tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87172343554882869182024-03-18T11:17:56.415-07:00monotreme dreamsman must have a little bit of madness in him, or else he won't have the courage to cut the rope so he may fly freeAlonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.comBlogger976125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-33208658397947046302024-03-18T11:16:00.000-07:002024-03-18T11:16:59.837-07:00Snif and Snuf<br><br>Classid fun by Michael Ruocco<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KFSTJG_2Cnk?si=mKlH0RBYa9hpY7pN" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-84555686201102169132023-10-26T10:40:00.006-07:002023-10-26T10:41:50.018-07:00FimFarum Fable<p> Keep tracking this video down. <br /><br />Eastern Bloc Stopmotion stuff, Fable about guy selling his soul to the devil to stop his alcohol consumption then tricks the devil with leaves. <br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ixvKlKUzvQ?si=IVncDjQHy2ItfRov" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>another random thing I found<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aJjGj6nlpGo?si=wAVmemMLmtwwC9mx" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-6857095947486122472023-04-06T10:19:00.004-07:002023-04-06T10:19:55.127-07:00StarShip Velociraptor<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2n_Ae9DGC0U" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-47834903619373480892023-03-23T11:02:00.006-07:002023-03-23T11:02:47.312-07:00Super Turbo Atomic Ninja RabbitTook me forever to find this. Retro fan made 80's cartoon opening intro rabbit<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hahuZ277QEs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-15733982583522333902022-11-15T11:32:00.003-08:002022-11-15T11:32:22.538-08:00Unreal for Feature<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/765782709?h=a61bea1fff" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/crPrUYPZj9w" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xOVyme4TFZw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-5251059625781390002022-09-06T13:29:00.005-07:002022-11-01T09:35:29.238-07:00How to build Story and Character Twitter thread<p><br /></p><p>Bumped across this <a href="https://twitter.com/katjolewis/status/1566738681464889345">twitter thread </a>from<a href="https://www.katjolewis.com/"> Kat Jo Lewis</a></p><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Earlier this year, I took a job as a narrative designer at a video game company. Here are three things I learned while writing video games that made me a better novelist (1/14)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">1. Plot is your friend.
</span></span></div><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">External conflict does not work without internal conflict. And for the literary fiction writers out there like myself: internal conflict ABSOLUTELY does not work w/o external conflict. How do you write a story with both external and internal conflict?</span> </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Ask yourself two questions:
Q1: What concrete thing does my character want? To test that their goal is concrete, it should fall into one of four categories: win, stop, escape, or retrieve. If it doesn’t, it’s not concrete enough and your external conflict will likely be too weak.</span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Q2: What is my character’s core misbelief? This will point to their internal need and works best if it drives their external goal. E.g. AJ wants to rob a bank (a retrieve goal) because his misbelief is that money will give him freedom.</span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">An effective story would show how AJ’s misbelief is false (internal conflict) as he progresses toward his concrete goal (external conflict).</span> </span> </span> </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">2. Theme is key.
You might be asking, “How do I find my character’s misbelief?” Misbelief is tied to theme. Before writing game narratives, I thought theme was something that naturally manifested in a story. I couldn’t have been more wrong.</span> </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Theme drives the story’s tone, pitch, and audience. Theme is only effective if it drives your characters too. To find the misbelief, find your theme first. What lesson does the protagonist need to learn? Write down your theme, then write down the opposite. That’s the misbelief.</span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color:white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Let’s continue with the bank robbery example:
Theme: Greed is a prison.
Misbelief: Money gives you freedom.</span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">3. Outlines improve pacing and save time in revision.
