Have you heard about that Vlog Every Day in April challenge thing going around?  Honestly, I think it's a bunch of horseshit.  If, however, you're participating in it, to you I say: kudos on your ability to, um, follow silly trends!!!

I'm writing this because I just left a comment on my friend Emily's blog.  She had challenged herself to blog every day in April (a cunning variation on the former) and concluded that she had epicly failed at this task.

First: I'm an ass without much sense of tact.  I should offer my apologies to Emily before I actually say anything, pointing out that above all, I simply want to encourage her creative efforts.

Second: trending challenges are horseshit.  I told her, in my opinion, whenever something like VEDA comes along, a creative person's goal should be to, invariably, say this:

"Pfft, whatev.  Vlog every day?  I already do that. How about something that actually stimulates and challenges my creativity? Like, for example, Blog Every Day as Sex-Deprived Baptist Cow Wrangler with Attention Deficit Disorder and only one eyebrow.  Bitches."

The challenge can never be to sit in front of a camera and talk.  Anybody can do that and YouTube did a good job proving it.  The challenge is to turn sitting in front of the camera and talking into something interesting and engaging ... and if you're a self-proclaimed creative genius (like I am) the challenge has to be to take it to the next level, whatever that may be, so that you know in your gut that you're not contributing simply "more of the same".

Stay creative, guys ... and remember that I'm watching ;)

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