the first syllable : a podcast about writing
a podcast about writing a screenplay. exploring the ideas as they come, detailing the process and every little thing that connects to it.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
...if i don't remember the names, even...
how not (subjectively) knowing two main characters is delaying the writing of my next novel.
it becomes a sort of... existential dread kind of thing
an update because i finished a draft of Lockdown Lies and, while delayed, I still plan to work on Chase Two Rabbits next.
my adhd part of me wants to do too many things
updates on stitch in time, chase two rabbits, and a new script idea: lockdown lies. plus, the groundhog day project, bury your gays, michael myers minute, trashfilm, and a new podcast (maybe) idea: m…
fascinating me so much that i need to put them onto paper
a season finale in which i get sidetracked (while trying to talk about Chase Two Rabbits) by discussion of the capital of Gardea and the complications of trying to skin Basara into D&D 5e to run a ca…
and this fits with who i am as a person
realizing the repeated themes and tropes in my own writing, specifically connecting Four Finger Discount and Chase Two Rabbits. #foundfamily #outsidertrope #rambo
names that are too much earth
a few more notes on outlining Chase Two Rabbits in Miro, plus figuring out conventions for naming things in a fantasy world.
i think i know everything that has to be revealed
more plotting Chase Two Rabbits on Miro, and watching movies for inspiration.
...well, let me describe the board.
Outlining Chase Two Rabbits with virtual post it notes. With numerous references to The Big Sleep.
why do we keep reinventing the chariot?
how two episodes of Married with Children led to multiple novels, a whole mythology, and a published paper on Plato.
it needs a more detailed outline than, probably, i have ever done
outlining, Four Finger Discount, the Mountains of Consequence, The Empress of Time, Lion Horse Tree, Song of Fellfaraway, The Man with the Holes in His Hands, and now in much more detail Chase Two Ra…
a handful of conversations. everyone dies. the end.
my writing history, some unreleased episodes, and plans for expanding DEATH DEATH DEATH.
some kind of implication
figuring out how to expand DEATH DEATH DEATH's timeline for the next draft. plus a brief update on Chase Two Rabbits.
certain characters weren't where they were supposed to be anymore
update on changes made to DEATH DEATH DEATH going into a second draft, plus plans for Part I and Part II.
it looks cool but it's hard to say
updating many notes files for future basara stories and thinking about what project comes next.
that creates a domino effect in the other direction
Reading through DEATH DEATH DEATH and trying to replace, for example Mary Jane with Mary, Mary with Susie, but also Ed has to take up some of Mary's role and Mary Jane's role, but Mary needs to not o…
they don't quite finish... if you know what i mean
writer's panic, Scriptnotes, Westworld, anchronic order, Frequency, and the opening scene of DEATH DEATH DEATH.
no need to be weird... or precious
minor changes to make things make sense--olgardea, hommin, caeori--the empress of time, lion horse tree, fugue, d&d homebrew races, artistry, orson scott card and swallowing porcupines.
out of the lion's den and into the fire
combining homebrew worlds, song of fellfaraway, recent gardea history, rewriting the escalor, the godspell of gowl parrow, and chase two rabbits.
stories go as stories go
What was supposed to be a quick update about recent writing becomes a ramble about The Last Song of Whisper Blackbraid, Out of the Lion's Den and Into the Fire, Daggers of Crosswater, and The Man wit…
part three: 2013
figuring out which characters in DEATH DEATH DEATH can be mixed, matched, or erased from existence.
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