If you’re a discovery writer and your process is working, feel free to keep scrolling. I used to be a discovery writer, but it did not work for me for three reasons:</span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">(1) throwing out countless pages in revision felt like a waste of time, (2) that feeling made me hostile toward the revision process, and (3) improving the pacing of my novel felt tedious because I was constantly going down the wrong path before I found the right one.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Writing video games taught me that finding a story structure that resonated with how I understand narrative was not a useless constraint. Instead, structure gave me the freedom to be more creative and enjoy the writing process because I had a framework to make sure that:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; 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orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">(1) the story finds an effective pacing in earlier drafts and (2) the protagonist is constantly making progress toward their concrete goal (external conflict) while battling their misbelief (internal conflict).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; 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font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; 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font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">There are a lot of different story structures out there to explore. I personally use the 3-Act Structure as described in Save the Cat (check out the novel version if you write prose) and the Hero Goal Sequences Paradigm from Eric Edson’s The Story Solution. Links below.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><p><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ij39HSbLCXo" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-45737513794433193062022-08-31T11:24:00.006-07:002022-08-31T11:24:36.046-07:00Link Dump<p> Bunch of links I've been holding on to. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://education.procreate.art/lessons/layers-of-reality">Using Procreate to make an AR scene</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.kimyoonmiauthor.com/post/641948278831874048/worldwide-story-structures">An essay on different story structures throughout the world, beyond just 3 acts <br /><br /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GamesForChange/videos">Games for Change</a> - Gamemakers trying to make games that make the world better<br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://realtimevfx.com/">Game VFX Forum</a><br /></p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-75743086082348536142022-08-31T11:18:00.001-07:002022-08-31T11:18:55.789-07:00Unreal Learning<p>The official <a href="https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning?application=unreal_engine&type=course">Unreal learning site</a>, haven't seen it in a while, so putting it here for finding later. <br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/5vL/unreal-engine-creating-and-modifying-control-rig/vyWZ/unreal-engine-introduction-to-creating-and-modifying-control-rig"> Unreal 5 Control Rig</a> (can animate in sequencer and bake out to animation sequence)<br /> </p><p><a href="https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/xm/unreal-engine-in-engine-animation-for-virtual-production/VXq/unreal-engine-in-engine-animation-for-virtual-production-introduction">Animating in Engine</a> (looks like they're going after mobu)<br /></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/qyl/stylize-renders-with-post-process-materials/G6l/introduction-to-stylized-rendering"> Stylized Rending in Unreal Course<br /><br /></a> </p><p><a href="https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/J61/independent-filmmaking-with-unreal-engine/zGZ/unreal-engine-the-idea">Independent Film Making with Unreal<br /><br /></a></p><p><a href="https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/mvvL/unreal-engine-ragdolling-and-how-to-recover-from-it">Getting in and out of Ragdoll</a><br /><br /></p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-47137329849602857172022-08-21T22:56:00.001-07:002022-08-21T22:56:11.285-07:00Airborn studios promo piece<p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Such a cool world, really wish it was a game. Think it's a promo piece funded with a grant, for <a href="https://www.airborn.art/">Airborn studio</a>o to level up to unreal 5 and just have a new calling card. </p><p></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7eF1xWPWDvw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-30049663812720646202022-08-05T16:26:00.002-07:002022-08-05T16:26:58.104-07:00Griffin Animation Academy Webinars<p> Ran across some <a href="https://griffinanimationacademy.com/">new school</a>? I think. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, head of it has done a ton of interviews with people. (calling them webinars.) Was watching this one with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewAnimation540/videos">Andrew Tan</a> that had some good tips. Blocked in his dynamic camera with a bouncing ball, then grease pencil on top. Thinking about spacing and texture to rhythm. <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qU3kAb52nas" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9wvJ1tGj81A" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Definitely going to wander through the rest of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzVC_s4XNqE&list=PLPdbMVH4I7dFbc7YnyJbPwBner8X5ziDM">webinars</a>. <br /></p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-16460405669635653622022-07-07T12:05:00.004-07:002022-07-07T12:05:51.278-07:00Legend - Dragon Ball Tale<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1JKLM45aIik" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><p> </p><p>Amazing Fan Made film</p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-23505265407064162712022-04-12T11:47:00.000-07:002022-04-12T11:47:06.964-07:00Character Design Course<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IgswlDEFUe2owv2XZbeFUJt8_pYLsAxfM2HX3T0-g8Q/edit"> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IgswlDEFUe2owv2XZbeFUJt8_pYLsAxfM2HX3T0-g8Q/edit<br /><br /><br /></a>Ran across this character design for animation course. Seems pretty decent, exercises and links out to more info. <br /></p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-56907261879149657372022-04-07T11:15:00.001-07:002022-04-07T11:15:06.001-07:00Martin Chang Game Projects<p> It's feeling more and more like the next step for me is to level up my non animation side but learning how to work better inside a game engine to get motion more integrated with the world. Procedural animation and IK legs and control rig stuff. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.martinchangart.com/">Martin Chang</a> has done a few <a href="https://www.martinchangart.com/game-projects.html">projects</a> in that direction. <br /><br />And in a similar vein, a <a href="https://twitter.com/games_inu/status/1467583731078778888">twitter thread</a> I've been holding on to for setting up a quadruped on a slope. <br /></p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-75837101018436251422022-04-07T11:11:00.003-07:002022-04-07T11:11:27.771-07:00Prophet animations<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JJyI-TmVgzs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-2316794317838879772022-03-11T10:49:00.003-08:002022-03-11T10:49:46.595-08:00Game Design for empathy<p> Just read an article that's a postmortem on <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-03-10-ten-years-later-jenova-chen-reflects-on-journey">Journey</a>. Really interesting, talking about game and level design to promote more empathetic behavior. <br /><br />Most games simulate competition, and are power fantasies. Give players guns and limited resources and they'll be thinking "who can I dominate, I'm going to be strongest". Journey has no possessions, so no resources to compete over, and no arms on characters so no agency to push others for the sake of being rude. <br /></p><p>In Journey, they designed environments to make the player feel small and a sense of awe. They believed this vulnerability made the players more empathetic to others, and more aware of how you are stronger with a partner. <br /></p><p>They also talked about having no way to communicate with another player, that people projected missing loved ones onto their partner, helping them to grieve. </p><p>The really interesting question was implied: "What would a game where you were given a med kit instead of a gun be like". Like Hacksaw Ridge as a game. Or some kind of RTS where you are building robots to rescue people from an earthquake. <br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fffff5; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "GamesIndustry Serif", serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-62387008064702489442022-03-04T14:50:00.003-08:002022-03-04T14:53:09.164-08:00Toby Olié - Puppet God<p>Found this cool guy<a href="https://www.tobyolie.com/"> Toby Olie</a> doing awesome stuff<br />
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(or blogs :P ) <br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Hey btw, if you’re doing worldbuilding on something, and you’re scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it’ll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don’t want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:</p><blockquote class="npf_indented" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-left: 3px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;">Plot hole 1: If the vampires can’t stand daylight, why couldn’t they just move around underground?</p></blockquote><blockquote class="npf_indented" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-left: 3px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;">Solution 1: They can’t go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.</p></blockquote><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Well, that’s a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.</p><blockquote class="npf_indented" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-left: 3px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;">Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there’s no vampires?</p></blockquote><blockquote class="npf_indented" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-left: 3px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;">Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.</p></blockquote><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it’s just turtles all the way down. And if you’re lucky, you might even find that the second question’s answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:</p><blockquote class="npf_indented" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-left: 3px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;">Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what’s their point and purpose?</p></blockquote><blockquote class="npf_indented" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-left: 3px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; padding-left: 20px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;">Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don’t try to move around via the sewer system.</p></blockquote><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">When you’re just making things up, you don’t need to have an answer for<span> </span><i>everything<span> </span></i>- just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won’t bother to dig around for a 3rd question.</p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-30102472580910973792022-01-11T11:02:00.004-08:002022-01-11T16:58:44.056-08:00King and The Beaver <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fYKnOATlnuA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-72849954572029483382022-01-11T11:01:00.003-08:002022-01-11T16:59:43.911-08:00Irradiation - short made with Unreal<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/585797977?h=5b3288add5" width="640" height="267" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/585806244">Irradiation - Process</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/savazivkovic">Sava Zivkovic</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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Times are changing, no longer need anything but a computer to make a film (if you're clever)Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-41785562357716957632021-09-15T10:18:00.005-07:002021-09-15T10:18:40.351-07:00Writing