WEBVTT 00:00:00.910 --> 00:00:05.089 If Gwydion is the man Tarin needs to be, then 00:00:05.089 --> 00:00:11.230 Ilanwi is the woman Tarin needs to be able to 00:00:11.230 --> 00:00:15.089 win the heart of. And I'm not saying that this 00:00:15.089 --> 00:00:20.390 chapter 6 of the Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander 00:00:20.390 --> 00:00:23.609 introduces romance into the book. And I'm not 00:00:23.609 --> 00:00:27.149 saying I want adolescent romance in the book. 00:00:27.269 --> 00:00:30.329 I'm actually against that. And I think that should 00:00:30.329 --> 00:00:32.189 be saved for adult characters, not for children 00:00:32.189 --> 00:00:35.549 characters. Even in this medieval world where 00:00:35.549 --> 00:00:38.229 they're both 12 or 13 or whatever ages they are, 00:00:38.289 --> 00:00:40.490 it's unclear to me how old they are exactly. 00:00:40.590 --> 00:00:41.869 I don't remember if it was mentioned earlier 00:00:41.869 --> 00:00:45.570 how old Tarin is. I think he's around 11 or 12, 00:00:45.630 --> 00:00:46.869 and I think by the end of the series he's like 00:00:46.869 --> 00:00:49.929 16 or 17, maybe. Anyway, and she's about his 00:00:49.929 --> 00:00:51.390 age. Or it says that he's the same age as her, 00:00:51.469 --> 00:00:54.630 but she's taller? I think is what it says. Anyway, 00:00:54.729 --> 00:01:00.039 doesn't matter. Moving forward. There is something 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:02.799 weird about this chapter. It feels a little romantic. 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.180 It feels like there's a potential relationship, 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.000 whatever. Like, you know, this is a ship waiting 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.379 to be launched or a ship waiting to set sail. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.140 But, like, I don't want that. And I'm just going 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:16.959 to spoil it for you. That doesn't happen at all 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.180 in this book. And you could argue that it doesn't 00:01:19.180 --> 00:01:21.920 really happen in the series as a whole. And if 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:24.120 it does, that happens in a very chaste, wholesome 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:28.019 way, which I approve of. Um, I know I've kind 00:01:28.019 --> 00:01:30.519 of said different things about it, but there 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:31.819 you go. That's, that's what I'm going to say, 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:34.299 because I want to walk this fine line between 00:01:34.299 --> 00:01:38.099 not spoiling the series and also giving you reassurance 00:01:38.099 --> 00:01:41.900 of what this is and isn't. And, uh, it's not 00:01:41.900 --> 00:01:44.859 kids, uh, smooching in Harry Potter, which was 00:01:44.859 --> 00:01:47.780 super inappropriate in my opinion. And, uh, yeah, 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:53.060 not good stuff. Anyway. So, uh, what do I mean 00:01:53.060 --> 00:01:55.120 by Elanri's the kind of woman that Tarn needs 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:59.230 to... be able to impress? Well, she's very much 00:01:59.230 --> 00:02:01.090 self -assured. She has a great understanding 00:02:01.090 --> 00:02:06.170 of who she is. And she... And we get so little 00:02:06.170 --> 00:02:09.969 insight on her as far as exposition is concerned. 00:02:10.129 --> 00:02:12.949 But from her interactions with Taran, we get 00:02:12.949 --> 00:02:15.870 to see what type of person Elanwi is. She's a 00:02:15.870 --> 00:02:18.449 little flighty, or she feels flighty to Taran. 