1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,640 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:13,920 MJMunoz.com. Welcome to episode 34.1 or something like that of Story Over 3 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,960 Everything. Maybe it's really episode 33.9. I don't know. But it's not a full 4 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:24,800 episode 34 because I had a very great struggle with time management this week. 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:30,080 I had a very great struggle with my availability to do my writing and drawing. 6 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:35,960 I think I drew more than I wrote but I probably only wrote two days maybe this 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,400 week or you know I probably only drew three days this week. So that's pretty 8 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:47,520 bad. The writing period that I'm in right now for the author's log should have 9 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,400 been from August 26 to September 1st. It's September 21st as I record this. I 10 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:56,600 didn't draw. I didn't make it happen and I'm not going to frankly. As I go right 11 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:01,400 into the author's log I can see that the 26th I didn't write, the 27th I didn't 12 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:07,640 write, the 28th I wrote outline type material and I never got back to it the 13 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:14,080 rest of the week. 28, 29, 30 or I guess 29, 30, 31 and September 1st. They're all empty. 14 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:20,120 No words. Zero words written. So that's that's shocking. That's a little dismal. 15 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:29,360 I'm not happy about that. What happened? Real life got in the way. I don't I 16 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,960 didn't even know that I had car trouble. There were different things that 17 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:36,440 happened but it's funny I'm actually this is going to be a very short episode. 18 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:44,640 I will read to you briefly what I wrote in my outline from the 28th but outline 19 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:51,280 slash story notes. But aside from that I will talk about my plight and I'll talk 20 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,480 about it through lens of the Harry Potter series which I'm partway through 21 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:04,680 and I was inspired to make a title for the episode which is MJ Muñoz and the 22 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,800 shackles of time or the originally it was in the block of time implying a 23 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,600 writer implying a writer's block. I didn't have writer's block. I just didn't 24 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,440 make time to write. I couldn't make time to write and I thought what would be 25 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,400 better would be MJ Muñoz and the shackles of time or and the 24 shackles 26 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:27,240 or something like that. And the rotating shackles and the gear bound. Ooh, MJ Muñoz 27 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,720 and the gear bound shackles. I like that. So if you look at the thumbnail for this 28 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:36,680 episode there's an image that I had made through Bing. You can talk to 29 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,600 the Bing chat and have it do makeup dolly images for you basically. So that's 30 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,200 where that image comes from. It's a book cover idea image for this 31 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,560 book I just made up with a title spoofed off of Harry Potter. So 32 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,680 anyway I just thought that was kind of interesting but I will get into that 33 00:02:54,680 --> 00:03:00,880 after I finish the week authors log. So I'm just gonna read it verbatim and then 34 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:06,040 move on to talking about my time management woes. So these are authors 35 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:11,560 note slash outline prompts for myself to write the rest of the chapter and perhaps 36 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,720 the rest of the book. Tut and the Grobug guardians battle the enemy. It's a tough 37 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,920 battle but they think they won. Tut reaches out to Hum and Glimmer and 38 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:23,960 realizes something is very wrong. He and the guardians rush back to the camp to 39 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:30,280 help. Meanwhile Shush or Shush yeah Shush Splash and Glimmer are in the cradle 40 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:35,600 with the Grogrubs. Hum whistle grunt quiver or hum whistle grunt chirp quiver 41 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:40,600 and the other Grobug cadets are hidden away from the cradle. Are hidden away 42 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,520 from the cradle. They are hiding in three seemingly abandoned nests like bird's 43 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:49,640 nests. Hum chirp and quiver are together. Whistle has yawn and slurp grunt has 44 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,040 babble and gnaw. Chirp sneaks away while hum is distracted 45 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,800 calling the fears of the Grogrubs and soothing them to sleep. She does it 46 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,960 remotely with her powers. Quiver is lulled by hum as well. Bored chirp wants 47 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,120 to see the grand battle as Tut and the six guardians are holding off the 48 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:13,760 attackers. My idea is that five or six foes slip through and chirp is attacked 49 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,280 and then things kind of escalate from there creating the conflict for the rest 50 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:26,040 of the the book basically. But that's all I wrote. So my plan my hope was to write 51 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:31,520 on the 29th 30th 31st and even today the September the 1st expounding upon that 52 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,920 and basically probably all that time those four separate days would have been 53 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:45,280 spent minimum writing the battle that the six guardians including Tut had 54 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:50,920 against the the attackers the foes the enemies and then they would have slipped 55 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,720 through and that would have created more conflict. So hey please God I will get to 56 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,680 that next week. But that's the conclusion of the author's log that is the shortest 57 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:08,400 author's log in all of all of the history of this show and yeah it wasn't 58 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,720 that it was fruitless it was just that there wasn't enough application of 59 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,120 effort to really you know turn out a good yield but I at least like the fact 60 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:25,120 that I got that note summary outline chunk down so I can expand upon that. 61 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,800 That's important that's necessary. So anyway moving on from there I only have 62 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:37,360 a couple minutes and then I got to close this out. It really is vexing that I have 63 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:45,600 so many time constraints so little time and that so often plans go