Banter & Flirting<p> Notes from a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/7uzlqj/looking_for_examples_of_and_tips_for_good_banter/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body">Reddit thread</a> about writing Banter between Characters<br /></p><p> </p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">My personal rules:</p><ol class="_1eJr7K139jnMstd4HajqYP" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside decimal; margin: 4px 0px 4px 8px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Banter should never happen as dialogue for its own sake. You may think that by doing so you're giving your characters richness and depth, but what's actually happening is that they're having fun swapping in-jokes while your reader twiddles her thumbs. This relates to:</p></li><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Banter begins when someone takes a dig a someone else, or tries to antagonise, poke fun or trick them, in the course of talking about other things. These 'other things' should be relevant to the story. By all means have the banter grow legs and derail the conversation.</p></li><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pay attention to where and when you use banter: it can serve you in several ways:</p></li></ol><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Prior to a sudden calamity, to enhance the impact.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">During a calamity, to show the characters trying to bolster each others' spirits even if they know it won't work.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">To distract the reader while you slip in an important clue or piece of information that they will kick themselves for not spotting later.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">To end a conversation or scene that otherwise has no clear off-ramp.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">To introduce the reader to a genuine point of tension between two characters when one oversteps the mark. LOTS of value here, with all manner of different shadings depending on how they and their other companions handle the overstep.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">4. It's not necessary for characters to have a lot of history together before they can engage in banter, but in that case the character who STARTS the banter is revealing themselves to be cocky or seeking to dominate the conversation. Again: lots of value here since it puts the relationships between the characters on an ambiguous footing, creating space for them to grow together or apart as the story continues.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">5. Whatever else you do, for the love of God DON'T banter about things the reader was not there to see. Banter is not funny to an outsider; it actively makes them feel excluded. So I guess there's an exception: if your intention is for the reader to feel the MC's isolation and exclusion or inexperience, drop in some banter that neither they nor the MC understand. But don't overdo it. Fair game for banter are events or character traits that the reader has already witnessed for themselves. In a real pinch you can reference a past event not witnessed by the reader in order to expose hypocrisy and puncture an ego that way, but try try try to avoid it if you can.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Banter can be written easier when you as the author know way more about the characters than the readers. I'd recommend you free write backstories attributes for your characters in order to help shape them into more dynamic personalities.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I'll also say that the banter I write in stories is necessarily connected to what's happening in surrounding events--or used intentionally to display some attribute of a character that I can't display otherwise.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">There's really only two rules I can think of.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">First up, don't have your guys break character just for the sake of delivering a good line. Not everyone is witty, not everyone has the same sense of humour, and not everyone cracks jokes in inappropriate situations. If you're doing banter and repartee all over the place you run the risk of erasing your characterisation and ruining the tone and drama of your scenes (I'm looking at YOU<span> </span><em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Girl Genius</em>).</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1b; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Second up, and this applies to comedy in general: it takes a shitload of time and drafts and rewrites.<br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1b; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1b; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: IBMPlexSans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">How to avoid "Telling" when your character is expressing their inner thoughts?</span></span></p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You can't avoid it entirely, but as a general rule, compare something like "This made me feel angry" to "In that moment, I wanted to slap him." Both are just telling you how the character feels, but the less direct method feels better.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Give the reader bits and pieces of their inner monologue, but not the whole thing. A fun thing to do is play around with the contradiction between their inner thoughts and their actions.</p><blockquote class="_28lDeogZhLGXvE95QRPeDL" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border-bottom: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left: 4px solid var(--newCommunityTheme-bodyTextAlpha20); border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 4px 8px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; quotes: none; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You prick, you utter arsehole, I hate you so much</em><span> </span>thought Sam, as he shook the man's hand and said "Lovely to finally meet you" with a smile.