Plan B

Okay, time to face facts:

Fact #1: I am surrounded by family. Constantly.

This is, in most respects, a very good and helpful thing. Less so when one is a closeted Wiccan trying to produce a podcast show about her faith.

Fact #2: The time I have in the day to produce podcasts is extremely limited and extremely sporadic.

Mostly due to the fact that I have a job with highly irregular hours. Things become more complicated when Fact #1 is taken into account.

What this really means is that, when I do manage to get some recording time in, I only get about one-third of and episode recorded. This leads to great frustration as I don't work from a script anymore. Stopping and then starting again really kind of goofs things up. I get thrown off my groove and have to find the train of thought that I left over five-plus hours ago...

The result is a strange jumble of a show with a lot of umm-ing and back-tracking in an effort to make it all work. It also stretches out my recording and editing process to up to two weeks rather than six hours (ouch!). I usually end-up scrapping the episode out of frustration because the quality of the show is so poor. In the meantime, you, the listeners, are probably wondering what on Earth is taking me so long.

Well, alright. Clearly what I've been doing is not working. At all. So, rather than continue to slam my head up against the brick wall of circumstance, I have decided to take what seems to be a large hint from the Universe and adapt.

Until further notice, TBC will no longer have a podcast (though I will keep the previous podcast episodes available for your listening pleasure). Instead, as at least one or two of your have suggested, it will continue as a blog. Let's hope that I can write as well as I talk (haha).

Obviously, if you are a sucker for grammatical accuracy, you may be somewhat disappointed by this version of TBC, but at least this way I'll actually be able to produce something of possible use to all of you poor, long-suffering listeners. I also hope that making better use of the blog format will actually lead to more topic discussion. I'd like to consider anything I have to say as the opening statement of a much larger dialogue, so I'll still be expecting you all to tell me what you think.

I hope this isn't too big of a let-down for all of you. I can't help feeling a little bit like a failure on this one. On the other hand, it's become very clear to me that trying to continue the podcast in my current situation is, perhaps, a bit ridiculous. I hope to bring it back when my husband and I manage to get our own space.

Expect the first post in the new TBC series ASAP.

Bright Blessings!
~LitheWolf