John takes a week or two away from the internet to focus on writing (2017)
story · status: followed over 3 videos (2017) · last event: update (2017-06-13)
In May 2017 John said he was taking a week or two away from the internet to focus on writing, and a prerecorded video followed. In June he said he had been in 'Cheyenne, Wyoming' for quite a while and expected to stay longer.
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-16 | told | In the end screen John says he won't see Hank on Friday: he is taking a week or possibly two away from the internet to write, and next Tuesday's (23 May 2017) video is prerecorded. (hedged) | The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job 00:03:42 |
| 2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) | update | John says the video was filmed nine days earlier because he is taking a week or two away from the internet to work. | Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday 00:00:06 |
| 2017-06-13 | update | John has been in Cheyenne for quite a while and expects to stay longer; it is frustrating because he likes his real life and his Tuesday videos, isn't all the way here, and worries he should be. | Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:01:18 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday — John says shocking scandals seem to grip the nation every week, each seeming the properly shocking one until the next; as Dorothy Parker said, 'what fresh hell is this?' (playful, hedged) — 00:00:15
- 2017-06-13 · Cheyenne, Wyoming — John says the other thing about going to Cheyenne is that you aren't necessarily going to come home with anything. — 00:01:31
- 2017-06-13 · Cheyenne, Wyoming — John spent about a year in Cheyenne finishing The Fault in Our Stars, but also several months a few years ago only to realize the book he'd worked hard on wasn't good and wouldn't be published. — 00:01:36
- 2017-06-13 · Cheyenne, Wyoming — John says he can't know until after immersing himself in the work, which is frustrating and scary, with no 'but' at the moment. — 00:01:47