PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
The room was a disaster.
A bomb blast at a publishing house wouldn’t have left such a mess. Bits of sheet music were everywhere. A guitar was thrown in a corner. A light beat the tempo on a drum machine.
Max was draped over a computer screen. The colorful lines of a Cubase score filled the other screen.
“I hope this week locked away in your music room has gotten this midlife crisis out of your system so you can return to work.”
Max turned to me. “With over a million Youtube hits in the last hour, I’m at work.”
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Word count = 100
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Highly original take on the prompt. I read and re-read and second time I enjoyed it even more.
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Thanks. I have a little music “studio” similar to this photo, but it is 100% for fun. Still, if i did make a profit… so the subject matter for the story was close at hand ;)
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Good for Max! Maybe it’s not just a midlife crisis. Very nice! =)
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Hopefully it will turn into something more for him, he just has to take advantage of the momentum. Thanks :)
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A great piece, Trent.
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Thanks
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dang – that is a lot of hits –
and how fun to feel the music here
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I sure would be happy with that many hits, even if others think it isn’t very many in today’s world…
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I know – the way folks get some hits is crazy –
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Uplifting.
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If only we could all have that level of success after a week’s holiday! What an uplifting story.
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I agree, I’d sacrifice a week i(or two or three) if I thought I would be able to have a breakthrough to my dreams. Though it is a week holiday to do the recording plus a lifetime of practicing to know what to record. Thanks!
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This gives hope to us all. I’ve some holiday left I’m going to lock myself away.
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I need to lock myself away and do some work, but the sun is out, the salt water and kayak are calling, so…. Good luck!
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A million hits on YouTube–may not bring in the money, but it’s certainly good advertising. I’d take it. :) I enjoyed your story and dreamed of having such time. :)
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Back in the day when YouTube actually let real people make money from their videos, I averaged about a dollar for 500 view. If that is still pretty close, his million hits would be worth about $2,000. Not getting rich, but, as you said, if he is using it to get people to buy the song or even the album, well, it helps when we get paid to advertise ;) Yeah, it is always good to dream…
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A million Youtube hits are fairly common these days and are by no means a measure of success. Don’t give up the day job!
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A million isn’t too uncommon, but he said “in the last hour”, so if he can sustain that and get even a fraction of a percent over to buy the music… As for me personally, I would be happy if any of my videos got a thousand hits in a year ;)
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Inspirational: maybe a week locked in my room — writing, rather than playing music — is what I need, too!
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I doubt if a week would be enough time to write a novel, but the idea is good! I’ll take a week in a cabin in the woods just for writing.
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No, not a whole novel, good point. Obviously I’ll need three months holed up in my room instead. To start with, at least!
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That’s what I think, a good three months will get me a good first draft and perhaps a start on the second. I’ve been looking for a patron to subsidize my writing but so far no one has volunteered ;) Oh well, perhaps when I retire I can devote more time to writing. Or to music, for that matter…
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At this point I won’t be retiring for… well, ever. So I have to figure out how to write and also make a living and also have a life.
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I want 32 hour days and 8 day weeks while still working 40 hr/w, but nobody in charge is listening to my suggestions ;)
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I will second that!
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Yes, I’d say he’s at work :)
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Someone in my town has a bumper sticker that says “Art work is work”. Yep, he is hard at work.
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You certainly worked in every detail of the prompt!
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I did see, but ignored, the Beatles song book, but beyond that, I tried. Of course Max might have been super inspired by The Beatles….
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Do I sense a bit of wishful thinking here, Trent?
Good luck to Max and you
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A man can dream, can’t he? ;) I just have to wait for 70’s style all instrumental electronic music to make a comeback… Thanks.
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Ha, he’s found his calling. I’m not sure she’ll be so pleased, though!
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Nobody wants to be the wife of a starving artist, and no matter how big this first viral hit, I’m sure he’ll be staving before too long.
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Sounds like great fun!
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That’s exactly what they viewers of his video said ;) Thanks!
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Dear Trent,
Perhaps Max will go viral. ;) Fun stuff.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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That’s what he’s hoping for! (I’m happy when one of my songs gets better than 100 views ;) )
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Was it a song though, or did he just put up a video of his cat? :-)
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Music video. If it were a cat video, a measly 1,000,000/hr would be nothing to brag about ;)
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I’m thinking she doesn’t consider this a success…
Methinks not… unless some moolah starts rolling in…
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It is possible you are right – Google is making it harder and harder to make money from Youtube – it used to be any one could make money, now only a small handful of “stars” make money, so it is possible that his million views per hour came to naught, but it is also possible that some clicked on the amazon link to the download or played it from someplace else – Youtube is usually used as a gateway to the real revenue stream, not the end point, but some people make a lot of money from it.
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It is so very hard… it’s amazing to see those who really do, though.
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Success!
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Yep, that one in a million that gets more than a handful of views
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