</p></blockquote><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">vs</p><blockquote class="_28lDeogZhLGXvE95QRPeDL" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border-bottom: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left: 4px solid var(--newCommunityTheme-bodyTextAlpha20); border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 4px 8px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; quotes: none; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sam hated the man but he shook his hand and smiled because he knew it would be a bad move to upset them.</p></blockquote><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1b; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">'narrate vs. dramatize' is that you narrate scenes that are better told and dramatize scenes that are better showed.<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5neBuGANxIk&t=291s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5neBuGANxIk&t=291s</a></span><br /></p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I like to break down flirting into two styles:</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Compliments: This is when someone says something that's generally positive. It can be 100% genuine and kind or it can have more edge (ex. sexual comments about someone's body or behavior) or it can even be compliments disguised as insults.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Insults: This is when someone says something that's negative. It can range from light-hearted teasing to actually mean. The way to temper insulting style is with body language. Sort of a "forget what my mouth is saying and look at what my body is saying" thing.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You can have a bunch of different combinations of flirting (with book examples):</p><ul class="_33MEMislY0GAlB78wL1_CR" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside disc; margin: 4px 0px 4px 8px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Person A and Person B say things that are positive/complimentary/genuine (<em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Autoboyography</em><span> </span>by Christina Lauren)</p></li><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Person A and Person B say things that are teasing/negative/insulting (<em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Carry On</em><span> </span>by Rainbow Rowell,<span> </span><em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hating Game</em><span> </span>by Sally Thorne)</p></li><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Person A uses compliments and Person B uses insults (<em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White Hot Kiss</em><span> </span>by Jennifer L. Armentrout,<span> </span><em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fault in Our Stars</em><span> </span>by John Green)</p></li><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Person A uses either compliments or insults and Person B is oblivious (<em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sorcery of Thorns</em><span> </span>by Margaret Rogerson)</p></li><li class="_3gqTEjt4x9UIIpWiro7YXz" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.4em 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Person A and Person B like to mix things up (<em class="_7s4syPYtk5hfUIjySXcRE" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Red, White, and Royal Blue</em><span> </span>by Casey McQuiston is sort of an example. The characters flirt one way in the beginning and shift over time)</p></li></ul><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Obviously, you need to mix things up to keep it interesting, but I think people generally have a flirtation style and it will depend on your character. If you are doing the last one, with one oblivious character, it makes sense that Character A would try a bunch of different things to see what gets a reaction.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">People that are genuine, open, confident, and kind will be more comfortable doing the compliment flirting. People that are defensive, cautious, contrary, and snarky are more likely to use the insult style flirting.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0.25em; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I think of flirting as having a push/pull interaction. When someone says something flirty the goal is to either push the other person off-balance (to catch them off guard) or to pull them in. Compliments and insults can be used both ways. While most people will generally stick with one style of flirting (compliment or insult), they will almost always do a combination of pushing and pulling to keep the other person engaged.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Also, I don't think you should focus solely on how their flirtation works in the first meeting. Flirting is a way a couple communicates, so it builds over time. It also creates a nice sense of anticipation for your reader, so if you can keep your love interests flirting, but not actually getting together for a while, you can string along your readers longer and create some great tension.</p><p class="_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: "Noto Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0.8em 0px 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-44765954356119923252021-09-15T09:44:00.004-07:002021-09-15T09:47:27.286-07:00Couple Great Poems<p><strong> </strong></p><h4 id="wild-god-poem">Sometimes a Wild God by <a href="https://tomhirons.com/poetry/sometimes-a-wild-god">Tom Hirons</a><br /></h4>
<p>Sometimes a wild god comes to the table.<br /> He is awkward and does not know the ways<br /> Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver.<br /> His voice makes vinegar from wine.</p>
<p>When the wild god arrives at the door,<br /> You will probably fear him.<br /> He reminds you of something dark<br /> That you might have dreamt,<br /> Or the secret you do not wish to be shared.</p>
<p>He will not ring the doorbell;<br /> Instead he scrapes with his fingers<br /> Leaving blood on the paintwork,<br /> Though primroses grow<br /> In circles round his feet.</p>
<p>You do not want to let him in.<br /> You are very busy.<br /> It is late, or early, and besides…<br /> You cannot look at him straight<br /> Because he makes you want to cry.</p>
<p>Your dog barks;<br /> The wild god smiles.<br /> He holds out his hand and<br /> The dog licks his wounds,<br /> Then leads him inside.</p>
