even simpler and shorter. it was a real nightmare to condense all that down. i was pretty much hallucinating all the hateful "you left this out" comments, in advance. but there was nothing i could do, i had to move forward