1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 This is MJ Muñoz, Author, Artist, Analyzer. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,200 Join me for my 10 minute writing session for March 4th, 2024. 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,560 I am writing on Grow Bug Tail Chapter 15. 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,640 This is Writing Session 7. 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,200 And this is what I wrote today. 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,000 What do you think, Gale Hoot? 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,960 The Critterbot Tiger jerked his head towards Hopper. 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,000 Gale Hoot swiveled her head in response. 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,720 Ah, I see. 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:27,720 Cinderstripe nodded. 11 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,720 So, Hopper, I hear you scared some nice folks around here. 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,680 What was that about? 13 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:34,680 I scared someone? 14 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:35,680 How? 15 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:36,680 When? 16 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,400 I've only met Widget and Gale Hoot. 17 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:46,000 Hopper looked between the two, then back to Cinderstripe and asked softly, did I scare 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 them? 19 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,600 Hopper wondered at the accusation. 20 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,640 And that's all I wrote. 21 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:58,560 So I did a decent amount of rewriting here. 22 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,480 And I didn't really. 23 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:06,600 Unfortunately, this is another one of those writing sessions where for about half of it, 24 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,620 I was being somewhat, well, a quarter of it I was being somewhat interrupted. 25 00:01:11,620 --> 00:01:14,480 Another quarter of it I was being severely interrupted. 26 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,720 And the last half was done in less than ideal circumstances. 27 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:24,680 So I'm thankful for what I have and, yeah, I don't know what else. 28 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,440 I actually left out a word or two. 29 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,800 I left out one word and then I left too many words in another area. 30 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,400 So I actually had to go back through, I had to fill in those gaps or correct those mistakes 31 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,800 I should say as I was reading it back right now. 32 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,480 But that helped me catch the mistakes and fix them, which is good. 33 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:51,240 So I think, you know, I'm slowly building out Hopper's personality. 34 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,160 And that's good because in the previous chapters of A Grow Bug Tale, you don't really get to 35 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:56,980 see much of his personality. 36 00:01:56,980 --> 00:02:02,520 He's very much lost and shocked and surprised at what's going on. 37 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:07,920 And you may say, hey, that sounds redundant because he's lost and shocked and doesn't 38 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,080 know much of what's going on in this story as well, which there's some truth to that 39 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:13,640 or this section of the story. 40 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:17,520 There's some truth to that, but I think I'm texturing his character in different ways 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,680 by showing how he went from being lost to being a member of the Critterbot Guardians, 42 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:24,680 basically. 43 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:30,320 And then what happens to, you know, he gets put in a position after that where that's 44 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:35,040 all taken away from him and you get to see how he reacts to all of that and how he faces 45 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:41,120 the future when he's going through another experience where he's kind of an unknown quantity 46 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,560 or everything is unknown to him rather. 47 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,680 He may be known, but everything's unknown to him. 48 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,960 And seeing how he deals with that is interesting. 49 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:57,920 And I want to have the kid who's partnered with him have a parallel journey, I think, 50 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:04,200 to that in the space of this book, which I think I have outlined somewhere, but I can't 51 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,200 quite remember. 52 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,400 Anyway, that's all. 53 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,760 Until next time, folks, take care. 54 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,400 This is MJ signing out. 55 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,640 I hope you enjoyed that. 56 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:15,640 Subscribe to keep up with me. 57 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:18,320 Like and share to help me reach more people like you. 58 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,760 And go to MJMunoz.com to find your next favorite thing. 59 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,000 And don't forget to let your voice be heard. 60 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,440 Stories are always better when you're part of the conversation. 61 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:28,880 Until next time, be well. 62 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,560 This is MJ signing out. 63 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:43,200 This has been a Story Over Everything production.