More writers could probably use Plotto

I'm kind of sad we didn't get to go into "Old Baileys" as characters, as they are characters that are pantsed by nature

Pantsing: Casually arriving on time. 😅

I'm here to plug "Christ the Eternal Tao" again. Also the works of the Cappadocian Father. Look to them for the metaphysical bedrock that refutes both Empirical Materialism and Perennialist Gnosticism. Not only the earth, not only the sky but the spring of life that flowes from the mountain.

First! 😁 Thank you again for having me on!

I think this was a good discussion. It's always nice to see people having discussions about such important ab d meaningful topics without getting upset. I'd like to see more of this sort of thing

I highly recommend "Christ the Eternal Tao" by Hieromonk Damacsene.

I thoroughly enjoyed the interview. I too now want to read Stoker’s Dracula. The thing I like the most about Dracula is the representation of an old world monster terrorizing an “enlightened” era of morons.

You're getting married?! lol congrats

Lmao

Even the placement of a word like only can change context a great deal. An editor knows that. I can't imagine what it is like with other languages.

I always thought steampunk was actually a way to get us used to the distopian lawlessness that is going on today. Need to finish your Barbie satire soon.

Lol. I Didn't know you had this in you. Its brilliant. Thank you. I am busy writing, but will listen later. *Pushes full bookshelf over on sister's Barbie land and crushes it* Whoops! *Regardless of the many times the Barbie-heads were dashed against the rocks, they still did not fracture, yet indeed, their hairdos got sluttier*

You did it! You mad man, you DID IT!

Love it, very helpful. New pulp fiction writers should take note of this.

I have a busy day ahead of me. I have to polish up a final Hard Times edit, then grab my sign and have a full day of promotion. I will listen later. Not too big on vampire novels, but vampire mall cop is good of a story not to check out.

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Seems my microphone played a bit nicer this time. This was a fun conversation to be part of and I hope it's helpful to your listeners!

Thank you for having me on. This was definitely an interesting and fun discussion.

Listened to a little bit. I get confused. Like some have said about Epic World building Fantasy Literature, I have a hard time following this because I don't understand some of the terminology in the world you have created. Fantasy is not my thing, though I appreciate the flow and sounds of this piece. I wish you sucess, West by god Virginian.

This guy makes 2 much sense for someone who takes mushrooms all the time (a double entendre).

I like to read and write in the genre of "Bizarro Americana"

I saw the same thing in one of my friends. He was a selfish person, and even selfish right after the birth of his son. But when the kid turned one and soon as he began to see himself in his son, he changed right then and there.

You can go tell the "soveirgn" that he can go take that Furthermore and go roll it up in the Constitution and smoke it! No, wait. That... actually...makes perfect sense

That's a.lot.of."likes." (Not the thumbs up kind)

Great Expectations was also a serial. It was released chapter-by-chapter and edited in progress.

Im going to have to fact check you on all that

nice job guys

You are a mad man

Is this just a skinny, bald, West Virginian reading this Epic Fantasy indie author tome through voice distortion software? Did you buy some milk for your sugar added Nestle Quick?

That looks like a cinnamon challenge right there.

Impressive, but I fear it will sound weird putting alpha in front of your name twice.

Let this be a lesson to any denizens of the 'net who would doubt your abilities.

Your grandmother is probably not happy you used her best ingredients to get kookoo for Cocoa powder. Next.time.just get her to make some toll house cookies for you.

100% crazy

Much better, I'm sorry that you had to do that twice, though I had some valid concerns. You know how things are, things are pretty weird on the internet. Stay weird, neighbor

I like this

Looks like some cocao sticking to the spoon slight of hand magic. The fact that you didn't show the empty spoon until it was out of camera view... extra sus...as well as your teeth should have been brown as hell. I call foul. At least you tricked Ian. She'll believe anything anyone tells her.

Now do the same, but with cinnamon.

Thank you for having me on and bearing with the tangents.

Passing this onto my best friend who is the weeb in my life.

11:10 This is the reason why I learned Japanese, to draw me closer to pure weebdom. To my dismay, it pushed me further away, to the point of wiping it clean. Japanese is a heavily context-sensitive language. English is quite the opposite, and it's one of the sticking points of ESL, how discreet we speak. To the point it can be a burden how exact we are to even to Romance cousin-languages. Translated stories aren't just written by the original authors but are co-written by the translators. The tropes come across novel to Weebs as a group because of the half-and-half nature of them. Much of the original culture shines through simply because of composition. But the fine details have to be super-imposed by the receiving culture. If you were to look at these hybrid stories through the lens of either of these societies, they are a strange blend which doesn't really make much sense and have no place in either. The trope, by proxy, is the building block of innate cultural narrative; one built by centuries of evolution and iteration. Certain societies have common tropes simply out of frequent interaction, but to slice them up and merge them together as Frankenstein would rummage for parts, is what makes the niches of translated media so off-putting to many. Therefore, allow me to submit the above as another bullet point toward the thesis. The Weeb Is Always Wrong.

Ugh, my sound clearly did not cooperate this time even as much as it did the last time... sorry about that.

I feel like an idiot, because I realized afterwards that the example of a villain protagonist par excellence is probably Light Yagami from Death Note. I imagine people are going to have a hard time finding someone MORE villainous than Light in the protagonist role

Nathans cat had a lot to say as well lol 12:12

Alpha

May the algorythm be with you. This is gold.

Listening to the first few minutes just to check my audio quality. Can't listen to my own voice for very long without sanity damage, plus, I was there when it was recorded so hopefully there's nothing in the chat I missed.

When I started writing and interacting with other writers, I was super confused that writers got angry and disheartened when I compared their story concept to existing high-quality stories that I was familiar with. It took me literal years to realize that people thought pure originality and incomparability with other fiction was somehow a major advantage of their idea. Without knowing it, I was taking that away from them - that mistaken idea that they'd come up with something nobody could have thought of before and nobody will ever think of after they're gone. Now I know I'm doing this, but I still do, because they will have to get past that feeling to get anywhere in writing, and also because it's funny to see them get all sad about how not original their "totally original" christmas tree of mediocre ideas borrowed from Brandon Sanderson and George Martin turns out to be. Also the nonhuman characters question was a lot more than a month ago.

Nice. It's a very good idea to bring philosophy and purpose into literature. Doesn't get talked about enough. Lovecraft is horror, though if I had to apply fantasy or Sci fi as a modifier, his work is fantasy. I think it might be best to analyze genre according to "intent" or "purpose" and that THAT may make all this analysis easier (writing this at 41 minutes in, or so) edit: thriller and horror can be distinguished not just by intent of author and the story, but also because horror means "dread" and thriller largely means "high energy/excitement." What's interesting about these two emotions is they are basically indistinguishable biologically when we experience them, though they actually cause very different consequences second edit: erotica is "low art" in the sense that it has literally no higher purpose or intent than to titillate. Titillation or shock are some of the lowest forms of "art" possible. Romance has a purpose, intent, etc, but these days is unfortunately is largely poisoned by loads of erotica. But while that may be popular, I would argue it's not like we can't imagine a romance that DOESN'T have erotica in it. The Ah My Goddess Movie is an example, or Somewhere in Time, for two examples