awry and I 64 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:54,040 don't know how I will overcome that at this moment but if I ask myself the 65 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,680 question which I am now how can I overcome my tremendous time constraints 66 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:04,440 I'm sure I will find an answer. I've been cultivating a really good amount of 67 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:16,840 discipline to make the time for things to happen and slowly I went off the path. 68 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:22,960 It's been a week or two since I've worked out I've been getting up as 69 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,320 early as I want to I'm going into work as early as I want to I haven't been 70 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,320 doing my intermittent fasting like I want to I haven't been writing like I 71 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:35,440 want to I did draw two or three days somehow it's easier to just draw than it 72 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,200 is to write for me at the moment I don't again I do not know why that is the 73 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:46,360 case and I don't know what happened to my discipline because I thought it was 74 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,200 good and solid and strong and I thought I had a really well-established 75 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:57,760 foundation that would enable me to have success in this arena over and over again 76 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:04,600 but perhaps I was too proud perhaps I thought too much of myself perhaps I was 77 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:10,600 simply mistaken but that's uh that's not the case I can see that I don't have 78 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,600 the discipline that I want I can see that I don't have the stick-to-itiveness 79 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,880 the perseverance that I want to have and then I feel like I need to have for 80 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:27,280 long term long term long term success as a professional writer and I'm kind of on 81 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,000 a quest for that right now like I need that I definitely need that and you know 82 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:36,080 there's no training montage or you know snippet chapter that's gonna you know 83 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,840 make me able to do that and if there were I'd have to write it and I don't 84 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,120 have the time to write it so I just need to put myself through the paces and be 85 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,440 patient with myself and forgive myself for failing to do the things I want to 86 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:53,240 do when I want to do them and I don't know embrace happiness just be joyful 87 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,560 and happy that I get to write and when I get to write and keep chasing that I'm 88 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:04,440 not really sure I don't have the answers I I think a solid answer in life is to 89 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:13,440 be happy and to you know joyfully pursue that which you desire but that's broad 90 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:18,240 advice it doesn't get down to the atomic level it doesn't get down to the 91 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:23,720 mechanics and tell me what to do or how to do what I want to do and it doesn't 92 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:28,440 help you either so I'm gonna let this be a really short episode and I'm gonna 93 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:32,680 move on however because I'm doing this because I want to keep them separate if 94 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:38,040 you want to shortly after this episode is released probably you know 15 minutes 95 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:42,360 after it's released I will release another story over everything episode 96 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:49,040 it'll be story over over everything episode 34.5 and it will be a skimming 97 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:54,120 leaves episode where I'm talking about the first Harry Potter book philosopher 98 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:59,520 stone or sorcerer stone as it's known in America so you can look forward to that 99 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:05,760 and I'd be interested to hear your comments and interestingly enough I 100 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:12,960 don't believe in coincidence I have had these things ready to go for I've had 101 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,400 this one ready to go for a couple weeks now and I'm in the middle not in the 102 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,800 middle I'm in the beginning of book five so I should definitely have time to 103 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:28,160 finish five six and seven before I'm pressed for time but it's interesting 104 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,560 I'm releasing this episode on September 1st and if you've read the Harry Potter 105 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:36,120 books you know that September 1st is always mentioned is the day that Hogwarts 106 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,520 begins that's when Harry goes to the station and gets on the train and goes 107 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,960 back to Hogwarts on the you know on the Hogwarts Express so that's kind of 108 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,360 interesting timing for me and it makes me laugh and it kind of tickles me which 109 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:52,360 is why I went ahead and gave this episode itself a Harry Potter inspired 110 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:58,160 inspired title and that's why I decided to go ahead and release these as two 111 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:01,280 separate episodes that way there's the you know Harry Potter one for people who 112 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,400 were fans of that and who want to hear not a die-hard fan but just like somebody 113 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:10,760 who you know is serious about books and likes literature take a crack at series 114 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,600 and you know hear my impressions and that can be separate from me talking 115 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,240 about my writing woes because you know you don't want to hear about that unless 116 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,920 you want to hear about that in which case you can hear about it here and then 117 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:27,400 you can hear the you know philosopher's stone casual book chat over there on the 118 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,360 separate episode it'll be on the same feed but still I don't want people 119 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,320 wasting my time I don't know waste their time so there you go it's a little 120 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,160 courtesy for me to you anyway I hope you're well until next time folks this 121 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:44,360 is MJ signing out I hope you enjoyed that go to MJMunoz.com to leave any 122 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:50,040 questions comments or other feedback you might have there you can find all of my 123 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:56,760 analysis art and fiction I cover books tokusatsu comic books anime and more 124 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,560 look around you're sure to find something else that you'll enjoy as well 125 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:29,840 this has been a story over everything production