<p>The wild god stands in your kitchen.<br /> Ivy is taking over your sideboard;<br /> Mistletoe has moved into the lampshades<br /> And wrens have begun to sing<br /> An old song in the mouth of your kettle.</p>
<p>‘I haven’t much,’ you say<br /> And give him the worst of your food.<br /> He sits at the table, bleeding.<br /> He coughs up foxes.<br /> There are otters in his eyes.</p>
<p>When your wife calls down,<br /> You close the door and<br /> Tell her it’s fine.<br /> You will not let her see<br /> The strange guest at your table.</p>
<p>The wild god asks for whiskey<br /> And you pour a glass for him,<br /> Then a glass for yourself.<br /> Three snakes are beginning to nest<br /> In your voicebox. You cough.</p>
<p><em>Oh, limitless space.</em><br /> <em>Oh, eternal mystery.</em><br /> <em>Oh, endless cycles of death and birth.</em><br /> <em>Oh, miracle of life.</em><br /> <em>Oh, the wondrous dance of it all.</em></p>
<p>You cough again,<br /> Expectorate the snakes and<br /> Water down the whiskey,<br /> Wondering how you got so old<br /> And where your passion went.</p>
<p>The wild god reaches into a bag<br /> Made of moles and nightingale-skin.<br /> He pulls out a two-reeded pipe,<br /> Raises an eyebrow<br /> And all the birds begin to sing.</p>
<p>The fox leaps into your eyes.<br /> Otters rush from the darkness.<br /> The snakes pour through your body.<br /> Your dog howls and upstairs<br /> Your wife both exults and weeps at once.</p>
<p>The wild god dances with your dog.<br /> You dance with the sparrows.<br /> A white stag pulls up a stool<br /> And bellows hymns to enchantments.<br /> A pelican leaps from chair to chair.</p>
<p>In the distance, warriors pour from their tombs.<br /> Ancient gold grows like grass in the fields.<br /> Everyone dreams the words to long-forgotten songs.<br /> The hills echo and the grey stones ring<br /> With laughter and madness and pain.</p>
<p>In the middle of the dance,<br /> The house takes off from the ground.<br /> Clouds climb through the windows;<br /> Lightning pounds its fists on the table<br /> And the moon leans in.</p>
<p>The wild god points to your side.<br /> You are bleeding heavily.<br /> You have been bleeding for a long time,<br /> Possibly since you were born.<br /> There is a bear in the wound.</p>
<p>‘Why did you leave me to die?’<br /> Asks the wild god and you say:<br /> ‘I was busy surviving.<br /> The shops were all closed;<br /> I didn’t know how. I’m sorry.’</p>
<p>Listen to them:</p>
<p>The fox in your neck and<br /> The snakes in your arms and<br /> The wren and the sparrow and the deer…<br /> The great un-nameable beasts<br /> In your liver and your kidneys and your heart…</p>
<p>There is a symphony of howling.<br /> A cacophony of dissent.<br /> The wild god nods his head and<br /> You wake on the floor holding a knife,<br /> A bottle and a handful of black fur.</p>
<p>Your dog is asleep on the table.<br /> Your wife is stirring, far above.<br /> Your cheeks are wet with tears;<br /> Your mouth aches from laughter or shouting.<br /> A black bear is sitting by the fire.</p>
<p>Sometimes a wild god comes to the table.<br /> He is awkward and does not know the ways<br /> Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver.<br /> His voice makes vinegar from wine<br /> And brings the dead to life.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>SIBLINGS by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Dazzler-Patricia-Smith/dp/156689218X">Patricia Smith</a></strong><br /><em>Hurricanes, 2005</em></p> <p>Arlene learned to dance backwards in heels that were too high.<br />Bret prayed for a shaggy mustache made of mud and hair.<br />Cindy just couldn't keep her windy legs together.<br />Dennis never learned to swim.<br />Emily whispered her gusts into a thousand skins.<br />Franklin, farsighted and anxious, bumbled villages.<br />Gert spat her matronly name against a city's flat face.<br />Harvey hurled a wailing child high.<br />Irene, the baby girl, threw pounding tantrums.<br />José liked the whip sound of slapping.<br />Lee just craved the whip.<br />Maria's thunder skirts flew high when she danced.<br />Nate was mannered and practical. He stormed precisely.<br />Ophelia nibbled weirdly on the tips of depressions.<br />Philippe slept too late, flailing on a wronged ocean.<br />Rita was a vicious flirt. She woke Philippe with rumors.<br />Stan was born business, a gobbler of steel.<br />Tammy crooned country, getting the words all wrong.<br />Vince died before anyone could remember his name.<br />Wilma opened her maw wide, flashing rot.</p> <p>None of them talked about Katrina.<br />She was their odd sister,<br />the blood dazzler.</p>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-31557160831640684542021-05-04T17:29:00.001-07:002021-05-04T17:29:34.177-07:00À quoi ça sert l'amour<a href="https://www.instagram.com/lclichy/">Louis Clichy</a> I was trying to track down this film recently. <br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0IoU7OMkQsE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-49206004701275103652021-05-04T13:26:00.007-07:002021-05-04T13:34:56.317-07:00Pixel Rick & Morty<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x9vcTf3_nro" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
oh, I remember this one by him from 2002<br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FY9AINR3Xic" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-38782760691313609482021-02-24T10:44:00.003-08:002021-02-24T10:44:35.957-08:003D storyboardsRan across an <a href="https://www.blender.org/user-stories/the-future-of-storyboarding-blender-for-pre-production/">article</a> talking about using grease pencil in Blender to do storyboards in quick greyblock scenes. Combining layout and storyboarding so you don't have to reinvent things when you get out of 2D into 3D
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H10rQoSg41c" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717234355488286918.post-74777006589757583472021-02-24T10:41:00.006-08:002021-02-24T10:41:59.084-08:00Auto RiggersJust ran across <a href="http://www.mgear-framework.com/">M Gear</a> and <a href="https://www.cgmonastery.com/" target="_blank">CG Monastary</a> as free autoriggers for maya that seemed to have a decent amount of people actually using them. Alonsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02805049234657129031noreply@blogger.com0