00:02:18.629 --> 00:02:22.050 Taran's very dark, very dour, very heavy, very 00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:25.069 much seeing catastrophe everywhere. Ironically, 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:28.759 He sees catastrophe everywhere, but he sees himself 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.819 winning in every situation. For example, in the 00:02:31.819 --> 00:02:33.580 last chapter, I believe, or the chapter before, 00:02:33.699 --> 00:02:36.599 actually, he thought that he would just be able 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:41.500 to swim when the need arose. And yet, here, he's 00:02:41.500 --> 00:02:43.819 thinking, he's worried that the water that they 00:02:43.819 --> 00:02:46.340 give him in his bowl is poisoned. He's worried 00:02:46.340 --> 00:02:48.759 that the food that Aharon would offer him and 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.500 Gwydion is poisoned as well. He's constantly 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:55.379 of two minds. He's constantly thinking, What's 00:02:55.379 --> 00:02:56.659 the worst that can happen? That's probably going 00:02:56.659 --> 00:02:59.259 to happen. And also, no matter what happens, 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.379 I'll be able to handle it. And it's a little 00:03:01.379 --> 00:03:06.300 crazy how he is scatterbrained in that way. And 00:03:06.300 --> 00:03:08.400 yet he criticizes the laundry for being scatterbrained 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:11.240 as well. And when she's going off to help him, 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:15.479 he worries that she'll forget what she was supposed 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:19.219 to do and how she was supposed to help him and 00:03:19.219 --> 00:03:24.590 Gwydion, who is the other prisoner. It's really 00:03:24.590 --> 00:03:26.789 fascinating. It's really fascinating because 00:03:26.789 --> 00:03:29.270 he accuses her, he accuses her of the very thing 00:03:29.270 --> 00:03:34.129 that he's guilty of and he sees her flaws, but 00:03:34.129 --> 00:03:39.210 doesn't see them in himself. And yet this energy, 00:03:39.310 --> 00:03:42.250 this vibrance, this like zest for life and this, 00:03:42.349 --> 00:03:48.250 this very much different energy and attitude 00:03:48.250 --> 00:03:50.550 that she brings to the book, to the chapter. 00:03:51.580 --> 00:03:54.120 is very compelling and it's very enjoyable. Like, 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:59.439 she's a joy to experience and it has nothing 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:03.360 to do with, I don't know, it has nothing to do 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:04.860 with the fact that she's a girl. It has nothing 00:04:04.860 --> 00:04:06.360 to do with the fact that he calls her beautiful 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.919 or assesses her as being beautiful. It's just 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.819 the energy and the personality is so much more 00:04:13.819 --> 00:04:17.519 enjoyable than Taryn's dourness. And yeah, she 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:19.399 does make Taryn look stupid and she calls him 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.930 stupid. in, I think, three different ways on 00:04:21.930 --> 00:04:24.730 like five different occasions. And it's just 00:04:24.730 --> 00:04:27.029 a lot of fun because it isn't a girl boss thing. 00:04:27.089 --> 00:04:30.089 It isn't a modern woke thing where she's tearing 00:04:30.089 --> 00:04:33.490 down this guy in order to be better than him. 00:04:34.910 --> 00:04:39.149 Taran genuinely has flaws and is not a perfect 00:04:39.149 --> 00:04:41.649 character and is still in need of a lot of growth. 00:04:41.949 --> 00:04:44.810 And we haven't gotten to know Elanri well enough 00:04:44.810 --> 00:04:47.459 to know what her flaws are. And to know where 00:04:47.459 --> 00:04:49.420 she needs to grow and in what way she needs to 00:04:49.420 --> 00:04:53.199 grow. But it feels to me as if she's already 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:57.300 farther along on her journey. Tarn, she asks 00:04:57.300 --> 00:05:00.560 Tarn, are you, all these different things. Among 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.980 them is a great war leader. And he says, no, 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:04.459 none of those things. I'm an assistant pig keeper. 00:05:04.540 --> 00:05:07.399 She accepts this graciously and doesn't say, 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:09.569 oh, I'm an assistant pig keeper. That's awful. 00:05:09.709 --> 00:05:12.290 Like, how dumb. She accepts him for who he is. 00:05:12.449 --> 00:05:15.769 But when he seems like he's stupid or slow -witted 00:05:15.769 --> 00:05:18.829 because he's saying, you know, what is this? 00:05:18.870 --> 00:05:20.610 What is that? Who are you? What's going on in 00:05:20.610 --> 00:05:23.110 these different circumstances? Where from her 00:05:23.110 --> 00:05:25.930 perspective, it should be very clear what the 00:05:25.930 --> 00:05:27.949 Bible is and that she's coming up from the great 00:05:27.949 --> 00:05:31.310 and all these different things. She feels like, 00:05:31.350 --> 00:05:33.110 hey, this guy doesn't get it. He's not on the 00:05:33.110 --> 00:05:35.310 same page as me. So I guess he must be stupid 00:05:35.310 --> 00:05:37.750 because I'm. you know, at whatever level of intelligence 00:05:37.750 --> 00:05:40.310 I am. And I understand these things plainly from 00:05:40.310 --> 00:05:43.329 where I'm seeing things and he can't see them. 00:05:43.350 --> 00:05:45.430 So she's lacking. So from there, you can see 00:05:45.430 --> 00:05:47.889 that she is lacking in grace and graciousness. 00:05:48.149 --> 00:05:50.410 She's well -intentioned, but she doesn't have 00:05:50.410 --> 00:05:53.310 the wisdom and the perspective to see like, oh, 00:05:53.389 --> 00:05:56.310 okay. He's not asking what is the bauble and 00:05:56.310 --> 00:05:59.269 needs to be told it's my bauble, you idiot. He's 00:05:59.269 --> 00:06:02.209 asking. Why is it glowing? Oh, my bauble is magical. 00:06:02.230 --> 00:06:04.829 It glows when I want it to or when I don't want 00:06:04.829 --> 00:06:06.990 it to. And it can do X, Y, and Z, these other 00:06:06.990 --> 00:06:08.689 things. And I don't remember all the full capabilities 00:06:08.689 --> 00:06:10.129 of it. And we don't know the full capabilities 00:06:10.129 --> 00:06:12.389 of it. I kind of think for right now, it only 00:06:12.389 --> 00:06:17.009 glows, but we'll see. And that's interesting. 00:06:17.089 --> 00:06:18.709 So we are revealing some of her character flaws 00:06:18.709 --> 00:06:22.889 or a character flaw of her. And it's very interesting. 00:06:23.550 --> 00:06:25.389 It's just, it's very fun the way they play off 00:06:25.389 --> 00:06:28.920 of each other. Uh, once she gets into his cell, 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.779 she ends up healing him. And she says something 00:06:30.779 --> 00:06:33.000 along the lines of, uh, like, oh, you must not 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.339 be a very good warrior if you allowed yourself 00:06:35.339 --> 00:06:38.079 to be cut up and banged up like this. And he 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.399 said, oh, I didn't let myself be. I tried not 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.060 to. And just, you know, your aunt's, uh, you 00:06:43.060 --> 00:06:45.600 know, warriors were tougher than me and they 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.699 got the better of me. And she says like, oh, 00:06:47.779 --> 00:06:49.300 okay, I guess that makes sense. And it also makes 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:51.279 sense that an assistant pit keeper wouldn't be 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.899 called upon to be competent in battle very often. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:57.810 So I understand. So anyway. That is another textual 00:06:57.810 --> 00:07:02.009 example I'm bringing up to show you that... I 00:07:02.009 --> 00:07:04.449 don't know how I would identify that flaw or 00:07:04.449 --> 00:07:07.089 what I would say that flaw is, but there's something 00:07:07.089 --> 00:07:09.240 there. But there's also... Like, you can see 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:10.920 the intelligence. You can see the wheels spinning 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:13.560 for her and understand where she's coming from 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:15.379 and why she would say things or frame things 00:07:15.379 --> 00:07:17.180 in these certain ways. And then with the additional 00:07:17.180 --> 00:07:19.680 context from him, she's figuring them out. Also, 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:21.519 I find this very fascinating. She says at one 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.740 point that men grow up to become war leaders 00:07:23.740 --> 00:07:25.639 and women grow up to be sorceresses, at least 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.639 in her family. She's of noble birth, of noble 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:31.519 blood, etc., etc. And that's what's expected. 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:33.500 Ahren is her aunt, and she's training her because 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:36.519 she's an orphan. Her parents are dead. And so 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.680 she's been sent by other relations to Ahren to 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.199 become a sorceress as well. And it's interesting 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.819 because Tarn wants to be a war leader. And then 00:07:44.819 --> 00:07:47.040 he meets this girl who affirms that that's what 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:50.620 men become. And she says that women become sorceresses. 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:53.040 She's a woman. We can expect that she will become 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.240 a sorceress. And we see with her bauble, which 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:59.379 glows magically, that there is already some sorcery 00:07:59.379 --> 00:08:01.560 within her. And that's something within her grasp. 00:08:02.780 --> 00:08:05.579 That is an interesting foil in contrast to, like, 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.240 how Tarn wants to become a war leader, like Gwydion. 00:08:08.339 --> 00:08:11.060 He wants to be this great man, and he's met somebody 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:13.920 who's an equal a peer of his. I mean, she's not 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.939 in lineage and birth and everything like that, 00:08:15.980 --> 00:08:19.040 but for right, you know, in the story, she's 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.920 a friend and an ally and somebody who is in a 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.860 similar situation as him. They're both trapped 00:08:23.860 --> 00:08:27.000 with Ahren, even though she could leave, it seems, 00:08:27.139 --> 00:08:31.610 anytime she wants Elanri, can. they're both stuck 00:08:31.610 --> 00:08:33.210 there in that situation they're together so like 00:08:33.210 --> 00:08:35.529 there's a peerage that forms between them if 00:08:35.529 --> 00:08:40.470 not like a friendship and yet or and that helps 00:08:40.470 --> 00:08:44.289 to put them on these opposite sides where she's 00:08:44.289 --> 00:08:46.110 a woman so she'll become or you know she's a 00:08:46.110 --> 00:08:47.870 girl who become a woman who become a sorceress 00:08:47.870 --> 00:08:49.509 and he's a boy who'll become a man who become 00:08:49.509 --> 00:08:52.690 a war leader potentially there's like these defined 00:08:55.220 --> 00:08:57.179 societal constructs of what they will become 00:08:57.179 --> 00:08:59.720 based on who they are in how they were born. 00:08:59.860 --> 00:09:02.100 And because she's a woman, she has magic affinity, 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:04.480 I guess. And because he's a man, he doesn't, 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.340 or he lacks it, or it's not as potent. So he, 00:09:06.419 --> 00:09:08.580 it's more likely for him to become a war leader. 00:09:08.860 --> 00:09:11.240 And I really liked that contrast and that like 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.360 breakdown of like by gender, this is what you 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.580 should do. Um, I believe in gender roles. I'm 00:09:15.580 --> 00:09:17.419 a very traditional person. My family and I operate 00:09:17.419 --> 00:09:21.039 in a traditional fashion. Um, and I think that's 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.080 really great. I like that it's here and I like 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.379 that it's presented. kind of without question 00:09:25.379 --> 00:09:28.200 and without expectation or without any pushback. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.320 It's just, she's, and at the same time, Elanui 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.500 is this very like breaking the mold kind of character. 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.259 Like she's not a bashful, timid girl. She's brash 00:09:37.259 --> 00:09:41.000 and she's excited about, uh, springing, uh, Taran 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.580 and Gwydion out of the prison that her aunt has 00:09:44.580 --> 00:09:46.379 them in. And she can't wait to see the look on 00:09:46.379 --> 00:09:48.580 her aunt's face when she realizes that they have 00:09:48.580 --> 00:09:53.409 escaped from her dungeons. And, um, She just 00:09:53.409 --> 00:09:54.870 thinks it'll be great fun and a great adventure 00:09:54.870 --> 00:09:57.950 to do this. So she's doing a very brave and noble 00:09:57.950 --> 00:09:59.929 thing, you could say, but she's doing it in a 00:09:59.929 --> 00:10:02.049 girlish way, which is like to spite her aunt 00:10:02.049 --> 00:10:06.289 and enjoy seeing her frustration and irritation 00:10:06.289 --> 00:10:09.809 with her for doing that. And I love that. She's 00:10:09.809 --> 00:10:12.289 like a lovable scamp of a character, but she's 00:10:12.289 --> 00:10:14.710 like a proper, I don't know, I guess she's a 00:10:14.710 --> 00:10:16.809 princess of sorts. She's like a proper princess 00:10:16.809 --> 00:10:18.490 who's a lovable scamp at the same time. So it'd 00:10:18.490 --> 00:10:20.370 be like if Leia and Han Solo were the same person 00:10:20.370 --> 00:10:23.159 somehow. And that's a really interesting dynamic, 00:10:23.259 --> 00:10:24.639 and I think it's really cool that Lloyd Alexander 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.539 did that, and I like that, like, she accepts 00:10:27.539 --> 00:10:32.000 the traditional gender norms, but she also doesn't, 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.379 she's not constrained by them, it's where she 00:10:34.379 --> 00:10:36.559 lives, and she's going to be whatever kind of 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:37.940 sorceress she wants and have whatever kind of 00:10:37.940 --> 00:10:41.100 attitude and personality she wants, because Elanui 00:10:41.100 --> 00:10:42.980 is still Elanui, despite the fact that she's, 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:45.080 you know, stuck in her traditional, you know, 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.259 gender norm role of becoming a powerful sorceress. 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.009 Not like that's a bad thing. You could say that 00:10:52.009 --> 00:10:53.529 Tarin becoming a war leader and potentially having 00:10:53.529 --> 00:10:56.750 to die someday in battle is a worse place to 00:10:56.750 --> 00:10:58.889 be. But, I mean, they both have their pluses 00:10:58.889 --> 00:11:00.730 and minuses, which is true of real life. It's 00:11:00.730 --> 00:11:02.190 true of being a mother -father. It's true of 00:11:02.190 --> 00:11:04.490 being a husband or wife. Each one has different 00:11:04.490 --> 00:11:08.610 pluses and minuses. And fortunately, I'm married 00:11:08.610 --> 00:11:11.809 to a wonderful woman. She and I tell each other, 00:11:11.889 --> 00:11:14.129 you're a great mother. You're a great father. 00:11:14.850 --> 00:11:17.210 Not like... all the time, but like we do sometimes 00:11:17.210 --> 00:11:18.950 when it's like, yeah, thank you for doing that, 00:11:19.009 --> 00:11:20.450 I don't want to do that, and you're the dad, 00:11:20.509 --> 00:11:22.190 that's your job somehow, it became your job, 00:11:22.289 --> 00:11:24.210 I'm the mom, this is what I do, and I don't want 00:11:24.210 --> 00:11:25.889 to do what you do, and I don't want to do what 00:11:25.889 --> 00:11:28.549 she has to do, so it's just funny how it works 00:11:28.549 --> 00:11:29.970 out like that, so anyway, yeah, this was a great 00:11:29.970 --> 00:11:34.230 chapter, it was a blast, I really thoroughly 00:11:34.230 --> 00:11:37.809 enjoyed it, and yeah, I'm excited to get more 00:11:37.809 --> 00:11:38.909 into the book, I'd love to hear your thoughts 00:11:38.909 --> 00:11:42.190 on it, and what you think about the book as a 00:11:42.190 --> 00:11:45.110 whole, if you've gotten through it already. Keep 00:11:45.110 --> 00:11:46.309 an eye on the spoilers, because I want this to 00:11:46.309 --> 00:11:48.309 be like an open place where we can discuss it, 00:11:48.330 --> 00:11:50.389 but not get too crazy. If you want to go into 00:11:50.389 --> 00:11:52.190 the full spoilers, you can reach out to me on 00:11:52.190 --> 00:11:53.889 Twitter or X, whatever. I think there should 00:11:53.889 --> 00:11:55.309 be links in the description. If not, it's all 00:11:55.309 --> 00:11:57.389 on mjminews .com, where you can find links to 00:11:57.389 --> 00:12:00.830 everything I do, my art, my writing, and my analysis 00:12:00.830 --> 00:12:03.730 of stuff. And we can also have conversations 00:12:03.730 --> 00:12:04.889 there, because there's a comment section, and 00:12:04.889 --> 00:12:06.350 there will be show notes where you can comment 00:12:06.350 --> 00:12:08.370 there, and we can talk back and forth. And then 00:12:08.370 --> 00:12:11.129 I've been working on Mock Ring Mayhem, my debut. 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.039 middle grade novel about magical bugs battling 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.100 monsters. Specifically, a monster finds out where 00:12:17.100 --> 00:12:19.320 the bugs, the magical bugs live, and it goes 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:22.159 there to kill them all. And a couple of young 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:26.559 grow bugs use, or who are untrained and untested, 00:12:26.580 --> 00:12:29.059 not ready for battle, they end up having to, 00:12:29.059 --> 00:12:31.360 or seizing the opportunity to help save one of 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.620 their mentors and fight off one of these monsters 00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:36.740 called a grimling, which is a misty bird that 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:39.360 can hide in fog and do different things. And 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.860 it's a very challenging fight for them. They 00:12:41.860 --> 00:12:44.360 might not live. And even if they do, there are 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:45.960 a bunch of other Mockwings for them to fight. 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.519 And will they be able to fight them? Will they 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.100 be able to save their mentor? If you want to 00:12:51.100 --> 00:12:52.419 find out, you've got to find the book. It's called 00:12:52.419 --> 00:12:54.620 Mockwing Mayhem. It's coming out this year, 2025. 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:56.899 Hopefully before the summer. Hopefully in the 00:12:56.899 --> 00:12:58.960 spring. We'll see. I'm working on doing a bunch 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:00.360 of stuff on the back end. I'm getting a cover 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.820 made. Right now, I've been in talks with an artist, 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:05.000 and she's working on it. She's going to get me 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:06.639 a mock -up soon for Mockwing Mayhem, which is 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:08.559 exciting. And then I've got to do another... 00:13:08.750 --> 00:13:10.289 back -end stuff to get the book ready to publish 00:13:10.289 --> 00:13:12.970 as far as like formatting and being positioned 00:13:12.970 --> 00:13:14.690 and being able to get it as a print file and 00:13:14.690 --> 00:13:16.190 all there's all sorts of technical stuff but 00:13:16.190 --> 00:13:17.830 I'm working on that in the back end the book 00:13:17.830 --> 00:13:19.409 is finished I feel very confident in it I feel 00:13:19.409 --> 00:13:22.269 like it's a great story and it's great for kids 00:13:22.269 --> 00:13:23.769 it's great for families it's an all -aged kind 00:13:23.769 --> 00:13:26.049 of thing it doesn't talk down to the to the reader 00:13:26.049 --> 00:13:29.289 it addresses things in a way where there's real 00:13:29.289 --> 00:13:30.649 stakes and there's real danger and there's real 00:13:30.649 --> 00:13:32.470 excitement and there's real glory and victory 00:13:32.470 --> 00:13:36.049 over uh enemies and over obstacles and challenges 00:13:36.049 --> 00:13:37.470 because i think that's what matters and i think 00:13:37.470 --> 00:13:40.070 that's the kind of thing you get in uh the book 00:13:40.070 --> 00:13:41.169 of three i think that's the kind of thing you're 00:13:41.169 --> 00:13:42.610 going to get in all of my writing at least that's 00:13:42.610 --> 00:13:44.769 the goal anyway so anyway until next time folks 00:13:44.769 --> 00:13:48.190 take care be well grobugs .com g -r -o -b -u 00:13:48.190 --> 00:13:50.419 -g -s or MJMunoz.com where you can find everything. 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:51.960 I link everything there, and I'll have links 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.320 pointing out to other things as well. 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